Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)
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- Subject: Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)
- From: debian-user@howorth.org.uk
- Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 13:37:00 +0100
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Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
> This is the killer for non-trivial use of rsync-based backup methods.
> Traversing a directory tree of millions of inodes is expensive.
That depends an awful lot on the choice of filesystem. ext4 is
hopeless. I found XFS to be quite good, as was reiserfs back in the day.
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