[Bug 257211] Re: please backport rsync 3 from Intrepid to Hardy

[agent 8131]

No apologies needed; I'm happy to see this moving forward.  I've
switched almost all of my servers to your version.  I haven't noticed
any regressions.  In fact, all I've noticed is that the 2 major problems
I've experienced with rsync 2.6.9 have been disappeared:

1.  Synchronizing very large files -  For large files, like 10GB virtual
disk images the older version would sometimes not properly synchronize
an image.  This could be seen by using rsync on the file and then
comparing md5 or sha1 checksums.  It would work only is the -c option
was set, which is much slower.  Rsync 3 seems to work without -c so it
must use a more careful algorithm.

2.  Synchronizing large numbers of files - I'd say rsync 3 has knocked
an hour or so off of certain backup jobs that require backing up more
than a million files.  Previously to prevent rsync from using too much
memory I had to break the job into multiple smaller pieces.  Now rsync 3
works fine by itself with memory usage and running time greatly reduced.

So thus far I'd highly support this becoming available for Hardy.  I
think any user that upgrades will never want to go back.

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please backport rsync 3 from Intrepid to Hardy
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/257211
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