[BackupPC-users] backuppc 3.0.0: another xfs problem?

2008-12-18 Thread Thomas Smith
Hi, I'm running BackupPC 3.0.0 under Ubuntu. I'm having problems similar to the ones some people have had with 3.1.0 on XFS, but I also did some other odd things before this started happening, so I want to relate the whole scenario, in case I did something else to break it. I accidentally corrup

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 3.0.0: another xfs problem?

2008-12-18 Thread Thomas Smith
t; tarball, that the hardlinking wasn't handled correctly in the tar > compression. BackupPC_nightly would have been re-establishing the > de-duplication between the pc/ and pool/ directories all in one go, > which could reasonably take that long. > > On Thu, Dec 18, 200

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 3.0.0: another xfs problem?

2008-12-18 Thread Thomas Smith
Hi everyone, thanks for the help! Today around noon I remounted the backup disk with noatime, and then it only took another three hours, rather than another 10, which is exciting. I just remounted with nodiratime so we'll see if that makes any difference in tonight's run. I'm pretty sure that th

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 3.0.0: another xfs problem?

2008-12-19 Thread Thomas Smith
is is getting more reasonable. -Thomas On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Thomas Smith wrote: > Hi everyone, thanks for the help! > > Today around noon I remounted the backup disk with noatime, and then > it only took another three hours, rather than another 10, which is > exciting. I

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 3.0.0: another xfs problem?

2008-12-20 Thread Thomas Smith
Hi, The server seems to be at a good level of performance now (1 hour and 45 minutes), thank you all for your help! Retrospective, for people coming across this thread later and wanting to fix backuppc xfs performance problems: To fix this problem, I set the noatime and nodiratime options on the