On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Karl O. Pinc <k...@meme.com> wrote:
> It occurs to me that a handy solution might be to have an rsync option, > similar to the --exclude option, which would allow checksumming to happen > throughout most of the ackup process but would do "regular" size/timestamp > based backups on certain directories. > One thing you could do is to apply the checksum-reading.diff patch and then generate a checksum file (using the included perl script) for the /tmp dir right before doing your rsync run. That would cache the file's checksums and not re-read the files unless the perl script notices that the ctime has changed (which will cause it to update the cache file). A patched rsync will read the checksum from the cache file instead of re-computing it, which should solve your issue. ..wayne..
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