> i was under the impression that rsync does the comparison with little or > no bandwidth.
Little bandwidth, yes (although this is relative, naturally) but taking little bandwidth and taking little *time* are two entirely different things. Rsync on each end is calculating and exchanging hashes. > 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 >> [email protected] >> 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 [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
