Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: rsyncd as a service on Windows 8

2013-10-27 Thread Dan Johansson
On 26.10.2013 23:32, Timothy J Massey wrote: > Dan Johansson wrote on 10/26/2013 08:37:48 AM: > >> Any suggestions on >> a) how to find out why rsyncd dies in the first place > > Not really: I have never run rsync on Windows 8. I *have* done it on > Windows Server 2012 (based on Win8) with

Re: [BackupPC-users] Getting "file has vanished" errors from rsyncd when backing up a windows server, Mac files names?

2013-10-27 Thread Craig Barratt
David, I'm not familiar with how MacOS 9 handles charsets. Also, MacOS tends to have very old versions of rsync. On MacOSX, things are generally in utf8. So you could try removing your ClientCharset entry (ie: make it empty). However, as you note, it happens with native rsync too. Perhaps you

Re: [BackupPC-users] Utilizing posix_fadvise to not cache file contents

2013-10-27 Thread Craig Barratt
> > has there been any thoughts on utilizing posix_fadvise* in BackupPC? I have looked at it and I am considering it, after 4.0.0 is finished. But here comes /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure to the rescue Please tell us what results you get - if this approach works then that would avoid the nee

[BackupPC-users] Getting "file has vanished" errors from rsyncd when backing up a windows server, Mac files names?

2013-10-27 Thread David Nelson
Hello All, I have setup a backuppc server running Debian which I am using to backup a Windows 2008 Server disk which contains the network folders for ~200 students and staff in a small school. It's actually working pretty great! The only glitch I see so far is, "file vanished" errors on about 300