I archive to a USB drive, and it took 20 hours to archive 282 GB of data.
Yikes. That's roughly 1.3 MB/s
We were CPU bound when creating the gzip file, I think.
Gerald
----- "Sean Carolan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello BackupPC users:
>
> We have a BackupPC system that has been working well for us for the
> past three years. There is about 1.2 terabytes of data on our
> BackupPC partition and we'd like to be able to spool it off to tape
> for off-site storage. We have an HP d2d device that gets about 50-60
> MB/s throughput during testing. When I try to back up our backuppc
> partition however, I only get around 25MB per *minute*. At this rate
> it will take days to back up the entire partition. I'm using bacula
> to manage the tape backups.
>
> Would this go faster if I unmounted the partition and tried to do a
> block-level copy of the entire thing? How would you handle this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Sean
>
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