On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 11:56:59PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Unfortunately, I don't think it is that simple. If it were, then > rsync would have been written that way back in version .001. I > mean there is a reason that rsync memory usage increases as the > number of files increases (even in 3.0) and it is not due to > memory holes or ignorant programmers. After all, your proposed fix > is not exactly obscure.
The point is actually to fix resumption, not memory usage; memory usage is already quite good in 3.0. That was never a goal of rsync as far as I'm aware; resumption is handled by re-reading the tree again and dealing with partial copies. > At least one reason is the need to keep track of inodes so that > hard links can be copied properly. Yes, sorry, forgot to mention that: hardlinks probably won't work this way. Although backuppc handles them rather different, since it's only rsync-the-program on one end. > Maybe you don't care but if so, you could probably do just about > as well by dropping the --hard-links argument from RsyncArgs. Already done; makes no significant difference. > I don't believe there is any easy way to get something for free > here... It's not for free, it's at the expense of memory on the server. Probably not very much, but still. Do you actually see a *problem* with it, or are you just assuming it won't work because it seems too easy? -Robin -- They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something other than the default outcome?" See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/
