From: Keith Matthews (no email)
Date: Thu Jul 14 2005 - 03:01:49 EDT
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:36:01 -0700
"Michael Nguyen" <> wrote:
> From: "cv" <>
>
> Hi Curtis.
>
> > I was just wondering how long is long and why that matters (unless we're
> > talking about half a day). I also use an rsync script that I have
> > crontab-bed to run after midnight. It may take a couple of hours to back
> up
> > each mail server, but then, what do I care? I'm asleep.
>
> We're talking more than half a day. What seems to take the longest is
> calculating the file lists as there are just tons and tons and tons of tiny
> files that are often moved.
>
> The backup of the mail servers started at 00:18 AM and it's currently 15:32
> PM here. The mail servers are about 70% done. Size-wise, we're talking
> about 3 servers totalling less than 500GB. The actual size doesn't seem to
> be the problem, but rather the time it takes to create the list of files to
> be transferred.
>
>
Have you looked at isync ?
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