[BackupPC-users] No more bakup after last partial backup?

2012-12-05 Thread arcticeye
Hi John, Thanks for your answer. I have copied the script but sh and bash (either) don't recognize the declare command. Is there a way to do it manually? Should I try to remove the last partial backup manually from /lib/var/backuppc/pc/server/ ?? or should I have to remove any kind of extra

Re: [BackupPC-users] archive aborts after signal ALRM

2012-12-05 Thread Timothy J Massey
Stefan Peter s_pe...@swissonline.ch wrote on 11/18/2012 04:55:49 PM: On 18.11.2012 20:44, Till Hofmann wrote: But now, when I'm trying to archive more clients at once, the process receives ALRM after exactly 20 hours. 2012-11-09 19:54:29 Starting archive 2012-11-10 15:54:29 cleaning

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync never starts transferring files (but does something)

2012-12-05 Thread Timothy J Massey
Markus unive...@truemetal.org wrote on 11/19/2012 04:03:03 PM: For fun, here's the output of find / | wc -l: 24478753 real 490m35.602s user 0m21.013s sys 1m23.305s 25 million files! OMG. find took 8 hours to complete. Nice, hm? :-) Wow. If a simple find took 8 hours to complete,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Performance reference (linux --(rsync)- linux)

2012-12-05 Thread Timothy J Massey
Cassiano Surek c...@surek.co.uk wrote on 11/22/2012 05:43:30 AM: Dear all, For reference on the matter I was trying to resolve or improve, I have increased RAM from 2Gb to 4Gb (the max for that machine) and backups reduced by 50% in completion time. I had wrongly assessed in the past

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync never starts transferring files (but does something)

2012-12-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.com wrote: Wow. 25 *million* files saved in home directories? That kind of defeats the purpose of shared data! I thought my users were bad about that... :) Probably mostly browser-cache files that don't need to be backed

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full restore problem part II

2012-12-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Gary Roach gary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: While this should work, I'm curious why you don't use rsync over ssh which would be more typical for Linux. It's a small personal network, inside a firewall and with nothing of a sensitive nature. My wife and I are

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync never starts transferring files (but does something)

2012-12-05 Thread Markus
Am 05.12.2012 17:47, schrieb Les Mikesell: On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.com wrote: Wow. 25 *million* files saved in home directories? That kind of defeats the purpose of shared data! I thought my users were bad about that... :) Probably mostly

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync never starts transferring files (but does something)

2012-12-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Markus unive...@truemetal.org wrote: For every share one (two, actually: rsync+ssh) defunct process is created once the backup of that share was done and while the overall backup is still running (while other shares are still getting backed up). I've tried it