Jim Wilcoxson wrote:
> Michael - I have a new LInux/FreeBSD backup program, HashBackup, in
> beta that I believe will handle a large backuppc server.  In tests, it
> will backup a single directory with 15M (empty) files/hardlinks, with
> 32000 hard links to each file, and can do the initial and  incremental
> backups on this directory in about 45 minutes on a 2005 AMD box with
> 1GB of memory.
> 
> HashBackup can also send backups offsite via FTP, ssh accounts, or to
> Amazon S3.  I'd be very interested in feedback if anyone would like to
> try it on their BackupPC server.
> 
> The beta site is:
> 
> http://sites.google.com/site/hashbackup
> 
> Of course, you're welcome to contact me via email with questions.

What kind of speed would you expect from this on real files?  I let it 
run about 20 hours and it had only made it halfway through a pool of 
around 600 gigs (where an image copy of the partition takes a bit over 2 
hours).   Should incrementals be faster if it ever makes it though the 
first run?

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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