Re: [Duplicity-talk] are periodic full backups necessary?

[Peter Schuller]

> Using rsync to sync the local and remote copies was a problem. Since the TC 
> container file size didn't change I needed to use an extra rsync switch 
> which generated a checksum of the files so rsync could work out what had 
> changed. With large containers (4GB) this was very slow.

At least rsync as it appeared two-three years ago would not only be
slow, but even slow to the point of not being usable at all, for even
larger files in the 100 GB range. IIRC something to do with certain
parameters used when applying the rsync algo (was a while ago).

My previous post assumed direct I/O to the remote drive; with a local
copy things become simpler, though as you indicate above it does not
necessarily solve all problems.

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/ Peter Schuller

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