Re: incremental rdiff-backup takes long

On 01.06.2021 16:12, Jonas Schöpf wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I found out about rdiff-backup two weeks ago after I searched for a
> method to get incremental backups of my system.
> I experience some problems while doing my backup and I hope that
> somebody can tell me what I am doing wrong.
>
> I understand that the initial backup is really slow and took more than
> ~10h for my 400 GB.
> Now if I do another backup, I would expect that it is quite fast, but
> after it exceeded 8h and I just aborted the whole backup process.
>
> I use the following command:
>> rdiff-backup --terminal-verbosity 8 --print-statistics \
>>     --exclude-globbing-filelist $HOME/.excludes \
>>     $HOME $DRIVE
> Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong?
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> Cheers,
> Jonas

Hello! A while ago I had a similar problem and I narrowed it down to 
rdiff-backup compressing files that were already compressed. I would 
suggest having a look at CPU usage etc when the backup is running. iirc 
it uses gzip which is fairly processor hungry.

Good luck!
Reio