Rsync should be fine. And searching for a specific entry in a directory should be way faster than looking at every entry to see if it needs copying. Right?
- Tony Rudié -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Anderson Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 11:00 AM To: Edward Ned Harvey Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BBLISA] Live Sync / Backup / Sync without crawling Doesn't rsync allow you to give a list of files rather than a list of directories? --include-from=FILE option looks like it should do the trick. But it still has to scan the directory to find the listed files. If the directory is large, this might be timeconsuming. The only way around that is to create hard links to the files you want to backup in another directory, or find a way to split up your directory into smaller directories. Hardlinks require the inode to stay the same (a delete followed by create with same name cannot be allowed as this results in a different inode), but symlinks still have to go through the original directory, so they are no help. Hope that helps. --Dean -- Av8 Internet Prepared to pay a premium for better service? www.av8.net faster, more reliable, better service 617 344 9000 _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
