SV: [Box Backup] windows binaries

[Ben Summers]

On 18 Jun 2004, at 15:21, Mikael Syska wrote:

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>> Emne: Re: [Box Backup] windows binaries
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>> But it does seem a little on the slow side, especially on a
>> local network. How did you measure this speed?
>
> Started the backup, and waited until it was finish, and then took the
> mb/time so its not arcurate, but its still way to slow for a 100=20
> Mbit/sec
> network... Mostly big files on 10-50 mb.

Hmmm. Maybe it's some cygwin issue -- you did get some odd error=20
messages too. Is anyone else having problems like this?

>
> If the server does some bit manipulation, how come its not using 100%=20=

> of the
> cpu?

Much of the time it's waiting for the network, and the CPU usage is an=20=

average over time. However, this will only really affect you when=20
you've got lots of small files -- sizes measured in mb shouldn't be=20
affected in such a big way.

>
> Maybe a thing to add to the documentation, is that it runs on port=20
> 2201 i
> think it is.

OK.

>
> Btw, great program, keep up the good work

I'm glad you're finding it useful!

Ben