Re: [BackupPC-users] Small patch to graph the pool size

2008-03-04 Thread Martin Leben
Ludovic Drolez wrote: > Le jeudi 28 février 2008 18:50, vous avez écrit : >> I have an idea. It would be cool if the graphs also showed the total size >> prior to pooling/compression as a line overlayed on the existing graphs. >> >> I think this data is exposed as $fullSizeTot and $incrSizeTot. I'

Re: [BackupPC-users] Running Top

2008-03-04 Thread Harry Mangalam
Re RAID5 vs RAID6 vs other things. I did a study a little while ago on such things comparing Areca and 3ware hardware RAID cards for a storage brick, mainly to compare the performance correlates of Linux filesystems, # of spindles, and other parameters. To my surprise, I found very little di

Re: [BackupPC-users] Small patch to graph the pool size

2008-03-04 Thread Ludovic Drolez
Le jeudi 28 février 2008 18:50, vous avez écrit : > I have an idea. It would be cool if the graphs also showed the total size > prior to pooling/compression as a line overlayed on the existing graphs. > > I think this data is exposed as $fullSizeTot and $incrSizeTot. I'll see if > I can figure it

Re: [BackupPC-users] Small patch to graph the pool size

2008-03-04 Thread Knaupp, Thomas
Nils wrote: | I like to keep things separated. BackupPC does backups, | my monitoring software does the monitoring. | Also keeps upgrades simple. | But yeah, I can see others might like this. I agree, but as a compromise - it would be a nice option to ./configure --with-graphs :) So, every

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule Full backup

2008-03-04 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, March 04, 2008 5:30 PM +0100 "Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Select the host from the drop-down menu and click either 'Start > incremental backup' or 'Start full backup', depending on what you want. Thanks! As so often happens, I tripped across it just after

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup failed-2

2008-03-04 Thread Craig Barratt
Rahul writes: > i have enabled the ssh for the user and then tried to take backup, but this > time i got following error > > --Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l root 192.168.0.83 env LC_ALL=C > --/bin/gtar -c -v -f - -C /data/BackupPC --totals . If you pasted this correctly, then the "--/bin/g

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule Full backup

2008-03-04 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Friday, February 29, 2008 3:03 PM -0600 Les Mikesell > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> You can also give things a hint about timing by manually starting a >> backup from the web interface at the right time of day and letting >> the >> approximately 24 hour interval t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule Full backup

2008-03-04 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Friday, February 29, 2008 3:03 PM -0600 Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can also give things a hint about timing by manually starting a > backup from the web interface at the right time of day and letting the > approximately 24 hour interval take it from there. Where in the we

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issue with transfering large files

2008-03-04 Thread dan
The "extra" stuff is apparently just to be more readable in RsyncArgs. These options look fine. What version of rsync are you running? I don't think it should matter as long as its a recent version to me, this sounds like a filesystem issue. no matter what you do to make the transfer more

Re: [BackupPC-users] Running Top

2008-03-04 Thread dan
Im sorry, I did mean raid1 mirror, not raid0 stripping. On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:40 AM, Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dan schrieb: > > > with 3 drives in a raid5, you can lose 1/3 of the drives and still keep > > data but you are 3x more likely to lose a drive. in raid 0, you a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issue with transfering large files

2008-03-04 Thread Lee A. Connell
Dan, Thanks for response, this is what's in my config, even though it doesn't match the log I gave you. where are these extra arguments coming from? I changed the block size that is it. $Conf{RsyncArgs} = [ # # Do not edit these! # '--num

Re: [BackupPC-users] Running Top

2008-03-04 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
David Rees schrieb: > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Christopher Derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is backuppc up to the task of backing up TBs of data? Or should I be >> looking at software that explicitly states "for the enterprise" like >> Symantec Backup Exec, Legato, or even open source

Re: [BackupPC-users] Running Top

2008-03-04 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
dan schrieb: > with 3 drives in a raid5, you can lose 1/3 of the drives and still keep > data but you are 3x more likely to lose a drive. in raid 0, you are 1/2 > as likely to lose a data drive because losing a disk is not losing a > data drive, just a backup. in other words, with raid5 you c

Re: [BackupPC-users] Running Top

2008-03-04 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Adam Goryachev schrieb: >> Having battery backed RAM on the RAID controller can help, because the >> controller can lie to the OS and say the data is written to disk >> immediately instead of waiting for an read-calculate-write cycle, >> since it's sure that if it does lose power, it can store the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup failed-2

2008-03-04 Thread Hervé Richard
Hello, Don't you need a password with ssh and the root account ? Cheers, Hervé Rahul Awasthi wrote: i have enabled the ssh for the user and then tried to take backup, but this time i got following error --Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l root 192.168.0.83 env LC_ALL=C --/bin/gtar -c -v

[BackupPC-users] Backup failed-2

2008-03-04 Thread Rahul Awasthi
i have enabled the ssh for the user and then tried to take backup, but this time i got following error --Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l root 192.168.0.83 env LC_ALL=C --/bin/gtar -c -v -f - -C /data/BackupPC --totals . --full backup started for directory /data/BackupPC --Xfer PIDs are now 29

Re: [BackupPC-users] Running Top

2008-03-04 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Adam Goryachev schrieb: (...) > Recently some optimisations were discussed that made a significant > difference: > 1) Mount your filesystem with noatime or equivalent so every time > backuppc looks at a file it doesn't need to write the new atime. The > atime is not relevant to backuppc anyway. Y