[moneydance] Long Backups

[Joseph Loo]

Tjalco P. van der Meij wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> rpiercemd wrote:
>   
>> Should there be any reason due to MD 2006r4 (526) that backups would now take
>> longer? I have always backed up to a USB drive, normally taking just 15 
>> seconds or so. Now it takes 90 seconds.  My file is ~ 3.8 MB....anyone else have a
>> comparison time for saves?
>>   
>>     
> I also have my data files on a usb drive but have not noticed any longer 
> savings times.
> It seems to take only a few seconds. On some computers I still have USB 
> 1.1 and even that is not really a problem for MD.
>
>   
Some of the latest kernel now have the usb drive set with sync. This 
normally slows the data transfer from 1 or 2 mBytes to 50 kB in some 
cases. Make sure that the USB drive is mounted without sync.

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Joseph Loo
jloo at acm.org