Re: [BackupPC-users] Viewing detail of a backup in progress?

2011-04-17 Thread John Rouillard
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:01:06AM +0930, Chris Bennett wrote: > > Is it possible/how to view details on a backup in progress - for > > example, it would be great to see what file it is backing up, how > > many/how big the backup is so far. Totals would be nice, like 100 > > files totaling 200MB b

Re: [BackupPC-users] Renaming files causes retransfer?

2011-04-17 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
martin f krafft wrote at about 09:23:07 +0200 on Sunday, April 17, 2011: > Dear list, > > we are facing a policy change requiring people to rename data files > in a trivial way (replace ':' with '-'). > > In terms of backuppc, this means that the files will have to be > transferred again,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Renaming files causes retransfer?

2011-04-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/17/11 2:23 AM, martin f krafft wrote: > Dear list, > > we are facing a policy change requiring people to rename data files > in a trivial way (replace ':' with '-'). > > In terms of backuppc, this means that the files will have to be > transferred again, completely, right? > > Or is there a wa

Re: [BackupPC-users] Viewing detail of a backup in progress?

2011-04-17 Thread Chris Bennett
Hi Scott, > Is it possible/how to view details on a backup in progress - for > example, it would be great to see what file it is backing up, how > many/how big the backup is so far. Totals would be nice, like 100 > files totaling 200MB backed up out of 500 files totaling 2GB. > > I have a slow b

Re: [BackupPC-users] Renaming files causes retransfer?

2011-04-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach John Rouillard [2011.04.17.1625 +0200]: > > In terms of backuppc, this means that the files will have to be > > transferred again, completely, right? > > Correct. Actually, I just did a test, using iptables to count bytes between the two hosts, and then renamed a 33M file. backuppc,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Renaming files causes retransfer?

2011-04-17 Thread John Rouillard
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 09:23:07AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > we are facing a policy change requiring people to rename data files > in a trivial way (replace ':' with '-'). > > In terms of backuppc, this means that the files will have to be > transferred again, completely, right? Correct.

[BackupPC-users] Renaming files causes retransfer?

2011-04-17 Thread martin f krafft
Dear list, we are facing a policy change requiring people to rename data files in a trivial way (replace ':' with '-'). In terms of backuppc, this means that the files will have to be transferred again, completely, right? Or is there a way in which I can prepare the server for this change and pr