On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Colin Percival <cperc...@tarsnap.com> wrote: > On 02/25/14 03:15, Mike Kallies wrote: >> We're doing nightly backups using Tarsnap, approximately 100G of data. >> The backups are taking a very long time, and the time has been >> increasing steadily since early January. > > Hmm... > >> Backups which would normally start around 9pm and finish around 5am, >> now start at 9pm and finish around 2:30pm. There is not a huge >> amount of change in the files. (~1-2G or so per day) > > Is that 1-2 GB based on tarsnap's statistics (--print-stats), or based > on your internal reckoning of changing files?
Based on internal reckoning. We had a DSL modem failure here, so there could have been packet loss going on. Once we get the problem fixed properly, and have a clean backup without possible impact from packet loss I'll send the numbers. > Shouldn't be necessary... there's something weird going on for such a small > amount of data to take so long. Small amount being 100G? or the 2GB of changes? Thanks for the response, -Mike