John writes: > I am noticing an issue in our backuppc installation. > > Every Monday we have 20-30 hosts (of 84) that were not backed up in > the prior 24 hours. It seems the /var/log filesystem takes much longer > on the sunday/monday backups than it takes during the rest of the > week. > > [snip] > > I think the problem is that log files are rotated on Sunday AM, so the > Sunday night/Monday morning backup run has to transfer the entire > contents of these log files because the names change during the log > rotation.
Yes, that makes sense. Unfortunately a renamed file cannot be easily matched, so it has to be transferred and then matched against the pool. (A better approach with log files is to append the date stamp to the name, rather than an incrementing number.) Any chance you have sparse files in /var/log? They can be very large, and none of the Xfer methods detect sparse files. Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
