Re: [BackupPC-users] Back up open files in linux

2014-03-04 Thread Michael Stowe
> Hi, > > Sometimes, the back up of /root or /usr fails due to open files. I have 2 > questions with regards to it? You do? Windows and *nix file semantics are pretty different -- so I'd be pretty surprised if your *nix backups are failing because a file is locked exclusively because it is open.

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync building file list takes forever

2014-03-04 Thread Dr. Boris Neubert
Am 02.03.2014 00:03, schrieb Les Mikesell: > 'Hours" to start a backup doesn't seem like a real showstopper. What > happens if you just let it run over a weekend? Thank you. Sometimes a change of perspective is enough to see the problem... PEBKAC. I was biased by the first run, which for some re

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync building file list takes forever

2014-03-04 Thread Timothy J Massey
"Dr. Boris Neubert" wrote on 03/04/2014 12:23:15 PM: > What was irritating to me was the rsyncd log entry "Building file > list..." with nothing else afterwards and the empty BackupPC host > XferLog during backup. In fact the backup was already transferring all > the files all the time. That *is