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
- downloaded from http://static.wikipedia.org/downloads/2008-02/bg/
- content is available at http://static.wikipedia.org/wikipedia/bg/index.html
- size: 2.59 GiB? (135 MiB? compressed as .7z).
- number of files: 160,024
- number of directories: 14,227
- medium file size: 17.0 KiB?
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