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Hello!
I have an install of mediawiki running on Ubuntu 6.04 which acts as a knowledge base within our company. In order to back it up, I have a script that runs every 2 hours that
1. Dumps the database 2. Copies the application and data 3. gzips it all 4. Moves the archive to another machine that gets backed up daily.
I had it backing up the knowledge base once every hour but I noticed that zipping everything up took up too much CPU and made the knowledge base and another application take forever to respond.
I have also noticed that gzip runs at random times (not specified in my crontab and not while a backup is happening) which has caused a large bottleneck.
Any ideas how to locate what is causing gzip to run when I don't want it to and also is there a way to keep gzip from using up all of the cpu? Is there a way of limiting it? I don't care if it takes 10 times as long to create the archive.
Thanks in advance! -- Randy Schmidt x@altorg.com 267.334.6833 ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug