Faster cPanel Backup by replacing gzip with pigz [Case 55535]

[srpurdy]

pigz took 87.23 seconds compared to 2,909.05 seconds which is 33.3x times faster to compress your database backup. If you did daily backups, you would save 2,821.82 seconds per day = over 30 days save you 1,410.91 mins or 23.51 hrs per month in backup time !

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that's insane

[eva2000]

Yes it is insane

[SoftDux]

I would LOVE to see this implemented soon as well. Can we have an update on the progress from cPanel please?

[lbeachmike]

Would the implementation of pigz also speed up incremental backups? I know that currently incrementals still utilize gzip, even though not to produce a compressed backup.

[xanubi]

+1 for this!

[konrath]

+1 for this!

[system1351]

cPanel must use pigz

please look this test:
Parallel file compression — Norwegian High Performance Computing

[Secmas]

+1 more vote.

How is this going? When is this implemented in CPanel?

[Gareth-AWD]

Any news on this?

[monarobase]

It's planned for 11.34 so it should be out around 6 months after 11.32 became stable… (based on previous major version updates)

[Gareth-AWD]

Why's this no longer tagged with 11.34?

[rlshosting]

Any progress on this? Does it cut down on the load too?

[drego85]

Thank's for sharing and +1 for this request!

Andrea

[hostmedic]

I would love to see this get pushed out - any update? not sure on the dates from 11.32 ...

+1 and then some


One thing you may want to check on however is the use of Better Linux.
If your backups are killing you - give it a shot - it can control the Disk I/O issues - but of course the downside is that backups will be slower... :-(

We still use R1soft - however having some options would be great.

[tloosle]

+1
Really need this