What kind of specs does your server have (besides running ZFS)? That is, processor, memory, etc.
I've got a P-III 500Mhz with 512MB RAM as my backup server. It also is my file server (I want to split those into separate machines, but I can't right now), with about 250GB of data. (Most of that is images/videos/mp3s, so I leave compression off.) It takes 30 hours to do a full doing an rsync to itself, and incrementals take about 3 hours. That's a fair bit of data for a slow machine, so I'm trying to get an idea of what I can do to speed things up. And FWIW, I am a fan of ZFS, but until I get another box, I can't really switch to it. Paul 7:53am, dan wrote: > I backup about 6-7Gb during a full backup of one of my sco unix servers > using rsync over ssh and it takes under an hour. > > 4-5Gb on an very old unix machine using rsync on an nfs mount takes just > over an hour. > > full backups of my laptop is about 8Gb and takes about 15minutes though it > is on gigabit and so is the backuppc server BUT the unix servers are not on > gigabit, just 100Mb/s ethernet. > > On Nov 27, 2007 12:52 AM, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Toni Van Remortel wrote: >> >>> And I have set up BackupPC here 'as-is' in the first place, but we saw >>> that the full backups, that ran every 7 days, took about 3 to 4 days >>> to >>> complete, while for the same hosts the incrementals finished in 1 >>> hour. >>> That's why I got digging into the principles of BackupPC, as I >>> wanted to >>> know why the full backups don't works 'as expected'. >> >> Well, I can tell you BackupPC using rsync as the Xfermethod is working >> just fine for us. The incrementals don't take days, all seems normal. >> I hope you'll be able to find the problem in your setup. >> >> Nils Breunese. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft >> Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. >> http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ >> _______________________________________________ >> BackupPC-users mailing list >> BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users >> Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net >> Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------- Perl elegant? Perl is like your grandfather's garage. Sure, he kept most of it tidy to please your grandmother but there was always one corner where you could find the most amazing junk. And some days, when you were particularly lucky, he'd show you how it worked. ----------Shawn Corey <shawn.corey [at] sympatico.ca>-------------- -----10921 days until retirement!----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
