[BackupPC-users] Reasonable backup speed

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I'm backing up several Windows machines with BackupPC 2.0.1beta0.  All of 
these computers are on the same 100Mb network, although on separate 
subnets.

I have tried SMB 2.0.8a, and am now trying out rsync using the rsyncd at 
the backuppc site and rsync 2.5.6 on my Linux box.  It seems that my 
backups tend to average between 0.4 and 0.6 MB/s.  Is this the type of 
speed I should expect?

BackupPC is running on a 400MHz 128Mb machine with the storage space on a 
dedicate reiser filesystem.

Watching top while backups are running seem to indicate that my system is 
CPU bound.  Is it worth upgrading to a faster processor.. will 700Mhz make 
that much of a difference?  I'd actually have to spend money to get 
something faster, and like everyone else, I'm trying to do this on the 
cheap.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Tony Nelson
Director of IT Operations
Starpoint Solutions
115 Broadway, 2nd Fl.
New York, NY 10006