Speed decreases significantly when backing up labels

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Hi,

>What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Start a Gmail Backup
2.Wait for mail backup completion and see Starting Backup Of Labels
3.See speed decrease significantly (e.g. from 50KB/s to 0.5KB/s)

>What is the expected output? 
"nice unchanged speed"

>What do you see instead?
"omg It's slooooooowwww"

>What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Gmail Backup revision 15 (2011-03-07)
Windows Seven Professional Service Pack 1
http://mire.ipadsl.net telling me I should be able to download at 700KB/s

>Please provide any additional information below.
I am currently removing some labels and unchecking Manage Labels\Show in IMAP 
under Google Mail to see if that helps the ongoing label backup.
Great software nevertheless

a+, =)
-=Clement=-

Original issue reported on code.google.com by clement....@gmail.com on 27 Apr 2012 at 2:08

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Edit : at the moment I removed a huge label (1500 conversations) Gmail Backup 
logged :
"Network error occured, disconnected
Trying to reconnect (1)
Error: IMAP: command SEARCH illegal in state AUTH, only allowed in states 
SELECTED"
and stopped the backup. I am now running a Gmail Backup "Newest Emails Only" to 
check if the issue backup succeeds.

Original comment by clement....@gmail.com on 27 Apr 2012 at 2:13

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Edit 2 : ok all worked
"
[...]
Backup of labels ended
Ending backup of account clement.ratel@gmail.com"
Just remember it will take time if you have large number of labels
Note : an "ETA" indicator would be great

Original comment by clement....@gmail.com on 27 Apr 2012 at 3:34

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^ Exactly. An ETA indicator would be great for the Label Backup. I've been 
waiting over 30 minutes with no way of knowing if it will take several hours, 
or just a few more minutes.

Original comment by driftina...@gmail.com on 31 May 2013 at 7:55

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saloveju20@gmail.com

Original comment by 222sa...@gmail.com on 29 Sep 2013 at 5:04

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Gmail backup worked great backing up my messages but just hangs with message 
"Starting backup of labels". What is the problem?

Original comment by louis.li...@gmail.com on 5 Jun 2014 at 12:02