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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync: full backup more than twice faster than incremental backup

2012-08-16 06:04:05
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync: full backup more than twice faster than incremental backup
From: Tim Fletcher <tim AT night-shade.org DOT uk>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:02:30 +0100
On 16/08/12 09:47, Udo Rader wrote:
> One of the reasons I can think of is the file structure on that host. It
> serves as a special storage pool for a customer developed application
> and as such it has really really many subdirectories with really really
> many subdirectories with really really many subdirectories. And by
> really really many I mean really really many ... So my best guess would
> be that building the file list diff takes much longer than just fetching
> the files as they exist.
>
> I've now disabled incremental backups on this server, but maybe someone
> has an idea how to enable incremental backups for this host as well.
>
> thanks in advance!

Try using tar instead of rsync, you are correct that for large file 
trees rsync is very slow and also RAM intensive when it's building the 
filetrees

-- 
Tim Fletcher <tim AT night-shade.org DOT uk>


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