Okay, there we have it. The ALIX, despite its generally good performance, can’t handle the workload of BackupPC and starts to swap really badly when backing up a fairly large system via rsync.
At least I’ve learned from this test how to configure the Wistron CM9 card for WPA on Debian:
iface ath0 inet static madwifi-base wifi0 madwifi-mode sta wpa-driver wext wpa-ssid blah wpa-psk blubb address 192.168.1.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.1
[…] Filed under: UNIX & Linux — Tags: backup, backuppc — martin @ 7:12 am After the ALIX had failed, I moved my BackupPC instance to a leftover Dell workstation with 1.4 GHZ Pentium 4 and 768 GB of […]
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