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 wan
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 an
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Daniel 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 happen is that
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
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Daniel wrote:
>
> I have started using backuppc at first with rsync, but backing up servers
> with millions of small files took very much time (days). This would be
> normal, but the incremental backups took almost the same time, which is not
> normal.
Rsync incre
Hi!
I have started using backuppc at first with rsync, but backing up servers
with millions of small files took very much time (days). This would be
normal, but the incremental backups took almost the same time, which is not
normal.
I have then read that I should use tar as backup method, because
