> Maybe so, but I was wondering what others think about the usability impact, > if this is true for connection "faster then 98% of all Internet > connections"?
Yeah, it's disappointing. Most consumer internet connections are heavily asymmetric, usually 8-to-1 or 10-to-1. It's just economics.. the DSL and cable modem companies believe that their customers are mostly interested in downloading things instead of uploading things. It is reinforced by technical issues (the choice of duplexer guard band frequency) which means the same ratio is pretty much enforced on all users of the same physical plant, which makes it harder to offer better plans to the customers who *do* care about upload speed. My feeling is that "slow and steady wins the race". Sure, it may take 5 days to back up your whole laptop, but leave it running in the background while you're doing something else, and eventually it'll finish. Think about how long it took to fill that 50GB of data and measure the backup/transfer time as a fraction of that. > > Yes ! This is why the great backup which just implemented by Brian > > Warner is so awesome, thanks Brian ! > > > Where can I find information about how that method works? The "tahoe backup" command was just added to trunk last week. Here are some pointers: http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/598 is the ticket which defines the goals of the command and contains notes on its implementation. The docs/frontends/CLI.txt file (in the source tree) contains a summary and explanation of the command. The NEWS file (in the source tree) contains an announcement of the new command. That's all we have so far. If CLI.txt doesn't explain the new command well enough, I'd be happy to accept a patch to improve it. cheers, -Brian _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
