Re: [BackupPC-users] The usual questions looking for better ansers

2011-05-02 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 04/29 10:18 , Richard Shaw wrote: > 1. On the server, which is a Xeon Quad 2GHz machine, I've got a rsync > over ssh dump that's been running for over 12 hours which is about > 300GB into a 800GB share. Perl seems to be the bottleneck on the > server and ssh is only using about 20-30% of one cor

Re: [BackupPC-users] The usual questions looking for better ansers

2011-04-29 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 4/29/2011 1:09 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: 3. I have more than one share that needs to be backed up from the client but they want a different backup schedule for 1 of the shares. Am I going to have to setup fake/virtual hosts to

Re: [BackupPC-users] The usual questions looking for better ansers

2011-04-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/29/2011 1:09 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > >> Is this the 1st or 2nd full? It may improve by itself if you have the >> --checksum-seed=32761 option set so the server won't have to recompute >> the values. > > It's the 1st full so I guess that wouldn't help... Is that a safe > option to keep using

Re: [BackupPC-users] The usual questions looking for better ansers

2011-04-29 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:24 PM, John Rouillard wrote: > Les almost got it right it's ClientNameAlias > >  http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#_conf_clientnamealias_ Thanks! I think I understand how that works! Richard --

Re: [BackupPC-users] The usual questions looking for better ansers

2011-04-29 Thread John Rouillard
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 01:09:24PM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > > On 4/29/2011 10:18 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > >> The host->ip resolution is being handled by a hosts file so I could > >> add aliases there so BackupPC would treat them as separ

Re: [BackupPC-users] The usual questions looking for better ansers

2011-04-29 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 4/29/2011 10:18 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: >> I was recently sub-contracted to setup BackupPC for a business and >> everything's fine so far but I was hoping to make some improvements. >> >> 1. On the server, which is a Xeon Quad 2GHz machine

Re: [BackupPC-users] The usual questions looking for better ansers

2011-04-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/29/2011 10:18 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > I was recently sub-contracted to setup BackupPC for a business and > everything's fine so far but I was hoping to make some improvements. > > 1. On the server, which is a Xeon Quad 2GHz machine, I've got a rsync > over ssh dump that's been running for ov

[BackupPC-users] The usual questions looking for better ansers

2011-04-29 Thread Richard Shaw
I was recently sub-contracted to setup BackupPC for a business and everything's fine so far but I was hoping to make some improvements. 1. On the server, which is a Xeon Quad 2GHz machine, I've got a rsync over ssh dump that's been running for over 12 hours which is about 300GB into a 800GB share.