Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-22 Thread Carl W. Soderstrom
On 06/20 03:57 , Holger Parplies wrote: > Carl W. Soderstrom wrote on 2018-06-14 16:03:24 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] > Slow local backup]: > > On 06/14 03:38 , Bowie Bailey wrote: > > > On 6/14/2018 3:27 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: > > > > Why are you using rs

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-20 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Carl W. Soderstrom wrote on 2018-06-14 16:03:24 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup]: > On 06/14 03:38 , Bowie Bailey wrote: > > On 6/14/2018 3:27 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: > > > Why are you using rsyncd over the loopback instead of ??? rsync? > > > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-19 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-06-19 06:55, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 6/19/2018 1:35 AM, Michael Schumacher wrote: Hi there Friday, June 15, 2018, 3:06:30 PM, you wrote: BB> It finally finished after 24 hours.  That gives about 13G/hour or about BB> 3.8M/s. BB> The CPUs were not busy.  That's what I was confused abo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-19 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 6/19/2018 1:35 AM, Michael Schumacher wrote: > Hi there > > Friday, June 15, 2018, 3:06:30 PM, you wrote: > > BB> It finally finished after 24 hours.  That gives about 13G/hour or about > BB> 3.8M/s. > > BB> The CPUs were not busy.  That's what I was confused about.  I would have > BB> expected

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-18 Thread Michael Schumacher
Hi there Friday, June 15, 2018, 3:06:30 PM, you wrote: BB> It finally finished after 24 hours.  That gives about 13G/hour or about BB> 3.8M/s. BB> The CPUs were not busy.  That's what I was confused about.  I would have BB> expected to see a bottleneck at some point, but nothing seemed to be BB>

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-18 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 6/18/2018 10:55 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 9:38 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: >> I have another big local backup that's been running all weekend. I am >> trying sudo/rsync rather than rsyncd or ssh/rsync this time. This >> directory has millions of small files (and is even bi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 9:38 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > I have another big local backup that's been running all weekend. I am > trying sudo/rsync rather than rsyncd or ssh/rsync this time. This > directory has millions of small files (and is even bigger than the first > one), so I expect it to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-18 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 6/16/2018 9:34 PM, ED Fochler wrote: >> On 2018, Jun 15, at 9:06 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: >> >> The CPUs were not busy. That's what I was confused about. I would have >> expected to see a bottleneck at some point, but nothing seemed to be >> busy. The CPUs were all at or below 20% and iowait

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-16 Thread ED Fochler
> On 2018, Jun 15, at 9:06 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > The CPUs were not busy. That's what I was confused about. I would have > expected to see a bottleneck at some point, but nothing seemed to be > busy. The CPUs were all at or below 20% and iowait was close to 0 most > of the time. I'm not

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-15 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 6/14/2018 6:04 PM, Holger Parplies wrote: > Hi, > > Bowie Bailey wrote on 2018-06-14 15:38:44 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow > local backup]: >> On 6/14/2018 3:27 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: >>> On 2018-06-14 10:05, Bowie Bailey wrote: >>> >>>

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-14 Thread Carl W. Soderstrom
On 06/14 03:38 , Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 6/14/2018 3:27 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: > > Why are you using rsyncd over the loopback instead of … rsync? > > > > Mainly because that's the way all of my other clients are being backed > up and what I found when I searched for how to back up a local > fil

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-14 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Bowie Bailey wrote on 2018-06-14 15:38:44 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup]: > On 6/14/2018 3:27 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: > > On 2018-06-14 10:05, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > > > I just installed BackupPC v4 on a CentOS 7 server with 4G ram.  I > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-14 Thread Carl W. Soderstrom
FWIW, here's my localhost.pl file: # # Local server backup of /etc as user backuppc # $Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar'; #for some reason pings fail $Conf{PingCmd} = '/bin/true'; $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/proc', '/sys', '/var/lib/backuppc', '/var/log', '/tmp', '/var/tmp', '/staff', '/mnt']; #$Co

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-14 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 6/14/2018 3:27 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: > > On 2018-06-14 10:05, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > I just installed BackupPC v4 on a CentOS 7 server with 4G ram.  I > am trying to back up a local 318G filesystem.  I am using rsyncd > over the loopback connection.  It has been running for 17 ho

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-14 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-06-14 10:05, Bowie Bailey wrote: I just installed BackupPC v4 on a CentOS 7 server with 4G ram.  I am trying to back up a local 318G filesystem.  I am using rsyncd over the loopback connection.  It has been running for 17 hours so far and has backed up less than half of the directory (bas