Good point Holger- I don't have hardlink counts or stats, but it should only take about 10mns of work to download/compile rsync3, and run a benchmark on your pool ;)
On 5/21/09, Holger Parplies <wb...@parplies.de> wrote: > Hi, > > Rob Terhaar wrote on 2009-05-21 13:01:58 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] backup > the backuppc pool with bacula]: >> [...] >> Try Rsync v3, it has much lower memory requirements since it builds >> the file list incrementally. > > by all means, try it. But it's not the file list that is the specific > problem > of BackupPC. > >> I used it at one company to do nightly >> syncs of their ~4TB backuppc pool offsite. > > It's still a matter of file count (used inodes, to be exact), not pool > storage > size. rsync V3 may perform significantly better if you have many links to > comparatively few inodes, but if you have many inodes (for some unknown > value > of "many"), I am still convinced that you will hit a problem. Feel free to > convince me otherwise, but "works for me" is unlikely to succeed ;-). > > Regards, > Holger > -- Sent from my mobile device ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/