Re: [BackupPC-users] Increasing full backup speed?

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 07:51:21PM +, Jason B wrote: > First off, just wanted to say thank you to everyone who helped me with my > Aborted by signal ALRM problem when backing up huge dirs, especially Jason > and > Holger. Using the Exclude dirs parameter worked beautifully, and I just > re

Re: [BackupPC-users] maximum backup file sizes - positive surprise?

Bernhard writes: > I just discovered that backuppc (2.1.2pl1) managed to backup a 11,67GB > file via rsyncd-cygwin ... how comes? > Are the known limitations on > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/limitations.html#maximum_backup_file_sizes > deprecated? Yes, it's old. Cygwin now supports lar

Re: [BackupPC-users] Increasing full backup speed?

It sounds like you are describing rsync building the file list before transferring starts, which takes a long time, and there really isn't much you can do about that. One thing you might try is splitting your data up with multiple RsyncShareNames. I'm thinking that might help avoid ALRM, but

[BackupPC-users] Increasing full backup speed?

Hi all, First off, just wanted to say thank you to everyone who helped me with my Aborted by signal ALRM problem when backing up huge dirs, especially Jason and Holger. Using the Exclude dirs parameter worked beautifully, and I just re-ran the full backup every day for about a week, gradually e

[BackupPC-users] Odd version 3 upgrade problem

Hi all, I have been using BackupPC on an Ubuntu machine for many months without too many issues. I decided to upgrade to version 3 two weeks ago. After running the configuration script, the new installation did not recognize the older backup sets. I never got around to being able to fix this. A

[BackupPC-users] maximum backup file sizes - positive surprise?

Hi, I just discovered that backuppc (2.1.2pl1) managed to backup a 11,67GB file via rsyncd-cygwin ... how comes? Are the known limitations on http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/limitations.html#maximum_backup_file_sizes deprecated? Sorry if this is an "old" topic, but I didn't find the answer in

[BackupPC-users] Does backuppc_nightly run to early?

Hi, I recently added a new share to my backup host. This share does initially take about 24 hours to be backed up due to a bad network connection. The files on this share do not (or nearly to not) change, so I expected all further backups to be done somewhat more quick. In fact, all followin