On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Timothy J Massey wrote:
>
> You keep telling me the theory of why more RAM would help. I keep telling
> you the FACT that it doesn't. Repeating your theory doesn't change the FACT
> that it doesn't help.
On the contrary - you said it saved 15 minutes which is
Les Mikesell wrote on 03/20/2014 03:48:51 PM:
> It's all about statistics and the odds of having to move the disk head
> to get a directory entry or inode vs already having it in cache for
> instant access (and sometimes even some data...).
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practi
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Timothy J Massey wrote:
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>
> Do you *REALLY* think this is some sort of binary on/off enhancement? Have
> 4GB? No benefit. 5GB? WOW Look at it go!!! If you see zero improvement
> with 8 TIMES AS MUCH RAM (when you're not swapping to begin with!), you
> ex
Les Mikesell wrote on 03/20/2014 01:59:47 PM:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Timothy J Massey
> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > You've used BackupPC before, Les, right? ;-)
> > > BackupPC prefers pool reads over writes when possible, and it
typically
> > > accesses large amounts of data almost ran
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Timothy J Massey wrote:
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> >
> > You've used BackupPC before, Les, right? ;-)
> > BackupPC prefers pool reads over writes when possible, and it typically
> > accesses large amounts of data almost randomly. Caching metadata will help,
> > caching data likely won't
"Jost Schenck" wrote on 03/14/2014 07:37:00 AM:
> I guess you're right that backing up the backup servers system
> config with backuppc itself may not be such a brilliant idea :)
You can *never* back up something with itself.
> What
> I thought was, that in case my home server fails I could re
Holger Parplies wrote on 03/19/2014 07:26:02 PM:
> Les Mikesell wrote on 2014-03-19 11:25:38 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-
> users] Centralized storage with multiple hard drives]:
> > Throwing RAM at a disk performance problem usually helps.
>
> You've used BackupPC before, Les, right? ;-)
> BackupPC pr
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:33 AM, absolutely_f...@libero.it
wrote:
> Hi Les,
>
> my mistake, actually I was in blackout period (which have priority upon wakeup
> period, right)?
Wakeups are global to the system where blackouts can be modified
per-target so they don't exactly relate to each other
Hi Les,
my mistake, actually I was in blackout period (which have priority upon wakeup
period, right)?
Sorry, I didn't understand the second part of your answer:
"the first value in the
wakeupschedule list is when backuppc_nightly will start - if your
backups typically aren't competed by 1 you m
