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Reinhold Schoeb wrote:
> 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.

Don't forget that some HDD interfaces are very CPU intensive, so you may
use 40% CPU just to deal with the IO, plus you need CPU to handle your
network interface, plus you also need CPU to do the compression of file,
SSH encryption, etc....

Also, you might like to check your memory usage during a backup, mainly
to ensure that you are not using any swap space (anything more than a
couple of megs swap space will mean you need more RAM)...

Regards,
Adam
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