Re: [Duplicity-talk] Bandwidth confusion on Rackspace Cloud Files

[Douglas Muth]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Lou<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I performed a full backup of /home of about 8.5 GB using duplicity
> 0.5.18 / python-cloudfiles 1.4.0 on Debian Lenny to Rackspace Cloud
> Files. I then checked the bandwidth stats at the Rackspace Cloud web
> manager. It says that I used 8.4 GB in and 8.5 GB out.  My Rackspace
> Cloud File container is not public.
>
> I would expect some data going out, but not more than went in.  Why is
> this?
>

You should probably ask the Rackspace people.

I can tell you that I use Duplicity on a nightly basis on my machines,
and the bandwidth use is asymmetrical, just like any other bulk file
transfer scenario. There's a big spike for bandwidth out, and hardly
even a blip on bandwidth in.

-- Doug