> "Charles" == Charles Marcus writes:
Charles> On 12/6/2009, Louise Hoffman (louise.hoff...@gmail.com) wrote:
>> The way I read that, it's not something rsync-specific. It sounds
>> like btrfs would allow the generation of a list of files, which rsync
>> (or tar, or zip, or w
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 15:30 -0500, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
> Huh. Cool. This might not be all that difficult. I downloaded
> inotify-tools from inotify-tools.sf.net and the following test (monitor
> all changes to my home directory) seems to be producing interesting
> results:
>
> find /h
Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
> find /home/ -xdev -type d | sudo inotifywait --fromfile - -m | perl -lnwe
> 'BEGIN{$|=1;} print unless $h{$_}; $h{$_}++'
The biggest problem in my experience is it can take 5 minutes of
thrashing to set up the inotifies on a large /home directory, from
cold cache and
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Charles Marcus wrote:
>
> > On 12/6/2009, Louise Hoffman (louise.hoff...@gmail.com) wrote:
> > > The way I read that, it's not something rsync-specific. It sounds
> > > like btrfs would allow the generation of a list of files, w
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 12/6/2009, Louise Hoffman (louise.hoff...@gmail.com) wrote:
> > The way I read that, it's not something rsync-specific. It sounds
> > like btrfs would allow the generation of a list of files, which rsync
> > (or tar, or zip, or whatever) could accept.
On 12/6/2009, Louise Hoffman (louise.hoff...@gmail.com) wrote:
> The way I read that, it's not something rsync-specific. It sounds
> like btrfs would allow the generation of a list of files, which rsync
> (or tar, or zip, or whatever) could accept. (Rsync obviously being
> the best choice, :-) )
S
> The way I read that, it's not something rsync-specific. It sounds like
> btrfs would allow the generation of a list of files, which rsync (or tar,
> or zip, or whatever) could accept. (Rsync obviously being the best
> choice, :-) )
>
> e.g.:
>
> $ export-whatever-from-btrfs | rsync --files-from
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Louise Hoffman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just read the Project Ideas for Oracle's Linux file system btrfs
>
> http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas#Incremental_backups
>
> that rsync could get info from btrfs about what files have changed, and
> therefor only increm
Hi,
I just read the Project Ideas for Oracle's Linux file system btrfs
http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas#Incremental_backups
that rsync could get info from btrfs about what files have changed,
and therefor only increment back up those.
Is this someone that is likely to happen
