On Apr 12, 2008, at 2:10 AM, Beth Morgan wrote:
> What factors most influence the speed of backups?  The machine I'm
> using is a Celeron 1200 MHz processor with 2 gb RAM. The OS is
> CentOS. BackupPC version 3.1.0.
>
> So far, the best success I've had is to only allow one machine to
> backup at a time. That scares me a little though, because the other 4
> then have stale backups.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?  Do I just need a better machine?

Yikes, unless the 5 machines have very small amount of data that you  
back up, 1.2 GHz Celeron is pretty whimpy, especially if you use  
rsync.  The 1.2 GHz Tualatin came out in 2001, I doubt very much that  
I would want to trust my important backups to a 7-year-old computer.

Jonathan

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