1 TByte (99,5%) data missing on rsync backup???

2011-09-09 Thread Rene Bartsch
Hi, I have a weird problem with RSync: On a NAS are about 1,2 TB data. When I plug in a harddisk and make a backup with RSync, "df -h" shows the backup disk filling up to nearly 1,2 TB. But after RSync has finished, there are only 3.7 GB on the backup disk. System: Linux nas 2.6.37-gentoo-r4 #

Checksum-caching on server

2010-11-14 Thread Rene Bartsch
Hi, as scanning large repositories for each client connection causes unnecessary CPU/IO load, I want to know if is it possible to generate checksum digest files on the server, meanwhile? Best regards, Renne -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubsc

Feature request: Caching checksums in a file

2008-11-22 Thread Rene Bartsch
Hi, when using RSync for mirroring, the checksums of a file are calculated for each transfer. But that causes a lot of CPU/IO load on the server machine and degrades throughput even if there's plenty of network bandwidth. So I want to propose a pre-calculating feature for checksums. The easies