Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Tino Schwarze wrote at about 11:50:35 +0200 on Thursday, June 4, 2009: > > Hi Leen, > > > > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:04:43PM +0200, Leen Besselink wrote: > > > > > Recently I took the patch Elias Penttilä wrote and 'forward-ported' it > to rsync 3. > > > > > > For people who don't know what it does, it implements backup of open > files on Windows with rsync. > > > > > > Because I think rsync 3 is more efficient and more current in comparison > to rsync 2, it uses > > > an incremental filelisting system to try and be more efficient. > Especially memory-wise. > > > > Note that you won't gain anything with BackupPC because BackupPC uses > > it's own implementation of the rsync protocol which does not yet support > > rsync3. >
Tino, Ahh, I see, hmm, well, euh... Maybe Jeffrey could be right: > I don't believe this is fully true. Now indeed BackupPC doesn't use > the latest protocol=30 which is due to the fixed protocol limitations > of perl-File-RsyncP-0.68-2.fc8.1.i386.rpm. However, I believe that the > memory-saving features are independent of the protocol and hence still > shine through.. (I may be wrong, so correct me if so) > I took a large filetree and tested a bit and it looks like you might be right. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ BackupPC-devel mailing list BackupPC-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-devel Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
