On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 02:20:14PM +0100, Guus Houtzager wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 08:43 +0100, Tarjei Huse wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I use backuppc to backup a number of machines, including one server > > containing about 70gb of data. > > > > About two weeks ago my backups suddenly slowed down. Instead of > > incrementals taking a very lookng time. I tried to fix this by > > increasing the timeouts. This has helped. The problem seems to be on the > > backuppc side of things. Usually an incremental took about 1 - 200 > > minutes. Now suddenly they are taking 2000+ minutes. > > > > The problems started with errors saying backuppc ended with signal=ALRM > > in the logs. I've also found what seems to be an uncomplete full backup > > at the start of this. The backup is listed in the different tables, but > > lacs the logs. > > > > What I'm wondering about is ; > > > > a) How can I clean out the seemingly phony backup? > > remove the directory with the number of the failed backup and remove > it's entry from the "backups" file. Ok, I'll try that. > > b) What could be other reasons that is causing this issue? > > > > I have no problem with bandwidth (2mb). The disks do not report any > > errors. However when running _dump manually, it seems that each file > > takes a very loong time even when it is in the pool. There are about 550 > > 000 files. > > Let me guess: ext3 filesystem? If yes, you've just been hit by the "ext3 > doesn't scale for large number of files" problem. Use reiser or xfs. Wrong guess :-)
The box runs XFS and reiserfs. It's a Suse 8.2 box that has been upgraded to 9.2. > > Versions: > > Rsync: 2.6.3 (on the client) > > File::RsyncD (on server) : 0.52 > > BackupPC 2.1.1 > > If you use ext3, I'm rather curious what kernel you're running, because > ext3 is supposed to have become better at this in recent times. Although > I do not know if the btree patches are included in the vanilla kernels. Well, sorry, no ext3 :-) But: Thanks a bundle for answering! I'm quite at loss at what is happening on the server. It seems to download quite a lot of files that shouldn't have been changed. What is the simplest way to see what files have been downloaded to the server? If it just to zgrep the Xferlog for create ? Kind regards Tarjei > > Kind regards, > > Tarjei > > Hth, > > -- > Guus Houtzager Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PGP fingerprint = 5E E6 96 35 F0 64 34 14 CC 03 2B 36 71 FB 4B 5D > Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead. > --Rincewind, The Light Fantastic > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today > Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam > for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7628&alloc_id=16845&op=click > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7628&alloc_id=16845&op=click _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
