On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 05:27:59PM +1000, Gavin wrote: > Chris G wrote: > > I'm running rdiff-backup on a Western Digital My Book World Edition > > II, it's a little NAS server that runs linux and has ssh login > > available. > > > > The rdiff-backup is running from one of the NAS server's drives to the > > other drive, i.e. it's not being run from another system to (or from) > > the NAS and thus is not limited by network bandwidth. > > > > I'm backing up two large[ish] directories, one is around 164Gb, the > > other is about 35Gb. > > > > The 35Gb one takes about 7 minutes to run, which is fine, but the > > 165Gb one takes 4 hours and 5 minutes. Presumably there's some sort > > of resource limitation which the bigger backup is hitting and hence > > running slower. > > > > Is there anything I can do to improve performance? My first guess > > would be that rdiff-backup is running out of 'real' memory and > > swapping which is slowing things. > > > > It has 126828 kB of memory, more than I thought, that's 128Mb. > > > > The processor is an ARM926EJ-S, 183 BogoMIPS. > > > How about splitting the larger backup into 3 or 4 parts? > > Yes, that's a possibility, though it is rather one large bit and several small bits. However it might be that decreasing the size by a fairly small amount would help so it's worth trying. Thanks.
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