> 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?
>
I would be interested in knowing more about how hashbackup works.