All,
With version 3 I am using Rsync instead of tar to backup a NFS share which the
backupPC host has direct access to. This has worked great with the exception
that linking takes forever if there are a large number of files. I simply
didn’t have much luck getting version 3 to work with tar and got rsync to work
rather easily so stopped there.
In the version 4 change log I noted that there were some improvements to
linking so decided to give that a try. However, with version 4, there have
been changes to rsync such that am forced to use tar for a local copy.
My V3 rsync config looked like:
$Conf{ClientNameAlias} = 'localhost';
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'*' => [
‘/x/y/SEQ/IPTS-*'
]
};
$Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = 'sudo -u username $rsyncPath $argList+';
$Conf{RsyncClientRestoreCmd} = 'sudo -u username $rsyncPath $argList+’;
I believe the RsyncClientCmd and RsyncClientRestoreCmd are gone in V4. I did
get Rsync to work with V4 but it seems to ssh to localhost which consumes
additional host resources.
Rsync isn’t a big deal since I have tar working now but am I correct in reading
that Rsync might be better for incremental backups in terms of handling
deletions?
-matt
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