Greets. I'm giving BackupPC 3.0.0 a try on my home network. The BackupPC server is CentOS5 and the clients are OS X 10.4. The hardware is an Athlon XP 2200+, 512MB RAM, and a few IDE drives without RAID. I was able to configure BackupPC today and completed a backup and test restore of the $HOME dirs on two different Mac clients. So far I have two questions.
1) I'm using /usr/bin/tar for 10.4.9. Before setting the backuppc tar- cmds, I tested the commandline switch under terminal. I ran the the followi my client to verify the tar options: a) Backup the Music folder: "tar -c -v -f Music.tar --totals --one- file-system Music" b) From the commandline, "rm -rf Music" c) Restore the Music folder: "tar -x -p -v -f Music.tar" Everything looked okay except the Music folder icon was now just a plain OS X folder icon, not the "blessed" Music folder icon a default OS X account gets. Can anyone explain this? I saw similar behavior for the Documents folder that I restored while doing a full BackupPC restore test. 2) For my GigE wired Mac OS X client, BackupPC reports ~3.10MB/s. This is using ssh + tar. Normal NFS copies to the same disk on this client and server avg ~18MB/s. There are a few factors I can think of that would be slowing down BackupPC: compression, pooling, and ssh encryption. I've changed my ssh command to use -c blowfish rather than the default cipher which is more robust but slower. If I disable compression now, how will that affect pooling with my current full backup and future incremental? Is there any tuning that can be done with pooling to allow for faster backup speeds? Thanks for the help. -- Scott ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
