[clue] FSArchiver - Physical Server with CentOS - Snapshot question

[Matt James]

I've been using Acronis for many years.  There are a few factors that can
make it that slow:

1) Obviously, the amount of data - how big is the snap?
2) Backup media - what were you saving the image too?  USB drive?  Across
the LAN / WAN?  DVD?
3) Composition of snap - lots of small files?  I noticed that once you go
over the million file mark, it takes Acronis a painfully long time to index
before it even starts to backup.
4) Acronis Linux boot media or Windows PE boot media? I've found the
Windows media to be significantly slower.

I've also used CloneZilla - but you might want to take a look at some of
the above factors.  If you're trying to move multiple Tb of data to a USB
2.0 device, you're in for the long haul any way you slice it...

My $0.02

Matt James

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:37 PM, Sruthi Annamnidu <sruthi.kumar.a at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   Is anyone of you have experience using FSArchiver (or any other
> freeware) to take a snapshot of physical server with CentOS installed on
> it. I also need to recover using the snapshot taken.
>
> I have taken snapshot of physical server with CentOS using 'Acronis
> Imaging 2012' software which was taking man hours to take snapshot and also
> to recover using that snapshot.
>
> *Stats:*
> Snapshot name is 'Node5' -> Snapshot backup method 'Full' -> compression
> level 'Normal' -> Total Time Taken was around 18 hrs.
>
> Recovery of Node5 snapshot -> Time taken was around 10 hrs
>
> Thank you,
> Sruthi Kumar
>
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