Am Dienstag 03 März 2009 00:26:47 schrieb Tino Schwarze: > > My guess is that my server CPU power is not good enough for BackupPC. > > What do you think about that ? Is an AMD Sempron 2200 too slow for > > BackupPC ? > > Yes, it looks like your BackupPC server is mostly CPU-bound. iowait > times are pretty low, but a lot of user and system time is spent with > only little idle time left. > > I'd try a machine with more MHz and at least two CPU cores. Maybe your > server is spending a lot of time switching between ssh and the rsync > process? Try running vmstat 1 and look at the "cs" line (but drop the > first line, it's overall statistics since system boot).
Hi Tino, you were right. I added 2 Gigs of RAM and a new CPU (Athlon 5050e, dual core, 2.6 GHz). Now I get about 23 MB/sec transfer speed, which results in 16 hours for a full backup. So finally I have to say that BackupPC is very dependent on CPU power. Thanks a lot for your help. Reinhold ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
