[Box Backup] Re: performance on OpenBSD

Felix Kronlage boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:18:20 +0100


On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 07:11:24PM +0000, Ben Summers wrote:

> Box Backup is not designed for speed, more for a steady trickle of backups. 
> The protocol is certainly not optimised for speed. 
[...]
> Does this explain what you see?

pretty much, yes. What we've transfered so far (/usr and /usr/src) are
pretty small files. I will do some more tests tomorrow with my big
home directories (22GB with lots of media files in between) and will
then post some more numbers.

thanks for your feedback!

felix