I've done some searching so I apologize if this is an easily answered question I just didn't find.
I'm starting up a new backup system and, like many new users of rdiff-backup am equally impressed by it's features and put off by it's excessively slow speed.
I have upwards of 20-30T to backup and in it's first 20 or so hours, rdiff-backup has managed about 620G.
My question for the wizards of rdiff is this: Can I use rsync or similar tool for the initial backup and then run rdiff-snapshot against it to set a baseline?
I could rsync to the backup server and do a local rdiff which might be faster since the backup server is actually more powerful cpu-wise and less loaded than the production environment, but it would be even better if I can just generate the rdiff-backup-data folder from an existing fileset. Or conversely, generate the rdiff-backup-data against the production fileset (since it is OSX and would probably need the CocoaFile stuff) and rsync the complete repository?
Thanks in advance.
-Scott
