Re: Anyone used FreeNAS?

[Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:28:28 +0100, Bruce Stephens
<bruce+usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Alex Fraser <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>[...]
>
>> rsync is pretty quick to work out there is nothing to do, so it really
>> depends on how much the data changes.
>
>Also how many files you have.  If you have a ridiculous number you may
>find that rsync spends a large amount of time just finding out that
>the list of files isn't different.

Whatever you use will have to traverse the whole set of files, unless
it only does full backups rather than incrementals.

        Cheers - Jaimie
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