Re: incremental rdiff-backup takes long

2021-06-02 Thread Patrik Dufresne
Hi Jonas, Great news! Fsync is useful but not in you scenario. I'm glad it worked for you. Don't hesitate to come back of you have other questions. On Wed., Jun. 2, 2021, 4:56 a.m. Jonas Schöpf, wrote: > Hi! > > Thank you again for your help! > > With the "--no-fsync" argument, the backup

Re: incremental rdiff-backup takes long

2021-06-02 Thread Jonas Schöpf
Hi! Thank you again for your help! With the "--no-fsync" argument, the backup succeeded after 13 minutes. Cheers, Jonas On 6/1/21 9:53 PM, Jonas Schöpf wrote: > Hi Patrik! > > On 6/1/21 4:48 PM, Patrik Dufresne wrote: >> Hello Jonas, >> >> Welcome to rdiff-backup ! Let me try to help you a

Re: incremental rdiff-backup takes long

2021-06-01 Thread Jonas Schöpf
Hi Patrik! On 6/1/21 4:48 PM, Patrik Dufresne wrote: > Hello Jonas, > > Welcome to rdiff-backup ! Let me try to help you a bit more with you > problem. Thanks :) > > First, the first backup always take alot of time because rdiff-backup is > not like a simple copy and alot of overhead are done

Re: incremental rdiff-backup takes long

2021-06-01 Thread Jonas Schöpf
On 6/1/21 4:20 PM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > "Jonas Schoepf" > >> My drive is connected via USB. > > I think we're on the right track. What version of USB? I have a USB 3.2 Gen 1. > >> Before using rdiff-backup I used just rsync, where the initial backup >> took also quite long, but the

Re: incremental rdiff-backup takes long

2021-06-01 Thread Alvin Starr via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
On 2021-06-01 10:32 a.m., Yves Bellefeuille wrote: Alvin Starr wrote: I thought rdiff-backup like rsync keeps track of the file metadata like size and creation date to skip reading the data again if the file has not been updated? I assume rdiff-backup does the same thing to decide if a file

Re: incremental rdiff-backup takes long

2021-06-01 Thread Patrik Dufresne
Hello Jonas, Welcome to rdiff-backup ! Let me try to help you a bit more with you problem. First, the first backup always take alot of time because rdiff-backup is not like a simple copy and alot of overhead are done in the background to put in place the first version of the data. Second, with

Re: incremental rdiff-backup takes long

2021-06-01 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
Alvin Starr wrote: > I thought rdiff-backup like rsync keeps track of the file metadata > like size and creation date to skip reading the data again if the > file has not been updated? I assume rdiff-backup does the same thing to decide if a file has changed, but if there's a change, rsync

Re: incremental rdiff-backup takes long

2021-06-01 Thread Alvin Starr via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
On 2021-06-01 10:20 a.m., Yves Bellefeuille wrote: "Jonas Schoepf" My drive is connected via USB. I think we're on the right track. What version of USB? Before using rdiff-backup I used just rsync, where the initial backup took also quite long, but the following backups took ~20

Re: incremental rdiff-backup takes long

2021-06-01 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
"Jonas Schoepf" > My drive is connected via USB. I think we're on the right track. What version of USB? > Before using rdiff-backup I used just rsync, where the initial backup > took also quite long, but the following backups took ~20 minutes. rdiff-backup will always be slower than rsync,

Re: incremental rdiff-backup takes long

2021-06-01 Thread Jonas Schöpf
My drive is connected via USB. Before using rdiff-backup I used just rsync, where the initial backup took also quite long, but the following backups took ~20 minutes. - Jonas On 6/1/21 4:03 PM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > Jonas Schoepf wrote: > >> I understand that the initial backup is

Re: incremental rdiff-backup takes long

2021-06-01 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
Jonas Schoepf wrote: > I understand that the initial backup is really slow and took more > than ~10h for my 400 GB. I'd suspect slow reading or writing speeds. How are the drives connected (SATA, USB, network, etc.)? -- Yves Bellefeuille

Re: incremental rdiff-backup takes long

2021-06-01 Thread Jonas Schöpf
Thank you for the quick response! The current backup runs since 6h and it only uses around 1-2% of the CPU. There is also no gzip process running. So it might be something else... - Jonas On 6/1/21 3:15 PM, Reio Remma wrote: > On 01.06.2021 16:12, Jonas Schöpf wrote: >> Hi all! >> >> I found

Re: incremental rdiff-backup takes long

2021-06-01 Thread Reio Remma
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