On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Kenneth Porter <shiva AT sewingwitch DOT com> 
wrote:
>
> The total size is 0.5 TB according to the Host Summary page. The network is
> 100 Mbit. The server is a Dell PE2900 with 4 GB. Probably the slowest link
> is the external USB drive used to hold the backup on the server, formatted
> as ext3. The client is mostly used for solid modeling.
>
> I believe I'm using the default rsync args and don't know if there's
> anything I can do to improve things there:
>
>             '--numeric-ids',
>             '--perms',
>             '--owner',
>             '--group',
>             '-D',
>             '--links',
>             '--hard-links',
>             '--times',
>             '--block-size=2048',
>             '--recursive',
>
> The rsyncd service running on the Windows client is from cwrsync, version
> 3.0.8.

See the docs about adding '--checksum-seed=32761'.  It will save
reading/uncompressing the server-side copy for the next comparison,
but note that it doesn't start working until after the 2nd full run
with an unchanged file.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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