Re: [BackupPC-users] internet traffic/rsync/backuppc

2010-10-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On 10/7/2010 10:49 AM, Dan Pritts wrote: > On Oct 1, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Wayne Walker wrote: >> BackupPC uses rsync as a transport. Does it use any of rsync's smarts >> to prevent downloading unchanged files? If I run 2 full backups back >> to back, does it pull the entire 90 GB both times? > > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] internet traffic/rsync/backuppc

2010-10-07 Thread Dan Pritts
On Oct 1, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Wayne Walker wrote: > BackupPC uses rsync as a transport. Does it use any of rsync's smarts > to prevent downloading unchanged files? If I run 2 full backups back > to back, does it pull the entire 90 GB both times? Make sure to turn on rsync checksum-caching. It d

Re: [BackupPC-users] internet traffic/rsync/backuppc

2010-10-01 Thread Wayne Walker
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 09:39:49AM -0500, Wayne Walker wrote: > BackupPC uses rsync as a transport. Does it use any of rsync's smarts > to prevent downloading unchanged files? If I run 2 full backups back > to back, does it pull the entire 90 GB both times? > > Currently I use this (scripted) an

[BackupPC-users] internet traffic/rsync/backuppc

2010-10-01 Thread Wayne Walker
BackupPC uses rsync as a transport. Does it use any of rsync's smarts to prevent downloading unchanged files? If I run 2 full backups back to back, does it pull the entire 90 GB both times? Currently I use this (scripted) and nightly fulls are only 1 GB of traffic (for 90 GB of data) : SRC=2010