Re: [BackupPC-users] Host Summary - Full Size: Wondering where itcomes from

2009-06-03 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hy Jon, > Q: Does anyone know? > A: Yes Maybe I'm the only human which thinks a bit more "elastically", but if anybody asks: "Anybody knows why there's difference between the above 2 values?" I'm prone to explain *why* there's a difference and not wasting my time and the time of others for typi

[BackupPC-users] Change Archive Directory

2009-06-03 Thread jbk
I am trying to understand this subject heading so that I can correct my backup archive. I have been running backuppc for over a year now and the backed up data appears to be good. I have done individual file restores without issues. What I am not seeing is any pooled data. I am using the Fedo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-03 Thread Lai Chen Kang
Hi, You all bastard ! Pieter On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Pieter Wuille wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 07:36:22PM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > Holger Parplies wrote at about 23:45:35 +0200 on Wednesday, June 3, 2009: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Peter Walter wrote on 2009-06-03 16:15:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-03 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Les Mikesell wrote at about 20:39:07 -0500 on Wednesday, June 3, 2009: > Pieter Wuille wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 07:36:22PM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > >> Holger Parplies wrote at about 23:45:35 +0200 on Wednesday, June 3, 2009: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > Peter Walter wrote

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-03 Thread Les Mikesell
Pieter Wuille wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 07:36:22PM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: >> Holger Parplies wrote at about 23:45:35 +0200 on Wednesday, June 3, 2009: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Peter Walter wrote on 2009-06-03 16:15:37 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] >> Backing up a BackupPC server]: >>

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-03 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2009-06-03 19:36:22 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server]: > [...] > Holger, one thing I don't understand is that if you create a dump > table associating inodes with pool file hashes, aren't we back in the > same situation as using rsync -H?

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-03 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Pieter Wuille wrote at about 02:52:14 +0200 on Thursday, June 4, 2009: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 07:36:22PM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > Holger Parplies wrote at about 23:45:35 +0200 on Wednesday, June 3, 2009: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Peter Walter wrote on 2009-06-03 16:15:37 -0400

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-03 Thread Pieter Wuille
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 07:36:22PM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Holger Parplies wrote at about 23:45:35 +0200 on Wednesday, June 3, 2009: > > Hi, > > > > Peter Walter wrote on 2009-06-03 16:15:37 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] > Backing up a BackupPC server]: > > > [...] > > > My underst

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-03 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Holger Parplies wrote at about 23:45:35 +0200 on Wednesday, June 3, 2009: > Hi, > > Peter Walter wrote on 2009-06-03 16:15:37 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] > Backing up a BackupPC server]: > > [...] > > My understanding is that, if it were not for the > > hardlinks, that rsync transfers to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-03 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Craig Barratt wrote at about 15:12:07 -0700 on Wednesday, June 3, 2009: > Tino writes: > > > Well, we've already got MD4 checksums of file blocks. And if I > > understand everything correctly, we DO GET collisions, therefore the > > hash chains. > > These collisions are because the BackupP

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc and Lighttpd and fcgi

2009-06-03 Thread Hartlieb, George C. (ARC-TSM)[ELORET]
Hi, In January Joe Gooch wrote: I also made some slight modifications to the CGI and backend libs to support FastCGI. Are these mods available? Thanks in advance, George -- OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge o

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-03 Thread Craig Barratt
Tino writes: > Well, we've already got MD4 checksums of file blocks. And if I > understand everything correctly, we DO GET collisions, therefore the > hash chains. These collisions are because the BackupPC digest is only computed over the first part of the file. > Of course, this if for 256k blo

Re: [BackupPC-users] 'Daily' digest isn't daily.

2009-06-03 Thread Craig Barratt
G.W. Haywood writes: > Is there any chance that the daily digest could be, well, daily? I just changed digest_size_threshhold from 30k to 500k. Craig -- OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterpr

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-03 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Peter Walter wrote on 2009-06-03 16:15:37 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server]: > [...] > My understanding is that, if it were not for the > hardlinks, that rsync transfers to another server would be more > feasible; right. > that processing the hardlinks requires sig

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-03 Thread Les Mikesell
Peter Walter wrote: > >> >> But because of the nature of the problem, rsync and cp can't do a small >> piece at a time - and their views of the inodes in question are only >> valid as long as none change before the run completes. A tool that >> relinks individual files can plug away at it for

