[lug] NSLU2 as backup device

[bgiles at coyotesong.com]

> bgiles at coyotesong.com wrote:
> [...]
>> The next most likely culprit is probably computing the hashes... unless
>> that's cached somewhere.
>
> Yes, on a fast network rsync can be relatively slow because hashing
> makes it CPU bound.  You can turn that off and transfer entire files.

It's on a 100MB wired network but only 133MHz and 32M of memory.

Hmmm, even an idle system (running 'top', admittedly) has a load average
around 2.5.   Ah...., it's running 'updatedb' in the background.  That's
entirely local and should have finished hours ago....