Hi,
I am preparing a remote server to be dirvish-ed each night and am
currently synchronising the files to a removable USB disk. The idea is
then to bring the USB disk to the backup server and start dirvish off
with the initial image from the disk.
Some of the files that are going to be backed up are these ugly Outlook
PST files. One of these is around 450Mb.
I use this command to rsync the files to the USB disk:
rsync -vrltH --delete -pgo -D --numeric-ids -x --delete-excluded
--exclude-from=/root/exclude.list /home /mnt/USBdisk/roar/
When this runs it labours over the big PST file, taking ages to complete
(~30mins for this one file). It seems to recopy the entire file each
night rather than just the differences.
However when I run the dirvish test via SSH (using a 50Mb PST file) with:
command="rsync --server --sender -vlHogDtprxz --numeric-ids .
/home/testuser"
it clearly only transfers the differences.
There is a big difference between the two PST file sizes but this is
tempered by the remote link being a painful 250K as opposed to a USB 1.1
bus which even if running at 1.5Mb/s should still transfer a few Mb of
changes quite quickly).
I did not think (and nor can I find) any reference that rsync and/or
dirvish change adapt their algorithms for local file systems and remote
file systems.
What I am worried about is moving the initial image to the backup server
and then finding dirvish is trying to transfer these huge PST files each
night rather than just the changes! I have tested moving large PSTs
from other remote systems and it has always worked as expected with the
differences only being copied.
Are my fears unfounded? Is there a difference between local and remote
copies? I have the latest version of rsync on both sides.
Thanks for any ideas,
Cheers
Noel
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