"Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E]" squawked out on Sunday 22-Apr-2012@09:45:03 > For the past few days, I have been watching the console messages (for > "backupd") and it appears that the backups are now taking less than a minute! > I know it must seem like I'm never happy, but now I'm worrying that my files > are not being properly backed up. As a test, however, I retrieved a file > that I know I changed yesterday -- I restored a version a few hours before I > changed it and another version a few hours after I changed it, and all seemed > OK (the former did not have the change and the latter did).
Less than minute is certainly possible, depending on how much has changed. My backups generally only take about 4 minutes, but I am pretty certain I have older and slower hardware than you do. The minimum amount of time for a backup, assuming no data changed, is how long it takes the computer to create hard links for the entire backup tree, and this is pretty much a CPU bound operation unless the backup drive is slow. -- To read makes our speaking English good. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
