Re: [BackupPC-users] Poor backup performance

2007-03-22 Thread David Rees
On 3/22/07, John Pettitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you checked that the 3ware actually has cache enabled - it has a > habit of disabling it if the battery backup is bad or missing and it > will make a *huge* difference Just make sure that if you enable the cache you actually have batt

Re: [BackupPC-users] Poor backup performance

2007-03-22 Thread David Rees
On 3/22/07, John T. Yocum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On our backup servers, they are all showing a very high wait during > backups. Here's a screenshot from one of them > http://www.publicmx.com/fh/backup2.jpg. At the time it was doing two > backups, and a nightly. > > Any advice on improving per

Re: [BackupPC-users] Poor backup performance

2007-03-22 Thread John Pettitt
Have you checked that the 3ware actually has cache enabled - it has a habit of disabling it if the battery backup is bad or missing and it will make a *huge* difference John John T. Yocum wrote: > I'm seeing terrible backup performance on my backup servers, the speed > has slowly degraded

[BackupPC-users] Error: Unable to connect to BackupPC server ??

2007-03-22 Thread Suhy
I installed backuppc, when i type 10.10.20.52/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin i get the whole page, but on top i get: Error: Unable to connect to BackupPC server only log that writes something down at point i connect through web is messages: Mar 22 20:58:24 localhost kernel: audit(1174597104.028:139): avc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Poor backup performance

2007-03-22 Thread Jason Hughes
This has been discussed before, several times. Most of the recommendations say, in no particular order: * drop your compression level, * don't use RAID5, * try using something other than rsync, * reduce the number of simultaneous backups, * increase memory on the server, etc... For what it's

Re: [BackupPC-users] Poor backup performance

2007-03-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Jamie Lists wrote: > We're having pertty much the exact same problem with the exact same > setup. I can SCP files between servers at 9MB a sec. But the backup > runs less than 1MB/s > > I'm not sure if i should renice the process to be more aggressive or what. > > We have so much data and users a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Poor backup performance

2007-03-22 Thread Jamie Lists
We're having pertty much the exact same problem with the exact same setup. I can SCP files between servers at 9MB a sec. But the backup runs less than 1MB/s I'm not sure if i should renice the process to be more aggressive or what. We have so much data and users aren't gone long enough for a full

Re: [BackupPC-users] Prioritising user restore jobs

2007-03-22 Thread Matt Baker
Craig Barratt wrote: > Matt writes: > >> I have in my status page: >> >> # 23 pending backup requests from last scheduled wakeup, >> # 1 pending user backup requests, >> # 1 pending command requests, >> >> The 23 pending requests are a full nightly run which seems to have been >> hung by a single

[BackupPC-users] Poor backup performance

2007-03-22 Thread John T. Yocum
I'm seeing terrible backup performance on my backup servers, the speed has slowly degraded over time. Although, I have never seen speeds higher than 1MB/s. (We have it set to do no more than 2 backups at a time.) Here is our setup: Our network is all 100Mb between servers, and switches, and 1Gb

[BackupPC-users] Exclude directories - syntax problems?

2007-03-22 Thread Guy Malacrida
Hello, I am a very happy user of backuppc and take this opportunity to give my congratulations for this outstanding software. I have implemented backuppc in my home network (2 WinXP home boxes + Kuduntu laptop). The programs sits on an Ubuntu 6.10 box and I am using version 2.12 and rsyncd for t