Re: [BackupPC-users] Using rsync for blockdevice-level synchronisation of BackupPC pools

2009-09-09 Thread Christian Völker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, as I have the same issue with storing my BackupPC outside I tried another way the last days: First, my environment: 28 hosts to back up. Mostly idle machines with minor services (so no big databases and so on). Partially fileserver with only litt

Re: [BackupPC-users] periodically e2fsck the device /var/lib/backuppc

2009-09-09 Thread Frédéric Massot
John Rouillard a écrit : > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:49:03PM +0200, Matthias Meyer wrote: >> Michael Stowe wrote: >>> By the way, what's the point of doing this? Are your drives unreliable? >> Not really. But the server runs a lot of weeks without checking the disk. >> I feel better if the disk w

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using rsync for blockdevice-level synchronisation of BackupPC pools

2009-09-09 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Christian, On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:33:03AM +0200, Christian Völker wrote: > First, my environment: > 28 hosts to back up. Mostly idle machines with minor services (so no big > databases and so on). Partially fileserver with only little daily > changes. So I expected not too much daily chang

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using rsync for blockdevice-level synchronisation of BackupPC pools

2009-09-09 Thread Christian Völker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, > I'd say: Replace that USB 2.0 disk by something else like something > connected via Firewire or eSATA. USB 2.0 is very, very slow, especially > for random access. I know, but that's not the point here. Speed doesn't concern me- the copy should l

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using rsync for blockdevice-level synchronisation of BackupPC pools

2009-09-09 Thread Pieter Wuille
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:33:03AM +0200, Christian Völker wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > as I have the same issue with storing my BackupPC outside I tried > another way the last days: > > First, my environment: > 28 hosts to back up. Mostly idle machines wi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using rsync for blockdevice-level synchronisation of BackupPC pools

2009-09-09 Thread Les Mikesell
Christian Völker wrote: > > First, my environment: > 28 hosts to back up. Mostly idle machines with minor services (so no big > databases and so on). Partially fileserver with only little daily > changes. So I expected not too much daily changes on the pool. > I want to copy the pool to a remote lo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using rsync for blockdevice-level synchronisation of BackupPC pools

2009-09-09 Thread Christian Völker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, >> Third try was to use "dump" for this hoping it would transfer only >> changed blocks after the initial dump. No way. After one day it >> transferred 300GB (!). I thought, dump might not bee a good solution... > I suspect dump sees the link coun

Re: [BackupPC-users] 3.1.0 configuration problem

2009-09-09 Thread Craig Barratt
Jeffrey writes: > Unless I missed a post, I don't see how there is enough data to answer > your question whether it is broken or not. It's possible and perhaps > even probable that you mistakenly created shares instead of excludes > (which is what the end result looks like) or there could be somet