Re: [Duplicity-talk] Big bandwidth bill from Rackspace

[edgar . soldin]

On 10.06.2013 21:10, Lou wrote:
> I recently got hit with a 200 usd bill from Rackspace for bandwidth
>> while using duply against their cloudfiles backend.
>> 
>> I'd like to find out why - the backup source didn't change much, and
>> reading the random daily e-mail reports that duply generates don't show
>> any big numbers.
>> 
>> Does anyone know if perhaps the "verify" part of backup_verify_purge is
>> doing something traffic intensive?
>> 

yes. essentially it restores any file of the latest backup and compares it to 
the original path in the local file system. therefore pretty much all the last 
full and the incremental volumes have to be downloaded again.

verify less regularly or do full's more often. but however you turn this, it's 
gonna cost with cloud space. this is the main reason for me to stick with cheap 
hoster ftp backup space.

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