Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem?

2013-12-02 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
I've been doing some ZFS on linux vs XFS benchmarking and I'm seeing that ZFS is performing slightly better than XFS on reads and writes but sucks on deletes. If you're not going to be doing lots of deletes and need the ability to expand (e.g. thinking of using LVM) then ZFS may be a nice

Re: [BackupPC-users] mysql streaming

2013-04-25 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
Does your mysql db live on a unix system? If so, why not use automysqlbackup and just have it dump to your backup system over NFS? On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Lord Sporkton lordspork...@gmail.com wrote: I'm currently backing up mysql by way of dumping the DB to a flat file then backing up

Re: [BackupPC-users] mysql streaming

2013-04-25 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
could get it to work. Tar is of course capable of accepting either stream or file as input and mysqldump is capable of outputing to either stream or file. I suppose I will just have to play around with it more maybe. Please show an example of where you can stream data directly into tar

Re: [BackupPC-users] Proper way to remove all but most recent backups

2012-09-24 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
Yes . First list all the backups for a host : orca pc # /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_deleteBackup.sh -l -c orca If you're keeping n fulls and then doing m incrementals, just delete all but the last full, so from the command above it's showing : BackupNumber 1066 - full-Backup from

Re: [BackupPC-users] Proper way to remove all but most recent backups

2012-09-24 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
it is time consuming to delete all 50+ of them per host. On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Sabuj Pattanayek sab...@gmail.com wrote: Yes . First list all the backups for a host : orca pc # /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_deleteBackup.sh -l -c orca If you're keeping n fulls and then doing m

Re: [BackupPC-users] reducing i/o

2011-11-05 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
fatter (and possibly lower latency) pipes like 10Gb Ethernet or Myrinet. and IB which I think is cheaper than either of the above. The newer crop of network storage such as GlusterFS (being purchased by Red Hat) is nice for several reasons.  It scales nearly linearly in i/o, available

Re: [BackupPC-users] Linux backups with rsync vs tar

2011-08-31 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
tar is faster since it doesn't spend hours building a file list should there be thousands or millions of files involved. -- Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management

Re: [BackupPC-users] XFS BackupPC optimal mount options

2011-05-25 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
http://everything2.com/title/Filesystem+performance+tweaking+with+XFS+on+Linux Basically when creating the xfs use : mkfs.xfs -l size=64m and when mounting use: mount -t xfs -o noatime,nodiratime,logbufs=8 device mountPoint in fstab: device mountPointxfs

Re: [BackupPC-users] NFS woes

2011-04-19 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
Hi, I just host this on google code : http://code.google.com/p/nfsspeedtest/ . Created it several years ago and been adding options to it ever since. It's an easy to use perl script wrapper for dd with several options . HTH, Sabuj On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:42 PM, comfi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Graph data

2010-10-09 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Xuo x...@free.fr wrote: Hi, It is probably a stupid question, but what are graphs ? There seems to have been some sort of patch that uses rrdtool to generate graphs of pool sizes?

Re: [BackupPC-users] can't load hosts summary

2010-05-12 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
back to 1 window and 1 tab, I was also able to open the host summary page. I wonder if there's a bug for this in FF bugzilla? Thanks, Sabuj Pattanayek -- ___ BackupPC-users

[BackupPC-users] can't load hosts summary

2010-05-11 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
Hi, On one of my backuppc servers, when I click hosts summary, the browser just spins and spins while it tries to load the hosts summary page but it never completes. I can however, go to each of the hosts that are backed up and even browse the backups. I've tried completely turning off backuppc

[BackupPC-users] Windows 7 pro rsyncd service installation: cygrunsrv: Error installing a service OpenSCManager: Win32 error 5: Access is denied

2010-03-04 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
OpenSCManager: Win32 error 5: Access is denied for the cygrunsrv service registration command. I also tried it manually using the sc create rsyncd binpath=... command but it gave me the same error. Any ideas? Thanks, Sabuj Pattanayek

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows 7 pro rsyncd service installation: cygrunsrv: Error installing a service OpenSCManager: Win32 error 5: Access is denied

2010-03-04 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
c:\cygwin\bin\cygrunsrv.exe -I rsyncd -e CYGWIN=nontsec -p c:/cygwin/bin/rsync.exe -a --config=c:/cygwin/etc/rsyncd.conf --daemon --no-detach Right, that's the same command and basically the same cygwin rsync without having to d/ld the entire cygwin suite. But I still get the error as

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc performance 3Mb

2009-12-18 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 1:27 PM, David Young randomf...@gmail.com wrote: Just curious, what's the max sustained throughput that anyone has seen with their system?  2-3Mbit/s is 250KB/s which seems really slow.  I'm in the process of setting up a local Backuppc server and now am concerned about

Re: [BackupPC-users] pools are showing data but clients have no backups

2009-12-16 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
Hi, Added some debugging code to Storage/Text.pm sub TextFileWrite, it used to look like this : rename($file.new, $file) if ( -f $file.new ); I changed it to : if ( -f $file.new ) { my $renRet = rename($file.new, $file); if ($renRet) {