Les Mikesell wrote: > Usually the issue that limits performance with backuppc is disk seek > time as it manages hardlinks and directories which have to be on a > single file system. About the only thing you can do to improve that is > to use a raid scheme that includes a lot of drives and add RAM for > buffering.
This can be mitigated by using a more efficient filesystem. On my opensolaris system using ZFS, the hardlink maintenance is less than 1% of the system's time. I recall that xfs, jfs, and reiserfs worked well too. -- Jim Leonard ([email protected]) http://www.oldskool.org/ Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ A child borne of the home computer wars: http://trixter.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
