rsync performance

[Dave Bour]

2GB+/- files are not uncommon for me.  I've clients backing up from both Windows and Linux boxes with files in that size via DSL.  The only issue I've encountered is offlining (or making an offline copy prior to backup and use that instead) for the duration of the backup as it sometimes takes over a day to fully sync up.  That said, I've currently 56 clients backing up over that same DSL connection daily (hence a full change to the multiple gb file takes a while to get to the server).
Somebody already commented on the compression/encryption issue about the entire file changing internally even though the source only changed slightly.  That's also been my experience.
Now if only someone could do a compression on the server side, leaving the sources uncompressed and the ability to rsync into that...that would be useful...
D.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Ansar
> Mohammed
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 10:13 PM
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> Subject: [TLUG]: rsync performance
>
> Hello all,
> Has anyone experience with rsyncing a large file (greater than 2GB)
> across a
> dsl connection?
>
>
>
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