BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] trying to improve the speed at which backuppc rsync back up processes a large binary file in incremental backups

2012-01-26 03:24:45
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] trying to improve the speed at which backuppc rsync back up processes a large binary file in incremental backups
From: "G.W. Haywood" <backup AT jubileegroup.co DOT uk>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:23:11 +0000 (GMT)
Hi there,

On Thu, 26 Jan 2012, Tim Fletcher wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 14:51 +1100, Adam Goryachev wrote:
> 
> > Definitely, I find that transferring (for example) uncompressed
> > mysqldump files will transfer less bytes than transferring the
> > compressed files. (Obviously because the compressed file will transfer
> > 100%, while the uncompressed will only transfer the changes).
> 
> http://beeznest.wordpress.com/2005/02/03/rsyncable-gzip/

The --rsyncable option is not available in many versions of gzip.
Here's a patch in case your distro doesn't provide one.

http://www.jubileegroup.co.uk/JOS/misc/gzip.rsyncable.patch

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73,
Ged.

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