Re: [rdiff-backup-users] How to speed up rdiff-backup

2005-10-17 Thread Carsten Lorenz
Ben Escoto wrote: "Carsten Lorenz" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following on Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:03:37 +0200 I started the first backup to an empty directory on a second server. ...

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] How to speed up rdiff-backup

2005-10-17 Thread Carsten Lorenz
Wiebe Cazemier wrote: Carsten Lorenz wrote: I started the first backup to an empty directory on a second server. I'm wandering about the low speed of ca. 1.6MB/s Both servers are DL380 with dual PIII 833MHz running debian, python2.3, librsync 0.9.7-1 and rdiff-backup 1.0.0-0.cvs20050819

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] How to speed up rdiff-backup

2005-10-15 Thread Ben Escoto
dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following on Fri, 14 Oct 2005 19:58:32 -0700 (PDT) On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Carsten Lorenz wrote: Has anyone hints how to speedup rdiff-backup? i just had a random idea while reading one of the other threads... maybe fsync is the culprit for the

[rdiff-backup-users] How to speed up rdiff-backup

2005-10-14 Thread Carsten Lorenz
I started the first backup to an empty directory on a second server. I'm wandering about the low speed of ca. 1.6MB/s Both servers are DL380 with dual PIII 833MHz running debian, python2.3, librsync 0.9.7-1 and rdiff-backup 1.0.0-0.cvs20050819 (thanks to Dean Gaudet for the debian package). They

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] How to speed up rdiff-backup

2005-10-14 Thread Steve Clement
Carsten Lorenz wrote: rdiff-backup needs 132s to transfer a 140MB file (1.1MB/s). While rdiff-backup works on the next file scp transfers the same file in 15s (9.3MB/s)! What does that mean? scp = 9.3MB/s rdiff-backup = 1.1MB/s Since we want to backup one tera-byte of data this would last

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] How to speed up rdiff-backup

2005-10-14 Thread Carsten Lorenz
Steve Clement wrote: Carsten Lorenz wrote: rdiff-backup needs 132s to transfer a 140MB file (1.1MB/s). While rdiff-backup works on the next file scp transfers the same file in 15s (9.3MB/s)! What does that mean? scp = 9.3MB/s rdiff-backup = 1.1MB/s If i understand, what you mean,

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] How to speed up rdiff-backup

2005-10-14 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Carsten Lorenz wrote: Since we want to backup one tera-byte of data this would last more than a week. i've never looked closely at why the first backup is so slow -- and i've heard the report from lots of folks... i tend to use rsync for the initial backup, and then use

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] How to speed up rdiff-backup

2005-10-14 Thread Ben Escoto
Carsten Lorenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following on Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:03:37 +0200 I started the first backup to an empty directory on a second server. ... Everything looks fine: CPU-usage on the source-server is ca.15% for ssh and ca. 6% for rdiff-backup CPU-usage on the destination is