[SWLUG] Backing up took 3 days

[Neil Greenwood]

On 01/12/05, James <Diagmato at black0ps.com> wrote:
>
> I was hoping someone would be able to shed some light onto this problem
> - a simple backup of two directories (rather large directories) usually
> takes at most 5 hours. But this week, it took 3 days.
>
> Every few weeks, i turn on the external drive, and run:
>
> cp -fvr /home/james/.* /media/backups/home
> cp -fvr /mnt/win_c2/.* /media/backups/docs
>
> On fedora core, and way back on mandriva 10.2, this only took a few
> hours - possibly 5 at most. On suse, its taken 3 days, and is still going.
>
> The drive is USB2.0 - a possibility is that its only running at usb1's
> speed? If so how can i check this?
>
> Anything else it could be? There isnt really that much more files to be
> backed up since fedora core 4, so its not as if theres thousands of
> large files (since the last backup).
>
> It just seems really strange that it took such a long time. Im currently
> using suse 10 (eval).
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> James
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One problem I've seen, which might be your problem now...

Using ".*" in a directory sometimes includes "." and ".." in the list of
files to process. And doing it recursively, it includes the whole directory
tree starting from "/".

Just something to be aware of. I'd just reference the directories in the
command lines and remove the wildcards - should give you the same results.

Cheers,
Neil.
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