Question #193846 on Duplicity changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/193846
Kai-Alexander Ude proposed the following answer: Swapping is not occurring cause the server has 24 GB of ram. Swap partition is 512 MB. When backup is running ram load is not really high. About 4 GB is in use. Is it possible telling duplicity to use more ram? How can I prevent the swapping process? > If swapping is occurring, split the backup into multiple parts that make > sense and try again. Split the backup into multiple parts means one backup profile for email, one profile for web, one profile for /etc ? > did you make sure that your /tmp filesystem is not the issue here? Changing temp dir to /var/tmp because /tmp is part of the system partition (/ mount point) with just 20 GB. /var/tmp is mounted on a big partition, file system is ext3. > maybe it get's sporadically slow? Absolutely. Sometimes the duplicity temp file in /var/tmp needs just 5 minutes to be created. Sometimes (another duplicity temp file) needs more than a couple of hours. > btw. it seems that nearly your whole backup changes on incrementals. in case > of e.g. database > dumps we usually suggest not to compress them as this makes the impossible > for librsync to > detect only the changed portions within a file. compression is then done > during backup. Database dumps are not in the backup set of duplicity. Another process handles database backup. And /var/lib/mysql is an excluded directory. -- You received this question notification because you are a member of duplicity-team, which is an answer contact for Duplicity. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~duplicity-team Post to : duplicity-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~duplicity-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
