Re: [Evolution] Speed of restore - Evolution 3.2.3

[Steve T <stevetucknott yahoo co uk>]

On Tue, 2012-11-06 at 09:36 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-11-06 at 10:30 +0000, Steve T wrote:
> > Evolution 3.2.3 Fedora 16 Gnome 3
> > 
> > I have a 'minor' issue with the speed of restores under Evolution 3.2.3.
> > I keep two laptops in sync, by backing up Evolution on the 'master' and
> > restoring it on the 'back-up'. This works ok but has become noticeably
> > slower after using a NAS device to store the backup.
> > The backup tar itself is circa 2GB for a 4GB installation. What appears
> > to occur is that the backup tar file is scanned multiple times before
> > the restore begins in earnest. It seems to check the tar file for the
> > existence of a directory control file, then after finding it, scan the
> > file to restore it, then presumably after inspecting the contents of the
> > control file, extracts the tar file to the indicated directory
> > structure. I'm not sure that is what happens, but it looks like what is
> > happening when I 'ps' the tasks while the restore is running.
> > 
> > The speed issue is partly caused by the speed of the NAS and the
> > network, but has anyone else had timing issue with large'ish restores?
>
> A couple of points:
>
> 1) You don't say how the NAS is connected. NFS? Samba? Rsync? Rsync is
> possibly more efficient in this use case, since all the heavy lifting
> will be done on the end machines rather than the NAS.
>
> 2) AFAIK Evo backup and restore is not really designed for this
> scenario. It's more for migrating to a new system. In fact I never use
> it even for regular backups as I already back up my entire account.
> (Doesn't everybody?)
>
> poc
Patrick,
The NAS is mounted via NFS. I'll look into Rsync - I thought that was just a 'copy' utility rather than a connection method?

I do back up my entire 'home' directory - but I have two laptops that may be on different versions of the OS etc. So, I tend to only restore specifics on the 'secondary' rather than taking my entire 'home' directory.
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