Doug Smith wrote: > I currently use BackupPC to backup 34 servers (two different backup > servers). We have this one development machine that takes more than a > day to backup (2100 minutes for 139 gigs on full backup). We have other > servers with the same amount of data (some with more) that backup much > faster. We believe the reason for this is that there are many CVS > checkouts which contain the same files. > > Our theory is that it is taking this long due to comparison of all the > identical files when making links. The hardware in this server matches > another machine with the same amount of data, but it only takes around > 300-400 minutes. I'm wondering if anyone has run into a similar problem > and might have suggestions. I'm going to look and see if I can skip > backing up some of the data, but at this point I'm not sure if that is > an option. > > -Doug > > You may just be looking at a lot of small files - on the other machines is the average file size similar to the slow one? Also what OS and file system is the server?
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