Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups tooo slow over WAN - how to split them

2011-03-16 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 03/15 03:44 , Linux Punk wrote: You could just keep the one machine entry, but use the exclude options to only back up a small portion of the machine. Once that completes gradually remove directories from the excluded list until the full backup completes fine. This assumes that most of your

[BackupPC-users] Backups tooo slow over WAN - how to split them

2011-03-15 Thread David Herring
I'm trying to backup windows servers with approx 3 partitions of 100G each over a WAN link. This takes 'days' to run and never successfully completes. I'm using rsyncd on the windows machines - and the backup is to a ubuntu server. So, how do you split the backups from a single machine - do you

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups tooo slow over WAN - how to split them

2011-03-15 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 3/15/2011 3:49 PM, David Herring wrote: I'm trying to backup windows servers with approx 3 partitions of 100G each over a WAN link. This takes 'days' to run and never successfully completes. I'm using rsyncd on the windows machines - and the backup is to a ubuntu server. So, how do you

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups tooo slow over WAN - how to split them

2011-03-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/15/2011 3:23 PM, David Herring wrote: New to this list - not sure if my first post worked - so am resending I'm trying to backup windows servers with approx 3 partitions of 100G each over a WAN link. I'm using rsyncd on the windows machines - and the backup is to a ubuntu server.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups tooo slow over WAN - how to split them

2011-03-15 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Bowie Bailey wrote at about 16:39:59 -0400 on Tuesday, March 15, 2011: On 3/15/2011 3:49 PM, David Herring wrote: I'm trying to backup windows servers with approx 3 partitions of 100G each over a WAN link. This takes 'days' to run and never successfully completes. I'm using rsyncd on

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups tooo slow over WAN - how to split them

2011-03-15 Thread Linux Punk
You could just keep the one machine entry, but use the exclude options to only back up a small portion of the machine. Once that completes gradually remove directories from the excluded list until the full backup completes fine. This assumes that most of your data is static and that any files that