Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Ways to speed rdiff-backup a bit

[Gavin]

How about splitting the larger backup into 3 or 4 parts?

Gavin

Chris G wrote:
> I'm running rdiff-backup on a Western Digital My Book World Edition
> II, it's a little NAS server that runs linux and has ssh login
> available. 
>
> The rdiff-backup is running from one of the NAS server's drives to the
> other drive, i.e. it's not being run from another system to (or from)
> the NAS and thus is not limited by network bandwidth.
>
> I'm backing up two large[ish] directories, one is around 164Gb, the
> other is about 35Gb.
>
> The 35Gb one takes about 7 minutes to run, which is fine, but the
> 165Gb one takes 4 hours and 5 minutes.  Presumably there's some sort
> of resource limitation which the bigger backup is hitting and hence
> running slower.
>
> Is there anything I can do to improve performance?  My first guess
> would be that rdiff-backup is running out of 'real' memory and
> swapping which is slowing things.
>
> It has 126828 kB of memory, more than I thought, that's 128Mb.
>
> The processor is an ARM926EJ-S, 183 BogoMIPS.
>
>