Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Performance

[Dave Howorth]

Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 10:15:53PM -0700, Corey Puffalt wrote:
>> Is anyone else having any performance issues with rdiff-backup?
>  
> I've run into numerous cases where rdiff-backup just doesn't perform
> well, especially over a network. For example, doing a restore I'm doing
> good to see 800kB/s (according to Activity Monitor in OS X), while an
> scp of the same file will do 2+ MB/s.
> 
> Reverting a failed backup is also very slow. As is listing the size of
> increments.

Does anybody know of an alternative that performs better?

I have a filesystem with millions of hard links and so far rdiff-backup
is the fastest thing I've found, even though it is slow.

Cheers, Dave