Kenneth Porter wrote at about 18:44:40 -0800 on Thursday, February 10, 2022: > Is anyone using the rsync/rsyncd method with the open-noatime option to > avoid unnecessary metadata writes when comparing files? > Not sure what open-noatime means... but I have been running backuppc using rsync (not rsyncd) on btrfs with the noatime mount option for 2+ years now without incident.
BTW, why are you using 'rsyncd' vs. 'rsync'? I used it to use it in the past on an ancient slow arm-based NAS because rsyncd was marginally faster than rsync. But otherwise 'rsyncd' seems to have more security issues (e.g., it relies on storing an ASCII password in a file) and seems more cumbersome to set up. With 'rsync' you just need to setup vanilla rsync login under cygwin with nothing else to configure. Using my inline perl for dump pre/post user commands, you can even have it automate snapshotting (via VSS shadow copies) before backup (including creating and deleting shadow copies) without any extra client-sided code... > I'm disabling atime on all my Linux partitions and wondering if that option > has any effect on Cygwin rsyncd running on my Windows 10 clients. > > It does look like NTFS has the file property, and Win10 has some registry > settings for controlling when it's updated: > > <https://winaero.com/disable-ntfs-last-access-time-updates-in-windows-10/> > > > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
