The rysnc open-noatime option isn't supported by rsync-bpc. Like Jeff, I use the noatime mount option on my BackupPC filesystem.
Craig On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 8:46 AM <backu...@kosowsky.org> wrote: > Kenneth Porter wrote at about 18:44:40 -0800 on Thursday, February 10, > 2022: > > Is anyone using the rsync/rsyncd method with the open-noatime option to > > avoid unnecessary metadata writes when comparing files? > > > Not sure what open-noatime means... but I have been running backuppc > using rsync (not rsyncd) on btrfs with the noatime mount option for 2+ > years now without incident. > > BTW, why are you using 'rsyncd' vs. 'rsync'? > I used it to use it in the past on an ancient slow arm-based NAS > because rsyncd was marginally faster than rsync. > But otherwise 'rsyncd' seems to have more security issues (e.g., it > relies on storing an ASCII password in a file) and seems more > cumbersome to set up. > > With 'rsync' you just need to setup vanilla rsync login under cygwin > with nothing else to configure. > > Using my inline perl for dump pre/post user commands, you can even > have it automate snapshotting (via VSS shadow copies) before backup > (including creating and deleting shadow copies) without any extra > client-sided code... > > > I'm disabling atime on all my Linux partitions and wondering if that > option > > has any effect on Cygwin rsyncd running on my Windows 10 clients. > > > > It does look like NTFS has the file property, and Win10 has some > registry > > settings for controlling when it's updated: > > > > < > https://winaero.com/disable-ntfs-last-access-time-updates-in-windows-10/> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > BackupPC-users mailing list > > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ > > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ >
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