[Borgbackup] Lock error

[Adrian Klaver]

On 05/16/2016 11:09 AM, Steve Schow wrote:
> So as an experiment I am trying two runs of borg at the same time to two different repos in parallel and one nice benefit is that I’m getting double the upload speed this way…  Running several smaller repos in parallel could substantially decrease the amount of time ti takes to do the backup

It would seem to come down to this:

http://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/internals.html

There are a lot of moving parts involved in populating a repo with an 
archive, especially in the initial load. Spreading the work load across 
multiple repos helps, as you have seen.

>
> On May 16, 2016, at 3:16 AM, public at enkore.de wrote:
>
>>
>> About data set size: 2 TB isn't that much, but if it contains many kinds
>> of data (e.g. an operating system, documents and pictures) it may make
>> sense to split that into multiple archives (not repos), just to have a
>> better overview over the backups.
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