Re: [BackupPC-users] FS and backuppc performance

2009-03-19 Thread Pedro M. S. Oliveira
With the amount of data I reported and number of files I just have 6% of inodes occupied so I don't think that is really a problem, do you use XFS for any special purpose besides dynamic inode creation? What do you think about recovery and maintenance tools for XFS. And least but not lest don't

Re: [BackupPC-users] cloning the pool

2009-03-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Koen Linders wrote: > If you want an idea what isn't possible; > > A year ago I tried copying a much pool much smaller too an USB disk than my > current (see lower), using a Xeon 2.8 GHz/1 MB with 2 GB DDR and it ran out > of memory copying via rsync -H > > Somewhere in the mailing is other infor

Re: [BackupPC-users] cloning the pool

2009-03-19 Thread Koen Linders
If you want an idea what isn't possible; A year ago I tried copying a much pool much smaller too an USB disk than my current (see lower), using a Xeon 2.8 GHz/1 MB with 2 GB DDR and it ran out of memory copying via rsync -H Somewhere in the mailing is other information. Someone said he does an

Re: [BackupPC-users] FS and backuppc performance

2009-03-19 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 03/19 11:56 , Pedro M. S. Oliveira wrote: > With the amount of data I reported and number of files I just have 6% of > inodes occupied so I don't think that is really a problem, do you use XFS > for any special purpose besides dynamic inode creation? The ability to be resized while mounted is

Re: [BackupPC-users] FS and backuppc performance

2009-03-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > Backuppc will use all the processor, ram, and disk speed you give it. I've > not had a box where they weren't all pegged. I tend to limit concurrent > backups to 2; maybe 3 or 4 on a really high-end box (multiple processors and > a proven fast disk array); to con

Re: [BackupPC-users] Debian Etch to Lenny problem with external disks

2009-03-19 Thread olafkewl
Les Mikesell a écrit : [...] > The whole archive needs to be on the same filesystem. If you use a > separate disk/partition it needs to be mounted or symlinked at the > /var/lib/backuppc level. > Thanks a lot, this worked out ! -

Re: [BackupPC-users] cloning the pool

2009-03-19 Thread stoffell
> Pool is 235.52GB comprising 718235 files and 4369 directories (as of 19/3 > 04:12), Well, we just finished rsync'ing (after two days.. ) our complete backuppc disk to new disks (over a dedicated gigabit ethernet link). Currently running on 3x 500 gb raid5, athlon64 3ghz, 3gb ram.. We backup 50 h

Re: [BackupPC-users] FS and backuppc performance

2009-03-19 Thread stoffell
2009/3/18 Pedro M. S. Oliveira : > From what I've seen on the list there are some people using XFS, Ext3, and > so on. What's your experience with the different file systems? > What FS do you guys use recommend/used and why? We use XFS on a 3-disk raid 5 (3x500gb). Just because we're used to usin

[BackupPC-users] Grouping by network connectivity (aka replacement queue mechanism)

2009-03-19 Thread John Rouillard
This was originally part of: Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] FS and backuppc performance In-Reply-To: <49c29c96.4030...@gmail.com> I am starting a new thread on this rather then hijacking the original thread. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 02:27:18PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Carl Wilhelm Soderstr

[BackupPC-users] Error: auth required, but service web_backup is open/insecure

2009-03-19 Thread Clint Alexander
Hi everyone. As the subject says, I've run into this issue where BackupPC believes the connection is unsecure when it is not. I did some general debugging and info collection... ON BACKUPPC CLIENT # cat /etc/hosts.allow # cat /etc/hosts.deny # /usr/bin/rsync --version rsync