BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc is Hammering My Clients

2012-02-01 04:55:58
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc is Hammering My Clients
From: Tim Fletcher <tim AT night-shade.org DOT uk>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:54:41 +0000
On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 19:47 -0500, Steve wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Kimball Larsen <quangdog AT gmail DOT com> 
> > wrote:
> >> Is there anything I can to to have the backups run in a more transparent 
> >> manner?  We are not all that concerned with speed of backup process - 
> >> we're all here all day anyway, so as long as everyone gets a backup at 
> >> least once a day we're happy.
> 
> check the "nice" level during the backup (on the client) and see where
> rsync is running.  If it's the same as the other user processes, maybe
> change the $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} to include a nice level?  I know that
> is suggested here:
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/ssh.html

If you add the flags "-c arcfour" to the ssh command line that will use
the arcfour cypher which is less less secure but much cpu intensive, I
use it on CPU bound clients such as my iPhone.

-- 
Tim Fletcher <tim AT night-shade.org DOT uk>


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