understood, there arent a lot of files currently, nothing has changed since day 1.
its only 400 mb. if i have level 2, it does incremental in 10 seconds, why does that happen? level 1 takes 10 min On 1/20/2012 8:19 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:15 AM, smallpox<small...@gmail.com> wrote: >> i was under the impression that rsync does the comparison with little or >> no bandwidth. > It generally does not use a big percentage of the data, but the client > sends the full directory tree data to the server where the comparison > happens. If you have millions of files, that's going to use some > bandwidth even you are doing incrementals and the directory comparison > shows that no timestamps have changed. By contrast, for a tar > incremental the server would send a timestamp and the client would > only send newer files - but that misses deletions, new files that > maintain old timestamps, the new location of old files under a renamed > directory, etc., etc.. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
