Alex Schaft wrote:
Alex Schaft wrote:
I've just installed BackupPC to replace a simple script that tarred
two folders to a remote machine. The script took about 3 hours for
40gigs of data. BackupPC has now been running for almost 7 hours (1AM
to 7AM), and hasn't finished yet.
Was the tar over samba as well or did you use NFS? I'd probably also go
back to basics and check netstat to look at packet fragmentation and
collisions etc. Also, your tar script probably compressed data on the
sending side so sent less data across the wire, but BackupPC may send
the data uncompressed then compress on the receiving side, but I'm not sure.
Compression level is set to 3. Is there something else that could be
affecting it?
I'm new to BackupPC, but as I understand it, it calculates checksums for
files then compares to the file pool, so there's got to be some overhead
from that at least, especially if it has to decompress files to
calculate the checksums. Subsequent incremental backups will probably
take a lot less time, though.
Jonathan
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