All tests were done only once so they might be not precise enough

Hardware/software:

  • AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+, MMX, 3DNow
  • 3 GiB? memory
  • Hard drive: WDC WD2500JS?-55NCB1 184 GiB?, formatted using NTFS
  • Windows XP SP2?

Data set 1: Bulgarian Wikipedia HTML dump

Results:

Program Time (Min:Sec) Backup Size
GrapeBackup 1.5 (ZIP) n/a 0.717 GiB?
GrapeBackup 1.5 (single file repository) 28:08 0.688 GiB?
Program 1 54:07 2.78 GiB?
Program 2 error^1 error^1
Program 3 error^2 error^2
Program 4 error^3 error^3
Program 5 38:01 0.728 GiB?

  • ^1 = no Unicode support
  • ^2 = no Unicode support, file path length is limited to 256 characters
  • ^3 = cancelled after 3 hours

Data set 2: freedb.org music database

Data set 3: 1.000 files with random content (1 MiB? each)

  • size: 1 GiB?
  • number of files: 1,000
  • number of directories: 10
  • medium file size: 1 MiB?