On 30 Mar 2013, at 18:23, Arno Hautala <[email protected]> wrote: > Further, TimeMachine does need to delete the actual files to free up > more space. My guess is that it's quick because many of the items to > delete will be hard linked directories, which should dramatically > bring down the number of files to delete. rsync can only hard link > files, so there's going to be much more to remove.
I wondered about the hard linked directories, but couldn't imagine how that got past the need to unlink thousands of files. Is there some interesting algorithm in there? > Now I just rsync directly to the backup > location (running on FreeNAS) and rely on ZFS snapshots to quickly > make and prune old backups. Oh, cool. Should I look at MacZFS? Stefano _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
