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
I'm using backuppc version 3.1.0-6ubuntu4 on Ubuntu 9.10.
I'm using "fairly recent hardware" (my backup server uses an Intel Atom
330 CPU, a 1.6 GHz dual-core CPU), yet, this effects me. Here's some of
the output of top during a backup:
28539 backuppc 20 0 202m 141m 1368 R 98 4.0 5:26
