Les Mikesell napsal(a): > On 11/9/10 2:13 AM, Boniforti Flavio wrote: >> Hello everybody. >> >> One of my remote servers has grown a single directory from a couple of >> GB to 20GB in one day. Now backups (rsync through ssh) seem to be taking >> ages and time-out after 72000 seconds. My question: when such a backup >> gets stopped, will the next task consider the already transferred amount >> of data, or will it start from the beginning? How may I check this >> behaviour? > > An rsync full should be marked as a 'partial' with the completed portion > merged > into the previous full as the comparison base when it restarts. I think an > incomplete incremental is discarded. I'd bump up the timeout and add a -C > (compress) option to your ssh command if you haven't already, and if it is > trying an incremental, force a full run at the first opportunity. >
Hi, for huge dirs with millions of files we got almost an order of magnitude faster runs with the tar mode instead of rsync (which eventually consumed all the memory anyways :) ) Pavel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-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/
