[BackupPC-users] NAS performance over NFS

2008-09-01 Thread Stephen Vaughan
Hi, We have backuppc running on a server, with an NFS mount to a NAS device. Everything is gigabit, there is only 1 nic in the backuppc server connected to the switch, so traffic comes in from the servers we're backing up and then straight back out the same nic to the NFS mount. I'm finding signi

Re: [BackupPC-users] NAS performance over NFS

2008-09-01 Thread Stephen Vaughan
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Re: [BackupPC-users] NAS performance over NFS

2008-09-02 Thread Stephen Vaughan
at 10:56 PM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tino Schwarze wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 11:34:44AM +1000, Stephen Vaughan wrote: > >> Hmm yeah I've a bit of a play with the nfs client side, the nfs server > is > >> purely web based, so it's

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full vs. Incremental (was: Backup through slow line?)

2008-09-06 Thread Stephen Vaughan
What about with multiple full backups, say your full backup is 50gig and you do a full backup once a week, will mean each full backup will use 50gigs of space? Or does the pool do some other linking between the data contained in each full backup? On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Christian Völker <[

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_archiveStart not using compression

2008-10-06 Thread Stephen Vaughan
Firstly, what a fantastic piece of software BackupPC is, well done Craig and co! When I run BackupPC_archiveStart from the command line it's not using compression for the backup, the backup file is created using "raw", however if I start the archive job via the web-interface it uses compression (g

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_archiveStart not using compression

2008-10-12 Thread Stephen Vaughan
I take it nobody knows? On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Stephen Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Firstly, what a fantastic piece of software BackupPC is, well done Craig > and co! > > When I run BackupPC_archiveStart from the command line it's not using > compr

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_archiveStart not using compression

2008-10-12 Thread Stephen Vaughan
hmm okay. That sort of worked, I did the first change now I'm getting an error for gzip: 2008-10-13 11:44:56 Archive failed (Error: gzip is not an executable program) $Conf{ArchiveComp} = 'gzip'; $Conf{CompressLevel} = '1'; On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Craig Barratt < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_archiveStart not using compression

2008-10-12 Thread Stephen Vaughan
Still seems to be creating a .raw archive: backuppc 25740 0.0 0.5 8724 5628 ?S11:51 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archive offsite-archive archiveReq.25739.0 backuppc 25851 0.0 0.4 7320 4568 ?S11:57 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/backuppc/

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_archiveStart not using compression

2008-10-12 Thread Stephen Vaughan
Yep you're right, thanks. On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Craig Barratt < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen writes: > > > Still seems to be creating a .raw archive: > > Yes. The archive is now compressed, in spite of the extension: > >/bin/csh -cf /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCrea

Re: [BackupPC-users] Almost working

2008-10-12 Thread Stephen Vaughan
Why use Fedora at all?? Debian is your friend On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Michael Mansour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > Hello all, > > > > For a number of years I have run a small home network of windows > machines. > > I recently decided to move my computing to Linux. I now have t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Kernel Panic, BackupPC + ext3

2009-03-04 Thread Stephen Vaughan
Yeah I can't see how this is a backuppc issue On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Chris Robertson wrote: > Nate wrote: > > We seem to be routinely having this issue where the server backuppc > > is running on throws a kernel panic and thus hard locks the > > machine. It's completely random, someti

[BackupPC-users] full backups black out period

2009-05-19 Thread Stephen Vaughan
Is it possible to prevent full backups from starting after a certain time? At the moment my wake up schedule is set for 9pm-5am with blackout 9pm-6am, one of the servers that we do a full backup on each week is running into the black out period. It starts the job at 4am and doesn't finish until the

Re: [BackupPC-users] full backups black out period

2009-05-20 Thread Stephen Vaughan
sorry, black out period is 6am to 9pm On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Stephen Vaughan wrote: > Is it possible to prevent full backups from starting after a certain time? > At the moment my wake up schedule is set for 9pm-5am with blackout 9pm-6am, > one of the servers that we do a fu

[BackupPC-users] Hardware considerations for building dedicated backuppc server

2009-07-05 Thread Stephen Vaughan
Hi all, In everyone's opinion, which resource(s) does backuppc rely on the most? cpu, memory or disk? -- Best Regards, Stephen -- ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hardware considerations for building dedicated backuppc server

