Thanks to all for suggestions. I'm going to try doing a diff. -K Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 19, 2013, at 6:33 AM, Arno Hautala <a...@alum.wpi.edu> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 5:55 AM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: >> >> On Feb 18, 2013, at 12:31 AM, Arno Hautala wrote: >>> >>> You could always grep for 'backupd' in /var/log/system.log and post a few >>> complete backup cycles. This would point out if there's a specific stage >>> that is taking a long time. >> >> Since his problem isn't the inspecting time, but the data size, maybe tmutil >> can give him what he needs to solve his problem. > > I was thinking that it may not be a size problem at all. A backup of a > folder with very many files in it will require creating and destroying > symlinks for every file in the folder when backups are created and > destroyed. Checking all those files at the start of the backup, > creating symlinks in folders that also contain changed data, and > destroying many symlinks could be taking up quite a bit of time for a > small amount of changed data. > > 1 GB also doesn't strike me as obscene for a single backup. It's on > the highside for my experience, but not out of the question, > especially given the comment about working with Xcode. Coding and > compiling could easily generate a GB of data that needs to be checked > for changes. > > A local drive should be able to transfer a GB in seconds, heck even a > network backup should be able to handle that in minutes at most. > That's why I think the issue isn't the amount of data, but the number > of files. > > Regardless, you're right. Getting a diff of a long backup to the > previous state should hopefully point out what is going on. If 'tmutil > compare' doesn't help, there's always 'fseventer' or 'fsusage'. > > -- > arno s hautala /-| a...@alum.wpi.edu > > pgp b2c9d448 > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
