On: Cronopete – A Linux clone of Time Machine

[viraptor]

It delegates all the actual file operations to rsync. In practice, it looks like it does multiple scans each hour - glob on all excluded folders, then running rsync with a big list of excludes for each configured folder.

There no clever modification monitoring. I'd keep this away from folders with many thousands of files.

[rastersoft → viraptor]

I'm the author. I doesn't do a glob on the excluded folders, it just passes the list to rsync.

Also it changes the priority of rsync, to avoid it using too much CPU.