I now also added ionice to avoid a lot if io-load on the server being backed up.
My RsyncClientCmd now looks like this:
$sshPath -q -x -l backuppc $host /usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/bin/ionice -c2
-n7 /usr/bin/sudo $rsyncPath $argList+
-c2 is the "best effort" class and -n7 is the lowest priority in
"This symptom is not reproducible on fairly recent hardware."
Hmm. That's an interesting statement. First of all, BackupPC does not state
that we need "fairly recent hardware" in it's requirements:
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#requirements
And I heard PCs from 2006 (when the
