Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
>>
>> You are probably short on RAM when you add in the nightly run. Tuning
>> down the number of concurrent backups might help. That probably
>> shouldn't be higher than the number of processors in the server anyway
>> unless you have some low-bandwidth connections to handle.
>
> Then why is MaxBackups set to 4 by default? I don't think 4 processors
> are the standard yet...
If the client side is slow or on a slow network branch, having more
running would help. With fast local clients the bottleneck is more
likely the CPU or disk seek time.
> Still, I used BackupPC with MaxBackups set to 4
> under 2.1 and the server only has a single Pentium 4 processor. I have
> now taken MaxBackups down to 2, but we're still seeing a lot of failing
> backups.
Do they fail at all times or only when the nightly run happens
concurrently?
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