rsync/incementral

[Ashley Aitken]

On 02/08/2007, at 11:58 AM, rogerhoward at rogerroger.org wrote:

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> On Aug 1, 2007, at 6:55 PM, steve harley wrote:
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>> they whom i call Roger Howard wrote:
>>> Am going to begin testing on a much larger filesystem soon.
>>
>> it would be most excellent if you'd write us an update when the  
>> test results are in

I used rsync (via RsyncX) for backing up 40GB with incremental  
changes of a few GBs. It worked fine.  I had 50 rotating incremental  
backups on a networked machine.

I note that setting up the hard links for a very large number of file  
takes time (the backups weren't the fastest) and space (particularly  
because they are simulated on HFS+).

You may be better off with just standard incremental backups.  I've  
since moved to using just Backup for full and incremental backups to  
an external Firewire drive (and that has its problems too).

Cheers,
Ashley.