Les writes: > There is quite a bit of overhead on the server side when you are > doing a full rsync backup because it does block-checksum compares > against existing files and has to uncompress for this calculation. > (Craig - if you are listening, are these cached or recomputed every > run)?
The checksums are cached (and therefore only computed once after caching) if --checksum-seed=32761 is included in $Conf{RsyncArgs}). However, the disk seeks to read the cached checksums are still time consuming - the savings from caching the checksums are less than I expected. Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/