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On Apr 22, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/22/2010 1:55 PM, Gerald Brandt wrote: >> >> ----- "Les Mikesell" <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> That's partly from being implemented in perl and partly from >>> counting >>> iowait as CPU. Do you have the --checksum-seed=32761 option >>> enabled for >>> rsync? >>> >> >> Not to hijack the thread, but I know what checksum-seed does, but how >> does it help? > > If it is enabled, the backuppc server side will cache the block > checksums and not have to repeat the read/uncompress/compute activity > for every run. See the section on "Rsync checksum caching" in > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html. Note that (a) it > doesn't help until the 3rd full backup and (b) a small configurable > percentage is still computed to detect archive corruption. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikes...@gmail.com > > But it's still guaranteed to do a proper backup? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/
