Jeremy Mann wrote:
> After 2 days of testing, if I leave off one server, BackupPC works as
> advertised and does its job well. I'm currently backing up 28 servers and
> finally it finishes overnight minus this one server. If enable this
> server, the backups slow to a crawl and barely completely in 1 day.
> 
> So this got me thinking, this one server has a directory that is 850GB. It
> consists of user $HOME directories and program directories, so its a
> mixture of small and large files.
> 
> In the configuration I have 1 entry for this directory, which is /export.
> I'm curious if should redo the configuration file and add a line for each
> subdirectory. Would this speed it up?

It will probably help, especially if you are using rsync and are short 
on RAM on either the server or the target.  You may still have a problem 
with full runs because this does a read and checksum comparison over all 
the files but maybe you can get these started on a weekend cycle.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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