On 9/1/09, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jim Wilcoxson wrote: >> Hi Les - thanks for trying it out! >> >> It sounds like you are seeing about 300GB in 1200 minutes, or 4 >> minutes per GB. That's about what I see on average when backing up a >> real system initially. Yesterday I backed up 33GB on a G5 Mac (the >> Mac version isn't released yet), and it took 110 minutes. >> >> However, incrementals are much faster: The incremental for the same >> Mac took 7 minutes. One of my Linux development systems (about 1.5GB) >> takes 4 minutes to backup initially, but only 20 seconds to do an >> incremental when just a few things change. I backup my /home/jim user >> directory, about 1.5GB, every 15 minutes and it usually takes 5-10 >> seconds. >> >> You can restart the same backup and it will pick backup up where it >> left off after a short delay. >> >> Thanks again for checking it out! Much appreciated. > > The run I started on Friday still hasn't completed and since backuppc has > run > nightly it is picking up new files in the pc directory that weren't in the > pool > when it started - so the size is larger than I expected and it isn't going > to fit.
OK. I still appreciate you trying it. It sounds like I have some work to do before this will scale to a 600GB BackupPC backup. > > Top shows fairly reasonable memory use, though. > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 3899 root 18 0 364m 349m 2800 D 1.9 8.9 1396:55 hb That's useful info, thanks Les. > > > It probably would be a lot faster if it didn't display the filenames being > copied. There is a -v0 option to turn off the filename display. In my test environment that doesn't affect the performance much, but it might in other situations. Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
