On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:57:45 -0500, "Jinshi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello, > > Currently I am using an old PC as backup server. It takes very long time > for BackupPC 3.0 to backup about 140GB data. Even when no file is > changed, it still takes more than 24 hours. I would like to know what > option I have to speed it up. > > The backup server is P3 350MHz, 384M ram, running FreeBSD. The backup > drive is a USB 500GB external.
SNIP > There is also a > process "irq9: dc9 uhci0++" (what is that?) is taking 10% cpu. About > 20-30% CPU is idle. All network cards, hub and router are 100Mbps. The > Windows Vista reports network traffic only around 5-8Mbps during backup. > > I want to know how I can find the bottleneck. I am not sure what is the > limiting step for the speed. I have a PC P4 2.4Ghz/756M ram that can > replace the backup server. Will that improve much? Should I use an > internal drive for backup? I would be pretty sure the bottleneck is the use of a USB drive. The uhc* process is the _U_SB _H_ost _C_ontroller. On an older computer, it is probably USB 1.1, not 2.0, so it is quite slow. My backup machine is a P III (faster clock, though, but only 256 MB RAM) and it runs plenty fast enough, currently with over 150G backed up. Jon S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
