Multiprocessing

[Chris Holcombe]

I'm new to backshift.  It's an awesome product!  I'm giving a run this morning and finding that it only really uses 1 core on my desktop.  I've got an 8 core machine and was wondering how hard it would be to add multiprocessing support to backshift. 

[Dan Stromberg]

Interesting idea.

It probably wouldn't be terribly difficult to add multiprocessing to backshift.

You can probably run 8 backups at a time too, especially if you randomize the input filelist.  This would mostly help with the first backup, which is slow because it does lots of expensive compression.  Subsequent backups would probably still just be serial.

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Chris Holcombe <xfact...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm new to backshift.  It's an awesome product!  I'm giving a run this morning and finding that it only really uses 1 core on my desktop.  I've got an 8 core machine and was wondering how hard it would be to add multiprocessing support to backshift. 

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