Re: [rdiff-backup-users] How to speed up rdiff-backup

[Andy Wettstein]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 05:21:56PM +0200, Carsten Lorenz wrote:
> We thought about using NFS. Since we use a separate "Network" consisting
> of both servers and a cable, it can be configured to be safe.
> We will try it, when we create the backup in  the opposite direction.
> 
> Since scp and rdiff-backup/ssh both uses ssh2 transferring data, why is
> rdiff-backup 9 times slower, while the CPU-usage is low?
> I can't see where the bottleneck is.

Are you using FreeBSD?  I have the same problems.  See these messages:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2004-08/msg00029.html

I was never able to figure it out either.  I just use NFS for large
file systems and SSH for small ones.