Am Dienstag 03 März 2009 00:26:47 schrieb Tino Schwarze:

> > My guess is that my server CPU power is not good enough for BackupPC.
> > What do you think about that ? Is an AMD Sempron 2200 too slow for
> > BackupPC ?
>
> Yes, it looks like your BackupPC server is mostly CPU-bound. iowait
> times are pretty low, but a lot of user and system time is spent with
> only little idle time left.
>
> I'd try a machine with more MHz and at least two CPU cores. Maybe your
> server is spending a lot of time switching between ssh and the rsync
> process? Try running vmstat 1 and look at the "cs" line (but drop the
> first line, it's overall statistics since system boot).

Hi Tino,

you were right. I added 2 Gigs of RAM and a new CPU (Athlon 5050e, dual core, 
2.6 GHz). Now I get about 23 MB/sec transfer speed, which results in 16 hours 
for a full backup.

So finally I have to say that BackupPC is very dependent on CPU power.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Reinhold




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