Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: > I wrote: > >> I recently upgraded to BackupPC 3 and although the idea of being able >> to run the nightly jobs, the trashClean job and dump jobs all at the >> same time is nice it seems it's a bit too much for our server (load = >> 10 at the moment). Can I make backup runs and nightly jobs mutually >> exclusive again or do I have to adjust my WakeupSchedule to make sure >> no backups are started in the first ten hours after the nightly jobs >> start? > > Any ideas on how we can reduce the load? More/less nightly jobs? Less > concurrent backups? Other tips? We used to backup 15 servers onto one > BackupPC server, but now almost all of our backups are failing and the > load is through the roof. Can we just go and install BackupPC 2.1.3 > again? > > Nils. The #1 way to bring the load down if you haven't already done it is to mount the pool filesystem with "noatime" - BackupPC does a lot of reading files and if you have access time stamping enabled there are lots of writes to update the access time stamp. Remove that load and things get way faster.
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