On 21 Apr 2006 amerar@iwc.net wrote:

> I am running Red Hat 9.0. I set up an external USB drive and wrote a
> small korn shell script to rsync my drive to the external drive as a
> method of backup.
>
> The rsync started at about 8 minutes to complete. On March 22nd it
> had increased to 30 minutes. Then on March 23rd it jumped to 90
> minutes to complete.
> ...
> jumped like that? It should not take 90 minutes to rsync an 80gb
> drive, which is only 1/2 full..........

this depends very much on the type of data you're rsynching and on the
options used. could you show the command line and version? "rsync"
uses a "sliding window" to compare two versions of some data item. it
performs increasinlgy worse with the number of changes to a file.

clemens