On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 01:56:02PM -0400, Matt Ingram wrote:
> here's the send sizesize log. To me it appears that it is just taking 
> that long to create the tar..... ???
> 
> thanks for your response :).
> 

tar has great performance issues with directories containing many small
files.  I think the alternative, faster ways of estimating are accurate
for level 0 dumps (others may correct my conception if wrong) and use
historical data for the incrementals.  Your incrementals seem pretty small
(10-20% of the level 0) so that I suspect any error in those estimates
would be acceptable.  Where you run into problems is a DLE that changes
a lot pretty often, but not always.

It is amazing the difference the alternatives can make in estimate time.

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