Safepoints compressed?

[fxguy]

Are safepoints compressed or if I have 3TB of data do I need a 3TB usb drive to create one?

Thanks

[fxguy]

and how long should it take to create a safepoint of 2.4TB to a 3TB USB 3.0 drive connected to the back of the DUO?

It said 3 days and when I went back to it a few hours later the dashboard had closed and i get the forbidden message in Safari and Firefox when I try and re-open it.

Is this right?

The light on the front of both the DUO and the USB drive are flashing, but 3 days?

[Wizer]

Safepoints are not compressed

check this thread for more info

http://community.wdc.com/t5/My-Book-Live/Need-help-with-Safepoint-Backups/td-p/365317

[fxguy]

If thats the case why is it taking 3 days to create a safepoint from a USB 3.0 drive connected directly to the MBLD when there is no network traffic or speed involved?

[fxguy]

Still backing up.

1 dat 6 hours to go.

Wow.

[TonyPh12345]

RSYNC is the process used to do the safepoint.  RSYNC is busy creatng hashes for every file on the drive as it safepoints it.

It's very time consuming and processor intensive.

[fxguy]

is it going to take that long to restore to the drive?

[TonyPh12345]

That's a good question.  I don't know.   I've never tried to do a restore yet.

[fxguy]

So it took 5 days to create a safepoint of 1.8 TB, it said it would take 3 initially.

I just hooked up the USB 3.0 drive to the back of the new unit and it says it is going to take 3 days to restore, (I will assume 5 from the backup time)

This is all with a USB 3.0 drive attached directly to the units.

There is no compression in the backups.

This is crazy and totally unaceptale.

A 10 day turnaround to backup and restore that amount of data makes this just useless.

I can't beleive this product is actually being sold to the public.

This should have taken a few hours at most.

Ridiculous!

[fxguy]

I have tried several times to restore this safepoint to another MBLD it starts, (and says it will take 5 days to restore,) but after a few minutes I keep getting this error:

35642: Unknown error, please ensure you arenot facing network connectivity errors and try again

There is no network involved, the drive is plugged into the back.

If this MBLD is bad it will be the 3rd one in a row.

Anyone have any ideas?