2009-07-06 Thread Stephen Vaughan
.. On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Stephen Vaughan wrote at about 15:11:43 +1000 on Monday, July 6, 2009: > > Hi all, > > > > In everyone's opinion, which resource(s) does backuppc rely on the most? > > cpu, memory or disk? &

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hardware considerations for building dedicated backuppc server

2009-07-06 Thread Stephen Vaughan
The box isn't used for anything else..I can keep an eye on it tonight and see whats causing the load in those first few hours.. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Stephen Vaughan wrote: > > I'm only running 2 concurrent backups. The disk is/was mounted wi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hardware considerations for building dedicated backuppc server

2009-07-07 Thread Stephen Vaughan
going by the graphs it seems to be an IO issue, has anyone tried running raid 10 with backuppc? On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Stephen Vaughan wrote: > > I'm only running 2 concurrent backups. The disk is/was mounted with > > noatime,data=journal.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hardware considerations for building dedicated backuppc server

2009-07-07 Thread Stephen Vaughan
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Hardware considerations for building dedicated backuppc server

2009-07-07 Thread Stephen Vaughan
kd/0 351 root 15 -5 000 S1 0.0 1296:21 kswapd0 12263 backuppc 20 0 11132 8112 2060 D1 0.2 0:21.20 BackupPC_nightl 12266 backuppc 20 0 11024 8084 2060 D1 0.2 0:24.10 BackupPC_nightl On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Leen Besselink wrote: > Stephen

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hardware considerations for building dedicated backuppc server

2009-07-07 Thread Stephen Vaughan
yep ok I've just done that. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Adam Goryachev < mailingli...@websitemanagers.com.au> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Stephen Vaughan wrote: > > I definitely don't have updated installed on the box. I

[BackupPC-users] WD raptors / Raid 10

2009-08-23 Thread Stephen Vaughan
Hi, Has anyone used or is using backuppc with WD raptors in a raid 10 array? Just curious to know how performance is, compared with 10k SCSI or SAS drives. thanks -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal

Re: [BackupPC-users] Setting up a new BackupPC server

2009-09-16 Thread Stephen Vaughan
We're building a new backuppc server at the moment aswell, the box is using 8x 300gb SAS 10k drives in raid 10, the decision of whether to use raid5/6 or raid10 is difficult. At the moment raid10 with 1.1TB gives us 12-18 months before we reach our capacity, however with raid5 we have 2100gb (rough

[BackupPC-users] Beta version - missing menu items

2009-09-27 Thread Stephen Vaughan
Hi, Have installed the latest build of the beta version and I've noticed some things have disappeared from the left menu. Edit Config and Log File, and a bunch of others aren't available, is that normal? -- Best Regards, Stephen Sent from Sydney, Nsw, Australia --

Re: [BackupPC-users] entities using BackupPC

2009-11-01 Thread Stephen Vaughan
We are a small hosting company in Australia, and we use several backuppc servers in our environment. Our main backup server backs up almost 600GB worth of data over the lan each night, this is our pool: - 15 full backups of total size 2090.82GB (prior to pooling and compression), - 24 in

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unable to read 4 bytes

2009-11-09 Thread Stephen Vaughan
I would say its a file permissions error on the server in which your restoring to. On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Micha Silver wrote: > I am unable to restore to linux servers. Backups are running fine, and I > rechecked that I can ssh as user backuppc from the backup server (Centos > 5.4) dire

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup

2009-11-12 Thread Stephen Vaughan
you can take yourself off you goose On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:14 AM, paul wilkinson wrote: > cannot be used for xp take me off your mailing list please > > paul > > > > > > -- > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting

Re: [BackupPC-users] How big is your backup?

