Really, when you get above half a million files rsync starts to choke, and requires a considerable amount of memory, which causes my server to swap out, thus trashing the performance of my server and causing the backups to take much longer than they needed to.
With my R1Soft solution I am able to take backups on my busy servers on the hour, with little overhead. On my less buys servers with less power users I am able to take backups every 15 minutes. I think one of the big differences is the deltas are tracked in real time were as rsync will need to re-index on every backup.
-Zeek
rsycn is a bit slow, and I find that it can't cope very well with a large amount of files. The only Linux solution I have found to be anywhere near the capability of TM is R1Softs CDP solution. It is too bad it does not run on Apple, but it does run on Linux and windows. R1Soft does have remote backups which in my opinion makes it a much better solution all together.
In any case, I use TM for my Apple boxes and R1Soft for Linux / Windows, rsync is way to slow on any platform.
http://r1soft.com/
-Zeek
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Really, when you get above half a million files rsync starts to choke, and requires a considerable amount of memory, which causes my server to swap out, thus trashing the performance of my server and causing the backups to take much longer than they needed to. With my R1Soft solution I am able to take backups on my busy servers on the hour, with little overhead. On my less buys servers with less power users I am able to take backups every 15 minutes. I think one of the big differences is the deltas are tracked in real time were as rsync will need to re-index on every backup. -Zeek
rsycn is a bit slow, and I find that it can't cope very well with a large amount of files. The only Linux solution I have found to be anywhere near the capability of TM is R1Softs CDP solution. It is too bad it does not run on Apple, but it does run on Linux and windows. R1Soft does have remote backups which in my opinion makes it a much better solution all together. In any case, I use TM for my Apple boxes and R1Soft for Linux / Windows, rsync is way to slow on any platform. http://r1soft.com/ -Zeek