Re: incremental rdiff-backup takes long
Alvin Starr via Any discussion of rdiff-backup <[email protected]>
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On 2021-06-01 10:20 a.m., Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > "Jonas Schoepf" <[email protected]> > >> My drive is connected via USB. > I think we're on the right track. What version of USB? > >> Before using rdiff-backup I used just rsync, where the initial backup >> took also quite long, but the following backups took ~20 minutes. > rdiff-backup will always be slower than rsync, since rdiff-backup > keeps previous versions, unlike rsync. > 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? That should cause the subsequent runs to be much faster even with slow disks. -- Alvin Starr || land: (647)478-6285 Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 [email protected] ||