Backup errors – Compression is slowing backup

Hello,

It seems that your system is slowing down the compression process with new release. I used an older version of your tool on my other site with 10 time the content with no issues. However, it seems that this plugin version is having issues with compression. I tried to use all 4 different compression options – but all of them are extremely slow.

[INFO] BackWPup 3.4.1; A project of Inpsyde GmbH
[INFO] WordPress 4.8.1 on https://www.site.com/

[04-Oct-2017 13:35:28] 1. Trying to create backup archive …
[04-Oct-2017 13:35:28] Compressing files as Tar. Please be patient, this may take a moment.
[04-Oct-2017 13:42:24] WARNING: Job restarts due to inactivity for more than 5 minutes.

As you can see I barely have any data on my site;
146M /var/www/site.com/html/

# cat /proc/loadavg 
0.00 0.02 0.00 1/185 29631

For sure not a memory issue – I have plenty of available memory.

# free -mh
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          3.9G       1.4G       2.4G        56M        88M       778M
-/+ buffers/cache:       611M       3.3G
Swap:         511M       192K       511M