Re: [BackupPC-users] Fairly large backuppc pool (4TB) moved with backuppc_tarpccopy

2011-09-30 Thread Tim Connors
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011, Mike Dresser wrote: > On 29/09/11 10:28 PM, Adam Goryachev wrote: > > Can I assume this is because the new HDD's perform better than the old? > > In other words, would it be safe to assume you would get even better > > performance using RAID10 with the new HDD's than you are g

[BackupPC-users] How to run BackupPC_copyPCPool.pl without a BackupPC installation

2011-09-30 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi (Jeff ;-) I would like to try your BackupPC_copyPCPool.pl to backup my BackupPC storage to another server. Unfortunately this other server have no BackupPC installed. I've copied FileZIO.pm, Lib.pm, jLib.pm, Attrib.pm and Storage.pm from /usr/share/backuppc/lib/BackupPC as well as Text.pm fr

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fairly large backuppc pool (4TB) moved with backuppc_tarpccopy

2011-09-30 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Mike Dresser wrote: > > Either way, the system keeps up with backups, so performance wasn't much > of an issue, I just plain ran out of space on the old array. > > Also, with 6-8 drives, I can lose any two, vs the remote possibility of > losing the wrong two on Rai

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fairly large backuppc pool (4TB) moved with backuppc_tarpccopy

2011-09-30 Thread Mike Dresser
On 29/09/11 10:28 PM, Adam Goryachev wrote: > Can I assume this is because the new HDD's perform better than the old? > In other words, would it be safe to assume you would get even better > performance using RAID10 with the new HDD's than you are getting with RAID6? Yes, the new drives are severa

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fairly large backuppc pool (4TB) moved with backuppc_tarpccopy

2011-09-30 Thread Arnold Krille
On Friday 30 September 2011 14:37:20 Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Arnold Krille wrote: > > And don't argue that disks with consecutive serial numbers won't break > > together: From the three disk failures I encountered where I had a second > > of the same type, that secon

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fairly large backuppc pool (4TB) moved with backuppc_tarpccopy

2011-09-30 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2011-09-30 14:37, Les Mikesell wrote: > For software raid, I thought a cron job was > supposed to be testing them periodically, but the notification may not > reach you - and hardware raid may not to the tests. Ubuntu has a job in cron.monthly which does a full check of all md RAID arrays. It r

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fairly large backuppc pool (4TB) moved with backuppc_tarpccopy

2011-09-30 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Arnold Krille wrote: > > And don't argue that disks with consecutive serial numbers won't break > together: From the three disk failures I encountered where I had a second of > the same type, that second broke shortly after. > I'd argue that it is not likely that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fairly large backuppc pool (4TB) moved with backuppc_tarpccopy

2011-09-30 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2011-09-30 12:51, Arnold Krille wrote: > Thats stupid. > > Raid5: Loose one disk during recovery -> you are screwed. > Raid6: Loose two disks during recovery -> you are screwed. Further: Raid5: Lose power during write operation = silent data corruption, which you'll find out about next time y

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fairly large backuppc pool (4TB) moved with backuppc_tarpccopy

2011-09-30 Thread Arnold Krille
On Friday 30 September 2011 06:20:42 Tim Connors wrote: > Worst case, if you lose one disk, then rebuild, and during rebuild, > suffer the likely consequence of losing another disk when rebuilding > raid6, you still have a valid array. > Worse case, fairly likely occurence with raid10, lose that se

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup of dual-boot laptop

2011-09-30 Thread Dan Johansson
On Wednesday 28 September 2011 20.26:25 Arnold Krille wrote: > On Wednesday 28 September 2011 18:59:38 Tim Fletcher wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 17:30 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: > > > I have a laptop that is dual-boot (Linux and WinXP) and gets the same > > > IP from DHCP in both OS's. Today I

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC on NTFS, any expected problems?

2011-09-30 Thread Tim Fletcher
On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 23:31 -0400, Long V wrote: > Hi, > > I have a RAID 1 partition formatted as NTFS. The server is linux so I"ll > be accessing that partition using ntfs-3g. > > Is there any expected problems to use BackupPC on top of a NTFS partition? > > I know BackupPC heavily uses hard-l

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fairly large backuppc pool (4TB) moved with backuppc_tarpccopy

2011-09-30 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/09/11 14:20, Tim Connors wrote: > On Fri, 30 Sep 2011, Adam Goryachev wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 30/09/11 04:11, Mike Dresser wrote: >>> Just finishing up moving one of my backuppc servers to new larger