Greetings, I'm a new backuppc user for a college academic department. I have a moderately sized disk array (3 TB, RAID 5, Areca RAID) backing up the data on various servers. The backup server has 8 GB of memory and is currently running a backup of 350 GB user directories on a Windows 2003 server with rsyncd. Here's what TOP shows on the backup server:
top - 07:59:11 up 17 days, 42 min, 2 users, load average: 1.06, 0.76, 0.35 Tasks: 95 total, 2 running, 93 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 12.9%us, 2.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 77.9%id, 6.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st Mem: 8189252k total, 7891284k used, 297968k free, 21104k buffers Swap: 19800072k total, 88k used, 19799984k free, 6361760k cached And here's the main process: 22277 backuppc 18 0 211m 159m 2340 D 24 2.0 1:45.67 BackupPC_dump And the host summary for this host: Host: UserServer #full: 2 Full Age: 1.2 Full Size: 345.75 GB Speed: 7.29 MB/s #incr: 6 I haven't fiddled with the basic configuration at all (write caches, no of fulls vs no of incr, etc). How do these stats look to you for what I'm doing? There's a Gigabit connection between the backuppc server and the Windows box. Last full backup of the UserServer's 345 GB took 787.9 minutes (13 hours). It is, of course, lots of smaller files. The time to back it all up isn't unacceptable at this point, though the UserServer will be bumped to 4 TB soon, and I expect usage to climb over 1 TB by the end of the year (if you build it, they will come). What do the experts think about the memory usage and the speed of the backup? Any suggestions for improving anything? Thanks! Chris -- Christopher Derr . IT Dept of Land, Air, & Water Resources (LAWR) University of California, Davis O: 530-752-2148 . E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ 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/
