On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:44:53 +1100 Brendan Simon wrote: > * The backuppc server is an Intel P3 800MHz with 512MB RAM and > 550GB or raid storage for data backups. > * The linux host I am backing up is a Dual Processor AMD64 2GHz > with 2GB RAM. > * All are connected via 1Gbps Ethernet switch. > > > Since the MSW machines backup reasonably fast, I can rule out the > backuppc server. > Since the Linux host is fairly grunty I can rule out that as limiting > factor (sort of). > I have turned on the rsync --checksum-seed option as suggested by > John Pettitt. Hopefully that will improve things. > > Thanks, Brendan.
Backuppc is memory intensive, especially when you have lots of files. FWIW, a couple of years ago I upgraded my backup machine from 512MB to 1GB because it was having trouble handling the large number of files on my development machine. Try running top on your server while running backuppc. Look at the ram usage for your windows machine (small number of files) and for your linux machine (large number of files). You may find that a large number of files causes the server to go into swap mode, thus becoming slow. So, your bottleneck may be the 512MB on your backup machine. Doubling the ram may be the solution you seek. Regards, David ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
