On 02/14/14 15:00, Scott Wheeler wrote: > That’s arguable if you’re not dealing with massive amounts of data (which I > don’t consider 35 GB of uncompressed data to be). Network speed over a > compressed tunnel would let us restore in under 20 minutes, compared to the > (projected) 53 hours with Tarsnap. If our servers catch on fire, anything > under an hour for a complete restore would be fine-ish. Tarsnap isn’t > anywhere close to that. My point was rather that Tarsnap’s slowness isn’t > intrinsic to it being a internet-based backup. Even for an off-site network > backup, it’s extremely slow.
Yep. And I'm working on it. In the mean time, the "parallel extracts" workaround is useful in most cases. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
