[ale] Duplicity very slow

[James Sumners]

What happens if you disable encryption in the backup?

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Edward Holcroft <eholcroft at mkainc.com>
wrote:

> I am trying out Duplicity for backup to local USB. I used rsync before,
> but now we need to encrypt our backups.
>
> The problem I am finding is that it's terribly slow. In the last 16 hours
> it's only backed up about 500GB. When I was using rsync, an initial full
> backup would take a bout 10 hours.
>
> Source is a RAID 5 partition with ext4 on CentOS 7 and destination is a
> SATA drive in a docking station connected with USB3, formatted as NTFS. It
> does not have to be NTFS, that's just a hangover from when this was a
> windows server.
>
> I can actually see visually from the I/O activity LED on the USB drive
> that things are very slow, it blinks for a few seconds and then stops for
> several seconds. When I was using rsync, that LED would flicker all the
> time that the sync was taking place.
>
> I thought maybe clamav was the casue of teh issue since it was hogging the
> CPU, but stopping that has made no difference.
>
> Is this normal for Duplicity?
>
> cheers
> ed
>
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