Is recompressing my repo feasible with borg 1.2? #7848
-
I am currently in the process of running I am now ~50 archives in (of about 200) and things are getting ever slower with each new archive it seems. I am talking about 3-4 hours per archive. This may be because more data is accumulated with successive backups of the same computer (i.e. later archives being larger). If the latter was the case, maybe what I am trying to do is not actually feasible (having to wait several days per archive in the end). I also saw that some support for repo-wide compression has been added to borg2. How long will it be until borg2 is officially released? |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
Replies: 1 comment 1 reply
-
AFAIK, it should not get (significantly) slower (if you have enough RAM, so it doesn't do swapping). Some fluctuations are possible though, e.g. the speed of the hash table depends on how full it is (but it will resize if it gets too full). Also, speed of your machine or your network connection or of a remote repo server might also fluctuate due to other loads. Archives might be very different in their unique chunks amount and size, some archives might be very similar than the previous ones while others might have a lot of new/unique chunks. borg2 will still take quite a while (depends a bit on whether some more bigger breaking changes will get into it or not). |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
AFAIK, it should not get (significantly) slower (if you have enough RAM, so it doesn't do swapping).
Some fluctuations are possible though, e.g. the speed of the hash table depends on how full it is (but it will resize if it gets too full). Also, speed of your machine or your network connection or of a remote repo server might also fluctuate due to other loads.
Archives might be very different in their unique chunks amount and size, some archives might be very similar than the previous ones while others might have a lot of new/unique chunks.
borg2 will still take quite a while (depends a bit on whether some more bigger breaking changes will get into it or not).