>-----Original Message----- >From: Tyler J. Wagner [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 1:00 PM >To: [email protected]; [email protected] >Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] speed up backups > >On Thursday 27 May 2010 11:13:29 Sorin Srbu wrote: >> Looked into file system optimization again, while waiting for a backup to >> finish. Seems like "noatime" is a recommended setting in /etc/fstab. If I >> already have "defaults" set for the backup-array mount, and add "noatime", >> should I still keep "defaults"? Or is it implied that the defaults are not >> to be used anymore and therefore one can omit it in /etc/fstab? >> >> My file system-fu is not that strong... 8-/ > >Replace "defaults" with "noatime" or better, "noatime,nodiratime". > >Then just remount, you don't need to reboot: > >mount -o remount / > >Replace / with the appropriate filesystem. I have a separate /var and >/var/local for backuppc.
Thanks. Just what I suspected. Nodiratime is new to me though. I can't say I've come upon it before. I'll try it at home first. 8-) -- /Sorin
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