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

[Douglas Muth]

How much control do you have over the machine that you are backing up FROM?

I think some MRTG/Munin graphs, or maybe timed runs of the ifconfig
program are in order.  You can rule out Duplicity quickly that way.

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Lou<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:59:27 -0400
> Douglas Muth <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>
> Thanks for the reply.  I did ask Rackspace first and they assumed it
> was duplicity doing this since I did not, as far as I know, download
> from Rackspace Cloud Files or make the container public.
>
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