Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup reliability ad lzop compression

[Carsten Lorenz]

roland wrote:

> some "real world" experiences? ('.....i´m backing up 2 TB daily and
> never had a problem.....')

We are using rdiff-backup for 3 month now.
We run rdiff-backup with 1.2TB from server1 to server2 and the same size
from server2 to server1 starting at the same time.
Depending on the new, deleted and changed files the the backup lasts
from 2 hours (nothing changed) to 24 hours (ca. 70GB changed) on a PIII-800.

Our last full backup by AIT2-tapes lasts more than 48 hours.

After the first backup the bottleneck is the CPU. So using
--ssh-no-compression is faster for us on a 1GBit link between the servers.

All our restores were successfully.

Carsten