Don Lee Posted July 26, 2009 Report Share Posted July 26, 2009 I just posted to "bugs" about my experience. My config does not meet Robin's "minimums", but my workload - the GUI - should not overwhelm my platform. Is anyone using PPC successfully? If so, what are you running, and what did you have to do? Thanks, -dgl- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted July 26, 2009 Report Share Posted July 26, 2009 Is anyone using PPC successfully? I am. If so, what are you running, iMac G5 1.8 GHz, OS X Server 10.5.x, 1 GB RAM (below minimum memory configuration, but my backup sources have very small file counts) and what did you have to do? Install engine. Configure Scripts. Backup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petermcoresolutions.co.uk Posted July 28, 2009 Report Share Posted July 28, 2009 And what's the performance like? I have a very similar machine doing disk duplication backups and it's unusably slow, seems to be the verify: 7/22/2009 4:19:07 AM: Comparing ServerBackup 7/22/2009 4:21:51 AM: 5 execution errors Completed: 472 files, 1986 KB Performance: 587.7 MB/minute (592.2 copy, 0.7 compare) Duration: 06:19:22 (00:18:22 idle/loading/preparing) Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Lee Posted July 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2009 Judging from my experiments with PPC (on an unsupported Mini 1.5 Ghz single CPU), I'm betting that there are some performance problems that are covered up with higher power CPUs. If this were my software, I would be particularly suspicious becuase I am seeing variations in performance that are otherwise unexplained. Sometimes the xfer/verify speeds are good, other times really poor. Are you also seeing wide variations, or is it always poor? -dgl- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted July 28, 2009 Report Share Posted July 28, 2009 Performance: 587.7 MB/minute (592.2 copy, 0.7 compare) Obviously the compare speed is wacked. What is your configuration? What is the Source, what is the destination drive, etc... Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petermcoresolutions.co.uk Posted August 5, 2009 Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 Cheers for the replies, sorry for the delay. Performance varies hugely. Here's another: *File "/Volumes/ServerDisk/Users/admin/Library/PubSub/Feeds/67985d021933e1acca0a511092b9b134fd71a89e.xml": didn't compare 7/19/2009 11:50:47 AM: 26 execution errors Remaining: 1 files, 26 KB Completed: 39718 files, 208.6 GB Performance: 529.9 MB/minute (505.2 copy, 557.2 compare) Duration: 13:48:00 (00:24:39 idle/loading/preparing) It's a straight disk to disk duplicate to an external firewire drive, it's usually the compare that's slow tho, you can watch it in the morning crawling through a compare, often saying something like "39 files remaining" but just carrying on and on and on. Any thoughts? Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted August 5, 2009 Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 What is your configuration? Feel free to answer or not. But without more complete and specific information it will be impossible for others to chime in with useful suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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