Hi Rich, Thank you for reporting this issue.
From the logs, I can see that mondoarchive thinks it will need 35 DVDs to back up your data, which is approximately 150GB. Mondo Rescue is really more of a disaster recovery tool rather than a backup utility. So, in general, what I would suggest is that you use Mondo Rescue for backing up your system only so that you have bootable restore media but that you use a normal backup tool to backup your actual data. (You may bascially want to add /big to your -E parameter.) I also see that you get a number of occurrences of: Unable to openin filename (File too large) You may want to try 2.06-4 (once released) which has this fixed. You may also want to try and use -0 (zero) instead of -L, which would completely turn off compression. That would increase the number of media required, but remove the biggest consumer of CPU cycles. Having said all this, I do agree that this is all not nice and that it would be good if we could substantially improve the performance of mondoarchive. Would you know what the CPU load was while mondoarchive was running? Would you also know whether it was maybe swapping like crazy because it had run out of RAM? How much RAM do you have in the first place? Was something else eating all the CPU cycles? I will be on vacation from tomorrow until the end of March and will thus not be able to work on this until then - sorry. In the meantime, please feel not only free but invited to bring this up on the mondo mailing list (see here for details: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mondo-devel). I very much doubt that the poor performance you are seeing is Debian-specific. Best regards, Andree -- Andree Leidenfrost Sydney - Australia
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