How about splitting the larger backup into 3 or 4 parts? Gavin
Chris G wrote: > I'm running rdiff-backup on a Western Digital My Book World Edition > II, it's a little NAS server that runs linux and has ssh login > available. > > The rdiff-backup is running from one of the NAS server's drives to the > other drive, i.e. it's not being run from another system to (or from) > the NAS and thus is not limited by network bandwidth. > > I'm backing up two large[ish] directories, one is around 164Gb, the > other is about 35Gb. > > The 35Gb one takes about 7 minutes to run, which is fine, but the > 165Gb one takes 4 hours and 5 minutes. Presumably there's some sort > of resource limitation which the bigger backup is hitting and hence > running slower. > > Is there anything I can do to improve performance? My first guess > would be that rdiff-backup is running out of 'real' memory and > swapping which is slowing things. > > It has 126828 kB of memory, more than I thought, that's 128Mb. > > The processor is an ARM926EJ-S, 183 BogoMIPS. > > _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
