Re: [BackupPC-users] An idea to fix both SIGPIPE and memory issues with rsync

2009-12-13 Thread Shawn Perry
You can always run come sort of disk de-duplicater after you copy without -H On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 20:18:55 -0800 on Sunday, December 13, 2009: >  > >  > I've only looked at the code briefly, but I believe this *should* be >

Re: [BackupPC-users] An idea to fix both SIGPIPE and memory issues with rsync

2009-12-13 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 20:18:55 -0800 on Sunday, December 13, 2009: > > I've only looked at the code briefly, but I believe this *should* be > possible. I don't know if I'll be implementing it, at least not > right away, but it shouldn't actually be that hard, so I wanted to > throw

[BackupPC-users] An idea to fix both SIGPIPE and memory issues with rsync

2009-12-13 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I've only looked at the code briefly, but I believe this *should* be possible. I don't know if I'll be implementing it, at least not right away, but it shouldn't actually be that hard, so I wanted to throw it out so someone else could run with it if ey wants. It's an idea I had about rsync resum

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync 3.0 incremental support?

2009-12-13 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 03:46:50PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 15:07:04 -0800 on Saturday, > December 12, 2009: > > > > It seems to me that rsync's memory bloat issues, which have > > been discussed here many times, would be basically fixed by > > making

Re: [BackupPC-users] Got fatal error during xfer

2009-12-13 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 08:13:47PM +, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > Are you sure this isn't a ClientTimeout problem? Try increasing > it and see if the backup runs for longer. Just as a general comment (I've been reviewing all the SIGPIPE mails and people keep saying that), no. SIGPIPE means the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Cannot start backuppc

2009-12-13 Thread Alan McKay
> How do I fix it?? In addition to the other response, start by showing us the output of df /mnt/backup/cpool /mnt/backup/pc -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" ---

Re: [BackupPC-users] Cannot start backuppc

2009-12-13 Thread Matthias Meyer
Robert J. Phillips wrote: > My raid drive failed that stores all the data. I have fixed this > problem (rebuilt the raid and had to re-install the xfs file system). > All the data is lost that was on the array. > > > > I am running the Beta 3.2.0 version of backuppc and I ran "sudo perl > con

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync 3.0 incremental support?

2009-12-13 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 15:07:04 -0800 on Saturday, December 12, 2009: > > It seems to me that rsync's memory bloat issues, which have been > discussed here many times, would be basically fixed by making > File::RsyncP and backuppc itself support rsync 3.0's incremental > file transfe

[BackupPC-users] RsyncP: BackupPC_dump consumes 100% CPU and progress stalls

2009-12-13 Thread Tim Connors
backuppc has spontaneously a few days ago started getting stuck on a partition on a machine that it has been dealing with fine for 120 days now. The logfile gives: 2009-12-02 08:46:04 incr backup 122 complete, 38 files, 46425552 bytes, 0 xferErrs (0 bad files, 0 bad shares, 0 other) 2009-12-03 0