Re: incremental rdiff-backup takes long

[Alvin Starr]

On 2021-06-01 10:32 a.m., Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
> Alvin Starr <alvin@netvel.net> wrote:
>
> > 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?
> I assume rdiff-backup does the same thing to decide if a file has
> changed, but if there's a change, rsync simply throws away the old
> version.
>
> rdiff-backup notes the changes and keeps older versions (depending on
> the options) so you're not limited to only one previous version.
> That's the whole point.
That may be the issue then.
If the first run takes as long as subsequent runs then something may be 
interfering with the file checks used to avoid reading the data for 
comparison.

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