I tried renicing everything:

jeward@kw157:/usr/share/backuppc/bin$ head -2 BackupPC_nightly
#!/usr/bin/perl
setpriority(0, $$, -20);

jeward@kw157:/usr/share/backuppc/bin$ head -2 BackupPC_dump
#!/usr/bin/perl
setpriority(0, $$, 20);

The result is, as some predicted, negligible.

Also, someone posited that maybe I am backing up more data and now  
sever capacity is insufficient, but that's not really the case.  One  
difference I did forget though was that I had broken the nightly jobs  
into quarters if I remember correctly.  So today, I told BackupPC to  
break the nightly jobs into 16ths.  That should help.  And then I'll  
slowly tighten the blackout window (up to 8 hours now) once I see how  
fast the smaller nightly jobs run.  My disk array is at %70 capacity,  
so I think it will be able to handle the increased disk space  
requirement of breaking the nightly jobs into 16ths.

Thanks for all the help an suggestions so far!

James

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