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

[Josh Nisly]

Simon Hobson wrote:
> Josh Nisly wrote:
>
> > You are correct in your analysis. Using rdiff-backup locally + rsync 
> > to the NFS mount would certainly work.
>
> Wouldn't that still leave the same fundamental problem - that using 
> NFS rather than rsync or rdiff-backup to access the backup storage 
> means that the system has to read the files from storage across the 
> network in order to work out what needs to be copied ?
You're right, of course. The main difference is that the rdiff-backup 
"snapshotting" would be fast (and therefore, more likely to get a 
consistent snapshot), and would let the rsync process churn away in the 
background.

JoshN