Hi All -
On a backuppc server, running 2.x, we are archiving to an external drive
once a week (about 700GB of data). The server is a dual core intel chip
(~1.8GHz, 1GB of RAM) and it takes about 16 hours to complete the
archive. I've got $Conf{CompressLevel} = 5 to save some disk space, and
David Rees wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Nick Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Rich Rauenzahn wrote:
>
> As Rich said, BackupPC's rsync modules don't support compression. SSH
> compression should work fine, though.
>
> -Dave
>
Yea
Rich Rauenzahn wrote:
>
> dan wrote:
>> no, incrementals are more efficient on bandwidth. they do a less
>> strenuous test to determine if a file has changed.
>>
>> at the expense of CPU power on both sides, you can compress the rsync
>> traffic either with rsync -z
> Have you tried rsync -z?
Rich Rauenzahn wrote:
>
> dan wrote:
>> no, incrementals are more efficient on bandwidth. they do a less
>> strenuous test to determine if a file has changed.
>>
>> at the expense of CPU power on both sides, you can compress the rsync
>> traffic either with rsync -z
> Have you tried rsync -z?
p (either full or
incremental), even in the 2.x version. Was that an invalid assumption
on my part?
Thanks for a great product!
Nick
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Nick Webb
System Administrator
Freelock Computing - www.freelock.com
206.577.0540 x22
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changed files since the last backup.
I think we can move this off-site without fear of huge bandwidth bills.
Nick
Nick Webb wrote:
> Hi all -
>
> Likely a stupid question, but is it safe to remove the --ignore-times
> rsync option in the BackupPC config.pl file? When I've done
files end up matching what's in the pool on a full
backup, everything should be hunky dory without using filled incrementals.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
Thanks,
Nick
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Nick Webb
System Administrator
Freelock Computing - www.freelock.com
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