Jesse Proudman wrote:
> I've got one customer who's server has taken 3600 minutes to
> backup. 77 Gigs of Data. 1,972,859 small files. Would tar be
> better or make this faster? It's directly connected via 100 Mbit to
> the backup box.
If the files don't change frequently, tar incremental runs will be much
faster because they are based only on the target timestamps while rsync
will load the entire directory at both ends and compare them.
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