Stephen Vaughan wrote:
> okay network is one I left out, but I don't find that to be a problem. 
> It rarely goes above 30mbit. Our setup is a single box w/ Xeon dual core 
> 2.4ghz x 2, 2x300gig 10k scsi (raid 1) drives and 4gig memory, Debian 
> 5.0, gigabit ethernet.
> 
> We struggle to backup 4 servers each night, 453gigs / 7,807,318 files. 
> Backup window is 9pm to 9am, and we just fit inside that each night. We 
> do incrementals 6 nights a week and 1 full per week.

Have you done the usual efficiency-related things to the filesystem 
(mount with noatime,nodiratime,data=writeback, etc.), and made sure that 
the archive is excluded from the nightly updatedb runs?  Also, sharing 
the filesystem with any app that might do an fsync() (mail programs, 
databases, etc.) is bad at least on ext3 because it waits to sync the 
entire filesystem buffer to disk instead of just the associated file data.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com




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