Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync to Windows client very slow (Was: Re:How to BackupFilesExclude to exclude locked files on Windows XP)

2008-05-25 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
dan wrote: > Rsync v3 does greatly(samba's words) improve memory usage and file > list transfer time, as well as allowing transfers to begin before > the full file list is tranfered. hardlink transfers are also much > faster in v3. > > Other nice features are support for extended attributes

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync to Windows client very slow

2008-05-25 Thread Hendrik Friedel
Hi, > 3) The best choice was/is/seems to be to use rsyncd. > I got excellent network speed and all files were succesfully > backed up. > Compared to Samba you can use Includes and Excludes lists. So > you get all the benefits from rsync, but save the extra work > to setup SSH and root-access f

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync to Windows client very slow (Was: Re:Howto BackupFilesExclude to exclude locked files on Windows XP)

2008-05-25 Thread Hendrik Friedel
> The biggest problem with the archive bit, however, is that > the process assumes that only one application will clear the > archive bit, when there could actually be several of them." You mean when more than one application is used for Backups? Greetings, Hendrik ---

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync to Windows client very slow (Was: Re:How to BackupFilesExclude to exclude locked files on Windows XP)

2008-05-25 Thread dan
archive bit = evil. the archive bit is actually satan's unkle on his mother's side. anyway, I don't know if there is a solution to the combination of I/O bottlenecks and file checksumming with rsync taking a log time. Rsync v3 does greatly(samba's words) improve memory usage and file list trans

[BackupPC-users] Attempt at incremental archive - comments please

2008-05-25 Thread Richard Walker
Several people have discussed creating incremental archives, and there's the archiveme.pl script, but that creates a full archive first and then extracts the required files out of it. That approach isn't going to work for me. I need a script that gets the "right" files first time. So I modifed tar

[BackupPC-users] Limit duration of backup sessions

2008-05-25 Thread Langdon Stevenson
Is there a way to limit the maximum time that a backup can run for? I am almost certain that I can remember seeing this mentioned somewhere, but can't find it in the documentation. I have a couple of off-site servers connected via OpenVPN tunnels over ADSL links that can (when a user dumps a l

Re: [BackupPC-users] Please su www-data first (!?)

2008-05-25 Thread Frederick Reeve
On Sat, 24 May 2008 16:53:32 +0200 Sam Przyswa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > As user root I have no right to start BackupPC: > > soleil-xl:/etc/init.d# /etc/init.d/backuppc start > Starting backuppc: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC: Wrong user: my > userid is 0, instead of 33 (www-data)

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync to Windows client very slow (Was: Re:How to BackupFilesExclude to exclude locked files on Windows XP)

2008-05-25 Thread Kurt Jasper
Hendrik Friedel wrote: >>It would be nice to be able to use WindowsXP+'s index as a reference or >> have the rsyncd on the windows machine maintain all the checksum >> information but I know of no way and no plans to do this. > > Another option would be the archive bit, wouldn't it? Read: The

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync to Windows client very slow

2008-05-25 Thread Kurt Jasper
Hendrik Friedel wrote: > I have the same Problem. The backuppc performance is really poor with > rsync. Have you tried samba for the transfer? Success Story: After some testing I finally succeeded setting up our linux server and some win xp/2k clients to work with BackupPC. After spending l

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync to Windows client very slow (Was: Re:How to BackupFilesExclude to exclude locked files on Windows XP)

2008-05-25 Thread Hendrik Friedel
Hi again, >It would be nice to be able to use WindowsXP+'s index as a reference or have the rsyncd on the windows machine maintain all the checksum information but I know of no way and no plans to do this. Another option would be the archive bit, wouldn't it? Greetings, Hendrik _

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync to Windows client very slow (Was: Re: How toBackupFilesExclude to exclude locked files on Windows XP)

2008-05-25 Thread dan
Samba will copy the every file in it's entirety eating up bandwidth! and it doesn't work remotely very well. It also is delivered via an abstraction layer to the filesystem so you can't pull over permissions, every file ends up having the permissions assigned to the samba share, and ownership chan

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync to Windows client very slow (Was: Re: How toBackupFilesExclude to exclude locked files on Windows XP)

2008-05-25 Thread Hendrik Friedel
Dear Kurt, dear all, I have the same Problem. The backuppc performance is really poor with rsync. Have you tried samba for the transfer? > PS: To give at least something back to this community, I > thought about writing down my experiences (from a beginners > point of view), I hope this is the