Hi there, > Can anybody suggest some intelligent solutions for doing this? How can I > speed up rsync / set it to use less CPU? I searched for some solutions, but > everyone talks about limiting rsync _transfer_ speed, which is hardly the > issue here - I'm backing up over a cable modem, heh. > > Any help appreciated. Thanks!
I havn't thought too much on your actual problem, but just in case you hadn't considered it, can you change the backup source to suit your backup system? e.g. does your 370,000 files represent days/weeks/years of information? Can this be archived by month etc, so the file count is massively reduced? I see customers with web developers with little sysadmin skills and they produce the most enormous trees of never-changing files spanning days/months/years and backuppc needs to check these files everytime, which hurts the overrall throughput. Similarly, have you observed excessive swap in/out on your backuppc server? If you strace the rsync process on the remote system, does it appear to be very 'bursty' in I/O activity, and overall throughput just looks 'wrong'? Regards, Chris Bennett cgb ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ 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/