[Duplicity-talk] strategy for performing initial full backup to S3

[Scott Classen]

I am attempting to perform the initial full backup of a fairly large volume 
(3.5TB) to Amazon S3 and it is taking a long time, 8 days so far, and it looks 
like it might be about 1/2 done, although it is hard to determine because 
presumably stuff is getting compressed. I'm wondering why it takes so long? Our 
internet connection is capable of much faster rates and the server that is 
running the backup has many more cores than are being used. I fear that I may 
not have the magical combination of duply/duplicity options to get the best 
performance? or maybe 3.5TB is beyond the capabilities of duplicity? At this 
rate I won't need to do (or I won't have time to do) any incremental backups... 
I'll just do a full backup once every two weeks. Any advice would be greatly 
appreciated.

Scott