Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancements in rsync 3.0

2008-06-09 Thread David Birnbaum
The incremental-recursion algorithm would be a huge win for a lot of our backups, in particular for doing backups of larger mail servers that have MailDir as the store. Is there any plan for migrating that in? David. - On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, Hendrik Friedel wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone tr

Re: [BackupPC-users] Large file stalls backup

2008-04-10 Thread David Birnbaum
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Adam Goryachev wrote: >> Does anyone have a workaround or fix for this? Is it possible to change >> BackupPC so it doesn't remove the in-progress file, but instead copies it >> into >> the pool so rsync will pick up where it left off last time? There doesn't >> seem >> to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Large file stalls backup

2008-04-09 Thread David Birnbaum
The --partial option seems like it would do the trick. Can anyone comment as to how hard it would be to put it into File::RsyncP? David. - On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: > David Birnbaum wrote: > >>> >>> One approach is to use a VPN connection to the r

Re: [BackupPC-users] Large file stalls backup

2008-04-09 Thread David Birnbaum
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: >> I've been using BackupPC for several years now, but one problem that I've >> never come up with a good answer for is when a single large file is too big >> to transfer completely in the time the backup can run before timing out. >> For example, a 10M l

[BackupPC-users] Large file stalls backup

2008-04-09 Thread David Birnbaum
Greetings, I've been using BackupPC for several years now, but one problem that I've never come up with a good answer for is when a single large file is too big to transfer completely in the time the backup can run before timing out. For example, a 10M local datafile, backing up over a 768k up