IMHO the inotify stuff would break if you restart the daemon, my idea is to schedule the backup via crontab. Anyway this would be an opt-in, so the user should be aware of what's going on. And the change to the source code should be more limited than the inotify one.
Bacula, another popular open source backup system, leaves to the user the decision on what kind of logic must be used to check if a file has been changed or not: you can choose among file checksum (slower but safer) or file metadata (last change timestamp + file size, faster but less safe). I...
First of all, kudos to all the proxmox team for this release!
After backing up a large directory tree using proxmox-backup-client, I tried to backup again the same directory. It seems that the client doesn't try to skip unchanged files (i.e. it reads and sends data from all the files, changed...
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