Re: [BackupPC-users] Tuning BackupPC to solve poor performance? (50MB in 20 minutes)

2011-06-30 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/30/2011 4:41 PM, C. Ronoz wrote: > > Back-up is still running... > root@artemis:~# ps aux | grep rsyn > root 1674 8.8 1.4 19384 7240 ?Ss 19:00 24:23 > /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D > --links --hard-links --times --block-size=204

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tuning BackupPC to solve poor performance? (50MB in 20 minutes)

2011-06-30 Thread C. Ronoz
> > Details please! Is the client Windows or Linux? What backup method are > you using (rsync, smb, etc)? How are the client and server connected > (LAN, vpn, ssh tunnel)? > > This is not normal. My 300GB backup only takes 15 hours. Something is > slowing down the transfer. > > -- > Bowie > Li

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tuning BackupPC to solve poor performance? (50MB in 20 minutes)

2011-06-30 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/30/2011 2:04 PM, C. Ronoz wrote: > I ran bacula and it backed up this ENTIRE client in like 7 minutes. After 40 > minutes, backuppc has only backed up a measly 300MB... of a total of 1.5GB. I > am not even sure how much aready was in-use on the partition after creating > the new partition.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tuning BackupPC to solve poor performance? (50MB in 20 minutes)

2011-06-30 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 6/30/2011 3:04 PM, C. Ronoz wrote: > I ran bacula and it backed up this ENTIRE client in like 7 minutes. After 40 > minutes, backuppc has only backed up a measly 300MB... of a total of 1.5GB. I > am not even sure how much aready was in-use on the partition after creating > the new partition.

[BackupPC-users] Tuning BackupPC to solve poor performance? (50MB in 20 minutes)

2011-06-30 Thread C. Ronoz
I ran bacula and it backed up this ENTIRE client in like 7 minutes. After 40 minutes, backuppc has only backed up a measly 300MB... of a total of 1.5GB. I am not even sure how much aready was in-use on the partition after creating the new partition. root@backuppc:~# df -h Filesystem

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another filesystem thread

2011-06-30 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/30/2011 9:09 AM, C. Ronoz wrote: > > I see how you use excludes to exclude back-ups of files with specific > extensions, but then how do I now exclude specific paths per host? > > I am planning to back-up about 15 Linux webservers with different roles. Some > host specific archives that take

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another filesystem thread

2011-06-30 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:09 AM, C. Ronoz wrote: > I see how you use excludes to exclude back-ups of files with specific > extensions, but then how do I now exclude specific paths per host? Well, it's not file specific. Some of those are directories. On a per host basis you just override the sy

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another filesystem thread

2011-06-30 Thread C. Ronoz
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 07:56:59AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:54 AM, C. Ronoz wrote: > > I found out that BackupPC is ignoring my Excludes though, while I have a > > 15GB /pub partition. > > This could explain why the run takes longer, but it should still finish > > w

Re: [BackupPC-users] different settings for different shares on the same host

2011-06-30 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Micha Silver wrote: > Hello: > Is there a way to set a different backup schedule for one share on a host - > different from the host's settings? > I have a Win2K3 host, being backed up thru smb. BackupPC 3.1.0 on a CentOS > server. All shares are listed for full an

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another filesystem thread

2011-06-30 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:54 AM, C. Ronoz wrote: > I found out that BackupPC is ignoring my Excludes though, while I have a 15GB > /pub partition. > This could explain why the run takes longer, but it should still finish > within an hour? > Rsnapshot runs were always lightning fast, network is 1

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another filesystem thread

2011-06-30 Thread C. Ronoz
>> What filesystem should I use? It seems ext4 and reiserfs are the only viable >> options. I just hate the slowness of ext3 for rm -rf hardlink jobs, while >> xfs and btrfs seem to be very unstable. >> >> - How stable is XFS? >> - Is reiserfs (much) better at hard-link removal? >> - Is reiserfs

[BackupPC-users] different settings for different shares on the same host

2011-06-30 Thread Micha Silver
Hello: Is there a way to set a different backup schedule for one share on a host - different from the host's settings? I have a Win2K3 host, being backed up thru smb. BackupPC 3.1.0 on a CentOS server. All shares are listed for full and incremental at a certain schedule. I need, for one of the shar