Re: [BackupPC-users] 2.1 versus 3.0

2007-02-01 Thread Cristian Tibirna
Le mercredi, 31 janvier 2007 17:20, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom a écrit : You probably also want to change: $Conf{MaxBackups} = 4; to something lower. that's the number of backups which will run simultaneously. I've found that the default of '4' is too high for most backup servers, and that '2'

Re: [BackupPC-users] 2.1 versus 3.0

2007-02-01 Thread Cristian Tibirna
Le jeudi, 1 février 2007 11:01, vous avez écrit : Linux sees four processors in my servers: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz So 4 is a good number for me? There are only 2 physical CPUs however. Hyperthreading (at least I guess 3.2GHz Xeons are hyperthreaded, and not dual-core) doesn't give you

Re: [BackupPC-users] 2.1 versus 3.0

2007-02-01 Thread Dan Pritts
The real question is why your backups and your nightly runs are taking so long to complete. One reason might be network bandwidth. In which case, you're probably stuck. I'm gonna guess this isn't the problem though. If you're on a LAN almost certainly this isn't it. It's easy to measure this.

[BackupPC-users] 2.1 versus 3.0

2007-01-31 Thread James Ward
I have three servers (2.x) in production. One of them is backing up three big fileservers. Any one of these backups can take more than 24 hours. I recently started full backups of each of the servers on different days to see if I could stagger the network load, but it looks like they're

Re: [BackupPC-users] 2.1 versus 3.0

2007-01-31 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/31 02:52 , James Ward wrote: I have three servers (2.x) in production. One of them is backing up three big fileservers. Any one of these backups can take more than 24 hours. I recently started full backups of each of the servers on different days to see if I could stagger the

Re: [BackupPC-users] 2.1 versus 3.0

2007-01-31 Thread Jason Hughes
James Ward wrote: it looks like they're going to all get started at the same time again due to waiting on the nightly process to complete after the longest of these backups. Does version 3 get me away from this scenario? Yes. Version 3 doesn't need nightly processing to be mutually