On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Timothy J Massey <tmas...@obscorp.com> wrote: > > Cassiano Surek <c...@surek.co.uk> wrote on 11/06/2012 05:03:44 AM: > > > > Of course, how could I have missed that! I did find it now, thanks MichaĆ. > > > > Last full backup (of 100 odd Gb) took slightly north of 10 days to > > complete. Incremental, just over 5 days. > > > I did not see if you mentioned how *many* files you had. Are we talking > 100,000 files or 10 Million files? That will make a *big* difference in > performance.
This will be especially true if the full directory listing sent before comparison starts fills RAM and pushes into swap. A couple of other performance-killers that haven't been mentioned yet: Running too many backups concurrently - on some systems 2 might be too many. Having large files that change frequently. This forces the server to uncompress the base copy and merge changes which will thresh the disk since they are on the same drive. This may be unavoidable, but it might be worth excluding things like log files you don't care about, database files that won't be consistent anyway, etc.. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Central: Instant, anywhere, Remote PC access and management. Stay in control, update software, and manage PCs from one command center Diagnose problems and improve visibility into emerging IT issues Automate, monitor and manage. Do more in less time with Central http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein12331_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/