On 01.06.2021 16:12, Jonas Schöpf wrote:
Hi all!
I found out about rdiff-backup two weeks ago after I searched for a
method to get incremental backups of my system.
I experience some problems while doing my backup and I hope that
somebody can tell me what I am doing wrong.
I understand that the initial backup is really slow and took more than
~10h for my 400 GB.
Now if I do another backup, I would expect that it is quite fast, but
after it exceeded 8h and I just aborted the whole backup process.
I use the following command:
rdiff-backup --terminal-verbosity 8 --print-statistics \
--exclude-globbing-filelist $HOME/.excludes \
$HOME $DRIVE
Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thank you for your help!
Cheers,
Jonas
Hello! A while ago I had a similar problem and I narrowed it down to
rdiff-backup compressing files that were already compressed. I would
suggest having a look at CPU usage etc when the backup is running. iirc
it uses gzip which is fairly processor hungry.
Good luck!
Reio
