Re: incremental rdiff-backup takes long

[Jonas Schöpf]

Thank you for the quick response!

The current backup runs since 6h and it only uses around 1-2% of the CPU.
There is also no gzip process running.
So it might be something else...

- Jonas

On 6/1/21 3:15 PM, Reio Remma wrote:
> On 01.06.2021 16:12, Jonas Schöpf wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I found out about rdiff-backup two weeks ago after I searched for a
>> method to get incremental backups of my system.
>> I experience some problems while doing my backup and I hope that
>> somebody can tell me what I am doing wrong.
>>
>> I understand that the initial backup is really slow and took more than
>> ~10h for my 400 GB.
>> Now if I do another backup, I would expect that it is quite fast, but
>> after it exceeded 8h and I just aborted the whole backup process.
>>
>> I use the following command:
>>> rdiff-backup --terminal-verbosity 8 --print-statistics \
>>>     --exclude-globbing-filelist $HOME/.excludes \
>>>     $HOME $DRIVE
>> Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong?
>>
>> Thank you for your help!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jonas
> 
> Hello! A while ago I had a similar problem and I narrowed it down to
> rdiff-backup compressing files that were already compressed. I would
> suggest having a look at CPU usage etc when the backup is running. iirc
> it uses gzip which is fairly processor hungry.
> 
> Good luck!
> Reio
> 

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