[BackupPC-users] Very Slow Archive and Backup

[Ashley Shaw]

Hi there I have 2 servers at a client that are being backed up by backuppc, Server1 (Linux server – fileserver and backuppc) and Server2 (Win2k server – fileserver). They have an extremely large amount of data that is being backed up, approximately 470Gb of data. Backuppc ran successful backups on localhost (Server1 = 234Mb) and Server2 (Win2k server = 232Mb). I dump an archive to an 500Gb LaCie Firewire800 external drive for offsite backup once a week. Below is the log of the first archive I ran, which was a full dump of Server2 on its own. The archive ran for 521 minutes?! IS THIS NORMAL? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/archive/ArchiveLOG.0, modified 2006-07-19 16:23:21 Executing: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate /usr/bin/split /usr/bin/par2 server2 0 /bin/cat .raw 0000000 /media/ieee1394disk/archive 0 * Xfer PIDs are now 17095 Writing tar archive for host server2, backup #0 to output file /media/ieee1394disk/archive/server2.0.tar.raw Done: 56945 files, 244089742767 bytes, 6173 dirs, 0 specials, 0 errors Completed Archive -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The localhost took from 7am this morning until about 6pm to complete a full backup of itself = 234 Mb. I just started a full archive of the localhost to the external drive, which should take till tomorrow morning 7am. IS THIS NORMAL? I do understand that they have quite a large amount of data that needs to be backed up…. So it will take time for sure, but maybe somebody could suggest a way for me optimize backuppc?! Please let me know iuf you need more info, I might not have given enough info people to understand my problem/question?! Many Thanks in advance! Ashley Shaw ashley at lsdev dot biz south africa     There are 2 hosts that have been backed up, for a total of: 2 full backups of total size 467.61GB (prior to pooling and compression), 0 incr backups of total size 0.00GB (prior to pooling and compression). File /var/lib/backuppc/log/LOG ·         Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/log/LOG, modified 2006-07-19 17:49:34 ·         2006-07-19 01:00:07 Next wakeup is 2006-07-19 02:00:00 ·         2006-07-19 02:00:00 Next wakeup is 2006-07-19 03:00:00 ·         2006-07-19 03:00:06 Next wakeup is 2006-07-19 04:00:00 ·         2006-07-19 04:00:01 Next wakeup is 2006-07-19 05:00:00 ·         2006-07-19 04:59:12 Started full backup on server2 (pid=1476, share=Pastel04) ·         2006-07-19 05:00:00 Next wakeup is 2006-07-19 06:00:00 ·         2006-07-19 05:00:07 Finished full backup on server2 ·         2006-07-19 05:00:07 Running 2 BackupPC_nightly jobs from 0..15 (out of 0..15) ·         2006-07-19 05:00:07 Running BackupPC_link server2 (pid=12107) ·         2006-07-19 05:00:07 Running BackupPC_nightly -m 0 127 (pid=12108) ·         2006-07-19 05:00:07 Running BackupPC_nightly 128 255 (pid=12109) ·         2006-07-19 05:00:10 BackupPC_nightly now running BackupPC_sendEmail ·         2006-07-19 05:00:11 Finished  admin1  (BackupPC_nightly 128 255) ·         2006-07-19 05:00:12 Finished  admin  (BackupPC_nightly -m 0 127) ·         2006-07-19 05:00:12 Pool nightly clean removed 2 files of size 0.00GB ·         2006-07-19 05:00:12 Pool is 0.10GB, 2185 files (0 repeated, 0 max chain, 15 max links), 1937 directories ·         2006-07-19 05:00:12 Cpool nightly clean removed 0 files of size 0.00GB ·         2006-07-19 05:00:12 Cpool is 0.00GB, 0 files (0 repeated, 0 max chain, 0 max links), 1 directories ·         2006-07-19 05:28:36 Running BackupPC_link server2 (pid=12829) ·         2006-07-19 05:28:37 Finished server2 (BackupPC_link server2) ·         2006-07-19 06:00:00 Next wakeup is 2006-07-19 07:00:00 ·         2006-07-19 07:00:00 Next wakeup is 2006-07-19 08:00:00 ·         2006-07-19 07:09:48 Got signal TERM... cleaning up ·         2006-07-19 07:09:53 Reading hosts file ·         2006-07-19 07:09:53 BackupPC started, pid 15398 ·         2006-07-19 07:09:53 Running BackupPC_trashClean (pid=15401) ·         2006-07-19 07:09:53 Next wakeup is 2006-07-19 08:00:00 ·         2006-07-19 07:10:08 User backuppc requested backup of localhost (localhost) ·         2006-07-19 07:10:08 Started full backup on localhost (pid=15416, share=/etc) ·         2006-07-19 07:10:21 Started full backup on localhost (pid=15416, share=/home/camilla) ·         2006-07-19 07:10:21 Started full backup on localhost (pid=15416, share=/ekasi) ·         2006-07-19 07:42:15 User backuppc requested archive on archive (archive) ·         2006-07-19 07:42:17 Started archive on archive (pid=17090) ·         2006-07-19 08:00:02 Next wakeup is 2006-07-19 09:00:00 ·         2006-07-19 09:00:01 Next wakeup is 2006-07-19 10:00:00 ·         2006-07-19 09:10:05 Started full backup on localhost (pid=15416, share=/data/corporate) ·         2006-07-19 10:00:01 Next wakeup is 2006-07-19 11:00:00 ·         2006-07-19 11:00:00 Next wakeup is 2006-07-19 12:00:00 ·         2006-07-19 12:00:01 Next wakeup is 2006-07-19 13:00:00 ·         2006-07-19 12:50:53 User backuppc downloaded zip archive for server2, backup 0; files were: /HATMAL05/Acc1099.DAT ·         2006-07-19 12:51:24 User backuppc downloaded tar archive for server2, backup 0; files were: /HATMAL05/Acc1099.DAT, /HATMAL05/Accabbr.DAT ·         2006-07-19 12:54:50 User backuppc downloaded zip archive for localhost, backup 1; files were: /acpi, /adduser.conf, /adjtime, /aliases, /aliases.db, /alternatives, /anacrontab, /apache2, /apm, /apt, ... ·         2006-07-19 13:00:00 Next wakeup is 2006-07-19 14:00:00 ·         2006-07-19 14:00:01 Next wakeup is 2006-07-19 15:00:00 ·         2006-07-19 15:00:01 Next wakeup is 2006-07-19 16:00:00 ·         2006-07-19 16:00:01 Next wakeup is 2006-07-19 17:00:00 ·         2006-07-19 16:23:21 Finished archive on archive ·         2006-07-19 17:00:01 Next wakeup is 2006-07-19 18:00:00 ·         2006-07-19 17:49:33 Finished full backup on localhost ·         2006-07-19 17:49:34 Running BackupPC_link localhost (pid=533)

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