Thanks for all the responses, guys! First off, I never meant to indict BackupPC. I've known all along it was an NFS issue (hence the subject title and the observation that everything runs perfectly under iSCSI). However, while virtually all backup options will suffer from whatever transfer rate I'm experiencing, not all of them have GUI interfaces the way BackupPC does. If I'm stuck with my NFS device and its problems , there's no way I can put up with navigating through the BackupPC GUI to perform routine operations. It took me 20 minutes to get a restore going yesterday because each click took 5 minutes.
I'll perform the tests you guys recommend, although I've done hundreds of NFS tests of the years and I know what to expect there. This NFS implementation feels fairly typical, speed-wise. Personally, I agree with some of you who say something sounds broken. 4.5 minutes to pull up a host summary list of 3 servers, whose cummulative backup size is less than 400MB? That's long enough to copy the entire contents of the backup pool several times over. I guess what I'm looking for here is some insight into what BackupPC is doing at that point, so I can figure out what it is that may be broken. Is it crawling the entire backup pool for something? Or is it just looking at the config files for all available hosts? Or, on a completely attack vector, can all of the BackupPC operations be performed from a shell? As for using a different device, a previous backup admin spent a ton of dough on this Data Domain device, which is supposed to be designed specifically for storing backups. I'd much rather throw together something different, but the purse strings are tied fairly tightly for this project. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [email protected] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [email protected]. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/
