From: Michael B. <mi...@mi...> - 2007-11-14 19:43:17
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On Nov 14, 2007, at 10:19 AM, Gene Horodecki wrote: > Hi there.. I just did my first big backup with backuppc and to be > honest the results were alittle dissapointing.. It's taken 6 hours > now at approximately 80% CPU to back up my 70Gb photo archive. > Does this sound about right? My entire system is around 240Gb.. at > this point I doubt I could do it all in one day. A regular > ntbackup does my photos in about 3 hours. > > The way to go for me might be to turn off compression entirely. > Does anyone know if I backuppc will handle this well now that I > have a full backup in place? Or should I delete the backup, set > the compression to zeo, and start over? Thanks! Totally turn off compression! That will use less CPU and take less time. You don't want to do gzip compression on image files because they're not going to compress! I think that if you turn off compression now, the next backup will snag all of the files again and write them into the uncompressed pool. -- Michael Barrow michael at michaelbarrow dot name |