2017-09-20 16:14 GMT+02:00 Ray Frush <fr...@rams.colostate.edu>:
> Question:   Just how big is the host you're trying to backup?  GB?  number
> of files?

>From BackupPC web page: 147466.4 MB, 3465344 files.

> What is the network connection between the client and the backup
> server?

4x 1GbE bonded on both sides.


> I'm curious about what it is about your environment that is making
> it so hard to back up.

It's the same with ALL servers that i'm trying to backup.
BPC is about 12 times slower than any other tested solution.
Obviously, same backup server, same source servers.

> I believe I've mentioned my largest, hairiest server is 770GB with 6.8
> Million files.   Full backups on that system take 8.5 hours to run.
> Incrementals take 20-30 minutes.   I have no illusions that the
> infrastructure I'm using to back things up is the fastest, but it's fast
> enough for the job.

The long running backup (about 38 hours, still running) is an incremental.

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