The incremental-recursion algorithm would be a huge win for a lot of our backups, in particular for doing backups of larger mail servers that have MailDir as the store. Is there any plan for migrating that in?
David. ----- On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, Hendrik Friedel wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone tried out the enhancements of rsync 3.0 yet? > > "The 3.0.0 version number is such a large bump up from 2.6.9 due to the > addition of an incremental recursion scan (which helps a lot with large > transfers)" > > " - A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is > talking > to another 3.x version. This starts the transfer going more quickly > (before all the files have been found), and requires much less memory. > See the --recursive option in the manpage for some restrictions. > > > - The default --delete algorithm is now --delete-during when talking to > a > 3.x rsync. This is a faster scan than using --delete-before (which is > the default when talking to older rsync versions), and is compatible > with > the new incremental recursion mode." > > This might improve the performance in conjunction with BackupPC > > Has anyone used this windows-binary of rsync: > http://www.itefix.no/phpws/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_pag > e&PAGE_id=6&MMN_position=23:23 > > It is open source and is linked on the Rsync website. > > Greetings, > Hendrik > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ 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/
