Quoting Baruch Even, from the post of Thu, 19 Aug: > > You should check if your gzip runs with --rsyncable option, otherwise > you don't save as much bandwidth as you want. The --rsyncable option
oh, I didn't know I had to switch that on, I thought it was on by default... this option is not listed in the gzip manpage, neither on my woody not my sid! odd... no wait... gzip -h tells me about it on sid but not on woody (which my server is running). weirder and weirder... does this mean rsyncs will be heavier till I backport it from sid or upgrade to sarge? or should I opt for bzip2 instead? I read once it's more compatible with rsync's diffs. > You could try to setup things so that the cron on the server will do the > backup and the rsync, or have the cron on your backup machine connect to > the server and do the backup and then issue the rsync, so that you will > always be synchronized after the dump process has completed so you won't > have partial data. well, I'm backing the server up from a home machine with a dynamic IP, I guess it's the remote machine that will have to issue/trigger the backup then. > It might be that one of the sources rolled over or something, the eth0 > statistics most likely. I'd trust the webalizer/apache logs better. Didi solved it for me, aperently it's a 32 bit counter that rolls over at 4GB. I have set up MRTG and things look clearer now. > You could also install hotsanic to be able to watch the status of your > server machine, it will also give you cpu and io usage as well as other > things. If you want you can also add monitoring of the mail queue, the > number of active apache server and the like. thanks! nice to know... I wonder how come in't not a deb yet :-) gone to install... -- The Truth Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
