by Ken Task.
Yes, writing to a mounted moodledata/temp/backup/ area would be slow - to be expected really. But, the goal for Jeri was to offload autobackups from main server. As long as DB server had enough umph to handle/finish autobackups speed not that much of a concern over finishing ... accurately.
I thought I had mentioned I had never tried it! Got my little bash shell script solution and that works for the sites I admin sooooooo. ;)
But thanks for suggestions ... might need them one day! Hopefully, Moodle might address the issue before then.
'spirit of sharing', Ken