Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync never starts transferring files (but does something)

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Steve <le...@gm...> wrote:
>> "Create as many client names as you like, eg: client-share1,
>> client-share2, client-share3, client-share4 (replace "client" with the
>> real host name and "share" with the share names). In each
>> pc/client-xxx/config.pl file, use;
>>
>> $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = "client";
>>
>> (where "client" is the real host name). Add any other client-specific
>> settings (eg: share name). This way all 4 virtual clients will refer to
>> the same real client. All backups happen independently."
>
> That's what I meant.  Good luck!

The real win from this approach is that you can skew the days the
fulls and incrementals run for different parts of the filesystem.
Once you get past the problem of getting the directory entries in RAM,
full runs have to go back and read all of the file data for the block
checksum comparisons.   Incrementals will quickly skip any items where
the directory timestamps and length match.

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   Les Mikesell
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