On 07/16 11:16 , Christian Lahti wrote: > Is there > any optimization strategies I can employ to get these backed up faster and > more reliably?
Some broad suggestions for improving the speed of your backup server (others will probably have more and better ideas). - keep the BackupPC data pool on a separate disk, to reduce head seek contention (not usually a huge problem with a dedicated server, but there are maintenance benefits as well). - mount the pool filesystem 'noatime'. - make sure you have enough memory. - Reiserfs may give you some performance benefits over ext3 for applications like this, where there are a lot of little files. - if you use reiserfs, mount it with the 'notail' option. - You may find it beneficial to use compression on your ssh links to the other host. - You may find it beneficial to make ssh use a different cipher. I've had good luck with '-c blowfish-cbc', others report good luck with '-c arcfour'. This may yield a substantial improvement in performance in some cases; not in others. Test it, YMMV. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
