Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem separation

2011-01-26 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 01:40:19AM +, John Goerzen wrote: > Rob Owens ptd.net> writes: > > > One reason I always specify the --one-file-system argument for rsync is > > that prevents me from accidentally backing up an NFS share. Since I use > > BackupPC for all the computers on my LAN, the d

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC under OpenBSD 4.8 do not finish its job ...

2011-01-26 Thread cle-backuppc
Hello, I already use BackupPC for a few years now to backup a few private machines at my family's home. I used it under NetBSD until two weeks before. Now I was switched to OpenBSD 4.8 with my BackupPC server (version 3.2) and copied my configuration onto that new installed machine. Although all

[BackupPC-users] Exclude Patterns for Rsync -- and how well-supported is rsync?

2011-01-26 Thread John Goerzen
Hi, The documentation for BackupFilesExclude [1] and its examples seem to indicate that the patterns can be anchored to the root directory. That is, if you want to exclude the apt cache, you could use a rule of /var/cache/apt/archives/*. That only works if you are backing up an entire system

[BackupPC-users] Slow backup with rsync - thanks for the help

2011-01-26 Thread Jeffrey Newman
Hi, About a week ago I asked for some help on this mailing list. A lot of people offer me help. And it was very useful. My incremental backup speed went from about 10 to 12 hours to about 15 minutes for my 1 TB share. The changes I made were at the rsyncd level. I turned off compression for jpg f