On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 11:10, Dan Young wrote: > > > > Rsync will read everything at both ends during a full which > > can be fairly slow, but only a small amount of bandwidth > > is used for the comparison and otherwise only the changes > > are sent. > > Unless you turn on checksum caching, correct? Then the BackupPC side > will not recompute the checksums for files in the pool, except for at > some defined interval (randomly on 1% of the pool by default).
Yes, but the other end still has to read every file so it is still a lot slower than it would be if it skipped files when the timestamp and length are still the same. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
