[rdiff-backup-users] Estimated time for a 20 GB backup

[Stephen Boulet]

Hi. I'm new to the list and to rdiff-backup.

I got an 80 GB USB hard drive (it's really an IDE drive with a USB conversion 
kit).   Does rdiff-backup take a long time to run the first time, and should it 
run faster for later runs? So far, it's done about 17GB over the last 6-8 
hours.

I ran the command like this:

rdiff-backup --exclude /backup --exclude /proc --exclude /tmp --exclude /mnt 
--exclude /dev --exclude /cdwriter --exclude /dos --exclude /mnt 
--exclude /sys / /backup

Here's my disk usage:

# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3             2.9G  113M  2.7G   4% /
/dev/vg/usr            10G  6.2G  3.9G  62% /usr
/dev/vg/usr_local      10G  4.8G  5.3G  48% /usr/local
/dev/vg/home           30G   26G  4.8G  85% /home
/dev/vg/opt           6.0G  4.4G  1.7G  73% /opt
/dev/vg/var           8.0G  5.9G  2.2G  73% /var
/dev/vg/tmp           3.0G 1007M  2.1G  33% /tmp
tmpfs                 442M     0  442M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1              99M   27M   67M  29% /boot
/dev/cdrom            655M  655M     0 100% /cdwriter
/dev/sda1              75G   17G   58G  23% /backup

Thanks!
-- 
Stephen      
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