Re: [BackupPC-users] slow backups with tar

2007-10-10 Thread dan
gotcha. im not sure if it follows hardlinks or not. On 10/10/07, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dan wrote: > > i have used a zfs snapshot and by virtue of zfs it is instant and > > performed as advertised. i have not tried to use the built in nfs stuff > > with zfs at all. i have n

Re: [BackupPC-users] slow backups with tar

2007-10-10 Thread Les Mikesell
dan wrote: > > as a side note, i am testing backuppc on an opensolaris box(nexenta > alpha) with zfs and im really liking it! for those who do not know, > nexenta is basically ubuntu 7.04 with an opensolaris kernel instead of > linux. i am not using compress for backuppc because im doing it o

Re: [BackupPC-users] slow backups with tar

2007-10-10 Thread dan
i guess i have never seen these kinda of numbers for the transfers! what kind of hardware is being used? is this some old p3 500mhz or something? i only have experience with backuppc on much more modern hardware. my current setup is a dual core opteron 2ghz with 2 Gb ram and 4 sata drives in rai

Re: [BackupPC-users] slow backups with tar

2007-10-10 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
> On 10/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi when backing-up my local host using .tar it would sometimes take 3 days > > or more. > > I only know this because of disk usage.the hd led is constantly on. It > > this normal? I once experimented a lot with archiving the entire Bac