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One thing I would check is to see if it's faster on the zip drive to create one big file or multiple small files


Under Linux, there should not be much of a difference, if any. Unless the one big file is also compressed (usually it is compressed, 'z' or 'j' flag for 'tar'), in which case it will be faster simply due to less data to be copied.

Of course, that's only for the initial copy. Subsequent incremental/differential backups will be much faster using individual files normally, especially with mirrordir.

Cheers


Edited by mlord (18/04/2007 00:18)