On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 12:14:56PM +0000, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
On 07/01/06, Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
Remember that ADSL (if that's what you mean by 'broadband') is only 256kb/s in the 'up' direction. That's 256k *bits* per second. Thus at the absolute best you're only going to get 256k/8 bytes per second which is 32kbytes/sec. Thus it's going to take something like 30 seconds per magabyte transferred.
It's forty times slower than even 10Mb/s ethernet and four hundred times slower than your typical office 100Mb/s network.
Grief, no wonder it is slow then. That is going to be so slow as to be unusable. How do other people manage?
You probably need to slim down what you're backing up to the absolute minimum, if you just back up whole directories/folders without being selective you are probably backing up lots of stuff unnecessarily.
The use all the optimisation that rsync can give you.