On 19/09/2012 11:21, Mark Coetser wrote:
> On 18/09/2012 17:34, Timothy J Massey wrote:
>> Mark Coetser<mark AT tux-edo.co DOT za>  wrote on 09/18/2012 10:21:42 AM:
>>
>>   >  I am busy running a full clean rsync to time exactly how long it will
>>   >  take and will post results compared to a clean full backup with
>>   >  backuppc, I can tell you that the network interface on the backup server
>>   >  is currently running at 200Mbs transfer speed.
>>
>> Once it is complete, wait a day or so and then re-run the full backup
>> *and* the native rsync over the contents of the first rsync. That will
>> be a pretty good comparison of not-first backups.
>>
>> Frankly, you don't even have to wait. Once each of them are complete,
>> immediately re-run them and compare the results. There may be a very
>> minimal amount of new files, but that isn't going to affect the order of
>> magnitude of the results, and the difference you will see will be in the
>> neighborood of that.
>>
>> That will tell you what I think I already know: the Perl-based rsync is
>> *terrible*. But it makes the magic of BackupPC work--if you feed it
>> enough resources, it seems.
>
> sent 150123974 bytes  received 1745633674066 bytes  13566176.70 bytes/sec
> total size is 2663529076313  speedup is 1.53
>
> real    2144m46.748s
> user    144m11.809s
> sys     668m4.861s

Looks like the above was while the md device was resyncing in the 
background as well which will skew the results. I will wait for the 
resync to complete then rerun...


Thank you,

Mark Adrian Coetser

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