[moneydance] Long Backups

[Randall Pierce]

Can you tell me how I can check this? I am not sure I am clear about the
"sync" issue. Thanks for your help.

Randy


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:moneydance-info-bounces at moneydance.com] On Behalf Of Joseph Loo
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 11:31 PM
To: General discussion related to Moneydance
Subject: Re: [moneydance] Long Backups


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.

-- 
Joseph Loo
jloo at acm.org

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