i was under the impression that rsync does the comparison with little or no bandwidth.
On 1/20/2012 5:50 AM, Michael Stowe wrote: >> BackupPC 3.2.1 >> Windows 7 rsyncd over ssh, west coast >> the server is in the east. >> >> my goal is to have it updated every 15 minutes, i've gotten that to work >> but for incremental, with no changes, it's still taking about 10 minutes >> most of the time and it is doing traffic. > I would expect most of that traffic would be checking to see if there are > changes to the files. > >> i do not understand why incremental with absolutely no changes is taking >> so long ? ultimately i'd like to have a hundred thousand files being >> backed up constantly, is this just a dream ? > How would you propose that changes be recognized, if not through rsync's > mechanisms of comparison? > > You can always go to cmd/cifs and use time stamps to determine what's > changed, I suppose. > >> thanks in advance > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ 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/
