On Tue, 2012-11-06 at 09:36 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2012-11-06 at 10:30 +0000, Steve T wrote: > > Evolution 3.2.3 Fedora 16 Gnome 3 > > > > I have a 'minor' issue with the speed of restores under Evolution 3.2.3. > > I keep two laptops in sync, by backing up Evolution on the 'master' and > > restoring it on the 'back-up'. This works ok but has become noticeably > > slower after using a NAS device to store the backup. > > The backup tar itself is circa 2GB for a 4GB installation. What appears > > to occur is that the backup tar file is scanned multiple times before > > the restore begins in earnest. It seems to check the tar file for the > > existence of a directory control file, then after finding it, scan the > > file to restore it, then presumably after inspecting the contents of the > > control file, extracts the tar file to the indicated directory > > structure. I'm not sure that is what happens, but it looks like what is > > happening when I 'ps' the tasks while the restore is running. > > > > The speed issue is partly caused by the speed of the NAS and the > > network, but has anyone else had timing issue with large'ish restores? > > A couple of points: > > 1) You don't say how the NAS is connected. NFS? Samba? Rsync? Rsync is > possibly more efficient in this use case, since all the heavy lifting > will be done on the end machines rather than the NAS. > > 2) AFAIK Evo backup and restore is not really designed for this > scenario. It's more for migrating to a new system. In fact I never use > it even for regular backups as I already back up my entire account. > (Doesn't everybody?) > > poc >
Patrick, The NAS is mounted via NFS. I'll look into Rsync - I thought that was just a 'copy' utility rather than a connection method? I do back up my entire 'home' directory - but I have two laptops that may be on different versions of the OS etc. So, I tend to only restore specifics on the 'secondary' rather than taking my entire 'home' directory. > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > [email protected] > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
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