Re: [BackupPC-users] Too many arguments for Encode::decode_utf8

2007-01-09 Thread Craig Barratt
Timothy writes: I'm trying to set up BackupPC 3.0beta3 on a brand new installation of CentOS 3.8. Here's what I've done: 1) Install a minimal installation of CentOS 3.8. I know that there are other modules I will need, but it's not relevant for this error. 2) Unpack BackupPC 3.0beta3

Re: [BackupPC-users] [Fwd: [Fwd: your post re: Rsync backuppc]]

2007-01-09 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Tom Nats wrote: Here is my command line: Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root t10 /usr/bin/rsync --server -- sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /home/tn/testbackup/ The server rsync version: rsync version 2.6.4

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't test rsync connection as suggested WinXP

2007-01-09 Thread Arlequín
El 30/12/2006 15:34, Diaz Rodriguez, Eduardo escribió : Do you have other error too, the path don't will don't run because you must use the small from (less of 8 chars) for windows - please use MYDOCS~1 for path. and the firts thest use a short form of short path C:/temp for example -

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows rsync service suggestion (nice)

2007-01-09 Thread Arlequín
El 05/09/2006 7:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió : Hallo, we use the cygwin-rsyncd. On some machines the users describe a slow machine while the rsyncd process is running. On my machine with cygwin installed I added nice to lower process priority of rsyncd successfully by changing

Re: [BackupPC-users] CPU Load statistics (Was: Re: OK, how about changing the server's backuppc process niceness?)

2007-01-09 Thread Timothy J. Massey
Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/09/2007 01:45:10 AM: Timothy J. Massey wrote: Actually, the sluggishness comes from I/O competition, I think, not RAM or even CPU usage... What kind of disk do you have and are you sure it is using DMA? What does 'hdparm -T -t' show for the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Too many arguments for Encode::decode_utf8

2007-01-09 Thread Timothy J. Massey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/09/2007 03:32:56 AM: Timothy writes: Error loading BackupPC::FileZIO: Too many arguments for Encode::decode_utf8 at lib/BackupPC/FileZIO.pm line 252, near 0) Compilation failed in require at (eval 17) line 2. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 17)

Re: [BackupPC-users] CPU Load statistics (Was: Re: OK, how about changing the server's backuppc process niceness?)

2007-01-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 15:28 -0500, Timothy J. Massey wrote: I guess the best way to improve this would be to avoid rsync... However, I like rsyncd. I never realized how heavy the overhead is with rsync, though. Unless I'm missing something? Thoughts? There is quite a bit of overhead on

Re: [BackupPC-users] CPU Load statistics (Was: Re: OK, how about changing the server's backuppc process niceness?)

2007-01-09 Thread Jason Hughes
Sorry, I'm not great at deciphering linux diagnostics (I'm relatively new to it--a year or two), but I did a little poking around to see what might be causing trouble. Wikipedia had these choice bits to say about the C3 chip design: C3 * Because memory performance is the limiting

[BackupPC-users] moving data and configuration to a new server

2007-01-09 Thread Krsnendu dasa
I am in the process of upgrading my computers from Fedora Core 5 to Core 6 (actually K12LTSP5--6). I want to install BackupPC version 3.0 and I want to copy the configuration and backup information I already have. My /var/lib/BackupPC directory is on a separate hard drive. I want to use the new

Re: [BackupPC-users] CPU Load statistics (Was: Re: OK, how about changing the server's backuppc process niceness?)

2007-01-09 Thread David Rees
On 1/9/07, Timothy J. Massey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, it seems to me that the culprit is rsync. I think the reason my production backup servers are usually at 100% CPU utilization is that they're backing up reasonably high-performance file servers that have enough CPU power to max out my

Re: [BackupPC-users] CPU Load statistics (Was: Re: OK, how about changing the server's backuppc process niceness?)

2007-01-09 Thread Timothy J. Massey
Jason Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/09/2007 04:32:06 PM: Sorry, I'm not great at deciphering linux diagnostics (I'm relatively new to it--a year or two), but I did a little poking around to see what might be causing trouble. Wikipedia had these choice bits to say about the C3 chip

Re: [BackupPC-users] CPU Load statistics (Was: Re: OK, how about changing the server's backuppc process niceness?)

2007-01-09 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/09 04:58 , Timothy J. Massey wrote: The C3 is slow. I get it. I already *knew* that. However, the performance numbers I posted demonstrate pretty clearly that the failure is not in a simple lack of CPU power, but in truly how *much* CPU power rsync demands. I get triple the

Re: [BackupPC-users] CPU Load statistics (Was: Re: OK, how about changing the server's backuppc process niceness?)

2007-01-09 Thread Timothy J. Massey
Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/09/2007 04:15:31 PM: On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 15:28 -0500, Timothy J. Massey wrote: I guess the best way to improve this would be to avoid rsync... However, I like rsyncd. I never realized how heavy the overhead is with rsync, though. Unless

Re: [BackupPC-users] CPU Load statistics (Was: Re: OK, how about changing the server's backuppc process niceness?)

2007-01-09 Thread Jesse Proudman
On Jan 9, 2007, at 2:11 PM, Timothy J. Massey wrote: I would *love* to know if someone *is* getting substantially more than 3MB/s using rsync. What is the processing power of both machines? Does 7.48 MB/s count? Backup server is: CPU: 2 x Intel Xeon 5030 Dual-Core 2.66GHz, EM64T, 2MB

Re: [BackupPC-users] CPU Load statistics (Was: Re: OK, how about changing the server's backuppc process niceness?)

2007-01-09 Thread Jason Hughes
Timothy J. Massey wrote: The C3 is slow. I get it. I already *knew* that. However, the performance numbers I posted demonstrate pretty clearly that the failure is not in a simple lack of CPU power, but in truly how *much* CPU power rsync demands. I get triple the performance in

Re: [BackupPC-users] CPU Load statistics (Was: Re: OK, how about changing the server's backuppc process niceness?)

2007-01-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 17:11 -0500, Timothy J. Massey wrote: I don't use compression. The fewer layers in my backup strategy the better: and disk space is cheap! :) Yes, but the disk is the most likely place to get an error and a smaller compressed file thus has less risk... Fast CPU's

Re: [BackupPC-users] question on how to perform restores w/o GUI.

2007-01-09 Thread Craig Barratt
Rob writes: I have been successful using BackupPC_serverMesg backup HOSTIP HOSTNAME 0 command to perform backups at the command line. Can I use BackupPC_serverMesg to initiate a restore operation? If so, what is the syntax of the command? I am guessing it would be: BackupPC_serverMesg

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to move the Backuppc pool

2007-01-09 Thread Craig Barratt
Matthias writes: For the last 4 weeks, I have been doing everything I could to try to move our current backuppc pool (Pool is 79.18GB comprising 1132632 files and 4369 directories) from a RAID0 to a RAID5 having different filesystem sizes. The operating system is OpenBSD, so the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync overflow error

2007-01-09 Thread Craig Barratt
Ed writes: Connected to edcomp:873, remote version 29 Connected to module documents Sending args: --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group --devices$ fileListReceive() failed Done: 0 files, 0 bytes Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed) Backup aborted

Re: [BackupPC-users] [Fwd: [Fwd: your post re: Rsync backuppc]]

2007-01-09 Thread Craig Barratt
Tom writes: Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root t10 /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /home/tn/testbackup/ The server rsync version: rsync version 2.6.4 protocol version 29 The client