The CPU is hit most by the comrpession scheme when using cpool, then by the
rsync checksums and then by the ssh session. If you use an IDE interface or
a SATA in IDE mode then you will be using more CPU. If you are not using
DMA and your disks are stuck in PIO (do hdparm /dev/disk0 to see) then y
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Reinhold Schoeb wrote:
> you were right. I added 2 Gigs of RAM and a new CPU (Athlon 5050e, dual core,
> 2.6 GHz). Now I get about 23 MB/sec transfer speed, which results in 16 hours
> for a full backup.
>
> So finally I have to say that BackupPC is ve
Nate wrote:
>
>> You might try disabling the write cache on the physical drives (hdparm
>> -W0 /dev/sd{a,b,c), as some have reported that solves the "stuttering"
>> at the cost of performance.
>
> I'm going to give this a shot. I'm concerned at the impact it may
> have on backuppc's operations
Mike Loseke wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I wanted to drop a note here about a short blog post I put up on adding
> an audit interface to a BackupPC install. This is basically just a
> limited read-only interface to allow a non-admin user to look at backup
> status, backup set contents, etc, for all
At 05:52 PM 3/4/2009, Chris Robertson wrote:
>Nate wrote:
> > Yeah, I doubt very much it's a backuppc issue, sorry if I may have
> > implied that. I'm fairly confident it's a ext3/driver issue. But as
> > this popped up when we began using backuppc I suspect it may have to
> > do with the massive
Am Dienstag 03 März 2009 00:45:21 schrieb Les Mikesell:
> Reinhold Schoeb wrote:
> >>> That takes me to my question : The full backup size of my MacPro is
> >>> about
> >>
> >> 1.6 TB. It took 2250 minutes or 1.5 days with 9 MB/s to make a full
> >> backup
> >>
> >>> and I had to not switch off the
Am Dienstag 03 März 2009 00:26:47 schrieb Tino Schwarze:
> > My guess is that my server CPU power is not good enough for BackupPC.
> > What do you think about that ? Is an AMD Sempron 2200 too slow for
> > BackupPC ?
>
> Yes, it looks like your BackupPC server is mostly CPU-bound. iowait
> times a
Rob Poe escribió:
> One of my clients backs up about 15 PCs with BP. One of the PC's is
> backing up, nightly incrementals, full weekly. But the incremental
> files don't show up when I click on the incremental backup in the
> interface. They exist on the disk, just don't show up in the
> in
Mike Loseke escribió:
> Hello all,
>
> I wanted to drop a note here about a short blog post I put up on
> adding an audit interface to a BackupPC install. This is basically
> just a limited read-only interface to allow a non-admin user to look
> at backup status, backup set contents, etc, for a
