Re: incremental rdiff-backup takes long

[Alvin Starr]

On 2021-06-01 10:20 a.m., Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
> "Jonas Schoepf" <jonas.schoepf@uibk.ac.at>
>
> >   My drive is connected via USB.
> I think we're on the right track. What version of USB?
>
> >   Before using rdiff-backup I used just rsync, where the initial backup
> >   took also quite long, but the following backups took ~20 minutes.
> rdiff-backup will always be slower than rsync, since rdiff-backup
> keeps previous versions, unlike rsync.
I thought rdiff-backup like rsync keeps track of the file metadata like 
size and creation date to skip reading the data again if the file has 
not been updated?
That should cause the subsequent runs to be much faster even with slow 
disks.

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