On 09/26 10:28 , Tony Nelson wrote: > It still seems very slow to me. I don't know if I should attribute it > to the fact that everything it is doing is a full backup or not. > > I've attached the output from vmstat on the BackupPC server. The server > is currently running 3 full backups.
I've found that more than 2 backups simultaneously tends to bog everything down with Disk I/O. I don't know what the baseline for your system is like, so I can't judge much based on that vmstat output. I'd suggest running 2 backups simultaneously, and see if the disk I/O is greater, lesser, or similar. Then try it with 1 backup. There are also some journaling options you can tweak to get better ext3 performance, (at the risk of increased ease of corruption) and you might even consider moving the journal to another device. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
