BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] (somewhat solved) Backing up many small files

2013-02-07 05:02:55
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] (somewhat solved) Backing up many small files
From: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:01:27 +0000
On 2013-02-07 07:15, Sorin Srbu wrote:
>>> /usr/bin/time -v find /home -mtime 1 >/dev/null
>
> Output from the client (/home):
> User time (seconds): 2.12
> Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 10:17.32
> 
> Output from the BPC-server (/bak):
> User time (seconds): 228.31
> Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 14:39:44
> 
> According to 
> <<http://linux.about.com/od/commands/a/Example-Uses-Of-The-Command-Time.htm>>,
>  
> the wall clock indicates how long the process run would take. With that in 
> mind, the backup from the client should take about ten minutes. This is 
> clearly not so according to the BPC logs.

This indicates that I was wrong; directory/inode traversal is not the
issue. It's speedy enough to run the test. It is likely in the rsync block
checksum comparison after all.

Regards,
Tyler

-- 
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which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be
a man."
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