BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tuning BackupPC to solve poor performance? (50MB in 20 minutes)

2011-06-30 16:07:46
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Tuning BackupPC to solve poor performance? (50MB in 20 minutes)
From: Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey AT BUC DOT com>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:05:32 -0400
On 6/30/2011 3:04 PM, C. Ronoz wrote:
> I ran bacula and it backed up this ENTIRE client in like 7 minutes. After 40 
> minutes, backuppc has only backed up a measly 300MB... of a total of 1.5GB. I 
> am not even sure how much aready was in-use on the partition after creating 
> the new partition.
>
> root@backuppc:~# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1              19G  1.4G   17G   8% /
> tmpfs                 502M     0  502M   0% /lib/init/rw
> udev                  497M  112K  497M   1% /dev
> tmpfs                 502M     0  502M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/mapper/vg0-lvol0
>                       197G  512M  195G   1% /var/lib/backuppc
> root@backuppc:~# date
> Thu Jun 30 20:05:49 CEST 2011
> root@backuppc:~# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1              19G  1.4G   17G   8% /
> tmpfs                 502M     0  502M   0% /lib/init/rw
> udev                  497M  112K  497M   1% /dev
> tmpfs                 502M     0  502M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/mapper/vg0-lvol0
>                       197G  565M  195G   1% /var/lib/backuppc
> root@backuppc:~# date
> Thu Jun 30 20:24:42 CEST 2011
>
> How can I decrease load? Can I disable deduplication or compression? The load 
> is very high. This back-up server (virtual machine) has a powerful processor, 
> although only 1GB memory (that is not fully used). Even running this simple 1 
> job is very very slow.  See http://images.codepad.eu/v-ISmSn6.png for high 
> cpu usage.  
>
> Last time this back-up ran succesfully for the entire server (1.7GB) it took 
> more than 12 hours (after which I manually canceled the back-up). This 
> back-up job ran in 7 minutes(!) on Bacula. I however would prefer to use 
> BackupPC in the future and I hope people can help me getting decent 
> performance. 

Details please!  Is the client Windows or Linux?  What backup method are
you using (rsync, smb, etc)?  How are the client and server connected
(LAN, vpn, ssh tunnel)? 

This is not normal.  My 300GB backup only takes 15 hours.  Something is
slowing down the transfer.

-- 
Bowie

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