Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3 load

2007-02-19 Thread Jason Hughes
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: Any ideas on how we can reduce the load? More/less nightly jobs? Less concurrent backups? Other tips? We used to backup 15 servers onto one BackupPC server, but now almost all of our backups are failing and the load is through the roof. Can we just go and

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3 load

2007-02-19 Thread John Pettitt
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: I wrote: I recently upgraded to BackupPC 3 and although the idea of being able to run the nightly jobs, the trashClean job and dump jobs all at the same time is nice it seems it's a bit too much for our server (load = 10 at the moment). Can I make backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3 load

2007-02-19 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Jason Hughes wrote: Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: Any ideas on how we can reduce the load? More/less nightly jobs? Less concurrent backups? Other tips? We used to backup 15 servers onto one BackupPC server, but now almost all of our backups are failing and the load is through the roof.

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3 load

2007-02-19 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
John Pettitt wrote: The #1 way to bring the load down if you haven't already done it is to mount the pool filesystem with noatime - BackupPC does a lot of reading files and if you have access time stamping enabled there are lots of writes to update the access time stamp. Remove that

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3 load

2007-02-15 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Hello, I recently upgraded to BackupPC 3 and although the idea of being able to run the nightly jobs, the trashClean job and dump jobs all at the same time is nice it seems it's a bit too much for our server (load = 10 at the moment). Can I make backup runs and nightly jobs mutually