Re: Rsync backups over the internet

2006-05-09 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 09:50:58PM -0400, Srinivas Kotapally wrote: > I am use rsync to backup a large filesystem over the internet. I do an > incremental backup of the 2 file systems once a day to keep an offsite > backup. However, this backup takes about 60 minutes. The first thing I'd recomme

Re: Rsync backups over the internet

2006-05-07 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Sun, 2006-05-07 09:53:47 -0400, Srinivas Kotapally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The filesystem that I backup is one where files keep getting added or > deleted no other files are modified at all. These files are usually word/ ext2? ext3? xfs? jfs? reiserfs? ... > PDF documents. These files ar

Re: Rsync backups over the internet

2006-05-07 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Sat, 2006-05-06 21:50:58 -0400, Srinivas Kotapally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am use rsync to backup a large filesystem over the internet. I do an > incremental backup of the 2 file systems once a day to keep an offsite > backup. However, this backup takes about 60 minutes. Are there some

Rsync backups over the internet

2006-05-06 Thread Srinivas Kotapally
All   I am use rsync to backup a large filesystem over the internet.  I do an incremental backup of the 2 file systems once a day to keep an offsite backup.  However, this backup takes about 60 minutes.  Are there some tweaks I can do to speed up the backup?  Here is the command I run via