I agree a log change in the filesystem would be great for this type of backup requirements and understand it cannot be gathered as such. If it helps we breakdown the rsync list, for example for i in dir/* ; do rsync $i ... or for i in a* ; do rsync $i ... > > > For me, a 5GB rsync is pretty quick --- just a few minutes, typically > > --- so there may be other reasons why it is taking so long. > > rsync is very fast if you have a small number of files (several hundred > thousand), if you have 10 million files rsync uses all the RAM in your > system, and since it stats the files it goes very slowly. I have written > to the rsync mailing list asking about this. > > cheers > Stuart > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ext3-users@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users >
