On 06/14 03:38 , Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 6/14/2018 3:27 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: > > Why are you using rsyncd over the loopback instead of … rsync? > > > > Mainly because that's the way all of my other clients are being backed > up and what I found when I searched for how to back up a local > filesystem said to do it the same way as the others and just point it to > localhost. I use rsyncd rather than rsync to avoid the ssh overhead. I > expected a backup done via the loopback interface to be fast since it > doesn't have the normal networking bandwidth limitations.
I've always used tar for local backups. The advantage of rsync is greater in bandwidth-constrained environments because it saves moving whole files over the network. However, if the file needs to be read anyway to see if anything has changed, then nothing is saved because the local machine is the same as the remote machine. I may be incorrect about some of my understanding here, I know rsync does a few things which tar does not, but which slip my brain at the moment. Also, some uses of rsync may be more efficient than this by only checking timestamps. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ 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/
