[BackupPC-users] very slow backup on windows

2014-09-17 Thread Nicola Scattolin
Hi, i have backuppc backing up a couple of linux machines of 30/40 GB each and a windows shared folder of 1.1 TB. Usually it takes one day and a half to backup the windows folder with a speed around 7 mbit/s but now the speed has decreased to 5 and it takes up ot 3 days to make full backup. I

Re: [BackupPC-users] very slow backup on windows

2014-09-17 Thread Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
Try disable the compression, and see if it improves. Personally, I have seen Windows machine with big share size, more than 1GB is transferring very slow. This could be due to samba have to read all the files, generate the tarmode file, transfer the file over to the server, extract the file, then

Re: [BackupPC-users] very slow backup on windows

2014-09-17 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 17/09/14 19:18, Nicola Scattolin wrote: Hi, i have backuppc backing up a couple of linux machines of 30/40 GB each and a windows shared folder of 1.1 TB. Usually it takes one day and a half to backup the windows folder with a speed around 7 mbit/s but now the speed has decreased to 5 and

Re: [BackupPC-users] very slow backup on windows

2014-09-17 Thread Nicola Scattolin
i'm trying to set up a rsyncd backup for a windows machine following this guide http://www.michaelstowe.com/backuppc/ but the script preusercmd.sh try to open another script located at /etc/backuppc/scripts/auth.sh and i don't have that script. is that script somewhere else or has disappear

[BackupPC-users] rsync 3.09 fails on windows symlinkd

2014-09-17 Thread Russell R Poyner
I've been using a powershell script to create shadow copies and link them to the filesystem in order to expose them to rsyncd. This works with my oldish copy of DeltaCopy rsync, but when I use the current cygwin-rsync package from the BackupPC web site I'm not able to follow the link. If I

Re: [BackupPC-users] very slow backup on windows

2014-09-17 Thread Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
I'm not sure about that link. Let me correct myself based on my previous email. You should install and configure rsyncd on Windows machine that show problem. If it is not problematic, smb method is simpler. You should install rsync client on your backuppc Linux server. How to install and

[BackupPC-users] QNX 4.23A

2014-09-17 Thread Gerald Brandt
Hi, I've been tasked with backing up an old QNX 4.23A system. From what I can see, the box doesn't have ssh, ftp, rsync (or rsyncd), or smb. Is anyone backing something like this up? If so, how. Gerald -- Want

Re: [BackupPC-users] QNX 4.23A

2014-09-17 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 09/17 12:55 , Gerald Brandt wrote: I've been tasked with backing up an old QNX 4.23A system. From what I can see, the box doesn't have ssh, ftp, rsync (or rsyncd), or smb. Is anyone backing something like this up? If so, how. How do you transfer files to/from it for business purposes?

Re: [BackupPC-users] QNX 4.23A

2014-09-17 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 09/17/2014 01:21 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: On 09/17 12:55 , Gerald Brandt wrote: I've been tasked with backing up an old QNX 4.23A system. From what I can see, the box doesn't have ssh, ftp, rsync (or rsyncd), or smb. Is anyone backing something like this up? If so, how. How

Re: [BackupPC-users] QNX 4.23A

2014-09-17 Thread Gerald Brandt
On 2014-09-17 1:21 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: On 09/17 12:55 , Gerald Brandt wrote: I've been tasked with backing up an old QNX 4.23A system. From what I can see, the box doesn't have ssh, ftp, rsync (or rsyncd), or smb. Is anyone backing something like this up? If so, how. How do

Re: [BackupPC-users] QNX 4.23A

2014-09-17 Thread Gerald Brandt
On 2014-09-17 1:27 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: On 09/17/2014 01:21 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: On 09/17 12:55 , Gerald Brandt wrote: I've been tasked with backing up an old QNX 4.23A system. From what I can see, the box doesn't have ssh, ftp, rsync (or rsyncd), or smb. Is anyone

Re: [BackupPC-users] QNX 4.23A

2014-09-17 Thread Gerald Brandt
On 2014-09-17 1:27 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: On 09/17/2014 01:21 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: On 09/17 12:55 , Gerald Brandt wrote: I've been tasked with backing up an old QNX 4.23A system. From what I can see, the box doesn't have ssh, ftp, rsync (or rsyncd), or smb. Is anyone

Re: [BackupPC-users] QNX 4.23A

2014-09-17 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 09/17/2014 01:47 PM, Gerald Brandt wrote: Nope, so rsh server or client. telnet. This box has never been maintained or setup properly. How much are they going to pay you? I wouldn't touch it for less than 5 digits... -- Dimitri Maziuk Programmer/sysadmin BioMagResBank, UW-Madison --

Re: [BackupPC-users] QNX 4.23A

2014-09-17 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 09/17/2014 01:50 PM, Gerald Brandt wrote: never mind, just found rshd and ftpd as well. Tucked away in a subdir. You should be able to substitute rsh for ssh after editing .rhosts. -- Dimitri Maziuk Programmer/sysadmin BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu signature.asc

Re: [BackupPC-users] QNX 4.23A

2014-09-17 Thread Gerald Brandt
On 2014-09-17 1:53 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: On 09/17/2014 01:50 PM, Gerald Brandt wrote: never mind, just found rshd and ftpd as well. Tucked away in a subdir. You should be able to substitute rsh for ssh after editing .rhosts. still no rsync though.

Re: [BackupPC-users] very slow backup on windows

2014-09-17 Thread Kris Lou
auth.sh is a simple client credentials file that holds arguments that are passed to winexe in Michael's scripts. It looks something like: UNAME='username' WRKGRP='domain/workgroup' PWD='password' Change the ownership and permissions so that it's only readable by the backuppc user. Did you

Re: [BackupPC-users] QNX 4.23A

2014-09-17 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 09/17/2014 01:58 PM, Gerald Brandt wrote: On 2014-09-17 1:53 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: On 09/17/2014 01:50 PM, Gerald Brandt wrote: never mind, just found rshd and ftpd as well. Tucked away in a subdir. You should be able to substitute rsh for ssh after editing .rhosts. still no rsync

Re: [BackupPC-users] QNX 4.23A

2014-09-17 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 09/17/2014 02:07 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: No idea if backuppc tries to pass any gnu-isms (command line switches) to the remove tar, though... ^^ remote -- Dimitri Maziuk Programmer/sysadmin BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu signature.asc Description:

Re: [BackupPC-users] QNX 4.23A

2014-09-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Dimitri Maziuk dmaz...@bmrb.wisc.edu wrote: On 09/17/2014 01:58 PM, Gerald Brandt wrote: still no rsync though. Oh, right. There should be tar. GNU tar matters if you have very long filenames that don't fit into standard 512-byte tar header. I expect the QNX

Re: [BackupPC-users] QNX 4.23A

2014-09-17 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Dimitri Maziuk wrote on 2014-09-17 14:08:43 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] QNX 4.23A]: On 09/17/2014 02:07 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: No idea if backuppc tries to pass any gnu-isms (command line switches) to the remove tar, though... ^^ remote it passes whatever you put in