On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 07:36:40AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey everyone, > I am currently in the process of rebuilding my backuppc machine to > give it some extra grunt. I was hoping to get peoples thoughts on what > linux distros are in use out there and who recommends what? The new > platform will be a dual core AMD Athlon64 running on a Nforce4 > motherboard.
i'd suggest you pay more attention to the disk subsystem than to the CPU power. BackupPC uses lots of I/O resources. SCSI disks, or SATA with command queuing (ie, not all SATA disks), should help a lot witht he problem of backuppc having to issue a lot of disk seeks. others are on track regarding linux distros. we use red hat and debian (and solaris, which is where i run backuppc) here. danno -- dan pritts - systems administrator - internet2 734/352-4953 office 734/834-7224 mobile ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
