Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup speed?

[Alex Schaft]

Jonathan Dill wrote: 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. It was over samba, and compressed prior to sending. Basically it was this: tar zcv /sys | split -b2000m - "/root/backupd/`date +%A`/`date Which finished in three and a bit hours, so was a bit surprised to see that BackupPC took that long Alex