On 5/11/2011 12:42 PM, Rob Sheldon wrote:
>
>
>   I had to do this a while back and, like you, found that rsync didn't
>   seem to work well. I ended up using a tarpipe instead, and that worked
>   great. I can't find my notes for the exact chant I used for it, but this
>   should be a good start:
>   
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-use-tar-command-through-network-over-ssh-session/
>
>   I don't remember if I had to do this on our "little" BackupPC server or
>   on the big one, so I can't say what it's performance was like. I just
>   remember that it worked, and rsync did not.

I'd expect it to have approximately the same performance as a 3.x 
version of rsync.  Earlier rsync versions would have needed much more 
RAM and wouldn't start the xfer until the whole directory tree had been 
traversed.  Reconstructing the hardlinks is the slow part and 
file-oriented approaches have to do that the hard way.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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