real time file monitoring
Bug #781428 reported by
Rahul Sundaram
This bug affects 5 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Déjà Dup |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Deja-dup currently does a scan of the configured backup folders and this can take a quite bit of time before the diff syncing even starts. It would be useful to have a agent running in the background that does real time monitoring of file changes, logs it and when Deja-dup is started, play the log instead of doing a full scan at the time of the launch. Would make Deja-dup significant faster to sync changes on subsequent runs. Perhaps you can hook into Zeitgeist if it has this info already.
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| Michael Terry (mterry) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in deja-dup: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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| Michael Rodríguez-Torrent (mrtorrent) wrote | #2 |
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| Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse) wrote | #3 |
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Actually, that first scan is just to determine total file size of everything duplicity will touch. We run duplicity in 'dry-run' mode and let it tell us the size of all included files. But really, we could probably tell that easily enough ourselves without asking duplicity.
That would be a good improvement to skip the lengthy dry run. It might be as simple as running du on the directories.