Re: Unanticipated time and costs for full recovery

[Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no>]

Tomaž Šolc via tarsnap-users writes:
> Using tarsnap for many years on a few machines has been a very 
> trouble-free experience. The amount of data stored in backups 
> slowly grew. Thankfully I never needed to do a full restore in 
> anger. But only recently it dawned on me that if disaster would 
> struck a full restore would now be a week-long affair.

This is why I had to stop using tarsnap. A moderately sized restore ran all 
weekend and wasn't ready when I ambled into the office on Monday. It had 
used only a few per cent of the connection's capacity. The traffic graph 
for that Monday morning showed brief spikes and longer pauses, which I 
assumed corresponded to quick downloads of single files interspersed by 
long pauses.

Arnt