Re: [BackupPC-users] Issue with remote backup of server(s) over VPN after failover

2011-02-14 Thread Scott Saunders
Thanks for sharing Stefan. Unfortunately, I don't think either of those is causing an issue here. Both the remote and local sites have T1 connections each with a static IP. I recently did an fsck of the backup client's filesystem in question (I did it on the master client - any fsck changes wou

Re: [BackupPC-users] Potential causes for EXTREMELY SLOW incremental backups?

2011-02-14 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Les Mikesell wrote at about 07:55:42 -0600 on Monday, February 14, 2011: > On 2/13/11 11:39 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > > > So what should I be checking as possible causes of such a dramatic > > slowdown of incremental backups? > > What just changed...? Weren't you making a code chan

Re: [BackupPC-users] Potential causes for EXTREMELY SLOW incremental backups?

2011-02-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/13/11 11:39 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > So what should I be checking as possible causes of such a dramatic > slowdown of incremental backups? What just changed...? Weren't you making a code change in the rsync computations? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Potential causes for EXTREMELY SLOW incremental backups?

2011-02-14 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 00:39:10 -0500 on Monday, February 14, 2011: > My incremental backups seem to be taking FOREVER now. > I am backing up my server onto a SOHO NAS device. > Incrementals used to to take about 30 minutes. > Now it has been running for 16 hours and it is only part

Re: [BackupPC-users] Potential causes for EXTREMELY SLOW incremental backups?

2011-02-14 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Tyler J. Wagner wrote at about 07:36:20 + on Monday, February 14, 2011: > I once had a problem like that with restores. It turned out to be wrong > permissions on /tmp on the client (755, instead of 1777). Nothing noted > in logs. > > Probably not related, but worth having documented some

Re: [BackupPC-users] Re-request: "finish all backups and stop".

2011-02-14 Thread Pavel Hofman
Hi, This option would be very useful. As a workaround we have been using successfully: /etc/backuppc/config.pl: do "/etc/backuppc/external-control.pl"; Our control script: BACKUPPC_CTRL_CONF="/etc/backuppc/external-control.pl" BACKUPPC_CTRL_DISABLE='$Conf{BackupsDisable} = 2;' BACKUPPC_CTRL_