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. Jim On 8/28/09, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikes...@gmail.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > -- Software first. Software lasts! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
