Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers

[Nate Eldredge]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Eliot Moss wrote:

> Note that, given the size of the source I am backing up,
> I have set volsize to 1Gb so as not to have an really
> large collection of files. (Is this unwise?) So it is
> painful to start a volume over when 800Mb has been uploaded.

I'm not sure that it's unwise for any other reason than that it's awkward 
to retransmit.  I would probably just stick with the 25MB default.  3000 
files isn't really that many, especially if you have a modern filesystem 
on the other end that can handle large directories efficiently.

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Nate Eldredge
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