Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync open-noatime option

2022-02-11 Thread backuppc
Seems like open-noatime is a new option as it doesn't appear in the documentation of my rsync 3.1.2 version. Is the suggestion that by having TopDir mounted in a noatime filesystem, then open-noatime will assure that atimes are not read/written on the remote BackupPc-client, thereby saving time

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync open-noatime option

2022-02-11 Thread Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users
The rysnc open-noatime option isn't supported by rsync-bpc. Like Jeff, I use the noatime mount option on my BackupPC filesystem. Craig On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 8:46 AM wrote: > Kenneth Porter wrote at about 18:44:40 -0800 on Thursday, February 10, > 2022: > > Is anyone using the rsync/rsyncd

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync open-noatime option

2022-02-11 Thread backuppc
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

[BackupPC-users] rsync open-noatime option

2022-02-10 Thread Kenneth Porter
Is anyone using the rsync/rsyncd method with the open-noatime option to avoid unnecessary metadata writes when comparing files? 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