On Monday 23 Aug 2010 16:42:43 Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> I've tried this in the past. Taking a snapshot of a live backuppc instance
> and then backing up the snapshot (especially to tape, like I tried) turns
> out to be murderously slow due to all the disk updates.
> 
> At least to tape (where a minimum data rate is required, or else the tape
> starts 'shoeshining'), it was 4x faster to shut down the backuppc instance,
> tar the whole TOPDIR to tape, and then restart BackupPC; than to take a
> snapshot and back up the snapshot. This was due to less disk contention.

Carl,

What was your disk configuration? Any RAID involved?

Regards,
Tyler

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