On 9/16/2010 4:08 PM, RC wrote:
>
>> Once you start using rsync in your daily life you find it to be an
> indispensable tool.
>
> It certainly is indespensible. Unfortunately BackupPC's design is not geared
> towards getting most of the benefits out of it. You should NEVER again need
> to
> do a full backup (thanks to checksums) and you should never have to checksum
> the
> full-system in a single run (thanks to RsyncCsumCacheVerifyProb). Sadly,
> BackupPC is still stuck in the Full/Incr mindset, and seems to be going the
> wrong way, even depreciating some options (like IncrFill) which provide some
> of
> rsync's most significant benefits.
If you are poking around in the guts of rsyncP, maybe you could
experiment with removing the --ignore-times option that is forced in
full runs - or making an extra option to control when it is added. That
could give you a full run in approximately the time of an incremental
but with the benefit of filling.
--
Les Mikesell
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