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

[Steve Clement]

Carsten Lorenz wrote:

>rdiff-backup needs 132s to transfer a 140MB file (1.1MB/s).
>While rdiff-backup works on the next file scp transfers the same file in 15s 
>(9.3MB/s)!
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What does that mean? scp = 9.3MB/s rdiff-backup = 1.1MB/s

>Since we want to backup one tera-byte of data this would last more than a week.
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That be bad :)

>Has anyone hints how to speedup rdiff-backup?
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Well if you want to speed up rdiff-backup using ssh/scp as transport you
might need to look into:

high performance ssh

or if you are copying from a Local "secure" network just use ftp or hell
why not NFS.

http://www.gentoo-portage.com/net-misc/openssh/USE

Gentoo ass a high perf. flag for ssh.

http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/

cheers,

Steve C

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