Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly takes too much time

[David W. <dwi...@dt...>]

Josh,

Interesting that.  Is there an easy way to convert from ext3 to ext4? Or do
you need to reformat?  Also, did you change all your hard drives to ext4 or
just the drive backuppc backs up to?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Malone [mailto:jm...@nr...]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 4:44 PM
> To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly takes too much time
> 
> On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:34:57 +0200, "Norbert Schulze"
> <ns...@nu...> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > the BackupPC_nightly takes too much time. Is this too much data for
> this
> > server?
> >
> > Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q9650  @ 3.00GHz
> > Memory: 8GB
> >
> > General Server Information
> > The servers PID is 15477, on host BACKUPPC-Server, version 3.1.0,
> started
> > at 3/29 14:35.
> > This status was generated at 4/7 11:29.
> > The configuration was last loaded at 4/7 11:29.
> > PCs will be next queued at 4/7 12:00.
> > Other info:
> > 9 pending backup requests from last scheduled wakeup,
> > 0 pending user backup requests,
> > 10 pending command requests,
> > Uncompressed pool:
> > Pool is 357.26GB comprising 469442 files and 4369 directories (as of
> 4/6
> 
> I have a system with about the same amount of data and far more files
> running on much less hardware. I, too, found backupPC_nightly taking a
> LONG
> time. I switched from EXT3 to EXT4 (with extents enabled) and my
> problems
> were basically solved. My system was also 32-bit (I've switched to 64-
> bit
> since then to get better ext4 stability... long story, RedHat stinks)
> 
> What filesystem are you using?
> 
> -Josh
> 
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