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

2012-02-01 Thread Kimball Larsen
On Jan 31, 2012, at 4:25 PM, Kimball Larsen 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 the machines in the

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

2012-02-01 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Kimball Larsen quang...@gmail.com wrote: Here is my current RsyncClientCmd: $sshPath -q -x -c arcfour -l username $host nice -n 19 $rsyncPath $argList+ I also added ionice to my archive command since disk activity can gave the same effect even if you're not

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

2012-02-01 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-02-01 16:30, Kimball Larsen wrote: First off, the users with performance problems on their machines during backups all had a copy of Parallels (Windows emulation software) that was either running or had been run in the last day. Parallels stores a virtual hard drive in a single

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

2012-02-01 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Kimball Larsen wrote at about 09:30:38 -0700 on Wednesday, February 1, 2012: I just wanted to follow up with a description of what I changed to solve this: First off, the users with performance problems on their machines during backups all had a copy of Parallels (Windows emulation