Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Millions of files

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> dean gaudet <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:47:17 -0700 (PDT)

> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Troels Arvin wrote:
> 
> > rsync seems to have trouble with jobs operating on millions of files:
> > http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2003-October/007546.html
> > 
> > If that's the case, is it also automatically the case for rdiff-backup?
> > Does rdiff-backup create a complete list of files to be backed up before
> > working?
> 
> yeah rdiff-backup has the same problem.
> 
> fwiw i don't have troubles on a 1M+ inode fs (actually it has 2M
> inodes but about 1M are excluded)... but that doesn't mean there
> isn't a problem.

No, rdiff-backup does not have this problem :-P rdiff-backup only
makes one pass, so memory should not increase linearly with the number
of files.

rdiff-backup and rsync use completely different protocols, and they
don't really share any code.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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