Hi folks, I'm using dirvish for a few weeks now and have some questions regarding its performance. During the last weeks I've been performing backups of several partitions of my harddisk, but somehow the most critical "fails": my root partition. The first backups took less than an hour, so I tried rather often running the weekly¹ backup of my root partition manually. Actually, I allowed dirvish to run for more than 24 hours on Tuesday. Turned out, that there were some NFS errors (yeah, I'm copying files over to a NFS share). So I took care of them and started dirvish again today. After two hours of running, dirvish still wasn't finished - should I be more patient? Also I found out, that after killing dirvish there were *two* rsync-processes left running...apart from the fact that dirvish should maybe tell rsync to quit, when killed (I sent a TERM) - why are there two rsyncs doing the same (at least it appears so to me):
> root 9350 0.2 0.1 14752 1820 tty2 D 19:06 0:26 rsync -vrltH --delete -pgo --stats -D --numeric-ids -x --exclude-from=/media/nas/backup/current/terra/20090217-1906/exclude --link-dest=/media/nas/backup/current/terra/20090124-1548/tree / /media/nas/backup/current/terra/20090217-1906/tree > root 9351 0.3 0.3 58484 3108 tty2 S 19:06 0:42 rsync -vrltH --delete -pgo --stats -D --numeric-ids -x --exclude-from=/media/nas/backup/current/terra/20090217-1906/exclude --link-dest=/media/nas/backup/current/terra/20090124-1548/tree / /media/nas/backup/current/terra/20090217-1906/tree Kind regards and thank you for your time, Frederik Braun 1) concerning the weekly backups, I thought about switching to daily or hourly backups...how often do you run dirvish? P.S.: You got some love from German computer magazine c't (http://www.heise.de/ct , issue 22/2008) that's how I got to know dirvish ;) _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
