Re: [Duplicity-talk] Transfer performance drops sharply after a few hours

[edgar . soldin]

good to know.. maybe it is some weird issue with paramiko ssh.. if you want 
encryption you can still try the old ssh backend. see the manpage
http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html

..ede/duply.net

On 04.10.2014 01:22, Carlos Chavez wrote:
>     I just wanted to mention that changing from ssh to rsync has improved 
> transfer speeds by a lot.  Now a full backup takes 5 hours instead of 2 days.
> 
> On 10/2/14, 12:15 PM, Scott Hannahs wrote:
>> Bandwidth shaping by your ISP?  You state a 200 mbps link, but that may only 
>> be for short periods, the ISPs very rarely mention that this is not 
>> sustained bandwidth.
>>
>> -Scott
>>
>> On Oct 2, 2014, at 13:00, Carlos Chavez <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>>     I am using duplicity to backup a remote server over the Internet.  A 
>>> full backup is about 150GB.  The remote server has a 1gbps link to the 
>>> INternet and the server in our office has a symetric 200mbps link.  When I 
>>> start the backup I can see the first transfers using all the available 
>>> bandwidth but after a few hours it drops and the rest of the transfers only 
>>> use around 6mbps.  Because of that the full backup can take days to 
>>> complete which makes things difficult.
>>
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