Re: [BackupPC-users] How to exclude directories from backing up.

2008-02-26 Thread Craig Barratt
Krsnendu writes: > I want to exclude the directory which contains vmware virtual machines. > I have tried to exclude it on my localhost computer and on my windows > laptop. But both of them are still trying to backup the directory I > want to exclude. > > Have I used the wrong formatting? > > I

Re: [BackupPC-users] --server --sender woes

2008-02-26 Thread Mark Sopuch
Les Mikesell wrote: > Mark Sopuch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> When I run rsync manually from either direction of our WAN link to >> our remote office without the --server --sender options the copy >> works fine but when I allow BackupPC to do it's thing using --server >> --sender it reports the followin

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to exclude directories from backing up.

2008-02-26 Thread Nate Smith
Have you tried a backslash escape character in front of the space in 'Virtual Machines'? I know single quote might take care of this, but just a guess. Also, adding a /* ? Stabbing in the dark here. -Nathan > In the config file it looks like this: > > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { > '/home/kr

[BackupPC-users] How to exclude directories from backing up.

2008-02-26 Thread Krsnendu dasa
I want to exclude the directory which contains vmware virtual machines. I have tried to exclude it on my localhost computer and on my windows laptop. But both of them are still trying to backup the directory I want to exclude. Have I used the wrong formatting? I have searched the archives, but I

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

2008-02-26 Thread David Rees
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 4:39 PM, David Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So there you go. IMO, unless you are willing to overhaul your storage > system or slightly increase the risk of data corruption (IMO, > data=writeback instead of the default data=ordered should be a large > gain for you an

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

2008-02-26 Thread David Rees
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can you give us more details on your disk array? Controller, disks, > > RAID layout, ext3 fs creation options, etc... > > I said some of that already - but here are some missing parts. > 5x 400 MB HDD (WDC WD4000

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

2008-02-26 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: | Les Mikesell schrieb: |> Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: |>> Although - with IO::Dirent "wa" is now 100% almost all the time, and |>> the system feels much slower. Hm. Let's hope it's coincidence, and |>> assume the system was ju

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

2008-02-26 Thread Les Mikesell
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > > I indeed use iSCSI. > The storage is on the SAN, and it's accessible via iSCSI. > BackupPC itself runs as a Xen guest. Is there some point to splitting the box where backuppc runs and its storage? I'd expect it to be faster/cheaper to shove some big SATA drives in

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

2008-02-26 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Les Mikesell schrieb: > Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: >> >> Although - with IO::Dirent "wa" is now 100% almost all the time, and >> the system feels much slower. Hm. Let's hope it's coincidence, and >> assume the system was just committing a big write... > > Is this on a raid5? There's a lot of ext

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

2008-02-26 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
David Rees schrieb: (...) >> I guess enabling write cache would help a lot, as then, the storage >> could commit the changes out of order (less seek) - but I don't trust it >> much. > > Where would you be enabling the write cache? It looks like you are > using iscsi (I'm not familar with it m

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

2008-02-26 Thread Les Mikesell
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > > Although - with IO::Dirent "wa" is now 100% almost all the time, and the > system feels much slower. Hm. Let's hope it's coincidence, and assume > the system was just committing a big write... Is this on a raid5? There's a lot of extra work involved for small upda

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

2008-02-26 Thread David Rees
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I didn't have IO::Dirent installed, thanks for the hint. Let's hope > the list of directories in "trash" will keep decreasing now. Right now, > I have almost 100 directories there, and it is growing each day a b

Re: [BackupPC-users] Transforming a filled incr backup into a full backup

2008-02-26 Thread Brad Triem
I'd like to bring this topic back into discussion. I'm trying to keep a single daily full. To also save on bandwidth, I run a full, and then I run a daily incremental. I'd like to just merge each days incremental into the full. Craig, below you discuss that in 3.0+ you were considering changing

Re: [BackupPC-users] --server --sender woes

2008-02-26 Thread Les Mikesell
Mark Sopuch wrote: > Hi, > > When I run rsync manually from either direction of our WAN link to our > remote office without the --server --sender options the copy works fine > but when I allow BackupPC to do it's thing using --server --sender it > reports the following error without performing

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using SSH with certificate over internet

2008-02-26 Thread Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I would like to know if it's possible to use the XferMethod : Rsync over > SSH with certificate over internet ? > Thanks to answer me if it's possible (or not) and how to process. Yes, that's the normal way of doing it and there is nothing special about going over th

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

2008-02-26 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Paul Archer schrieb: > 11:17am, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > >> Why should any filesystem perform seeks better (when writing) than any >> other filesystem? >> >> I imagine it could be true only if: >> >> - kernel would cache a large amount of writes >> - kernel would commit these writes not in a FI

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

2008-02-26 Thread Paul Archer
11:17am, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Why should any filesystem perform seeks better (when writing) than any > other filesystem? > > I imagine it could be true only if: > > - kernel would cache a large amount of writes > - kernel would commit these writes not in a FIFO manner, but whenever it > see

[BackupPC-users] Using SSH with certificate over internet

2008-02-26 Thread romain . pichard
Hello, I would like to know if it's possible to use the XferMethod : Rsync over SSH with certificate over internet ? Thanks to answer me if it's possible (or not) and how to process. Thanks a lot. Regards, Romain SC2N -S.A Siège Social : 2, Rue Andre Boulle - 94000 Créteil - 327 153 722 RCS

[BackupPC-users] When is XferLOG.XXX.z created?

2008-02-26 Thread Brian Erickson
Everyone, I am trying to generate an automatic e-mail when a backup is completed (successful or not). I have modified the mailsend.sh script (posted elsewhere, I believe) to try to send me the last 20 lines of the most recent file XferLOG.XXX.z (where XXX is the backup number) or XferLOG.bad.z

[BackupPC-users] Schedule Full backup

2008-02-26 Thread Hervé Richard
Hello all, I need to do a full backup every Monday at 3AM. I saw in the log that when the full backup has been interrupted, cause the backup disk is not on line, that the full (for instance) is pending and is executed when the backup disk is on line normal but the next full doesn't begin next

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

2008-02-26 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
dan schrieb: (...) > I suggest you try reiserfs and see how it treats you. running linux, > you dont really have any other options other than ext3, reiserfs, or > xfs. zfs is very very good at small files and hardlink operations but > would need to run on fuse on linux and you would likely s

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

2008-02-26 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
David Rees schrieb: > 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 ver

[BackupPC-users] --server --sender woes

2008-02-26 Thread Mark Sopuch
Hi, When I run rsync manually from either direction of our WAN link to our remote office without the --server --sender options the copy works fine but when I allow BackupPC to do it's thing using --server --sender it reports the following error without performing the backup: full backup starte