Hello, Currently I am using an old PC as backup server. It takes very long time for BackupPC 3.0 to backup about 140GB data. Even when no file is changed, it still takes more than 24 hours. I would like to know what option I have to speed it up.
The backup server is P3 350MHz, 384M ram, running FreeBSD. The backup drive is a USB 500GB external. The other computer is new Q6600 + 4GB ram, running Vista and data are on Seagate 7200.10 500GB drive. Both computers are connected to a hub, which connect to a router (along with other two computers). I am using smb now and it always gives me some timeout errors. I also installed rsyncd on the vista and I can run rsyncd backup if that can help. FreeBSD "top -S" shows the backup is using <40% of cpu and no swap used (although free Mem is less than 1M in most time). There is also a process "irq9: dc9 uhci0++" (what is that?) is taking 10% cpu. About 20-30% CPU is idle. All network cards, hub and router are 100Mbps. The Windows Vista reports network traffic only around 5-8Mbps during backup. I want to know how I can find the bottleneck. I am not sure what is the limiting step for the speed. I have a PC P4 2.4Ghz/756M ram that can replace the backup server. Will that improve much? Should I use an internal drive for backup? Should I use a better hub or switch? Should I just upgrade the network to gigabit? Or is BackupPC is not very good for this task (too many files? It's around 500,000 files)? Please help me, thanks! Jinshi ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
