Re: [BackupPC-users] speed up backups
Les Mikesell schrieb: > Ralf Gross wrote: > > > > the RsyncP man page tells me this: > > > > http://search.cpan.org/~cbarratt/File-RsyncP-0.68/lib/File/RsyncP.pm > > > > File::RsyncP does not compute file deltas (ie: it behaves as though > > --whole-file is specified) or implement exclude or include options > > when sending file. File::RsyncP does handle file deltas and exclude > > and include options when receiving files. > > > > > > Thus no need to try the --whole-file option. > > That's when sending files - as in doing a restore. When doing backups RsyncP > is > on the receiving side and a stock rsync is sending - and will do deltas. > Whether on not it is a win to compute deltas probably depends on the > relationship to available bandwidth and CPU, but it might be worth a try. > I'd > guess --whole-file might generally be a win on files with random changes but > not on growing logfiles where the deltas are all past the end of the previous > copy. the --whole-file option didn't help. The second full backup since changing to rsync has finished now, and it took 600 min. less than the last couple of full backups before. On the other hand the incremental backups now need 3-4h in contrast to 60-80 min. before. I'll stay with rsync for now, maybe with a longer interval between the full backups. rsync should catch moved/deletet files. Ralf -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't browse backup directory
Okay, I figured it out. My new backups were incrementals based off a different root. ie: my old backups did /cygdrive/c, /cygdrive/h and /cygdrive/j. My new backups did /cygdrive/c/shadow/. BackupPC gotr confused. As soon as my Friday fulls came by, it all worked again. Gerald - "Gerald Brandt" wrote: > > Could this be because I delete the directories on the Windows machine in a > post backup script (DumpPostUserCmd)? > > Gerald > > - "Gerald Brandt" wrote: > > > > This is still an issue for me. Does anyone have a clue what's going on > > here? > > > > I'm not a big perl guy, but I can poke around. Does BackupPC have a > > function to get something into the log files? > > > > > > Gerald > > > > - "Gerald Brandt" wrote: > > > > > > Bad form, replying to myself. > > > > > > - "Gerald Brandt" wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I recently switched a windows backup from backing up the drives via ssh > > > > and rsync to using vss, ssh, and rsync. > > > > > > > > The backup just finished, and I can't browse the directory. I get the > > > > following error: > > > > > > > > Error: Can't browse bad directory name / > > > > > > > > The directory is definitely there, and it looks good to me. > > > > > > > > I used to backup /cygdrive/c, /cygdrive/h, /cygdrive/j > > > > > > > > Now that I use VSS, I mount the shadow copies using vshadow > > > > -el={GUID},dir (vshadow -el{GUID},c:\shadow\c) > > > > > > > > So now I backup /cygdrive/c/shadow, which contains the directories c, > > > > h, j as shadow mounted VSS volumes. > > > > > > > > Does anyone have any idea what's happening here? > > > > > > > > # ls -l 126 total 8 -rw-r- 2 backuppc backuppc 45 2010-06-02 23:00 attrib -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 616 2010-06-03 00:16 backupInfo drwxr-x--- 5 backuppc backuppc 32 2010-06-02 23:00 f%2fcygdrive%2fc%2fshadow # ls -l 126/f%2fcygdrive%2fc%2fshadow/ total 12 -rw-r- 2 backuppc backuppc 41 2010-06-02 23:00 attrib drwxr-x--- 23 backuppc backuppc 4096 2010-06-01 21:43 fc drwxr-x--- 6 backuppc backuppc 40 2010-06-02 11:46 fh drwxr-x--- 5 backuppc backuppc 32 2010-06-02 23:00 fj > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Gerald > > > > > > > > > > > If a manually create the url to browse the backup, all my data is there. > > > It's only the top-level dir that has issues. > > > > > > http://backuppc/backuppc/index.cgi?action=browse&host=swtwf01.norscan.com&num=126&share=/cygdrive/c/shadow&dir=/ > > > > > > > > > This give me subdirs c, h, and j to look through. > > > > > > Gerald > > > > > > > > > -- > > > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's > > > Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize > > > list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > > > ___ BackupPC-users mailing > > > list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: > > > http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: > > > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > > -- > > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's > > Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize > > list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > > ___ BackupPC-users mailing list > > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: > > http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: > > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > -- > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day > Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list > and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > ___ BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: > http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Backuppc - archive without using tar
Hi Richard, thanks for your reply and your valuable advice. I testet your shell command several times last night and it worked perfectly for me. Files are restored to my mounted eSATA-HD without any problems. Existing files get overwritten automatically which is also a nice feature to me. Otherwise I would have to delete the whole eSATA-HD first before taking a new complete BackupPC-snapshot onto it. Unfortunately, I now found out about two other problems with BackupPC which make it almost unusable to me: A restore of files > 2 GB is impossible over SAMBA (no LFS-Support with smbclient) Backing up my both NAS-devices (1TB each, ARM-CPU, Linux) via Rsyncd over network is far too slow to use. (ca. 2,5 MB/s) That means a single 10GB-file takes more than 1 hour to get copied to my BackupPC-server. BackupPC is really a nice software but these both issues make it inappropriate for my use-cases. Thanks again. :-) Greetings, Torsten +-- |This was sent by p...@gmx.at via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Complex include/excludes with rsync?
Brian Mathis wrote: > I am running backups using the rsync transport method. The docs on > BackupFilesOnly indicate if this is used at all, then only the files > listed there are backed up. To me this implies that excludes are then > ignored. The docs on BackupFilesExclude warn that one can only > specify BackupFilesOnly and BackupFilesExclude once for smb shares, > which seems to contradict this. > > I am trying to perform something like the following: > exclude /home > include /home/user/data > > Is this possible without resorting to a custom rsync command line? Am > I missing something here where includes and excludes are applied in a > certain order? > > Thanks. > > -- > I include directories by BackupFilesOnly and exclude other directories by "exclude from = " within the rsyncd.conf. But nevertheless your example above would not work. If you exclude /home you can't include something among them. br Matthias -- Don't Panic -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/