Rsyncing will crush your machine depending on speccs and amount of data. Some data here:
Server: Debian Xeon 2.8 GHz 2 GB DDR2 Raid 5: 460 GB External HD 500 GB 34 XP desktops/laptops Pool is 115.04GB comprising 865416 files and 4369 directories (as of 27/11 01:37), Pool hashing gives 383 repeated files with longest chain 30, Nightly cleanup removed 2886 files of size 3.21GB (around 27/11 01:37), Pool file system was recently at 55% (3/12 16:17), today's max is 55% (30/11 14:23) and yesterday's max was 57%. Trying to rsync all data (yes, all hosts with a lot of hardlinks and pool) didnt't work anymore. I learned this the painfull way. At night I stop necessary services (samba/backuppc), unmount partition and dd all to external disk every night. i replace the disk after one week and take the other with me at home. On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:05:37 +0100, alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 07:58:19AM -0700, dan wrote: >> i installed an exact copy of my backup server at another store 30 miles >> away. i have backuppc installed but not running on the offsite machine >> and >> i have cron rsync with some fancy options each day. if my main backuppc > > hm, interesting. I thought rsyncing didn't work for the BackupPC rep. > What fancy rsync options do you use besides --hard-links? > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
