Le 6 avr. 2013 à 16:57, AZ 9901 a écrit : > I make my production backups with Rsync. > > > Here is an example of my backup tree on the destination server : > /backups > /2013-04-03 > /2013-04-02 > /2013-04-01 > /2013-03-31 > /2013-03-30 > /2013-03-29 > > At the end of the backup process, I upload a logfile in the backup > directory and delete oldest backups. > > For this, I use an include/exclude file, for example this inclexcl.txt : > + /2013-04-03 > + /2013-04-03/logfile.log > - /2013-04-03/* > - /2013-04-02 > - /2013-04-01 > > I also use this empty directory where my logfile is : > /tmp > /path > /2013-04-03 > /logfile.log > > And I run this rsync command : > rsync -a --delete-after --exclude-from=inclexcl.txt /tmp/path/ > myserver::backups/ > > Perfect, it works, my logfile is uploaded and oldest backups are > deleted (in this example all backups of March). > > > However, what I can see in the daemon log is that Rsync is browsing > from the top down all files of the backup directories to delete, and > delete them one by one. > As each of my backup directories contains hundreds of thousands of > files, deletion take a very long time and eats a lot of IOs. > > Is there a way to tell Rsync to directly delete backup directories at > the top of the hierarchy without browsing them ?
Le 7 avr. 2013 à 11:25, AZ 9901 a écrit : > I made some tests, I created a directory with 300k files in it. > I deleted it with Rsync, then with rm command. > I did this test several times. > On my server, it took about 20 seconds with rm, about 40 seconds with Rsync. > > In the Rsync deamon logfile, I can see a "del." line for each file of the > directory, beginning from the top down. > Does Rsync compares each file against the incl/excl list to know if it can be > deleted ? > > If so, is there a way to tell Rsync the following ? > "delete this top directory and all its files, but stop lacking time with > comparisons against the incl/excl list for each element of this top directory" Hello ! Wayne, do you have any idea about this ? Thank you very much ! Best regards, Ben -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
