Jason M. Kusar wrote:
>> If you use rsync as the transport you never actually transfer unchanged
>> files again - you only make a pass over the files comparing block
>> checksums. This takes some time/cpu at each end but not a lot of bandwidth.
>>
> So that means that even a full backup uses the old backup as the basis
> for the transfer? I assume also then that files deleted off of the
> server will not be deleted off the backup since the default rsync
> options don't include any of the delete options. Is there a way to fix
> this?
If you have the time for the file checksumming, just do rsync fulls
every time. This will reconstruct the backup file tree without the
deleted files.
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Les Mikesell
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