Re: [BackupPC-users] Hardware choices for a BackupPC server

2007-03-15 Thread Harry Mangalam
This is but a single data point, but if others can provide some additional data, it might help you triangulate what you want. I'd also recommend 3ware over Areca - I've had 2 bad experiences with Areca involving data loss - only one of which I could really blame on the controller, but 3ware

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with backuppc

2007-03-15 Thread Ciarlotta, Aaron
You didn't say if it appeared as though data was coming across the wire or not. This is possibly the culprit: $Conf{ClientTimeout} = 72000; Timeout in seconds when listening for the transport program's (smbclient, tar etc) stdout. If no output is received during this time, then it is assumed

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with backuppc

2007-03-15 Thread Jason Hughes
Peter, For testing purposes, you may reduce the alarm period, but under practical circumstances, it must be large enough that it doesn't cut off backups that would finish, had they been given the time to collect enough file information. The behavior also depends on the transport mechanism

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with backuppc

2007-03-15 Thread Bernhard Ott
Peter Nearing wrote: Aaron, When I ran the command line that it's trying, the data isn't coming, rsync is running on the client, but it stops there. The backuppc logs state that it's saving the data as a partial, tho. ^^ If backuppc saves

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with backuppc

2007-03-15 Thread Peter Nearing
Unfortunatly right now, I am rechecking backuppc's data partition, so I can't check the setup, and the client is in windows (it's in kingston, on... and I am in Prince George, BC, so I can't just walk over and kick them off, grr...) But the backups are split up, one fs is the '/', excluding