i was under the impression that rsync does the comparison with little or 
no bandwidth.

On 1/20/2012 5:50 AM, Michael Stowe wrote:
>> 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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