I archive to a USB drive, and it took 20 hours to archive 282 GB of data. Yikes. That's roughly 1.3 MB/s
We were CPU bound when creating the gzip file, I think.
Gerald
----- "Sean Carolan" <scarolan AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Hello BackupPC users: > > We have a BackupPC system that has been working well for us for the > past three years. There is about 1.2 terabytes of data on our > BackupPC partition and we'd like to be able to spool it off to tape > for off-site storage. We have an HP d2d device that gets about 50-60 > MB/s throughput during testing. When I try to back up our backuppc > partition however, I only get around 25MB per *minute*. At this rate > it will take days to back up the entire partition. I'm using bacula > to manage the tape backups. > > Would this go faster if I unmounted the partition and tried to do a > block-level copy of the entire thing? How would you handle this? > > Thanks > > Sean > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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