On Fri, 2021-01-08 at 12:07 +1100, Adam Goryachev via BackupPC-users wrote: > On 8/1/21 06:30, Alexander Kobel wrote: > > On 1/7/21 9:39 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: > > > What will BPC in particular do if noatime is set? > > > > exactly what it's supposed to do. noatime or at least relatime (or > > perhaps recently lazytime) is the recommended setting: > > https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/BackupPC.html#Optimizations > > I think it depends on whether you are applying this setting change on > the BPC server, and specifically the BPC pool drive, or if you are > applying it to the clients and/or root FS of the BPC server. > > If you have a separate filesystem for the BPC pool, then using this > setting on that filesystem will not have any adverse impact, but will > likely reduce overhead. Changing this setting elsewhere will have the > documented impacts (and you would need to assess the results of those > impacts based on your own personal requirements (or provide a lot more > information for anyone else to comment on).
The BPC server uses a separate drive for the backup pool, so is pretty much a schoolbook example. I went ahead and set relatime for the pool-drive. Thanks all for the hints! -- Kind regards, Sorin Srbu Find my OpenPGP public key here: https://cloud.srbu.se/index.php/s/KeEsCCDsG7PZG7N
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