On Sep 09 2021, Amos T <[email protected]> wrote:
> But now is my final question. If a lot of files are NOT CACHED, so they
> are in the data files of
> s3ql in the s3 bucket... What happens if I do run borgbackup? It will
> check on the metadata
> ctime, size, inode but the actually data of the file is not stored
> locally...
>
> So in that case my a safely assume when borgbackup checks for data
> modification, the
> file in question is not downloaded ? Because in that case, my backup will
> generate a lot of traffic...
I do not know how borgbackup checks if a file has been modified. If it
just compares ctime, mtime and file size the file will not be downloaded
for that. If it tries to read the file contents, S3QL obviously has no
other choice than to download the data.
Best,
-Nikolaus
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