-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-04-25 at 16:36 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
Neither of the solutions I posted earlier in this thread are dependent on timestamps.
iirc: Especially for online backups rdiff-backup mentioned before ignores timestamps altogether. It calculates the MD5 for every file to see if any changes have been introduced. If they have it segments the file and drills down to find the smallest unit of change and only sends that data across the LAN/WAN.
I doubt that. rdiff-backup is fast, and calculating MD5 for all files is slow. I think it does that only for files it thinks that might have changed. Proof: Backing up my Mail list archive takes 4" right now. Calculating the md5sums of one of the same dir takes 47" (37" on a second run). Therefore, rdif. must be checking metadata instead. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGMJV2tTMYHG2NR9URAs6tAJ9pAmBnG5E2WfuvpEEEP0vcaCIVrQCgjdfR Pwgs598jtSrAImJekaKQMBQ= =x6IY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org