On Apr 12, 2008, at 2:10 AM, Beth Morgan wrote: > What factors most influence the speed of backups? The machine I'm > using is a Celeron 1200 MHz processor with 2 gb RAM. The OS is > CentOS. BackupPC version 3.1.0. > > So far, the best success I've had is to only allow one machine to > backup at a time. That scares me a little though, because the other 4 > then have stale backups. > > Does anyone have any suggestions? Do I just need a better machine?
Yikes, unless the 5 machines have very small amount of data that you back up, 1.2 GHz Celeron is pretty whimpy, especially if you use rsync. The 1.2 GHz Tualatin came out in 2001, I doubt very much that I would want to trust my important backups to a 7-year-old computer. Jonathan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
