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On Dec 21, 2010, at 4:59 PM, "gimili" <gimil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/21/2010 3:02 PM, Timothy J Massey wrote:
>>
>> Tar's needs are pretty low, but if the pool is compressed (or if you
>> selected a compressed TAR), that could make a big difference. Rsync isn't
>> going to give you any performance boost on a restore, assuming you're
>> restoring to an empty folder: *nothing* is going to give you a performance
>> boost, really. You're simply going to have to wait.
>>
>> Even at 10MB/s (you wrote "mb/s", which is wrong either way, but I'm
>> assuming you meant MegaBYTES per second, not MegaBITS per second), it will
>> only take about 6 hours to restore. By the time you figure out how to make
>> it faster, it'll probably already be done!
>>
>> Not to make you feel worse, but this is why you fully test a backup system
>> INCLUDING FULL RESTORES before you put it into production. I like to say
>> you don't have a backup until you restore that backup. Taking the backup is
>> only half the process...
>>
>> Something to think about when it comes to cloud-based backups. We all know
>> that with the magic of pooling and rsync, the first backup might take a
>> week, but future backups will only take a few minutes. Unfortunately, that
>> first *restore* is going to take a week, too... Can you wait that long?
> Thanks Timothy for the great info and advice. Much appreciated! So using
> the restore from the web interface and rsync should work reliably if left
> over night with 200GB? I can't see any progress bar so it is hard to tell if
> is even working. It works with one small directory. How long should it take
> before I start seeing folders created?
>
>
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Forrester recently released a report on the Return on Investment (ROI) of
Google Apps. They found a 300% ROI, 38%-56% cost savings, and break-even
within 7 months. Over 3 million businesses have gone Google with Google Apps:
an online email calendar, and document program that's accessible from your
browser. Read the Forrester report: http://p.sf.net/sfu/googleapps-sfnew
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