BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc incremental taking up a lot of bandwidth with no additional changes

2012-01-20 09:11:52
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc incremental taking up a lot of bandwidth with no additional changes
From: "Michael Stowe" <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:50:43 -0600
> BackupPC 3.2.1
> Windows 7 rsyncd over ssh, west coast
> the server is in the east.
>
> my goal is to have it updated every 15 minutes, i've gotten that to work
> but for incremental, with no changes, it's still taking about 10 minutes
> most of the time and it is doing traffic.

I would expect most of that traffic would be checking to see if there are
changes to the files.

> i do not understand why incremental with absolutely no changes is taking
> so long ?  ultimately i'd like to have a hundred thousand files being
> backed up constantly, is this just a dream ?

How would you propose that changes be recognized, if not through rsync's
mechanisms of comparison?

You can always go to cmd/cifs and use time stamps to determine what's
changed, I suppose.

> thanks in advance


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