On May 12, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Ian Levesque wrote: > I've got a client I'm backing up via rsync (BackupPC v3.1). I recently > added a very large directory to the filesystem I'm backing up, which > has many hundred thousand files inside it. I don't need to backup this > directory, so I've added a BackupFilesExclude entry (i.e., /home/ > username/directory) to my config. Sure enough, the directory is not > being backed up -- that's good. The only problem is that since I've > added this directory, backups are taking _very_ long; incrementals are > taking 3 days, where they used to take 10 hours. So my guess is that > the rsync is evaluating all of the directory's contents rather than > excluding en masse.
FYI, running a full backup appears to have resolved the slow incremental issue. I'm not entirely sure why that is, but I'm glad things are back to normal. I saw this solution mentioned quite a bit in the mailing list for people complaining about long backup times; Perhaps a candidate for the FAQ? Cheers, Ian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
