Thanks to everyone for their suggestions.
It turns out I bought a HDD and not a SSD for the backup. Once I replaced
the HDD with a SSD, the backup only took a couple of hours.
Mark
On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 7:16 AM Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> Mark,
>
Mark,
This sounds a lot like you are on a USB 2.0 enabled port. It’s that or there is
something a bit off about your external drive that you are backing up to. I
have had recent experience with so-called cheap external backup devices,
including a 1 TB external SSD and several external 1 and 2
I don't know why your copy is slow, but I know how to make it take less
time.
I think you are defeating the purpose of rsync, you are creating a new
directory every time, which means it needs to copy everything every time.
What I do is do an rsync -rau --delete from the directory I want to copy
On 2022-07-15 08:40, Mark Phillips via PLUG-discuss wrote:
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
1G takes about 11.3
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+
