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Bad things! rsync isn't smart enough (AFAIK) to know that files have been renamed or moved: it just sees files disappearing on one side and appearing on the oth
by magnetic 8y ago
Bad things! rsync isn't smart enough (AFAIK) to know that files have been renamed or moved: it just sees files disappearing on one side and appearing on the other side, so the daily delta can get big.
- riobard 8y agoYeah that sucks… I'm looking into using the incremental diff/snapshot feature of btrfs to implement a more efficient solution :P
- magnetic 8y agoDRBD may be a good solution to this problem, although I haven't spent the time to see what it would take to replicate over ssh, and the kind of traffic that is incurred vs changes in origin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Replicated_Block_Device https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Replicated_Block_D...
- riobard 8y agoInteresting! Never heard of this before.