Tarsnap took >6 minutes to create an archive that contains 108MB of new
data.
$ time tarsnap --humanize-numbers -c -f mac-virtualbox-20131030
~/VirtualBox\ VMs/
tarsnap: Removing leading '/' from member names
Total size Compressed size
All archives 131 GB 56 GB
(unique data) 17 GB 6.9 GB
This archive 19 GB 8.2 GB
New data 297 MB 108 MB
real 6m0.835s
user 3m25.115s
sys 0m4.538s
I thought that is a bit length on a machine with SSD, 16GB RAM and Intel(R)
Core(TM) i7-3615QM CPU @ 2.30GHz.
Is the duration normal?
Will I expect a lengthier duration for archive creation if there are small
daily changes and daily tarsnap archive?
Best regards,
Hanxue
