Re: Unanticipated time and costs for full recovery

["Tomaž Šolc via tarsnap-users" <tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com>]

On 13. 08. 25 10:17, Tomaž Šolc via tarsnap-users wrote:
> Recently I downloaded some full backups from tarsnap and averaged 
> somewhere around 50 kB/s (kilo-bytes per second, uncompressed) on a
> host with a 100 Mbps link.

I want to correct myself, because I don't want to give out false 
information.

I found my notes with the exact output copied from the terminal after 
the downloads completed (one download running at a time):

$ tarsnap -r -f ... |pv| ...
17.4GiB 37:47:34 [ 133KiB/s]

$ tarsnap -r -f ... |pv| ...
21.3GiB 37:47:23 [ 164KiB/s]

So the throughput was a bit better than what I said previously. 133 and 
164 kibi-bytes per second, uncompressed (-r writes out an uncompressed 
tar stream). But qualitatively it doesn't change what I said, 
considering the system is on a 100 Mbps line.

Also, I now notice that the download times were suspiciously similar 
despite quite different total sizes. I don't know what's up with that.

Maybe related to what hvjunk said and it's more about the number of 
round-trip times than the amount of data downloaded.

Anyway, sorry for my error.

Best regards
Tomaž