Hello Tony,

> I've written before about backups involving very big files that seem  
> to execute slowly.
> 

> What can be slowing things down so much? Except for this operation,  
> everything else runs about as I would expect.

I have no clue what the reason is but I experienced that backups of
large files are much faster with tar over ssh instead of rsync over ssh.

Not an explanation but maybe this can solve your problem.

Renke

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