Re: [BackupPC-users] Still trying to understand reason for extremely slow backup speed...

2011-03-09 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Cesar Kawar wrote at about 22:51:40 +0100 on Wednesday, March 9, 2011: > I asume you changed disks on the nas, and you had to manually replicate the > pool from the old storage without lvm support to the new one lvm based > > If that is correct, my guess is that the pool or the cpool or both

Re: [BackupPC-users] Still trying to understand reason for extremely slow backup speed...

2011-03-09 Thread Cesar Kawar
I asume you changed disks on the nas, and you had to manually replicate the pool from the old storage without lvm support to the new one lvm based If that is correct, my guess is that the pool or the cpool or both got corrupted. May that be the problem? Cesar. Enviado desde mi iPhone El

Re: [BackupPC-users] Still trying to understand reason for extremely slow backup speed...

2011-03-09 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Les Mikesell wrote at about 14:58:30 -0600 on Wednesday, March 9, 2011: > On 3/9/2011 2:04 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > > > On the NAS, I upgraded the kernel to a debian kernel, changed from > > ext2 to lvm2, and changed from RAID1 to non-RAID (which together only > > slightly affected N

[BackupPC-users] Understanding cpools - ?

2011-03-09 Thread Scott
So I am trying to figure out why my statistics are not updating, so I looked at the code for BackupPC_nightly. Running it manually as "perl BackupPC_nightly 0 128", I get a list of "BackupPC_stats x = pool, 0,0,0,0 . (all zeros) - except for a couple lines where I see a 1 in the second posi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Still trying to understand reason for extremely slow backup speed...

2011-03-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/9/2011 2:04 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > On the NAS, I upgraded the kernel to a debian kernel, changed from > ext2 to lvm2, and changed from RAID1 to non-RAID (which together only > slightly affected NFS transfer speeds) - but again since the NFS > speeds are reasonable, can any of the c

Re: [BackupPC-users] Still trying to understand reason for extremely slow backup speed...

2011-03-09 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 15:04 -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > The only change on the server was an upgrade from 3.1.x to 3.2.0 with > minimal config changes. Unfortunately, you've changed four variables at once. That makes it hard to identify the issue. I've seen your scripts so I know you know

[BackupPC-users] Still trying to understand reason for extremely slow backup speed...

2011-03-09 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
I run BackuppPC 3.2.0 under Fedora 12 on a P4 2.8GHz server with 2GB of RAM and with storage mounted via NFS on a low-end NAS (DNS-323) on a 100MB/sec LAN. Before making a number of changes to both server and NAS (I know bad idea), I would get reasonable backup speeds where for example an incremen

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC configuration question

2011-03-09 Thread Wayne Trevena
On 09/03/2011 18:01, Jim Durand wrote: What is beneficial about doing full backups weekly versus making only 1 full backup then incremental going forward?     Thanks!   Jim

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC configuration question

2011-03-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/9/2011 12:01 PM, Jim Durand wrote: > What is beneficial about doing full backups weekly versus making only 1 > full backup then incremental going forward? First, if you use rsync, full backups just compare data and send differences - and rebuild the tree for the next comparisons. With tar a

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC configuration question

2011-03-09 Thread Jim Durand
What is beneficial about doing full backups weekly versus making only 1 full backup then incremental going forward? Thanks! Jim -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the be