Les Mikesell wrote:
> Usually the issue that limits performance with backuppc is disk seek 
> time as it manages hardlinks and directories which have to be on a 
> single file system.  About the only thing you can do to improve that is 
> to use a raid scheme that includes a lot of drives and add RAM for 
> buffering.  

This can be mitigated by using a more efficient filesystem.  On my 
opensolaris system using ZFS, the hardlink maintenance is less than 1% 
of the system's time.  I recall that xfs, jfs, and reiserfs worked well too.
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