I just noticed today that one of the hosts I'm backing up, is suddenly taking much longer to back up. Looks like someone put a large quantity of new data on it.
Problem is that whereas the full backups used to take (as a proportional scale) 1x, and incrementals perhaps 0.2x, the latest incrementals are taking ~2.5x the time of the last full backup. Due to the way backups are done in backuppc (always making an incremental against the last full), they'll keep on being excessively large until the next full backup. Would it be reasonable to have backuppc check the time used by the last incremental against the time used by the last full, and if it's taken longer to do the incremental, then automatically do a full backup next time? (Of course, make a note in the logs as to why this was done). It would also be nice at times to be able to one-time-schedule the next backup of a particular host to be a full backup (for instance, if you knew that you'd just added some data). The way to do this right now is: - Start the backup right now while you're thinking of it, and hope you don't irritate people too much by doing a backup in the middle of the day (or whatever other time it is). - Try to remember to start the backup later on, when it won't irritate people. - Set up a cron or at job to schedule the backup. It would be nice to be able to schedule future jobs from within the web interface tho. Perhaps have it call 'at', or else use some sort of internal persistence mechanism? -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
