On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:28:31 -0400 Tony Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, due to a power failure, I was put in the lovely position of a > corrupted ReiserFS tree. I ran reiserfsck, which took 4 days to > complete and just couldn't bring myself to trust stability of the > disk. > > So, I backed up all of my BackupPC config information, and > reformatted the disk as ext3. > > Restored all my config, and fired up BackupPC. > > 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'm going to investigate the currently installed software on this > machine just to see if I can find any issues. >
Change your mount command to include the no atime option like so: /dev/sda4 /data ext3 noatime There is no need for the system to update the access time (e.g. do a write to disk) everytime it looks at a file. This can make a big difference. I found that running 3ware cards, I can only handle 3 concurrent backups in my situation. Anything more really bogs down the system. I think this is pretty system and load specific so you will have to do testing with your system and load to find out what works best for you. cheers, ski -- "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it connected to the entire universe" John Muir Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 206-501-9803 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
