On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 01:56:02PM -0400, Matt Ingram wrote: > here's the send sizesize log. To me it appears that it is just taking > that long to create the tar..... ??? > > thanks for your response :). >
tar has great performance issues with directories containing many small files. I think the alternative, faster ways of estimating are accurate for level 0 dumps (others may correct my conception if wrong) and use historical data for the incrementals. Your incrementals seem pretty small (10-20% of the level 0) so that I suspect any error in those estimates would be acceptable. Where you run into problems is a DLE that changes a lot pretty often, but not always. It is amazing the difference the alternatives can make in estimate time. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
