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Andrew Ruthwen reported that a small backup delta was very slow, and had these
performance stats:

    2014-04-17 18:56:34 INFO Backup performance statistics:
    2014-04-17 18:56:34 INFO * files found: 3643
    2014-04-17 18:56:34 INFO * files backed up: 7
    2014-04-17 18:56:34 INFO * uploaded chunk data: 18818 bytes (18 KiB)
    2014-04-17 18:56:34 INFO * total uploaded data (incl. metadata): 3097917
    bytes (2 MiB)
    2014-04-17 18:56:34 INFO * total downloaded data (incl. metadata):
    89711629838 bytes (83 GiB)
    2014-04-17 18:56:34 INFO * transfer overhead: 89714708937 bytes (83 GiB)
    2014-04-17 18:56:34 INFO * duration: 29275.9613361 s (8h7m56s)
    2014-04-17 18:56:34 INFO * average speed: 0.642779917077 B/s

This is way too much downloaded data.

<http://listmaster.pepperfish.net/pipermail/obnam-support-obnam.org/2014-April/002979.html>

--liw


There's been some fixes to this, and Obnam is now much clearer about
the overhead. Also, most fixes are going into FORMAT GREEN ALBATROSS.
[[done]] --liw