Hello!
I'm in a bit of a situation here at work, and I wonder if there is a good way to solve my problem with duplicity.
We wanted to backup our whole raid/nas system holding data for all our /home/ directories, and we wanted to do this with duplicity, because it interacts nicely with Ubuntu.
After a few hiccups we succeeded launching everything, but the whole process last about 3-4 days for a full backup (about 4TB of data).
The backup system finally in place is like this: on a system with a lot of disks in raid 5 we mount with NFS read only our /home/ directories, and there we backup from the NFS mount to the raid 5.
Sadly I cannot install duplicity directly on the NAS.
I was wondering: is 3-4 days a normal duration for so much data & files or is the NFS holding us back too much?
Is there a way to parallelize, or even distribute, the backup process with duplicity? We have a lot of workstations mounting the same NFS share, and I'd like to make them contribute to the backup, to achieve a faster backup time.
cheers,
Federico