On 12/23/2010 2:19 AM, Chris Baker wrote:
> I'm thinking a lot about the need to upgrade this system. I haven't done
> much of anything with it since we got it back in 2008. BackupPC was such a
> bear to set up that I wasn't sure that I wanted to take that plunge again.
> My attitude has been don't upgrade unless you must.
>
> I remember doing a kernel upgrade and losing access to a drive. I didn't
> try it again.
I use debian stable and found backuppc to be fairly easy to setup.  I 
just did an aptitude install backuppc if I recall correctly.  I just use 
an old Dell gx270 optiplex with a couple of 1TB drives formatted ext3.  
Now that I have the backuppc config files for each machine it would be 
even simpler.  I do not use raid and perhaps it causes a lot of 
headaches/complications?  I have never had much trouble with kernel 
upgrades and debian.  My backups run fairly fast but I did have an issue 
with the direct restore where it was slow to restore my entire backup 
from scratch.  As far as speed perhaps one of your new drives is bad?  
Could you have a heat problem? Could you have a problem with a crimped 
network cable or bad switch?

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