On 02/26/14 05:04, Mike Kallies wrote: > 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.
Ok. The --print-stats output will indicate both the total size of the archive and also how much is being uploaded, so that will help to indicate whether it's a problem constructing the archive or a problem uploading the new bits. >> 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? Yes to both. :-) -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid