Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity 0.7 slowness

[edgar . soldin]

On 25.07.2016 13:02, Philip Jocks via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> Hej Aaron,
> 
>> Am 25.07.2016 um 12:46 schrieb Aaron <address@hidden>:
>>
>> Hello Philip,
>>
>> On 2016-07-25 10:56, Philip Jocks wrote:
>>> Hej Aaron,
>>>>> Given your follow-up email, it would be good to rule out SSH as a cause. 
>>>>> Can you please backup to a local folder (e.g. file:///tmp/dup_test) with 
>>>>> both and see if there is still the time difference?
>> [...]
>>>> The command I run is
>>>> duplicity collection-status --archive-dir '/var/.duply-cache' --name 
>>>> duply_zzz_local --encrypt-key XXXXXXXX --encrypt-key YYYYYYYY --sign-key 
>>>> XXXXXXXX --verbosity '9' --gpg-options '--pinentry-mode=loopback 
>>>> --compress-algo=bzip2 --bzip2-compress-level=9' --full-if-older-than 1W 
>>>> --volsize 200 'file:///path/to/zzz_local'
>>>> time’s output:
>>>> 0.6: 0.41 real         0.28 user         0.03 sys
>>>> 0.7: 71.01 real        37.57 user        23.71 sys
>>>> It’s a single chain, full backup has 3 volumes, one incremental with 1 
>>>> volume and one incremental with 317 volumes.
>>> have you been able to look into this or maybe even reproduce it?
>>
>> Apologies, I completely forgot about this -- I'm better with bugs or 
>> Launchpad Answers.
>>
>> Can you please try dropping off all of your additional options and see if 
>> the difference persists? I.e., what about:
>> duplicity collection-status 'file:///path/to/zzz_local'
>> with both versions (or whatever the minimum is that you need to make it run 
>> -- I don't use collection-status much)? If that doesn't have the difference, 
>> can you please put your options back in one by one to see which looks like 
>> it is causing the issue?
> 
> thanks for getting back to me. Haven’t thought about removing options, now 
> it’s getting interesting, weirdly. Keeping all options except for „—name“ is 
> very fast. Adding „—name duply_zzz_local“ already takes several seconds now. 
> So I'd figure, that’s what is at fault?
> 

does it keep being fast after recreating the archive dir?

..ede/duply.net

PS: Aaron reworked file selection lately. another user came up w/ a patch that 
accelerates duplicity by magnitudes, maybe you want you try it? 
https://code.launchpad.net/~mwilck/duplicity/0.7-series/+merge/301332