Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Taking Forever

2009-06-17 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Can you please follow common USENET etiquette and *stop* top posting - you just top-posted on at least 3 straight messages and it makes the dialog exceedingly hard to follow. Top-posting leaves responses out-of-context and at best requires people to either remember all past messages in the thread o

Re: [BackupPC-users] why hard links?

2009-06-17 Thread dan
I have seen some discussion on other boards about using a database to provide the de-duplication like backuppc does. This is a love it or hate it idea. Though it sounds like a pretty good idea you should consider this. Database backed email servers are typically outperformed by their file based c

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Taking Forever

2009-06-17 Thread David Williams
Adam, That did the trick :) Thanks. David Williams -Original Message- From: David Williams [mailto:dwilli...@dtw-consulting.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 1:19 PM To: 'General list for user discussion, questions and support' Su

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Taking Forever

2009-06-17 Thread David Williams
Thanks, Giving this a try now. David Williams -Original Message- From: Adam Goryachev [mailto:mailingli...@websitemanagers.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 12:23 PM To: dwilli...@dtw-consulting.com; General list for user discus

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Taking Forever

2009-06-17 Thread David Williams
Chris, I know that performance to an external USB drive isn't the greatest, but if you re-read my original post you will see that my concern is that my excluded items are appearing in the NewFileList file, which they shouldn't be, at least not the way I understand it. __

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Taking Forever

2009-06-17 Thread Chris Baker
Let's get this straight here. You are backing up a machine on your network to an external USB drive. I have noticed major issues myself when network file transfer is combined with USB file transfer. It just takes forever. I recommend trying an eSATA solution if you want to use an external drive

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Taking Forever

2009-06-17 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Williams wrote: > I have cut and pasted what I believe are the appropriate sections: > > My overall (global) config file is in /etc/backuppc/config.pl > Each clients config file is in /var/lib/backuppc/pc/clinet.pl > > The is from my client con

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Taking Forever

2009-06-17 Thread David Williams
I have cut and pasted what I believe are the appropriate sections: My overall (global) config file is in /etc/backuppc/config.pl Each clients config file is in /var/lib/backuppc/pc/clinet.pl The is from my client config file. $Conf{TarShareName} = [ '/var', '/home', '/root', '/etc', '/

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

2009-06-17 Thread Alex
Anyway, let me thank you a lot, as it work great with backuppc :D This helped me a lot, the two binaries are usable as is on each system : http://www.consolejunky.net/cwrsync-vss/ Tested it on XP / Vista w/o problem using backuppc. Been able to save my "in use" pst files. Great. +

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Taking Forever

2009-06-17 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Williams wrote: > All, > The specific machine configuration file is configured so that > ‘*TarShareName’* contains: /var, /etc, /photos, ……and several other > partitions. I also have set the ‘*BackupFilesExclude**’* to: > /var/lib/backuppc. > W

[BackupPC-users] Backup Taking Forever

2009-06-17 Thread David Williams
All, I have had to reconfigure backuppc a little so that I can get it to work with my external USB drive. This mainly involved getting my external drive mounted as NFS, and also mounting it to /var/lib/backuppc Backuppc will start just fine and I can log into the web interface and see my c