Alex writes:

> I've just upgraded to version 3, and all of a sudden my archive went 
> from 7 hours to under 1 hour.

Do you really mean "archive", or do you mean "backup"?

Did you upgrade using the vanilla tarball and configure.pl?
What XferMethod are you using on this host?

> I noticed that the biggest host didn't backup it's full data. Below an 
> extract from the hosts backup history
> 
> Backup Summary
> Backup#       Type    Filled  Level   Start Date      Duration/mins   
> Age/days 
> Server Backup Path
> 
> 
> 227 
> <http://qsbs.quicksoftware.co.za/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?action=browse&host=qsfs&num=227>
>  
>       full    yes     0       4/21 03:00      260.6   1.2     
> /backups/pc/qsfs/227
> 228 
> <http://qsbs.quicksoftware.co.za/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?action=browse&host=qsfs&num=228>
>  
>       incr    no      ARRAY(0x9c09620)        4/22 03:17      3.4     0.2     
> /backups/pc/qsfs/228

Hmmm, that ARRAY() shouldn't be there.  What is $Conf{IncrLevels}
set to?  I suspect it is missing from your config.pl.  It's a new
setting in 3.x that should be automatically added during the upgrade.

> File Size/Recount Summary
> Totals        Existing Files  New Files
> Backup#       Type    #Files  Size/MB         MB/sec  #Files  Size/MB         
> #Files  Size/MB
> 

> 227 
> <http://qsbs.quicksoftware.co.za/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?action=browse&host=qsfs&num=227>
>  
>       full    317664  71094.2         4.55    317535  70765.7         193     
> 329.0
> 228 
> <http://qsbs.quicksoftware.co.za/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?action=browse&host=qsfs&num=228>
>  
>       incr    5347    316.2   1.57    5332    78.4    34      237.9
> 
> The archived source is only 75 Meg, and should be a lot bigger.

I'm not sure which 75MB you are referring to.  The full is ~71GB with 317K
files.  The incremental is ~316MB.  Are you saying that the archive you
create is only 75MB?

> What could be causing this?

I suspect the missing $Conf{IncrLevels} causes the incremental level to be
written as a bogus ARRAY(0x9c09620), instead of the integer 1.  That bogus
value is interpreted as 0, and that causes the incremental to look like
a full when the archive is done.

So you should:

  - carefully edit the pc/HOST/backups file and replace "ARRAY(0x9c09620)"
    with the integer 1.  Very important: keep the one tab before and after,
    since this is a tab-delimited file.

  - make sure that your config.pl contains a setting for $Conf{IncrLevels}.
    I don't know why it didn't get added during the upgrade.  Did you
    manually edit or shuffle the main config.pl file around after
    upgrading?

Craig

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