Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > 50Mbps is actually quite a lot, and it's probably close to the > bottleneck of your disks. You should use "iostat" on client and server > while backups are running to see if you're getting 100%util of the > disks that are being backed up. > > In BackupPC's case, as it will transfer only the differences, it will > end up reading from disk much more than it actually sends on the > network, so using network bandwidth as a measure of backup speed will > not be very accurate.
50Mbit (5 MB/s) is *not* very quick when I'm used to our old rsync scripts that utilized our full gigE network. -- Jeremy Mann jer...@biochem.uthscsa.edu University of Texas Health Science Center Bioinformatics Core Facility http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.edu Phone: (210) 567-2672 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ 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/
