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Hello All, I have been using rsync to backup several filesystems by using Mike Rubel's hard link method (http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/). The problem is, I am backing up a lot of ASCII .log, csv, and .txt files. These files are large and can range anywhere from 1GB to 30GB. I was wondering if on the target side (the backup side), if I can use some sort of compression. I

Hello, Working a few servers that are transferring data across country with a 75ms delay on a GIGE connection. We can tune the tcp buffers on linux to improve the connections using iperf. Does rsync use the tcp buffers of the OS or does it override these settings? Thanks, Neal -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Richard B. Gilbert<rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote: > My machines run 24x7. ?They don't suck THAT much power. A typical dual-socket server uses roughly 400 watts at idle. At a rough US$0.10 per kWh, doubled for cooling, that's US$700 in power per year. If you can save 50% of that by shutting down idle servers for 12 hours per day, that's