Re: [BackupPC-users] large archives and scalability issues

2008-02-25 Thread David Rees
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 6:29 PM, dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > reiserfs will certainly help a lot with the hardlink and directorie creation > and deletion. claims about reiserfs tend to be greatly exagerated but this > is a true strength of it and would will see a really remarkable performance

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup to CD, DVD, USB Drive

2008-02-25 Thread dan
tar works quite well but requires manual intervention, which in my experience, opens a window for human error aka forgetting! i use rsync to sync up an exact duplicate of my backup server accross a 768Kbps link to a server in another city. it work extremely well. be aware that rsync is a memory

Re: [BackupPC-users] large archives and scalability issues

2008-02-25 Thread dan
reiserfs will certainly help a lot with the hardlink and directorie creation and deletion. claims about reiserfs tend to be greatly exagerated but this is a true strength of it and would will see a really remarkable performance improvement for these specific operations. i don't believe that xfs w

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd transfer speed

2008-02-25 Thread dan
iftop, iostat, top. your best friends :) On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:16 AM, John Pettitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan Orlic( Belšak wrote: > > Hello, > > > > is there a way to speed up transfer via rsyncd, the last backup was at > > 0,9 MB/s. The network is 100Mb, the backup was made on local

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup to CD, DVD, USB Drive

2008-02-25 Thread Damien Hull
- Original Message - From: "John Pettitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Damien Hull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 3:02:01 PM GMT -09:00 Alaska Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup to CD, DVD, USB Drive Damien Hull wrote: > Here's

Re: [BackupPC-users] large archives and scalability issues

2008-02-25 Thread David Rees
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately, it doesn't scale very well in terms of performance - you > may see this thread on linux-fsdevel list for more info: > http://marc.info/?t=12033398513&r=2&w=4 What version of BackupPC? 3.1.0 does

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup to CD, DVD, USB Drive

2008-02-25 Thread John Pettitt
Damien Hull wrote: > Here's my situation. > 1. Workstation > 2. Laptop > 3. 3 - 4 Servers > > Backup Server > 1. 750 GB of data storage ( - OS ) > 2. Software RAID 1 > > Data > 1. Currently have about 200 Gigs to backup > 2. May have an extra 100 Gigs or more to backup in the future > > I like the

[BackupPC-users] Backup to CD, DVD, USB Drive

2008-02-25 Thread Damien Hull
Here's my situation. 1. Workstation 2. Laptop 3. 3 - 4 Servers Backup Server 1. 750 GB of data storage ( - OS ) 2. Software RAID 1 Data 1. Currently have about 200 Gigs to backup 2. May have an extra 100 Gigs or more to backup in the future I like the fact that BackupPC creates smaller backups w

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fatal error (bad version): stdin: is not a tty

2008-02-25 Thread Ambrose Li
On 25/02/2008, daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The /etc/csh.cshrc looks like: [stuff deleted] > foreach i ( /etc/profile.d/*.csh ) > if ( -r $i ) then > source $i > endif > end > unset i nonomatch > endif Then you

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fatal error (bad version): stdin: is not a tty

2008-02-25 Thread daniel
The /etc/csh.cshrc looks like: cat /etc/csh.cshrc # /etc/cshrc # # csh configuration for all shell invocations. # by default, we want this to get set. # Even for non-interactive, non-login shells. [ "`id -gn`" = "`id -un`" -a `id -u` -gt 99 ] if $status then umask 022 else umask 0

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fatal error (bad version): stdin: is not a tty

2008-02-25 Thread Ambrose Li
Hi On 25/02/2008, daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fatal error (bad version): stdin: is not a tty [...] > I added in the client's /root/.cshrc > > > if ( ! $?USER || "$prompt" == "" || ! $?term ) then > exit > endif > > I ran the same command and i get the same error: > Fatal e

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fatal error (bad version): stdin: is not a tty

2008-02-25 Thread Les Mikesell
daniel wrote: > Hello! > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -l root x.x.x.x /usr/bin/rsync --server > --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links > --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /etc/ > Xfer PIDs are now 11400 > Got remote protocol 1768191091 > Fatal error

[BackupPC-users] Fatal error (bad version): stdin: is not a tty

2008-02-25 Thread daniel
Hello! Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -l root x.x.x.x /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /etc/ Xfer PIDs are now 11400 Got remote protocol 1768191091 Fatal error (bad version): stdin: is not

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd transfer speed

2008-02-25 Thread John Pettitt
Alan Orlic( Belšak wrote: > Hello, > > is there a way to speed up transfer via rsyncd, the last backup was at > 0,9 MB/s. The network is 100Mb, the backup was made on local disk (no > USB involved), except the include list was involved and there is a lot > of empty directories. > > Bye, Alan > >

[BackupPC-users] Rsyncd transfer speed

2008-02-25 Thread Alan Orlič Belšak
Hello, is there a way to speed up transfer via rsyncd, the last backup was at 0,9 MB/s. The network is 100Mb, the backup was made on local disk (no USB involved), except the include list was involved and there is a lot of empty directories. Bye, Alan --

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC sends incorrect e-mails

2008-02-25 Thread Jean-Claude Repetto
Craig Barratt a écrit : > Jean-Claude, > >> The RFC 2822 forbids the inclusion of non-ASCII characters in any e-mail >> header, including the subject. > > You're right. Try this: > > - Add: > > use Encode; > > near the top of bin/BackupPC_sendEmail (after the other "use" lines).

[BackupPC-users] large archives and scalability issues

2008-02-25 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
I have a 1.2 TB filesystem where I store backups. Thanks to pooling and compression features in BackupPC , I have almost 14 TB of data there - very nice: 1975 full backups of total size 13813.27GB (prior to pooling and compression) Unfortunately, it doesn't scale very well in terms of perf