[Box Backup-dev] OT: How To Accelerate Your Internet (reviewers needed)

Chris Wilson boxbackup-dev at fluffy.co.uk
Thu Sep 28 00:25:35 BST 2006


Hi Martin,

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Martin Ebourne wrote:

> I have to ask: was the backup system that malfunctioned one day and used 
> up a lot of bandwidth Box Backup?

No, rdiff-backup :-) It was a configuration error. Some big files were 
created that resulted in an additional 300 MB to back up that day, and 
rdiff-backup is quite inefficient in bandwidth, so it used a lot more than 
that.

Cheers. Chris.
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