fsdfds fdsf wrote: > Hi, > > I left the dirvish running and it has been running for about 4-5 hours now. > > The process isn't yet ready, but the tree-folder has been starting to > build with the folders/files that i have in my system. Meaning that is > has started the backup but it takes a long long time. Is it normal that > the first run takes this long(I think it will run about 6-8 hrs) and if > it is, will the next backup be faster?
How much data do you have to backup and what's the available bandwidth between the two machines in question? (When I do an initial backup of some servers across a T1 line, it takes a *lot* longer than 8 hours.) How much data changes between backups? Given that data, you should easily come up with a reasonable estimate of the time to run a backup. Or, to be more exact, a lower bound for the time. If you have a gazillion little files in a bazillion directories on the source server, it takes rsync a fair amount of time to simply check all the sizes and timestamps, even if it eventually decides that none of the gazillion files have changed. Or, to put it all another way, 6-8 hours is not at all out of line, but your mileage depends entirely on the amount of data, profile of file sizes, speed of network connection, and/or speed of disks. And, yes, following backups will probably be much faster but, again, your mileage.... :-) --Jon Radel
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