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 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 again and I got

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 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 file

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 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 the only user

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 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 up... Or checke

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

2012-12-05 Thread Timothy J Massey
Cassiano Surek 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 that it was

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

2012-12-05 Thread Timothy J Massey
Markus 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, rsync's gonna

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

2012-12-05 Thread Timothy J Massey
Stefan Peter 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 up after signa

[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