Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: > Toni Van Remortel wrote: >> How can I reduce bandwidth usage for full backups? >> >> Even when using rsync, BackupPC does transfer all data on a full backup, >> and not only the modified files since the last incremental or full. > That's not true. Only modifications are transfered over the network > when using rsync. Full backups are just more thoroughly checking > whether files have changed (not just comparing timestamps, but > actually checking the contents of the files). Then I wonder what gets transferred. If I monitor a full dump, the bandwidth usage is way much higher than when I copy it manually. If a simple 'rsync -auv' takes 2 hours to complete against a backup from 1 day ago, they why does BackupPC take 2 days for the same action?
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