Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc incremental taking up a lot of bandwidth with no additional changes

2012-01-20 Thread smallpox
On 1/20/2012 4:49 PM, Tim Fletcher wrote: > On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 16:11 -0800, smallpox wrote: >> On 1/20/2012 11:49 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: >>> Second, what makes you think the issue is a bandwidth issue? You just >>> said that it takes 10 minutes. Have you determined that the time is >>>

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc incremental taking up a lot of bandwidth with no additional changes

2012-01-20 Thread smallpox
On 1/20/2012 4:49 PM, Tim Fletcher wrote: > On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 16:11 -0800, smallpox wrote: >> On 1/20/2012 11:49 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: >>> Second, what makes you think the issue is a bandwidth issue? You just >>> said that it takes 10 minutes. Have you determined that the time is >>>

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc incremental taking up a lot of bandwidth with no additional changes

2012-01-20 Thread Tim Fletcher
On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 16:11 -0800, smallpox wrote: > > On 1/20/2012 11:49 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > Second, what makes you think the issue is a bandwidth issue? You just > > said that it takes 10 minutes. Have you determined that the time is > > due to bandwidth bottlenecks and not just

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc incremental taking up a lot of bandwidth with no additional changes

2012-01-20 Thread smallpox
51 incr no 1 1/20 06:45 10.4 0.4 /home/backuppc/BackupPC-3.2.1/pc/danger/51 52 incr no 2 1/20 07:00 0.2 0.4 /home/backuppc/BackupPC-3.2.1/pc/danger/52 53 incr no 2 1/20 07:15 0.2 0.4 /home/backuppc/BackupPC-3.2.1

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc incremental taking up a lot of bandwidth with no additional changes

2012-01-20 Thread smallpox
On 1/20/2012 11:49 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > smallpox wrote at about 07:15:07 -0800 on Friday, January 20, 2012: > > i was under the impression that rsync does the comparison with little or > > no bandwidth. > > First, PLEASE DON'T TOP-POST - it makes following and responding > to a

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc incremental taking up a lot of bandwidth with no additional changes

2012-01-20 Thread Michael Stowe
> i was under the impression that rsync does the comparison with little or > no bandwidth. Little bandwidth, yes (although this is relative, naturally) but taking little bandwidth and taking little *time* are two entirely different things. Rsync on each end is calculating and exchanging hashes.

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc incremental taking up a lot of bandwidth with no additional changes

2012-01-20 Thread Stefan Peter
On 01/20/2012 09:07 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Stefan Peter wrote at about 21:00:22 +0100 on Friday, January 20, 2012: > > On 01/20/2012 08:49 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > > In summary, I think you are trying to solve a problem that may not > > > need to be solved, using a to

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc incremental taking up a lot of bandwidth with no additional changes

2012-01-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Stefan Peter wrote at about 21:00:22 +0100 on Friday, January 20, 2012: >  > On 01/20/2012 08:49 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: >  > > In summary, I think you are trying to solve a problem that may not >  > > need to be solved, using a

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc incremental taking up a lot of bandwidth with no additional changes

2012-01-20 Thread Steve Willoughby
On 20-Jan-12 12:07, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Stefan Peter wrote at about 21:00:22 +0100 on Friday, January 20, 2012: > > On 01/20/2012 08:49 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > > In summary, I think you are trying to solve a problem that may not > > > need to be solved, using a tool t

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc incremental taking up a lot of bandwidth with no additional changes

2012-01-20 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Stefan Peter wrote at about 21:00:22 +0100 on Friday, January 20, 2012: > On 01/20/2012 08:49 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > In summary, I think you are trying to solve a problem that may not > > need to be solved, using a tool that is not meant to solve it, without > > understanding what i

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc incremental taking up a lot of bandwidth with no additional changes

2012-01-20 Thread Stefan Peter
On 01/20/2012 08:49 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > In summary, I think you are trying to solve a problem that may not > need to be solved, using a tool that is not meant to solve it, without > understanding what is causing your problems and without knowing how > the tool actually works in the fir

Re: [BackupPC-users] moving per-pc log files

2012-01-20 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Till Hofmann wrote at about 16:23:56 +0100 on Friday, January 20, 2012: > Hello everybody, > > since my backup partition is on a RAID5 which doesn't do anything but > keeping my backups, I want the hard drives to automatically spin down > (standby) when there is nothing to do. > It's working

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc incremental taking up a lot of bandwidth with no additional changes

2012-01-20 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
smallpox wrote at about 07:15:07 -0800 on Friday, January 20, 2012: > i was under the impression that rsync does the comparison with little or > no bandwidth. First, PLEASE DON'T TOP-POST - it makes following and responding to a thread near impossible. Second, what makes you think the issue is

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc incremental taking up a lot of bandwidth with no additional changes

2012-01-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:16 AM, smallpox wrote: > understood, there arent a lot of files currently, nothing has changed > since day 1. > > its only 400 mb. > > if i have level 2, it does incremental in 10 seconds, why does that > happen? level 1 takes 10 min That doesn't make much sense to me f

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc incremental taking up a lot of bandwidth with no additional changes

2012-01-20 Thread smallpox
understood, there arent a lot of files currently, nothing has changed since day 1. its only 400 mb. if i have level 2, it does incremental in 10 seconds, why does that happen? level 1 takes 10 min On 1/20/2012 8:19 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:15 AM, smallpox wrote: >>

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc incremental taking up a lot of bandwidth with no additional changes

2012-01-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:15 AM, smallpox wrote: > i was under the impression that rsync does the comparison with little or > no bandwidth. It generally does not use a big percentage of the data, but the client sends the full directory tree data to the server where the comparison happens. If yo

[BackupPC-users] moving per-pc log files

2012-01-20 Thread Till Hofmann
Hello everybody, since my backup partition is on a RAID5 which doesn't do anything but keeping my backups, I want the hard drives to automatically spin down (standby) when there is nothing to do. It's working properly, I only have one problem: backuppc writes to the per-pc log file in $topdir/pc/$

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc incremental taking up a lot of bandwidth with no additional changes

2012-01-20 Thread smallpox
i was under the impression that rsync does the comparison with little or no bandwidth. On 1/20/2012 5:50 AM, Michael Stowe wrote: >> BackupPC 3.2.1 >> Windows 7 rsyncd over ssh, west coast >> the server is in the east. >> >> my goal is to have it updated every 15 minutes, i've gotten that to work

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc incremental taking up a lot of bandwidth with no additional changes

2012-01-20 Thread Michael Stowe
> BackupPC 3.2.1 > Windows 7 rsyncd over ssh, west coast > the server is in the east. > > my goal is to have it updated every 15 minutes, i've gotten that to work > but for incremental, with no changes, it's still taking about 10 minutes > most of the time and it is doing traffic. I would expect m