I have been wondering about this for a while. Am I better off having backups run parallel or in series?
By running in series, I mean one backup runs at a time. When it finishes, another one starts. By running parallel, I mean that several backups run at once. It seems that when backups have to fight over bandwidth, they all end up running much more slowly. I have it set up to run four backups at once. A server that rarely runs more than one back has achieved throughput as high as 24.13 MB/sec. However, the server with four backups has a maximum of only 5.71 MB/sec. Bottom line, the four when added up still don't get as good a throughput as the single backup. What does everyone here think? Chris Baker [email protected] 512-425-2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ 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/
