I didn't try it with rsyncd. - Nick
Shawn Perry wrote: > Does it work with rsyncd? > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Nick Bright <[email protected]> wrote: >> The backup successfully completed with the "tar" method. >> >> Shawn Perry wrote: >>> That sounds like a different sort of problem then. >>> >>> A deduplicator is a program that walks through a filesystem and finds >>> identical files, and then hard links them together to save space. >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Nick Bright <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> Shawn Perry wrote: >>>>> Did you use a disk deduplicator on the drive? Is there a directory >>>>> with alot of files in it? How many files are you backing up? >>>> Sorry, I'm not familiar with a "deduplicator". >>>> >>>> There aren't any directories with "a lot" of files any more than any of >>>> the other systems I'm backing up. >>>> >>>> There are 202,984 files on the system. >>>> >>>>> If you have MANY hardlinks on a file system, rsync with the >>>>> --hard-links option has a tendency to croak, leaving tar as the best >>>>> option. >>>> find / -printf "%n %i %p\n" | sort -nr >>>> >>>> Doesn't seem to indicate that there is an unusually large number of hard >>>> links. The only stuff listed with a sizable amount of hard links appear >>>> to be directories that are all system stuff that would exists on all >>>> servers. >>>> >>>> The system itself is a cPanel hosting server, and hasn't had anything >>>> special done to it. Let me put it this way - I didn't do anything to >>>> knowingly create "a lot" of hardlinks. I'm sure there's some, but >>>> probably not an unusually high number. >>>> >>>>> Dirvish has this same issue. >>>>> >>>>> To answer your question, find a directory or a couple of them that >>>>> have a lot of files. run "ls -l" or "ls -lR" (the latter is >>>>> recursive) in that directory. Look at the output. >>>>> >>>>> sample: >>>>> >>>>> -rw-r--r-- 79 shawn users 37888 2005-12-04 14:36 X-mas list.xls >>>>> >>>>> The first field after the permissions us the number of links to the >>>>> data in that file, 79 in this case. That means there are 79 hard >>>>> links to that file. There will always be at least one. >>>> Similar to the output of my find command, which was telling me how many >>>> hard links it found for each file/directory on the system. As I said, >>>> nothing that seemed to unusual. >>>> >>>>> Shawn >>>>> >>>> You mentioned TAR being a better option on a system with lots of hard >>>> links. I'll give that a try and see if it's able to perform a successful >>>> backup. >>>> >>>> I will point out that I have a 2nd BackupPC server that is backing up a >>>> *different* machine running the cPanel system, which has many, many, >>>> many more files/domains on it; and that is successfully backing up. >>>> >>>> I'll also try backing the client in question up to said 2nd BackupPC >>>> server and see if that works. >>>> >>>>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Nick Bright <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> Shawn Perry wrote: >>>>>>> Does this host have alot of hard links? >>>>>>> >>>>>> That's a good question that I have no idea how to answer. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>> 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. 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