On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 02:01:51PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As you can see, very long backup times. I'm looking into ways to reduce > them. I think I'm network bound for the fulls, and memory bound for the > incrementals (the server uses all the 2 GB of RAM, plus another ~1.5 GB of > swap). Swapping is obviously bad, so my first inclination would be to > purchase 2 more GB of RAM for the server.
Alternately, just break your backup set into two (or more) pieces. > As for network, ours is 100 Mb/s, with cat 5e cabling, but I might try > connecting the Gbit ports of server and client, point to point (our Cisco > switch doesn't support Gbit). While this won't give full Gbit speed (to > guarantee that I'd need cat 6 cable), cat5e should work fine for gigabit (it is the specified cable for 1000baseT). You don't need cat6. danno -- dan pritts - systems administrator - internet2 734/352-4953 office 734/834-7224 mobile ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
