Re: [BackupPC-users] OSX

2007-12-18 Thread dan
well i have not started yet, im running a 'hackintosh' to test this out and wanted to know of any pitfalls or advice i could get to save some time. im planning on buying an xserve if backuppc and a few other things line up. i need a directory server and want to step up my backup server a bit. i

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why is SMB backups so much faster than ssh/rsync ???

2007-12-18 Thread John Pettitt
Brendan Simon wrote: > David Rees wrote: > >> On Dec 18, 2007 5:05 PM, Brendan Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> So is the bottleneck rsync or the number of files or memory ??? >>> >>> >> In this case, it's neither the number of files or memory. >> >> If you look at

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why is SMB backups so much faster than ssh/rsync ???

2007-12-18 Thread Brendan Simon
David Rees wrote: > On Dec 18, 2007 5:05 PM, Brendan Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So is the bottleneck rsync or the number of files or memory ??? >> > > In this case, it's neither the number of files or memory. > > If you look at top in this particular case, the backup is complete

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why is SMB backups so much faster than ssh/rsync ???

2007-12-18 Thread David Rees
On Dec 18, 2007 5:05 PM, Brendan Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So is the bottleneck rsync or the number of files or memory ??? In this case, it's neither the number of files or memory. If you look at top in this particular case, the backup is complete CPU bound, with ~70% CPU being used by B

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why is SMB backups so much faster than ssh/rsync ???

2007-12-18 Thread Brendan Simon
David Relson wrote: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:44:53 +1100 > Brendan Simon wrote >> * The backuppc server is an Intel P3 800MHz with 512MB RAM and >> 550GB or raid storage for data backups. >> * The linux host I am backing up is a Dual Processor AMD64 2GHz >> with 2GB RAM. >> * Al

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why is SMB backups so much faster than ssh/rsync ???

2007-12-18 Thread David Rees
On Dec 16, 2007 9:44 PM, Brendan Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * The backuppc server is an Intel P3 800MHz with 512MB RAM and > 550GB or raid storage for data backups. > * The linux host I am backing up is a Dual Processor AMD64 2GHz with > 2GB RAM. > * All are connec

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why is SMB backups so much faster than ssh/rsync ???

2007-12-18 Thread Gene Horodecki
For what it's worth, I have my BackupPC server on a VM running on my office desktop PC.. The VM has 256 Mb RAM (it's Ubuntu Server). The backups are going to a 400Gb partition on a USB drive. I backed up my wife's 30Gb laptop (Thinkpad T23) with 512Mb RAM with Cygwin rsyncd in 325 minutes (50,000

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem with /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail

2007-12-18 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Lai Chen Kang wrote: This is on CentOS 4.5. I just run the command /usr/bin/ BackupPC_sendEmail command with the following arguments and I get the resulting output. That is why I asked, why is BackupPC_sendEmail using the argument -t in mail? I have not modified the $Conf{SendmailPath}.

[BackupPC-users] Send an email manually with BackupPC_sendEmail

2007-12-18 Thread romain . pichard
hello, I'm testing the sending emails with BackupPC 3.0.0 (with Fedora Core 6). I configured BackupPC in order to use a Lotus Notes Server (to sending emails) and now I would like to test it in sending manually (with a command line) an email to my mailbox. Somebody knows it ? I'm really sorry i

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem with /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail

2007-12-18 Thread Lai Chen Kang
This is on CentOS 4.5. I just run the command /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail command with the following arguments and I get the resulting output. That is why I asked, why is BackupPC_sendEmail using the argument -t in mail? I have not modified the $Conf{SendmailPath}. Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wro

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why is SMB backups so much faster than ssh/rsync ???

2007-12-18 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:44:53 +1100 Brendan Simon wrote: > * The backuppc server is an Intel P3 800MHz with 512MB RAM and > 550GB or raid storage for data backups. > * The linux host I am backing up is a Dual Processor AMD64 2GHz > with 2GB RAM. > * All are connected via 1Gbps E

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem with /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail

2007-12-18 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Lai Chen Kang wrote: I tried to test the email. This is Backuppc 3.0. Below is the error I got. bash-3.00$ /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sending test email using /bin/mail -t -f STMGSINBACKUP1 /bin/mail: invalid option -- t Usage: mail [-iInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b