Darrell----
Whilst I've dropped my immediate use of backuppc I've
maintained a lurking interest in its home newsgroup...
gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.backuppc.general
...and I noticed some stuff in one recent thread <slow transfer smb>:
Mark> I changed the config to use smb and connect directly to the
Mark> client host, I then ran a full backup of the host, but it has
Mark> been running for close to 24hours now and seems to have only
Mark> gotten halfway through the smb shares? How can I make the
Mark> transfer rate faster? It is running across gigabit Ethernet and
Mark> shouldn't never take this long.
I am having this same problem.
I have noticed that if I access the share outside of BackupPC at the
same time, for example at a prompt on the BackupPC computer I run "ls
-lR /mnt/computername/sharename/", then the BackupPC access
immediately begins to run fast -- you can see this in top.
I searched for different samba optimization parameters which I will
try some options to smbmount to see if I can fix it. If that doesn't
work, I am considering writing something that accesses the smb share
while backuppc is accessing it, to keep the transfer from slowing
down.
Hope this might be of some help to you/backup2.
----best wishes, Robert