Matthias, Thanks for the help. Yes my boss DOES have large active .pst files, several (2~3). Each are at or above 1.5 GB in size. Total capacity of the backup is around 25GB. I've excluded many files and folders although I would like to include the .pst files as she needs the history these represent. Any ideas on how to increase the throughput? 100 MB connection on the LAN, when I get the server from test mode to production the connection will be 1 GB after moving to the server room. Will increased ethernet bandwidth decrease backup speed significantly? Thank you, Brian --
Brian Bettger Systems Analyst (360) 336-9727 Alf Christianson Seed Company >>> On 8/23/09 at 11:19 PM, Matthias Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: Brian Bettger wrote: > Hello all, > > Installed BackupPC version 3.1.0 a few months ago. After creating all > users on the server using one users profile as a template for the rest, I > would think they'd all behave the same. Tested the rsync on all the > laptops initially and had pretty good results. > > About a week later my bosses laptop, scheduled for an incremental, began > backing up at 10:00 am and was still running when she shutdown her laptop > at 7:00 pm. Obviously the backup failed. The previous days incrementals > lasted only 45 minutes or so. Pretty much all default settings as seen at > the Web GUI config for each user. > >>From that last incremental onward the backups begin and just keep running >>until the user powers off. This is occurring on at least three laptops >>now. > > It seems like rsync begins very strong as the CPU utilization for that > users process runs up to 25% on the Suse 10 server, then after about 30~45 > minutes it gradually throttles back almost to zero. > > I've tried excludes of the pagefile, ntuser.dat, system volume > information, etc with no change. Updated to a newer rsync than what came > with cygwin-rsyncd-2.6.8_0.zip on my bosses laptop... > > No SSH, Trusted network, just running on port 873, firewall has the port > opened via the netsh firewall commands by running service.bat from the > package mentioned above. > > It almost seems like rsync.exe is stalling on the client laptops. It's > process shows little CPU utilization, naturally, when time runs onward it > decreases to nearly zero. > > Here is a copy from the log file of a Full backup that SHOULD take no more > than 3 hours, based on previous successful full backups of this laptop: > > 2009-08-03 06:00:03 no ping response > 2009-08-03 12:00:00 full backup started for directory cDrive > 2009-08-03 19:00:31 Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely) > 2009-08-03 19:00:39 Backup aborted (lost network connection during backup) > 2009-08-03 20:00:03 no ping response > > At 19:00 hours my boss finally shutdown for the night. > > I could REALLY use some help and or pointers to get this back to the peppy > speed it once used to have. > > Your thoughts and suggestions? Maybee your boss had a lot of new (big) files? Try to activate logging (add -vvv to the RsyncArgs) and check if always the same file is the last before abort. I have had a similiar problem with a very big outlook.pst in combination with a network interruption. br Matthias -- Don't Panic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ 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/
