James Ward wrote at about 08:16:18 -0700 on Tuesday, September 1, 2009:
 > All,
 > 
 > I'm reposting this as I evidently tried to steal a thread before.
 > 
 > Since upgrading a very busy BackupPC server to 3.1, it's been falling
 > farther and farther behind due to disk  contention between the nightly
 > admin jobs and backups which ran 24x7 on the 2.x set up.  I asked for
 > help here and the only suggestion I got was to carve out a window of
 > time for the admin jobs to run.  This is all well and good, but seems
 > very inefficient, and as I experiment with the settings, the server
 > continues to get further and further behind.  Is it possible to
 > replicate the 2.x behavior where backups stop, the admin jobs run, and
 > then backups start again?
 > 

While this would not be ideal, could you potentially use 'nice' to
give lower priority to the dumps relative to BackupPC_Nightly? If you
are using a dedicated backup server you might be able to tune the
priority numbers such that the dumps "effectively" halt while the
higher priority BackupPC_Nightly runs.

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