Re: [BackupPC-users] very slow backup speed

2007-03-30 Thread David Rees
On 3/29/07, Evren Yurtesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didnt blame anybody, just said BackupPC is working slow and it was working slow, very slow indeed. checksum-seeds option seems to be doing it's trick though. How long are full and incremental backups taking now? I am thankful to people

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude directories - syntax problems?

2007-03-30 Thread Guy Malacrida
Stupid of me, I had not define the d: drive in the rsync.conf file in the computer to be backed-up, sorry for that! Last log shows both c: and d: drive were properly backed-up yesterday, although the exclude are still not considered. I then need to fix how to exclude these directories. What could

[BackupPC-users] link counting fixed in 3.0.0? [Was: Subversion working copies cause too many links]

2007-03-30 Thread Gregor Schmid
Hi, I'm using BackupPC 2.1.3 and am mostly very happy with it. But now I'm running into the too many links problem with large subversion directories. Please see http://www.arcknowledge.com/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.backuppc.general/2005-03/msg00145.html and related messages for background

Re: [BackupPC-users] very slow backup speed

2007-03-30 Thread Evren Yurtesen
David Rees wrote: On 3/29/07, Evren Yurtesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didnt blame anybody, just said BackupPC is working slow and it was working slow, very slow indeed. checksum-seeds option seems to be doing it's trick though. How long are full and incremental backups taking now? In

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup of windows pc problem

2007-03-30 Thread nilesh vaghela
Thanx for your answer, The windows pc the size of backup is not more than 200MB. This observed in 20% to 25% pc only. Other pc are working on quite acceptable speed. Again I am taking backup with rsync method. What should be check ?? On 3/28/07, Jason Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nilesh

Re: [BackupPC-users] link counting fixed in 3.0.0? [Was: Subversion working copies cause too many links]

2007-03-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Gregor Schmid wrote: The solution of excluding .svn directories from backups, as mentioned in the previous discussion, is not acceptable for me as SVN working copies are among the most valuable stuff we're backing up... If your work is committed (which is kind of the point of using svn...)

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate - make one tar for many hosts (don't loose hardlinks)?

2007-03-30 Thread Mike Dresser
I'm wondering about this as well, as DLT-V4 only holds 160 gig of backups.. when you're backing up full systems without the benefits of hardlinks, that doesn't hold much. I assume you're looking for something you can use as an emergency restore in case the backuppc server dies or is otherwise

Re: [BackupPC-users] link counting fixed in 3.0.0? [Was: Subversion working copies cause too many links]

2007-03-30 Thread Craig Barratt
Gregor writes: and related messages for background information. In his final mail on that thread, Craig said Upon further inspection, it turns out the rsync XferMethod doesn't check the hardlink limit when it is linking to an identical file. So there are two cases you have found

[BackupPC-users] Server hangs after power outage

2007-03-30 Thread Klaas Vantournhout
Dear all, The real questions are at the bottom, the rest is just a nice intro which introduces you to the nature of the questions. Two days ago, we had a power outage in our department which caused a rather brutal shutdown of the computers. All of the computers survived, which is a good

Re: [BackupPC-users] Server hangs after power outage

2007-03-30 Thread Brien Dieterle
It sounds very much like a hardware problem, perhaps slightly toasted ide controllers? It sounds like a commodity box, can you move all the disks to another machine and fire it up? Oh and go get a decent UPS! :-) brien Klaas Vantournhout wrote: Dear all, The real questions are at the

Re: [BackupPC-users] very slow backup speed

2007-03-30 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Sylvain MAURIN wrote: MaxLine III 300 (7200 rpm, ATA, 8 meg cache), ext3 w/noatime. I'd change it to XFS, but backing up 1.7TB would take weeks/months because of the hardlinks. Hi, I use your hardware clone except for HDs (which are seagate 750GB) and maybe for

[BackupPC-users] Rename a machine

2007-03-30 Thread Bowie Bailey
I have a machine in my office which has been backed up with BackupPC. The owner of the machine has rebuilt it with the same name, but a different os. I want to keep the old backups while still continuing to make backups of the new machine. Can I change the name of the old backup sets so that

Re: [BackupPC-users] very slow backup speed

2007-03-30 Thread David Rees
On 3/30/07, Evren Yurtesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Rees wrote: How long are full and incremental backups taking now? In one machine it went down from 900 minutes to 175 minutes. I expect better performance when more memory is added (today or tomorrow they will add it) and I dont

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rename a machine

2007-03-30 Thread Brien Dieterle
To not answer your question; why don't you just let the new machine use the existing configs, assuming you keep a few fulls you'll still have access to the old files just the same. You could also archive it if you really wanted to preserve it as-is. Basically, what I'm saying is OS changes

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rename a machine

2007-03-30 Thread Chris Ernst
Brien Dieterle wrote: To try to answer it; yes I think you can add another host and just rename the folder under pc to match the name, but I'm not positive about that :-) For the record I am positive out that. I've done exactly this and it does work =) - Chris

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rename a machine

2007-03-30 Thread Bowie Bailey
I want to keep the full backup records of the machine available via BackupPC for longer than the backup schedule would allow. This is so that I can recover files if they were lost in the rebuild process. I have made a tar archive of the last backup, but it is much easier to restore from BackupPC

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rename a machine

2007-03-30 Thread Bowie Bailey
Chris Ernst wrote: Brien Dieterle wrote: To try to answer it; yes I think you can add another host and just rename the folder under pc to match the name, but I'm not positive about that :-) For the record I am positive out that. I've done exactly this and it does work =)

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unable to connect to BackupPC server

2007-03-30 Thread Winston Chan
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:28:25 +0200 From: Holger Parplies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Unable to connect to BackupPC server error To: Winston Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain;