Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc is Hammering My Clients

2012-02-02 Thread Tim Fletcher
On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 20:24 -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Les Mikesell wrote at about 07:40:20 -0600 on Wednesday, February 1, 2012: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Kimball Larsen quang...@gmail.com wrote: Do any have local time machine backups that might be included?

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc is Hammering My Clients

2012-02-01 Thread Kimball Larsen
On Jan 31, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Kimball Larsen quang...@gmail.com wrote: We are a small office (6 employees) with a mixture of windows and mac machines sitting on desks. I have set up a server (Ubuntu linux) that has been happily running

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc is Hammering My Clients

2012-02-01 Thread Kimball Larsen
On Jan 31, 2012, at 5:47 PM, Steve wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Kimball Larsen quang...@gmail.com wrote: Is there anything I can to to have the backups run in a more transparent manner? We are not all that concerned with speed of backup process - we're all here all day anyway,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc is Hammering My Clients

2012-02-01 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: Steve [mailto:lepe...@gmail.com] Sent: den 1 februari 2012 01:48 To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc is Hammering My Clients check the nice level during the backup (on the client) and see where rsync

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc is Hammering My Clients

2012-02-01 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-02-01 08:32, Kimball Larsen wrote: On Jan 31, 2012, at 5:47 PM, Steve wrote: check the nice level during the backup (on the client) and see where rsync is running. If it's the same as the other user processes, maybe change the $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} to include a nice level? I know

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc is Hammering My Clients

2012-02-01 Thread Tim Fletcher
On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 19:47 -0500, Steve wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Kimball Larsen quang...@gmail.com wrote: Is there anything I can to to have the backups run in a more transparent manner? We are not all that concerned with speed of backup process - we're all here all day

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc is Hammering My Clients

2012-02-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Kimball Larsen quang...@gmail.com wrote:  Do any have local time machine backups that might be included? No, time machine is on external drives, specifically excluded from backups. It might be worth checking that the excludes work and the links that make it

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc is Hammering My Clients

2012-02-01 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Les Mikesell wrote at about 07:40:20 -0600 on Wednesday, February 1, 2012: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Kimball Larsen quang...@gmail.com wrote:  Do any have local time machine backups that might be included? No, time machine is on external drives, specifically excluded from

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc is Hammering My Clients

2012-01-31 Thread Kimball Larsen
We are a small office (6 employees) with a mixture of windows and mac machines sitting on desks. I have set up a server (Ubuntu linux) that has been happily running backuppc for several years handling backups for all the machines in the office with grace AND style. We love it. However, in

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc is Hammering My Clients

2012-01-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Kimball Larsen quang...@gmail.com wrote: We are a small office (6 employees) with a mixture of windows and mac machines sitting on desks.  I have set up a server (Ubuntu linux) that has been happily running backuppc for several years handling backups for all

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc is Hammering My Clients

2012-01-31 Thread Steve
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Kimball Larsen quang...@gmail.com wrote: Is there anything I can to to have the backups run in a more transparent manner?  We are not all that concerned with speed of backup process - we're all here all day anyway, so as long as everyone gets a backup at

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc is Hammering My Clients

2012-01-31 Thread transeurasia on horseback
Two things :osX systemusers started to complain. Logs check of the backup server. Do parts of server fail? Disks perhaps? Why not skip the dailyy routine of one a week randomly during? Prolongs life of server (parts) steve has you looking up the faq has not he? Try adding bitsamplerate (oops!