Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup painfully slow using NFS mount

[Scott Schappell]

This is exactly what I was looking for. I'm going to join the  
duplicity list, as I do have some rookie questions.

Thanks, Dean!
On Aug 12, 2009, at 22:42:34, Dean Cording wrote:

> rdiff-backup gets most of its advantage by running running a server  
> process on
> the destination machine that keeps a lot of the disk access local.   
> When you
> run rdiff-backup on a networked drive you lose this advantage  
> because the
> client and server processes bot run on the local machine and all  
> disk access
> is across the wire.
>
> You might find Duplicity (http://duplicity.nongnu.org) is better  
> suited to your
> arrangement.  Duplicity also uses the rdiff algorithm but it keeps  
> the metadata
> locally and creates local backup archives which are uploaded when  
> completed.
>
> Dean
>
>
>
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