fsarchiver takes a very long time to analyze the filesystem - why?
by Deses from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6EDV3)
I'm imaging my drives for a backup before I remove them from my home server and I'm using fsarchiver to do this task, as my drives are all formated with ext4.
The command I used is Code:sudo fsarchiver -j4 -v -Z 18 savefs /mnt/external/mydata.fsa /dev/sdd1/dev/sdd1 is a 1TB drive and it took about an hour to analyze the filesystem. Is this normal? Can something be done to speed up this part of the process?
I have a 2TB and 8TB drives that I also want to image and I'm worried the 8 TB drive will take +8 hours to analyze.
Thank you.
The command I used is Code:sudo fsarchiver -j4 -v -Z 18 savefs /mnt/external/mydata.fsa /dev/sdd1/dev/sdd1 is a 1TB drive and it took about an hour to analyze the filesystem. Is this normal? Can something be done to speed up this part of the process?
I have a 2TB and 8TB drives that I also want to image and I'm worried the 8 TB drive will take +8 hours to analyze.
Thank you.