Hello, I have an old usb drive encrypted with /dev/arandom (much slower than zero) which I mount without softdep
I just finished a full backup of 43.98G It took 1h33min He is doing something wrong. And you know... if in my work, somebody comes to me and asks for a favour, I make it, no problem. If somebody comes to me and calls me moron for not being faster at making favours, then my answer would be very close to Marco's. Before starting to use OpenBSD I was on gnuland. I had a 300G drive which I used for backup, relying on wonderful, almighty, F-A-S-T gnu tools... one day and without any kind of apparent reason, I _lost_ some 225G. Marco et al. are making as favours on a daily basis. Good favours. Pau 2009/4/26 Tony Abernethy <t...@servacorp.com>: > Sebastian Rother wrote: >> A 16GB backup of /home takes more then 10 hrs to restore. >> It's like ataching the device, rsync -av SOURCE:/FOO . and >> wait for 10+ >> hours. > That sounds like you are doing something wrong. > And then you come whining here because you do not know how to write to a > disk? > The object o9f the game is to find ways to do stuff quickly and efficiently, > not to find assorted contraptions that work slowly and inefficiently. > If it's speed you really want, dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/whatever seems to > write to disks pretty quickly.
