Re: [BackupPC-users] tar is needed, but deleted files not needed

2012-01-07 Thread Daniel
Hi Les! Thank you for the input. Well all I see is that incremental backup with rsync can take 3 hours for 750 MB (30 mbit/sec bandwidth, strong computers), which is absolutely crazy. With tar this is 5 minutes at max. So you can see my concerns :-( And I have a server where the full backup took

Re: [BackupPC-users] tar is needed, but deleted files not needed

2012-01-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Daniel dandad...@gmail.com wrote: Well all I see is that incremental backup with rsync can take 3 hours for 750 MB (30 mbit/sec bandwidth, strong computers), which is absolutely crazy. With tar this is 5 minutes at max. That seems slightly extreme. What has to

Re: [BackupPC-users] tar is needed, but deleted files not needed

2012-01-07 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Daniel wrote at about 21:25:02 +0100 on Saturday, January 7, 2012: Only this deletion problem... This should be top priority, and should already be in the software :-) (I mean I know it is open source etc and that I did not develop it, but it's a feature I think many of us would like and

Re: [BackupPC-users] tar is needed, but deleted files not needed

2012-01-07 Thread Daniel
Dear Les! Thanks for the valuable information. I might try rsync again keeping in mind what you have told me. Thank you! Dear Jeffrey! Yup, you are right! BTW I meant dar (disk archiver) which is also mentioned in the documentation of backuppc. But the same thing implies here too (if I