Re: [BackupPC-users] filesystem benchmark results

[Kanwar R. S. <m3...@ro...>]

On Thu, 2006-09-03 at 18:31 -0800, Matt wrote:
> Speedwise, backuppc really sucks compared to dirvish. With dirvish I has
> able to backup 1.4 TB in 30 minutes.  Most of the time was spend by
> rsync collecting and transmitting the file lists.  Now a full backups
> take almost a  day, even if the amount of new data is negligible
> (checksum caching enabled).

I don't know about dirvish, but I concur: backuppc is slow.  Even LAN
based backups are not as fast as they should be.

Still, backuppc is a great app.  I haven't found anything else that is
as easy to setup, use, and maintain.   If backuppc could be sped up, it
would be perfect.

Seems to me backuppc would benefit immensely from a few more developers.
I think a marketing campaign is in order.  It'll pique interest amongst
the OSS community, and hopefully attract a couple of developers.
Donations to the project might be a great way to encourage development
as well.

Regards,

Ranbir

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Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
Linux 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 i686 GNU/Linux 
22:16:41 up 1 day, 18 min, 3 users, load average: 0.48, 0.33, 0.20