[OpenIndiana-discuss] Current ZFS Backup projects (OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 26, Issue 34)

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 12 Sep 2012, Ong Yu-Phing wrote:
>
> My concern is that typically rsync will take quite a while to traverse a 
> large set of files before sending only changed files; a classic example is

This sounds like behavior of rsync prior to 3.0.  Rsync is still slow 
but it is able to start sending changes right away.

Without using snapshots you really don't know what you are getting 
from an active filesystem.

Bob
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