[PLUG] Fixed T60 slow ultrabay problem

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Tue Jan 11 00:18:16 UTC 2011


On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> It takes about an hour to use rdiff-backup to copy the 220 GB on the main
> drive; longer or shorter depending on how many new files there are to back
> up.

John,

   Consider using dirvish for your backups. It is based on rsync and each
'snapshot' backup is only the differences in existing files plus any new
files. Runs very quickly.

Rich



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