On 9/1/09, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Jim Wilcoxson wrote:
>> Hi Les - thanks for trying it out!
>>
>> It sounds like you are seeing about 300GB in 1200 minutes, or 4
>> minutes per GB.  That's about what I see on average when backing up a
>> real system initially.  Yesterday I backed up 33GB on a G5 Mac (the
>> Mac version isn't released yet), and it took 110 minutes.
>>
>> However, incrementals are much faster: The incremental for the same
>> Mac took 7 minutes.  One of my Linux development systems (about 1.5GB)
>> takes 4 minutes to backup initially, but only 20 seconds to do an
>> incremental when just a few things change.  I backup my /home/jim user
>> directory, about 1.5GB, every 15 minutes and it usually takes 5-10
>> seconds.
>>
>> You can restart the same backup and it will pick backup up where it
>> left off after a short delay.
>>
>> Thanks again for checking it out!  Much appreciated.
>
> The run I started on Friday still hasn't completed and since backuppc has
> run
> nightly it is picking up new files in the pc directory that weren't in the
> pool
> when it started - so the size is larger than I expected and it isn't going
> to fit.

OK.  I still appreciate you trying it.  It sounds like I have some
work to do before this will scale to a 600GB BackupPC backup.

>
> Top shows fairly reasonable memory use, though.
>
>    PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>   3899 root      18   0  364m 349m 2800 D  1.9  8.9   1396:55 hb

That's useful info, thanks Les.

>
>
> It probably would be a lot faster if it didn't display the filenames being
> copied.

There is a -v0 option to turn off the filename display.  In my test
environment that doesn't affect the performance much, but it might in
other situations.

Jim

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