On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 09:48:11AM -0700, Quentin Hartman wrote:
> And second, rdiff-backup responds poorly to overlapping backups. That is, if
> you have one backup running and then another backup for that same data
> starts (say, if you are doing daily backups and the first one takes more
> than 24 hours to complete)
Whoa, 24+ hours to perform a backup is really stretching the concept of
backup...
Thanks for my fun thought for the day :)
You're welcome! In my case this happened as the initial 100GB backup image was being created over a 1.5Mb link. It ended up taking a long bloody time, about a week, IIRC. Unfortunately, there was no feasible way to get more bandwidth between these machines to do this initial replication, so we just had to wait. Now that that is done, the typical daily changes are only a couple hundred megs, which take a couple hours to replicate over that same T1. The minimum time this takes to complete is about an hour, simply because it takes that long to chew through that much data.
-Regards-
-Quentin Hartman-
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