Re: [BackupPC-users] Tuning BackupPC to solve poor performance? (50MB in 20 minutes)

2011-06-30 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/30/2011 4:41 PM, C. Ronoz wrote: > > Back-up is still running... > root@artemis:~# ps aux | grep rsyn > root 1674 8.8 1.4 19384 7240 ?Ss 19:00 24:23 > /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D > --links --hard-links --times --block-size=204

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tuning BackupPC to solve poor performance? (50MB in 20 minutes)

2011-06-30 Thread C. Ronoz
> > Details please! Is the client Windows or Linux? What backup method are > you using (rsync, smb, etc)? How are the client and server connected > (LAN, vpn, ssh tunnel)? > > This is not normal. My 300GB backup only takes 15 hours. Something is > slowing down the transfer. > > -- > Bowie > Li

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tuning BackupPC to solve poor performance? (50MB in 20 minutes)

2011-06-30 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/30/2011 2:04 PM, C. Ronoz wrote: > I ran bacula and it backed up this ENTIRE client in like 7 minutes. After 40 > minutes, backuppc has only backed up a measly 300MB... of a total of 1.5GB. I > am not even sure how much aready was in-use on the partition after creating > the new partition.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tuning BackupPC to solve poor performance? (50MB in 20 minutes)

2011-06-30 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 6/30/2011 3:04 PM, C. Ronoz wrote: > I ran bacula and it backed up this ENTIRE client in like 7 minutes. After 40 > minutes, backuppc has only backed up a measly 300MB... of a total of 1.5GB. I > am not even sure how much aready was in-use on the partition after creating > the new partition.

[BackupPC-users] Tuning BackupPC to solve poor performance? (50MB in 20 minutes)

2011-06-30 Thread C. Ronoz
I ran bacula and it backed up this ENTIRE client in like 7 minutes. After 40 minutes, backuppc has only backed up a measly 300MB... of a total of 1.5GB. I am not even sure how much aready was in-use on the partition after creating the new partition. root@backuppc:~# df -h Filesystem

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tuning BackupPC

2006-10-29 Thread Mark Wass
What about using 2 BackupPC servers. Split all the backups over two physical servers. 1 server does 100 PC's the other server does the other 100. James Ward wrote: > In an effort to reduce the time spent doing the BackupPC_nightly, I > upped the number done in parallel from 2 to 8. Now the s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tuning BackupPC

2006-10-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 12:19, James Ward wrote: > In an effort to reduce the time spent doing the BackupPC_nightly, I > upped the number done in parallel from 2 to 8. Now the system is 99% > wait. What is the best mix, half wait and half CPU bound? Disk head motion is bound to be the bottlene

[BackupPC-users] Tuning BackupPC

2006-10-29 Thread James Ward
In an effort to reduce the time spent doing the BackupPC_nightly, I upped the number done in parallel from 2 to 8. Now the system is 99% wait. What is the best mix, half wait and half CPU bound? I'm concerned about performance because I am backing up over 200 machines and so far, I'm only