Re: [Duplicity-talk] Vol size on disk -> disk backups

[Kenneth Loafman]

Marcus Williams wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> Does the volsize matter when the source and destination of the backup is
> a local disk (or at least an NFS mount)? I'm trying out duplicity on our
> backups (a full being around 150Gb) and wondered whether I can up the
> volsize to reduce the number of files in the backup directory. What sort
> of size should I use?

Using a large volsize will reduce your number of volumes greatly.  The
only issue is that retries will take longer if you are going over the
net to a remote server directly.  The recommended usage is to backup to
a local server, then send the copy to the remote backup server.

...Ken

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