I have been wondering about this for a while. Am I better off having backups run parallel or in series? By running in series, I mean one backup runs at a time. When it finishes, another one starts. B
I just depends on any particular setup, and what the most limiting factor is. Sound like for you it's bandwidth, but that may not always be true, even for you, depending on how much your data changes
Author: John Rouillard <rouilj-backuppc AT renesys DOT com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:33:42 +0000
It depends on a few things. I use rsync almost exclusively. So YMMV with other backup mechanisms. What is your i/o subsystem? I have a striped array (raid 0) over two raid 6 arrays with 7 drives in e
I'm sure that John knows this, but for the benefit of the OP i'll note that it's a lot more complicated than that, of course. For small writes I might say that you effectively have 2 spindles, and s
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:59:44 -0500
One other point that I don't think has been mentioned yet is that if you have configured only one concurrent backup, something that slows down a single host like a big upgrade or set of new files to