Re: Anyone used FreeNAS?

[Bruce Stephens <bruce+usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

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

[...]

>>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.

It has to traverse them, yes, but IIRC rsync could do better when
communicating the names over its protocol.