Question
How long should it take to backup to spaces? What is the expected transfer rate in Mbit/s?
- Posted April 15, 2018
- BackupsUbuntu 16.04
When backing up around 2TB of data with s3cmd from a volume to a space - how long should that be expected to take? What are the bottlenecks?
After 20 minutes nothing has appeared on the space, and the first file is about 7GB. From that it can be deduced the xfer speed must at least be slower than 45Mbits/second - is this normal? What transfer speed is expected? (It would take 4+ days to backup 2TB at this rate.)
Or should I not be using spaces, is there some better option? I just want the data backed up in a timely fashion, and I don’t want to pay online SSD rates for it.
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There are no published rate limits or speeds for this product.
I have found the performance isn’t suitable for production. I hope they improve the product.
Backups should be off-site with a different provider.
Pfft, I just got a 503, after submitting one directory request manually, roughly every 10 minutes. Does this service even work?
Wow, it’s been an hour and still the first file is not there - can someone tell me if this is normal, and what speed should be expected? (I did test with a small file to begin with, and that arrived fine.)