Re: rsync 3.0.x with Windows VSS-support

Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> Tino Schwarze wrote at about 11:50:35 +0200 on Thursday, June 4, 2009:
>  > Hi Leen,
>  > 
>  > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:04:43PM +0200, Leen Besselink wrote:
>  > 
>  > > Recently I took the patch Elias Penttilä wrote and 'forward-ported' it to rsync 3.
>  > > 
>  > > For people who don't know what it does, it implements backup of open files on Windows with rsync.
>  > > 
>  > > Because I think rsync 3 is more efficient and more current in comparison to rsync 2, it uses
>  > > an incremental filelisting system to try and be more efficient. Especially memory-wise.
>  > 
>  > Note that you won't gain anything with BackupPC because BackupPC uses
>  > it's own implementation of the rsync protocol which does not yet support
>  > rsync3.
> 

Tino,

Ahh, I see, hmm, well, euh...

Maybe Jeffrey could be right:

> I don't believe this is fully true. Now indeed BackupPC doesn't use
> the latest protocol=30 which is due to the fixed protocol limitations
> of perl-File-RsyncP-0.68-2.fc8.1.i386.rpm. However, I believe that the
> memory-saving features are independent of the protocol and hence still
> shine through.. (I may be wrong, so correct me if so)

I took a large filetree and tested a bit and it looks like you might be
right.


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