Re: [BackupPC-users] Back-up to another host

2006-10-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 09:38, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > > > >>> Out of curiosity how long did it take and how big was the entire data > >>> size on the first run? did it eat up all the cpu time when running? > >> As I remember, it took a couple of hours; but I was copying from one HDD > >> to a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Back-up to another host

2006-10-29 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 04:13, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > >>> Out of curiosity how long did it take and how big was the entire data >>> size on the first run? did it eat up all the cpu time when running? >> As I remember, it took a couple of hours; but I was copying from one

Re: [BackupPC-users] Back-up to another host

2006-10-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 04:13, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > > Out of curiosity how long did it take and how big was the entire data > > size on the first run? did it eat up all the cpu time when running? > > As I remember, it took a couple of hours; but I was copying from one HDD > to another. > I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Back-up to another host

2006-10-29 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Les Stott wrote: I know of people who do it; but they're doing it on machines with more memory and fewer files. >> Just add lots of swap. >> >> I was able to rsync an archive with several million files on a machine >> with just 256 MB RAM; it had several gigabytes of swap. >>

Re: [BackupPC-users] Back-up to another host

2006-10-29 Thread Les Stott
>>> I know of people who do it; but they're doing it on machines with more >>> memory and fewer files. >>> > > Just add lots of swap. > > I was able to rsync an archive with several million files on a machine > with just 256 MB RAM; it had several gigabytes of swap. > > > Out of curiosi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Back-up to another host

2006-10-29 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Rodrigo Real wrote: > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On 10/28 10:23 , Rodrigo Real wrote: >>> Can't you install rsync on 10.0.0.254? That should be the easiest way, >>> rsync can preserve hard links with the -H option, additionally it >>> would transfer only the differenc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Back-up to another host

2006-10-28 Thread Rodrigo Real
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10/28 10:23 , Rodrigo Real wrote: >> Can't you install rsync on 10.0.0.254? That should be the easiest way, >> rsync can preserve hard links with the -H option, additionally it >> would transfer only the differences between the two hosts. >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Back-up to another host

2006-10-28 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 10/28 10:23 , Rodrigo Real wrote: > Can't you install rsync on 10.0.0.254? That should be the easiest way, > rsync can preserve hard links with the -H option, additionally it > would transfer only the differences between the two hosts. on the topic of server replication; the problem with using

Re: [BackupPC-users] Back-up to another host

2006-10-28 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Rodrigo Real wrote: > "Paul Guijt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi Paul > >> Dear all, >> >> I run BackupPC on system 10.0.0.170, and would like to backup to system >> 10.0.0.254. System 10.0.0.254 can't run BackupPC, but can be reached through >> ftp and SMB. > > You want some sort of rep

Re: [BackupPC-users] Back-up to another host

2006-10-28 Thread Rodrigo Real
"Paul Guijt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Paul > Dear all, > > I run BackupPC on system 10.0.0.170, and would like to backup to system > 10.0.0.254. System 10.0.0.254 can't run BackupPC, but can be reached through > ftp and SMB. You want some sort of replication? I think that the main prob

[BackupPC-users] Back-up to another host

2006-10-28 Thread Paul Guijt
Dear all,   I run BackupPC on system 10.0.0.170, and would like to backup to system 10.0.0.254. System 10.0.0.254 can't run BackupPC, but can be reached through ftp and SMB.   Is that possible? And how? I'm new to BackupPC, so please forgive me if the question has been answered earlier. I