On Mar 9, 2011, at 2:56 PM, Scott Ribe wrote:

> On Mar 9, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Tim Roberts wrote:
> 
>> The underlying process that Disk Utility and CCC use is 'asr'. You can get 
>> finer control from the command line version though and it appears to run a 
>> bit faster.
> 
> Speed of asr is highly dependent on whether or not it decides it can do a 
> block copy.

Even for file copy I have found  it to be very slow. A recent restore took 5 
hours, whereas the Time Machine equivalent backup took exactly 59 minutes. That 
alone is reason to not use it, IMO.

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