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On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 05:28:01PM +0200, Neal H. Walfield wrote:
> Unfortunately, it is cheap to send data, but expensive to read it.  If
> I correctly understand how obnam works, then obnam does a lot of
> reading to compare data even if nothing has changed.  (If that's not
> true, then please correct me!)

Obnam compares the file metadata (owner, group, mtime, size, etc) to
decide there's a need to make a backup. Reading through all the files
on every backup run would be so slow it'd be silly to do it that way.

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I want to build worthwhile things that might last. --joeyh

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