On 2021-01-07 00:39, Sorin Srbu wrote:
Hello all!

Trying to improve the backup speed with BPC and looked into setting noatime
in fstab.

But this article states some backup programs may bork if noatime is set.

https://lonesysadmin.net/2013/12/08/gain-30-linux-disk-performance-noatime-nodiratime-relatime/

What will BPC in particular do if noatime is set?

In short, it depends on your transport methods. Rsync will be fine. Tar/smb? Not so much for incrementals, but fulls (of course) will be fine.


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