[moneydance] Long Backups

[Joseph Loo]

Randall Pierce wrote:
> 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-----
> From: moneydance-info-bounces at moneydance.com
> [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.
>
>   
as root execute the command
more /proc/mounts
If you see your usb device and the word sync on the same line, then your 
device was mounted with sync.

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Joseph Loo
jloo at acm.org