The icon should give a state which file it is handling at the moment... About the schedule per included folder: no you do not want to try it, because it is still broken in the 0.9.26 version. I asked it because it causes much higher loads that is why.
2009/11/15 John Baptist <[email protected]> > Certainly, the heaviest load was during the initial backup; the > incremental backups move much less data, and in particular the really > big files (ISOs and movies) don't get changed and so don't get copied. > However, there was slow down (although much less) during subsequent > incremental backups; I believe this comes from other big files, like > virtual machine state files and so forth. It's a little hard to tell > which file was causing it, since I don't know of a way to tell which > file is currently being copied; the notification area icon provides a > dialog box but its content isn't updated dynamically. (As an aside, it > would be nice if clicking on the notification icon opened a running log > of the backup procedure.) > > In regard to your second question, I'm not really sure what you mean by > schedle per included folder. Is this a configuration option? What effect > is it supposed to have? I'm happy to try it and report back to you. > > -- > Backup slows down system, doesn't throttle I/O > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/482931 > You received this bug notification because you are a member of Back In > Time Team, which is subscribed to Back In Time. > > Status in Back In Time: New > > Bug description: > When BIT is actively copying data, the system is significantly less > responsive because of the disk load. BIT should be more polite. It should > use ionice to set its I/O to a lower priority and it should use a slow, > background copy mechanism to copy files in a way that's less intrusive to > foreground processes. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~bit-team<https://launchpad.net/%7Ebit-team> > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~bit-team<https://launchpad.net/%7Ebit-team> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Backup slows down system, doesn't throttle I/O https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/482931 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Back In Time Team, which is subscribed to Back In Time. Status in Back In Time: New Bug description: When BIT is actively copying data, the system is significantly less responsive because of the disk load. BIT should be more polite. It should use ionice to set its I/O to a lower priority and it should use a slow, background copy mechanism to copy files in a way that's less intrusive to foreground processes. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~bit-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~bit-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