2009-12-31 Thread Stephen Vaughan
Consider looking at SAS drives.. On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Peter Vratny wrote: > Gerald Brandt wrote: > > How many servers and how much data do you backup using BackupPC? > > There are 89 hosts that have been backed up, for a total of: > * 580 full backups of total size 5596.07GB (prior t

[BackupPC-users] Pushing backups from a client machine

2006-02-16 Thread Stephen Vaughan
Does anyone know if it is possible to push a backup from a client TO backuppc? I've got several boxes running rsyncd and backuppc calls them to send data back and forth. I have a box that is firewalled and I want to be able to still backup this machine, but in the other direction. So the client mac

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pushing backups from a client machine

2006-02-18 Thread Stephen Vaughan
ok cheers guys will have a look at it on mondayOn 2/18/06, Dan Pritts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:27:54PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 22:08, Stephen Vaughan wrote: > > Does anyone know if it is possible to push a backup from a client

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommended distro to run Backuppc on

2006-02-20 Thread Stephen Vaughan
nah Centos is yuk, you want Debian or Ubuntu..  yum is about as slow as my grandmaOn 2/21/06, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 14:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:> I have tried Fedora core 5 (Core 4 doesn't have the right drivers for> my motherboard) and it's only in test

[BackupPC-users] rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30)

2006-03-06 Thread Stephen Vaughan
I'm having problems backing up one of my servers. The backup goes for about 1 1/2 hours then it just cuts out and says timeout error. I've got my timeout in rsyncd.conf set to 800. I've got ignore errors turned on, I've got ignore nonreadable turned on.. but I just can't seem to get it to backup. T

[BackupPC-users] Full backups - how are they filled

2006-03-08 Thread Stephen Vaughan
If I make a full backup say today, and I run 29 days of incrementals then run a full backup on day 30, will the full backup fill in the difference from the 29 days of incrementals+ the first full backup? Or will it just download the entire full backup from the machine?-- Best Regards,Stephen

[BackupPC-users] backing up files that change during backup

2006-03-08 Thread Stephen Vaughan
Is there anyway to get backuppc to continue to backup regardless of errors? I had it backing up a 2gb db file, and during the transfer the file was modified and backuppc recognised this and aborted the backup. Remote[1]: send_files failed to open misc/backups/netchant-db.blobdump: No such file or d

Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up files that change during backup

2006-03-08 Thread Stephen Vaughan
xited prematurely) On 3/9/06, Craig Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stephen Vaughan writes:> Is there anyway to get backuppc to continue to backup regardless of> errors? I had it backing up a 2gb db file, and during the transfer the> file was modified and backuppc recognised this an

[BackupPC-users] Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely)

2006-03-09 Thread Stephen Vaughan
I am having nothing but trouble with doing backups.. I have a backup i'm trying to, its at least 1,000,000 files.. it takes over an hour to build the list...and it seems to start coping files but then just randonmly exists, as shown below.. and it does it at different stages all the time, so its no

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely)

2006-03-14 Thread Stephen Vaughan
didn't fix it.. i think mine is a RAM issue, keep running out of memory so it just randomly crashesOn 3/10/06, Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:El Viernes, 10 de Marzo de 2006 03:58, Stephen Vaughan escribió:   SV > I am having nothing but trouble with doing back

[BackupPC-users] Tried again: got 0 bytes - backup for a large server

2006-03-23 Thread Stephen Vaughan
I'm still having troubles backing up one of my servers. Below is a log of the error, I was getting a lot of "No such file or directory" found errors, mainly because i'd say the files were either deleted or moved since the rsync list was compiled. Originally it was crashing because there wasn't enou

[BackupPC-users] Read EOF - Tried again: got 0 bytes

2006-03-27 Thread Stephen Vaughan
I keep getting these errors with random files. I am trying to backup a server that has in excess of 1,000,000 files. The box has 2gigs of ram. It just seems to crash on random files, doesn't matter whether they are .html, pdf or whatever.. I've increased the timeout in the config.pl - that did noth

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't open for empty output

2006-04-03 Thread Stephen Vaughan
I'm getting the same problem now aswell... It creates the list of files to be copied and then just shits itself with the following errors over and over: Can't open /var/lib/backuppc/pc/xxx.xxx.net/new//fopt/ for empty output   create 0 /   0 On 4/4/06, Dan D Niles <[EMAIL PROTE

[BackupPC-users] backup failures

2006-04-13 Thread Stephen Vaughan
I'm performing a backup on a folder which contains about 1,000,00 files spread over about 10,000 folders. I'm using rsync 2.6.4 on both the backuppc server and the machine I am trying to backup. I can't workout why I keep getting this problem... I'm doing an incremental backup and it gets to a part