On Mon 03 Dec 2012, Ben Oswald wrote: > > I've tested your advise for a few days now but is seems like the > problem isn't solved. The traffice is now lower, about 15GB per backup, > but still 4 times bigger than the whole data on the server. Is there an > other option of rsync I can give a try.
I've never seen rsync transfer significantly more data over the wire than the size of the data to transfer, so I can't help but think that rsync is not at fault. > > > The server I backup has 4GB of data and I use the following command > > > to backup this data. /usr/bin/rsync -aze 'ssh > > > -i /root/.ssh/backup.key -l backupuser' --rsync-path='sudo rsync' > > > --delete --exclude-from=ex.list $SRC $TRG Check how many (large) files are hard-linked on the source. If you have one 2GB file that has 7 hardlinks, then you will be transferring that file 7 times as you don't use the -H option. Secondly, you might try without the -z option. Try it again with --stats to see what rsync's idea is of the amount of data transferred etc. Paul -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html