Filipe Brandenburger wrote:

> 50Mbps is actually quite a lot, and it's probably close to the
> bottleneck of your disks. You should use "iostat" on client and server
> while backups are running to see if you're getting 100%util of the
> disks that are being backed up.
>
> In BackupPC's case, as it will transfer only the differences, it will
> end up reading from disk much more than it actually sends on the
> network, so using network bandwidth as a measure of backup speed will
> not be very accurate.

50Mbit (5 MB/s)  is *not* very quick when I'm used to our old rsync
scripts that utilized our full gigE network.

-- 
Jeremy Mann
jeremy AT biochem.uthscsa DOT edu

University of Texas Health Science Center
Bioinformatics Core Facility
http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.edu
Phone: (210) 567-2672


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