Are you using a USB3 drive and a USB3 port, the speed of the interface is what I would think of first.
On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 8:41 AM Mark Phillips <m...@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote: > I have an Ubuntu 18.04 system with two drives in an lvm with one logical > root partition. I am trying to back up the contents of the drives (ie /) to > an external usb drive using rsync. It is taking a really long time. After > 26 hours of continuous operation I have only transferred 138 GB out of 2+ > TB, so I am looking at about 16 days to complete the transfer. > > My rsync command is: > sudo rsync --no-compress --info=progress2 -avAXEWSlHh > > --exclude={'/run','/mnt','/swapfile','/boot','/dev','/proc','/sys','/run','/mnt','/media','/lost+found','/swapfile.extended','/tmp'} > / '/media/mark/Seagate Portable Drive/tsunami-backups-Jul_13_17-39/' > > Any suggestions on how I can speed this up and not lose any data? > > Thanks! > > Mark >