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Re: [BackupPC-users] Hardware considerations for building dedicated backuppc server

2009-07-06 23:30:11
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Hardware considerations for building dedicated backuppc server
From: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:35:37 +1000
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Stephen Vaughan wrote:
> I'm only running 2 concurrent backups. The disk is/was mounted with
> noatime,data=journal. I've changed this to
> noatime,nodiratime,data=writeback
I think nodiratime is actually a subset of noatime, so that shouldn't
make any difference, the data=writeback may help though...
> I've also just enabled the checksum-seed option in rsyncargs. I have
> munin running on the box, it looks as though there is a bit of
> iowait on the cpu, iostat doesn't look too bad to me, but I might be
> reading it wrong..

I don't recall, but I think you might need to wait for a couple of
full backups before this will have an impact
> I've attached some graphs which might shed some light..
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
I'm not sure what they all mean, but if you do, then you could decide
what needs to be upgraded. Also, as mentioned previously, you will
need to look  at similar graphs for each client to ensure they are not
the limiting factor.

Regards,
Adam

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