Re: [BackupPC-users] Increasing full backup speed?

2007-03-14 Thread Jason B
Tino Schwarze tisc.de> writes: > You could simply raise the ClientTimeout. I think my question was misunderstood, woops. The actual question was in the 2nd paragraph - the 1st paragraph was just a thanks note. :) When a large full backup runs, it first fills it with hardlinks to existing file

[BackupPC-users] Increasing full backup speed?

2007-03-13 Thread Jason B
Hi all, First off, just wanted to say thank you to everyone who helped me with my Aborted by signal ALRM problem when backing up huge dirs, especially Jason and Holger. Using the Exclude dirs parameter worked beautifully, and I just re-ran the full backup every day for about a week, gradually e

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up large directories times out with signal=ALRM or PIPE

2007-02-24 Thread Jason B
Hiya, > Jason Hughes explained how to incrementally transfer such a structure using > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}. The important thing is that you need successful Well, I'm glad to say the $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} method worked fine. I had to do it quite a few times (did about 10GB at a time), so

[BackupPC-users] Backing up large directories times out with signal=ALRM or PIPE

2007-02-20 Thread Jason B
Hi all, Apologies for the relatively long email, but I figure it's better to give too much information than not enough. I've run into a bit of difficulty backing up a large directory tree that has me not being able to do a successful backup in over a month now. I'm attempting to back up about 70GB