We can all right click copy-paste to back up or use mirror copy or try BackMan (then it crashes). So I wanted to try out Diavolo backup since I used that waaayyy back in the day.

I like nice interfaces, even though mirror copy works great, Diavolo is easy on the eyes. Here are some tests during the backup process. Test bed is a Powerbook G4 15", 1.67ghz, 2gb ram. I'm backing up the SYSTEM: partition to another partition on the same drive for test purposes only.

Settings in Diavolo for all are "slow/high effeciency (for 25 mhz)" setting, no encryption, just the compression set to 100% and the compression method specified.
Total size of what I'm backing up is ~ 284mb. While the backup is going on, I'm browsing the web also.

Format is:
Compression Method
Total Compressed size
Time to back up (Minutes:Seconds)
Compression %
Backup throughput
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No compression:
283.7mb
4:32
0% compression
62.59mb/min
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bzip:
errors out with XPK-packer error: code -33
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gzip:
252.6mb
4:27
11%
56.76mb/min
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LZM2.100:
248.7mb
7:18
13% compression
29.85mb/min
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RLEN:
279.9mb
4:57
2% compression
56.55mb/min
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SASC:
250.2mb
4:55
12%
50.89mb/min
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SHSC:
249.4mb
12:47
12%
19.51mb/min
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EDIT:
Just for the hell of it, since SASC is the fastest at backup with compression.. I added 139mb to the buffer (no science behind it, I just moved the bar to add that much).

SASC:
250.2mb
4:17
12%
58.41mb/min
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EDIT #2:

Its faster copying via ethernet to a NAS than it is partition-to-partiton. Wireless is horribly slow btw (its measured in K/min, thats how slow). Its at least 2x as fast backing up via ethernet than partition-to-partition. I'm getting 105-115mb/min via ethernet.

[ Edited by TheMagicM 06.03.2016 - 09:26 ]