BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] RsyncP and --whole-file

2013-09-24 14:04:37
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] RsyncP and --whole-file
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:03:16 -0500
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Chris Adamson
<chris.adamson AT mcri.edu DOT au> wrote:
> I’m using backuppc to backup > 14TB of data on a local machine. I’m using
> the rsyncd option since tar does not detect deleted files in incrementals. I
> was trying to see if the –whole-file option in the rsync options avoided the
> delta xfer algorithm that is not important since it is not transferring over
> a network. I had a look in the RsyncP code and it ignores the –whole-file
> option. Could this be implemented in RsyncP since the backup rsync processes
> are very CPU bound and this slows down backups, particularly full backups.

Where are you finding that in the RsyncP code?   I see it always does
whole-file when sending (restores) but don't see anything about not
passing it to the other side for backups (but didn't look much beyond
a grep for 'whole'...).

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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