Mike Branda wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 12:54 -0500, Eben King wrote:
>> On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Rich Morgan wrote:
>>
>>>> I run a disk-to-disk copy every morning at 5am, invoked by cron. Every
>>>> now and then, I see a drop in throughput (today it was from ~45 MB/s to
>>>> ~34 MB/s, from 5:01:30 to 5:08:30). How can I find out what's running at
>>>> this time and slowing down the copy? I already found the stuff in
>>>> /etc/crontab, and I moved that from 6:xx to 7:xx. I checked crontabs for
>>>> root and eben (news has none), nothing about that time.
>
> check out
>
> /etc/cron.daily
> /etc/cron.hourly
>
> etc...
>
> Mike Branda Jr.
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Are you doing a disk to disk copy to backup files?
Have you tried rsync? I use it to copy changed\new files to a second
disk. I then rotate them out to a USB drive. Much more efficient\easy
than cp.
-Chris
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