Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3.0, rsyncd and UTF-8 support?

2006-10-29 Thread Craig Barratt
Tomasz writes: > Is BackupPC 3.0 capable of transferring different UTF-8 characters, like > German umlauts, using cygwin-rsyncd 2.6.8_0 available on BackupPC > download site (running on Windows)? Yes. > Or is it still needed to use a patched cygwin1.dll version, containing > UTF-8 hacks - lik

Re: [BackupPC-users] Cannot queue restores

2006-10-29 Thread Craig Barratt
Jacob writes: > I am running BackupPC 2.1.2pl2. I have a problem that I cannot queue > multiple restores. I request a direct restore of a users files, and that > job qoes into the queue. I then request another restore while the first > one is running. I get a message: > > but a job is currently r

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tuning BackupPC

2006-10-29 Thread Mark Wass
What about using 2 BackupPC servers. Split all the backups over two physical servers. 1 server does 100 PC's the other server does the other 100. James Ward wrote: > In an effort to reduce the time spent doing the BackupPC_nightly, I > upped the number done in parallel from 2 to 8. Now the s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tuning BackupPC

2006-10-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 12:19, James Ward wrote: > In an effort to reduce the time spent doing the BackupPC_nightly, I > upped the number done in parallel from 2 to 8. Now the system is 99% > wait. What is the best mix, half wait and half CPU bound? Disk head motion is bound to be the bottlene

[BackupPC-users] Tuning BackupPC

2006-10-29 Thread James Ward
In an effort to reduce the time spent doing the BackupPC_nightly, I upped the number done in parallel from 2 to 8. Now the system is 99% wait. What is the best mix, half wait and half CPU bound? I'm concerned about performance because I am backing up over 200 machines and so far, I'm only

Re: [BackupPC-users] Back-up to another host

2006-10-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 09:38, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > > > >>> Out of curiosity how long did it take and how big was the entire data > >>> size on the first run? did it eat up all the cpu time when running? > >> As I remember, it took a couple of hours; but I was copying from one HDD > >> to a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Back-up to another host

2006-10-29 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 04:13, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > >>> Out of curiosity how long did it take and how big was the entire data >>> size on the first run? did it eat up all the cpu time when running? >> As I remember, it took a couple of hours; but I was copying from one

Re: [BackupPC-users] Back-up to another host

2006-10-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 04:13, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > > Out of curiosity how long did it take and how big was the entire data > > size on the first run? did it eat up all the cpu time when running? > > As I remember, it took a couple of hours; but I was copying from one HDD > to another. > I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Back-up to another host

2006-10-29 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Les Stott wrote: I know of people who do it; but they're doing it on machines with more memory and fewer files. >> Just add lots of swap. >> >> I was able to rsync an archive with several million files on a machine >> with just 256 MB RAM; it had several gigabytes of swap. >>

Re: [BackupPC-users] Back-up to another host

2006-10-29 Thread Les Stott
>>> I know of people who do it; but they're doing it on machines with more >>> memory and fewer files. >>> > > Just add lots of swap. > > I was able to rsync an archive with several million files on a machine > with just 256 MB RAM; it had several gigabytes of swap. > > > Out of curiosi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Back-up to another host

2006-10-29 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Rodrigo Real wrote: > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On 10/28 10:23 , Rodrigo Real wrote: >>> Can't you install rsync on 10.0.0.254? That should be the easiest way, >>> rsync can preserve hard links with the -H option, additionally it >>> would transfer only the differenc