Re: [BackupPC-users] Setup two NIC's to improve performance

2010-06-09 Thread Bruce
Ed wins. Ed McDonagh wrote: > What about the big and little 'm'? 'm'illi/'M'ega... makes quite a lot > of difference too, even if a millibit/byte isn't a very useful unit! > > Ed > > On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 17:09 +0100, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > >> Doh! I missed the big B, and I'm a network engine

Re: [BackupPC-users] Setup two NIC's to improve performance

2010-06-09 Thread Ed McDonagh
What about the big and little 'm'? 'm'illi/'M'ega... makes quite a lot of difference too, even if a millibit/byte isn't a very useful unit! Ed On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 17:09 +0100, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > Doh! I missed the big B, and I'm a network engineer. No donut for me! > > Tyler > > On Wedne

Re: [BackupPC-users] Setup two NIC's to improve performance

2010-06-09 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
Doh! I missed the big B, and I'm a network engineer. No donut for me! Tyler On Wednesday 09 June 2010 16:47:48 Bruce wrote: > Oh, umn sorry. > > I should have been more clear. I was trying to say 100 megabyte (MB) > per second. Not mbit (mb). > > I've actually seen 109MB/s on a couple of inte

Re: [BackupPC-users] Setup two NIC's to improve performance

2010-06-09 Thread Bruce
Oh, umn sorry. I should have been more clear. I was trying to say 100 megabyte (MB) per second. Not mbit (mb). I've actually seen 109MB/s on a couple of intel nics here. Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > On Wednesday 09 June 2010 16:07:32 Bruce wrote: > >> Some notes on this though. A good profes

Re: [BackupPC-users] Setup two NIC's to improve performance

2010-06-09 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
What you want to do is create a bonded interface. Here's the Red Hat way: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-bond-or-team-multiple-network-interfaces- nic-into-single-interface.html And the Ubuntu way: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1423602 Yes, that will help with network throughput

Re: [BackupPC-users] Setup two NIC's to improve performance

2010-06-09 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Wednesday 09 June 2010 16:07:32 Bruce wrote: > Some notes on this though. A good professional 1GB nic can push about > 100/MBs. Often you will run into CPU or HD bottlenecks before you get > this far unless you've got a pretty decent cpu and some type of raid hd > setup. I have a no-name ser

Re: [BackupPC-users] Setup two NIC's to improve performance

2010-06-09 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 06/09 04:26 , Jaco wrote: > Would I be able to setup two nic's on my backuppc server to improve > network transfer performance to the backuppc server. I usually have a > least two backups running at the same time on this server. If this > would be beneficial, what would be the right way of

[BackupPC-users] Setup two NIC's to improve performance

2010-06-09 Thread Jaco
Hi Guys, Would I be able to setup two nic's on my backuppc server to improve network transfer performance to the backuppc server. I usually have a least two backups running at the same time on this server. If this would be beneficial, what would be the right way of setting it up? Thanx, Jaco