[BackupPC-users] rsync 3.0.x with Windows VSS-support

2009-06-03 Thread Leen Besselink
Hi Folks, Recently I took the patch Elias Penttilä wrote and 'forward-ported' it to rsync 3. For people who don't know what it does, it implements backup of open files on Windows with rsync. Because I think rsync 3 is more efficient and more current in comparison to rsync 2, it uses an increm

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-03 Thread Peter Walter
Les Mikesell wrote: Holger Parplies wrote: I'm not sure why you would need any other format change - and if you had a tool to reconstruct the pool links you could switch back if you wanted - at some cost in time and CPU. Here we are back at the original problem. If you have a t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-03 Thread Les Mikesell
Holger Parplies wrote: > >> I'm not sure why you would need any other format change - and if you had >> a tool to reconstruct the pool links you could switch back if you wanted - >> at some cost in time and CPU. > > Here we are back at the original problem. If you have a tool to do that, you > c

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-03 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2009-06-03 10:11:20 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server]: > Craig Barratt wrote: > > [...] > > I recently heard about lessfs, which runs on top of FUSE to provide > > a file system that does block-level de-duplication. [...] > > > > Yes, taking this

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-03 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Tino Schwarze wrote at about 18:39:26 +0200 on Wednesday, June 3, 2009: > > > I recently heard about lessfs, which runs on top of FUSE to provide > > > a file system that does block-level de-duplication. See: > > > > > > http://www.lessfs.com > > > https://sourceforge.net/project/sho

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-03 Thread Les Mikesell
Pieter Wuille wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:23 PM, John Rouillard > wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 01:46:39PM -0700, Craig Barratt wrote: >>> I recently heard about lessfs, which runs on top of FUSE to provide >>> a file system that does block-level de-duplication. See: >> What is the stat

Re: [BackupPC-users] 'Daily' digest isn't daily.

2009-06-03 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 Tino Schwarze wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 05:04:26PM +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote: > > > There have been a few hiccups since I subscribed to the digest list > > but until now they haven't been remarkable. However yesterday there > > were thirteen daily digests. So

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-03 Thread Tino Schwarze
> > I recently heard about lessfs, which runs on top of FUSE to provide > > a file system that does block-level de-duplication. See: > > > > http://www.lessfs.com > > https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=257120 > > http://tokyocabinet.sourceforge.net/index.html > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] 'Daily' digest isn't daily.

2009-06-03 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 05:04:26PM +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote: > There have been a few hiccups since I subscribed to the digest list > but until now they haven't been remarkable. However yesterday there > were thirteen daily digests. So far today there have been four. > > Is there any chance tha

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-03 Thread Pieter Wuille
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:23 PM, John Rouillard wrote: > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 01:46:39PM -0700, Craig Barratt wrote: >> I recently heard about lessfs, which runs on top of FUSE to provide >> a file system that does block-level de-duplication.  See: > > What is the status of FUSE for the various

[BackupPC-users] 'Daily' digest isn't daily.

2009-06-03 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, There have been a few hiccups since I subscribed to the digest list but until now they haven't been remarkable. However yesterday there were thirteen daily digests. So far today there have been four. Is there any chance that the daily digest could be, well, daily? -- 73, Ged. -

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-03 Thread John Rouillard
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 01:46:39PM -0700, Craig Barratt wrote: > I recently heard about lessfs, which runs on top of FUSE to provide > a file system that does block-level de-duplication. See: What is the status of FUSE for the various bsd's and solaris? Last time I looked they weren't really read

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-03 Thread Les Mikesell
Craig Barratt wrote: > >> On the other hand as I and others have mentioned before moving to a >> database would add the following advantages: > > I agree on all the points. If I was writing BackupPC today I > would seriously consider this approach. As Les points out, the > most important open qu

Re: [BackupPC-users] Host Summary - Full Size: Wondering where it comes from

2009-06-03 Thread Jon Craig
Not to speak for Holger (but I gonna anyways), but I believe he is chastising you for not either thinking through what the differences are or doing any research on your own. He may also be teasing you about the form of your question by answering just what you asked: Q: Does anyone know? A: Yes A

Re: [BackupPC-users] Another BackupPC Fuse filesystem

2009-06-03 Thread Pieter Wuille
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 04:17:18PM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Pieter Wuille wrote at about 21:40:46 +0200 on Tuesday, June 2, 2009: > > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 12:31:54PM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > > Pieter Wuille wrote at about 17:57:06 +0200 on Tuesday, June 2, 2009: > > >