David Rees wrote: > BackupPC is the best. Most backups complete in a reasonable time, > those that don't are backups which are either very large (lots of > bandwidth) or have lots of files. My backup server is a simple Athlon > XP 2000+ with a RAID1 consisting of 2 Seagate 250GB 7200rpm ATA > drives. > > More spindles and/or disks with faster seek times is the way to go.
It is true that BackupPC is great, however backuppc is slow because it is trying to make backup of a single instance of each file to save space. Now we are wasting (perhaps even more?) space to make it fast when we do raid1. Thanks, Evren ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
