Re: [Duplicity-talk] File restore extremely slow

[Grant]

>> Restoring an 85kb file like this took about 30 minutes:
>>
>> # duplicity --tempdir /root --use-agent --encrypt-key=........
>> --sign-key=........ -t 7D --file-to-restore path/to/file.txt
>> file:///backups /home/user/file.txt
>>
>> Would a 1MB file take 11 or so times longer?  Is there any way to speed
>> that up?
>
>
> In this case it's not related to the size of the data you're restoring, but
> rather the total size of the backup.  Duplicity has to decrypt and read
> through all volumes of the backup (starting with the most recent full
> backup) to find the data for file.txt and all relevant incremental updates
> to it.
>
> So a 1MB or 10MB file would take about the same amount of time as your 85kb
> file.  A 100MB file would take just slightly longer, because it may take a
> second or two to write the restored copy of the file itself.  And so on.
> Restoring your entire backup set would take maybe an hour, or less,
> depending on the relative speed of your disk and CPU.  Try it and see!


Perfect, no problem then, thank you!

- Grant