Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-22 Thread Carl W. Soderstrom
On 06/20 03:57 , Holger Parplies wrote: > Carl W. Soderstrom wrote on 2018-06-14 16:03:24 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] > Slow local backup]: > > On 06/14 03:38 , Bowie Bailey wrote: > > > On 6/14/2018 3:27 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: > > > > Why are you using rs

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-20 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Carl W. Soderstrom wrote on 2018-06-14 16:03:24 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup]: > On 06/14 03:38 , Bowie Bailey wrote: > > On 6/14/2018 3:27 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: > > > Why are you using rsyncd over the loopback instead of ??? rsync? > > > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-19 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-06-19 06:55, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 6/19/2018 1:35 AM, Michael Schumacher wrote: Hi there Friday, June 15, 2018, 3:06:30 PM, you wrote: BB> It finally finished after 24 hours.  That gives about 13G/hour or about BB> 3.8M/s. BB> The CPUs were not busy.  That's what I was confused abo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-19 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 6/19/2018 1:35 AM, Michael Schumacher wrote: > Hi there > > Friday, June 15, 2018, 3:06:30 PM, you wrote: > > BB> It finally finished after 24 hours.  That gives about 13G/hour or about > BB> 3.8M/s. > > BB> The CPUs were not busy.  That's what I was confused about.  I would have > BB> expected

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-18 Thread Michael Schumacher
Hi there Friday, June 15, 2018, 3:06:30 PM, you wrote: BB> It finally finished after 24 hours.  That gives about 13G/hour or about BB> 3.8M/s. BB> The CPUs were not busy.  That's what I was confused about.  I would have BB> expected to see a bottleneck at some point, but nothing seemed to be BB>

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-18 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 6/18/2018 10:55 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 9:38 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: >> I have another big local backup that's been running all weekend. I am >> trying sudo/rsync rather than rsyncd or ssh/rsync this time. This >> directory has millions of small files (and is even bi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 9:38 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > I have another big local backup that's been running all weekend. I am > trying sudo/rsync rather than rsyncd or ssh/rsync this time. This > directory has millions of small files (and is even bigger than the first > one), so I expect it to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-18 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 6/16/2018 9:34 PM, ED Fochler wrote: >> On 2018, Jun 15, at 9:06 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: >> >> The CPUs were not busy. That's what I was confused about. I would have >> expected to see a bottleneck at some point, but nothing seemed to be >> busy. The CPUs were all at or below 20% and iowait

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-16 Thread ED Fochler
> On 2018, Jun 15, at 9:06 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > The CPUs were not busy. That's what I was confused about. I would have > expected to see a bottleneck at some point, but nothing seemed to be > busy. The CPUs were all at or below 20% and iowait was close to 0 most > of the time. I'm not

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-15 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 6/14/2018 6:04 PM, Holger Parplies wrote: > Hi, > > Bowie Bailey wrote on 2018-06-14 15:38:44 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow > local backup]: >> On 6/14/2018 3:27 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: >>> On 2018-06-14 10:05, Bowie Bailey wrote: >>> >>>

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-14 Thread Carl W. Soderstrom
On 06/14 03:38 , Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 6/14/2018 3:27 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: > > Why are you using rsyncd over the loopback instead of … rsync? > > > > Mainly because that's the way all of my other clients are being backed > up and what I found when I searched for how to back up a local > fil

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-14 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Bowie Bailey wrote on 2018-06-14 15:38:44 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup]: > On 6/14/2018 3:27 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: > > On 2018-06-14 10:05, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > > > I just installed BackupPC v4 on a CentOS 7 server with 4G ram.  I > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-14 Thread Carl W. Soderstrom
FWIW, here's my localhost.pl file: # # Local server backup of /etc as user backuppc # $Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar'; #for some reason pings fail $Conf{PingCmd} = '/bin/true'; $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/proc', '/sys', '/var/lib/backuppc', '/var/log', '/tmp', '/var/tmp', '/staff', '/mnt']; #$Co

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-14 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 6/14/2018 3:27 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: > > On 2018-06-14 10:05, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > I just installed BackupPC v4 on a CentOS 7 server with 4G ram.  I > am trying to back up a local 318G filesystem.  I am using rsyncd > over the loopback connection.  It has been running for 17 ho

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-14 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-06-14 10:05, Bowie Bailey wrote: I just installed BackupPC v4 on a CentOS 7 server with 4G ram.  I am trying to back up a local 318G filesystem.  I am using rsyncd over the loopback connection.  It has been running for 17 hours so far and has backed up less than half of the directory (bas

[BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-14 Thread Bowie Bailey
I just installed BackupPC v4 on a CentOS 7 server with 4G ram.  I am trying to back up a local 318G filesystem.  I am using rsyncd over the loopback connection.  It has been running for 17 hours so far and has backed up less than half of the directory (based on the size of the backup filesystem).