On 6/14/2011 11:00 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>
>> Just recently, with some help from people here, I set up some new servers
>> myself and was truly amazed at just how easy it was. I set up Ubuntu LTS
>> 10.04, and everything just works.
>>
>> I have major improvements in the throughput of my backups. I was getting
>> about 4 MB/sec before and now getting over 15 MB/sec sometimes. I also
>> don't get the "20000 millisecond timeout" or other errors. This has been a
>> wonderful surprise.
>>
>> This has also convinced me to get rid of Fedora in favor of Ubuntu.
>> Installing BackupPC three years ago was an absolute nightmare.
>> Unfortunately, that was one thing that made me reluctant to upgrade. I
>> only upgraded recently because I had a server crash.
>
> You are switching from Fedora to Ubuntu because a new server running
> Ubuntu is faster than a 3 year old server running Fedora?  It sounds to
> me like the speed differences you are seeing are due more to newer
> (faster) hardware than an OS change.  The ease of installation is
> probably also at least partly due to the newer OS having a more polished
> installer.  You would probably find that a recent version of Fedora is
> also much easier to install than the old one.
>
> I'm not advocating for Fedora here -- I'm just pointing out that this
> doesn't sound like a fair comparison between the two.  Personally, I use
> CentOS for my BackupPC server.

I have to agree - there is either some quirk in your old system or the 
speedup is due to some newer component that you'd get in a newer version 
of fedora or anything else.  You shouldn't have been seeing timeouts 
regularly in any case.   I generally use Centos myself, but would 
hesitate to install a 5.x version now and 6.x hasn't been released yet. 
  And there's really nothing wrong with using ubuntu, especially the LTS 
versions.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com





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