Toni Van Remortel wrote:
>> Could you give us some numbers? How much traffic are you seeing for
>> a BackupPC backup compared to a 'plain rsync'?
> Full backup, run for the 2nd time today (no changes in files):
> - - BackupPC full dump : killed it after 30mins, as it pulled all data
> again (2.8GB)
This doesn't make any sense to me. I run backups on some remote
machines that could not possibly work if rsync fulls copied unchanged
data. How are you measuring the traffic?
> Well, we need the web interface of BackupPC, we need the reporting
> functionality of BackupPC, but we like to to be more bandwidth efficient.
> Maybe I'll write an Xfer module that uses plain rsync ...
It should work the way you expect as-is, although the rsync-in-perl that
knows how to read the compressed archive is somewhat slower.
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Les Mikesell
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