Re: [BackupPC-users] Poor backup performance

2007-03-28 Thread John T. Yocum
According to the 3ware CLI, the cache is enabled. --John John Pettitt 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 John John T. Yocum wrote: I'm

Re: [BackupPC-users] Poor backup performance

2007-03-28 Thread Evren Yurtesen
John T. Yocum wrote: According to the 3ware CLI, the cache is enabled. I have the same problem with much slower speeds (since I dont use SATA or raid it makes things worse) My finding is that backuppc is doing a lot of work while checking the files. Can you check if you are seeing extreme

Re: [BackupPC-users] Poor backup performance

2007-03-28 Thread John Pettitt
Evren Yurtesen wrote: John T. Yocum wrote: According to the 3ware CLI, the cache is enabled. I have the same problem with much slower speeds (since I dont use SATA or raid it makes things worse) My finding is that backuppc is doing a lot of work while checking the files. Can you

Re: [BackupPC-users] Poor backup performance

2007-03-28 Thread John T. Yocum
Here is the iostat output, the server is doing two full backups at the moment, along with a nightly. Server specs: P4 3.2Ghz, 512MB RAM, 300GB SATA drive. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# iostat Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp (backup2.fluidhosting.com)03/28/2007 avg-cpu: %user %nice%sys %iowait

Re: [BackupPC-users] Poor backup performance

2007-03-28 Thread Evren Yurtesen
I figured that --cheksum-seed option will help me, although I cant say yet if it is working or not, I guess it will take a while until checksum caches are written for all the files. Do you have this option enabled? Thanks, Evren John T. Yocum wrote: Here is the iostat output, the server is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Poor backup performance

2007-03-28 Thread John T. Yocum
Actually, i'm using tar for backups. --John Evren Yurtesen wrote: I figured that --cheksum-seed option will help me, although I cant say yet if it is working or not, I guess it will take a while until checksum caches are written for all the files. Do you have this option enabled? Thanks,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Poor backup performance

2007-03-28 Thread Les Mikesell
Evren Yurtesen wrote: I figured that --cheksum-seed option will help me, although I cant say yet if it is working or not, I guess it will take a while until checksum caches are written for all the files. Do you have this option enabled? Don't expect a huge difference from that. You still have

Re: [BackupPC-users] Poor backup performance

2007-03-28 Thread David Rees
On 3/28/07, John T. Yocum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the iostat output, the server is doing two full backups at the moment, along with a nightly. Server specs: P4 3.2Ghz, 512MB RAM, 300GB SATA drive. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# iostat Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp (backup2.fluidhosting.com)

Re: [BackupPC-users] Poor backup performance

2007-03-28 Thread Evren Yurtesen
John T. Yocum wrote: Actually, i'm using tar for backups. Do the backups take longer also or only the transferred data is getting smaller? It might be so that you are transferring less data so your average transferred data is going smaller.? --John Evren Yurtesen wrote: I figured that

[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

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

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 aren't

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

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 battery