We are a small office (6 employees) with a mixture of windows and mac machines sitting on desks. I have set up a server (Ubuntu linux) that has been happily running backuppc for several years handling backups for all the machines in the office with grace AND style. We love it.
However, in the last few months some of the users have noticed that when backuppc is running a backup (incremental or full - does not seem to matter which) it can have a serious impact to the performance of their local machine. Stuff comes to a crawl and they are nearly unable to work because simple things like switching from one application to another starts to take several seconds, etc. The machine behaves like it is hammering swap space and thrashing for memory. At least one user reports this goes on for several hours (and I confirmed that his latest incremental took 119 minutes to complete). All the machines affected in this way are wired to the gigabit network (not wireless), and I'm using rsync for the transfer method. The users with the complaints are all using OS X on late model high-end MacBook Pro laptops. Is there anything I can to to have the backups run in a more transparent manner? We are not all that concerned with speed of backup process - we're all here all day anyway, so as long as everyone gets a backup at least once a day we're happy. I have set up backuppc to only run 1 concurrent backup - should I change this to a larger number, making the server work harder and hopefully easing up on my clients a bit? Thanks! -- Kimball ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ 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/
