On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:04:40PM -0500, Joe Krahn wrote: > Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > Y'all have made it clear that rsync -H doesn't work too well > > with backuppc archives; what about cpio? Does it do a decent > > job of preserving hard links without consuming all your RAM? > > > > -Robin > > > Preserving hard links is always inefficient because, > unfortunately, normal filesystems don't keep track of which files > point to a given inode. You have to search for files with matching > inodes. But, maybe rsync is not as efficient as it could be. The > rsync NEWS mentions a major hard link speed-up at version 2.6.1, > several years ago. Is it possible you're using an old rsync?
Oh, it's working fine for *me*, but other people say it doesn't scale well. -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
