Re: cross-platform backup tool incremental rdiff-backup takes long

[Jonas Schöpf]

Thank you for your fast reply!

> Deleting a file is not a simple operation. Since rdiff-backup always 
> works backward from the current mirror, restoring a file as of some 
> previous date requires storing a snapshot of the last known state of 
> that file in the increments. By default, those snapshots are compressed 
> except for file names that match the --no-compression-regexp (see 
> Globals.py for the default expression), and that compression can take a 
> lot of time.
This makes totally sense!

> You might want to take a look at the "--no-compression" option in the 
> manpage.

I will have a look at this option.

Cheers,
Jonas