Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup speed?

2005-10-13 Thread Alex Schaft
Alex Schaft wrote: Hi, I've just installed BackupPC to replace a simple script that tarred two folders to a remote machine. The script took about 3 hours for 40gigs of data. BackupPC has now been running for almost 7 hours (1AM to 7AM), and hasn't finished yet. Compression level is set to 3

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup speed?

2005-10-13 Thread Alex Schaft
Marty wrote: Alex Schaft wrote: Hi, I've just installed BackupPC to replace a simple script that tarred two folders to a remote machine. The script took about 3 hours for 40gigs of data. BackupPC has now been running for almost 7 hours (1AM to 7AM), and hasn't finished yet. Compression lev

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup speed?

2005-10-13 Thread Marty
Alex Schaft wrote: Hi, I've just installed BackupPC to replace a simple script that tarred two folders to a remote machine. The script took about 3 hours for 40gigs of data. BackupPC has now been running for almost 7 hours (1AM to 7AM), and hasn't finished yet. Compression level is set to 3

[BackupPC-users] Backup speed?

2005-10-13 Thread Alex Schaft
Hi, I've just installed BackupPC to replace a simple script that tarred two folders to a remote machine. The script took about 3 hours for 40gigs of data. BackupPC has now been running for almost 7 hours (1AM to 7AM), and hasn't finished yet. Compression level is set to 3. Is there something

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc Command Line

2005-10-13 Thread Joe Hood
Any easy way to glean the commands with which parameters the web interface is using? I'm trying to create Tar files from Bash for tape backup storage. Any one have examples that work? Only localhost seems to work for me: Works: ./BackupPC_tarCreate -h localhost -n -1 -s /etc / -t -r >/tmp/blah2

Re: [BackupPC-users] Configuring full backup once and then incremental forever!

2005-10-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 05:57, Khaled wrote: > I need guidance on how to configure backuppc to backup an rsyncd client > fully once (this has already been done) but never again to backup in full > for that client again; rather, do incrementals on a daily basis forever. Be sure you understand how rs

[BackupPC-users] Ive seen the archives but...child exitted prematurely error

2005-10-13 Thread Khaled
Hello, Having looked at the archives, apparently there are many things that can cause this error; In my last bad Xfer log for the client (XP) I see quite a few of these: Remote[1]: rsync: send_files failed to open "/LocalService/Local Settings/Application Data/Microsoft/Windows/UsrClass.dat" (in

[BackupPC-users] Configuring full backup once and then incremental forever!

2005-10-13 Thread Khaled
Hello all, I need guidance on how to configure backuppc to backup an rsyncd client fully once (this has already been done) but never again to backup in full for that client again; rather, do incrementals on a daily basis forever. I understand the per-pc config.pl needs editting to overwrite the m