Re: Backup Restore (Was: Re: Getting started with Tarsnap)

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 02/14/14 15:00, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> That’s arguable if you’re not dealing with massive amounts of data (which I don’t consider 35 GB of uncompressed data to be).  Network speed over a compressed tunnel would let us restore in under 20 minutes, compared to the (projected) 53 hours with Tarsnap.  If our servers catch on fire, anything under an hour for a complete restore would be fine-ish.  Tarsnap isn’t anywhere close to that.  My point was rather that Tarsnap’s slowness isn’t intrinsic to it being a internet-based backup.  Even for an off-site network backup, it’s extremely slow.

Yep.  And I'm working on it.  In the mean time, the "parallel extracts"
workaround is useful in most cases.

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Colin Percival
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