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?
It's also possible that some Rsync improvements need a newer protocol version than BackupPC can handle. Try running rsync directly, and see if it performs better. Joe Krahn ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
