Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2008-02-21 Thread Nick Webb
Rich Rauenzahn wrote: dan wrote: no, incrementals are more efficient on bandwidth. they do a less strenuous test to determine if a file has changed. at the expense of CPU power on both sides, you can compress the rsync traffic either with rsync -z Have you tried rsync -z? Last I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2008-02-21 Thread David Rees
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Nick Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rich Rauenzahn wrote: dan wrote: no, incrementals are more efficient on bandwidth. they do a less strenuous test to determine if a file has changed. at the expense of CPU power on both sides, you can compress

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2008-02-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Nick Webb wrote: Rich Rauenzahn wrote: dan wrote: no, incrementals are more efficient on bandwidth. they do a less strenuous test to determine if a file has changed. at the expense of CPU power on both sides, you can compress the rsync traffic either with rsync -z Have you tried rsync

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2008-02-21 Thread Nick Webb
David Rees wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Nick Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rich Rauenzahn wrote: As Rich said, BackupPC's rsync modules don't support compression. SSH compression should work fine, though. -Dave Yeah, but ssh compression isn't working for me either. Here is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2008-02-19 Thread Nick Webb
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: On 11/28 09:39 , Tim Hall wrote: Are there any known backuppc tweaks/settings that are proven to increase transfer performance over wan links? Specifically with using rsyncd or rsync as the transfer method. . . . . If you're running =v3 the following

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2008-02-19 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
If you're running =v3 the following option will make all the incrementals sync against the previous incremental, instead of the last full. This keeps them from growing quite as quickly. (It's the behavior you expect from rsync). $Conf{IncrLevels} = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]; I was under

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2008-02-19 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 02/19 05:53 , Raman Gupta wrote: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: If you're running =v3 the following option will make all the incrementals sync against the previous incremental, instead of the last full. This keeps them from growing quite as quickly. (It's the behavior you expect from

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2008-02-19 Thread dan
i looked at my archive history hear and i have a number of hosts than do incrementals take like 6 minutes and fulls like 46 minutes On Feb 19, 2008 4:07 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/19 05:53 , Raman Gupta wrote: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: If you're

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2008-02-19 Thread dan
no, incrementals are more efficient on bandwidth. they do a less strenuous test to determine if a file has changed. at the expense of CPU power on both sides, you can compress the rsync traffic either with rsync -z or if you are using ssh then with ssh's compression. if you REALLY wanted to go

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2008-02-19 Thread Rich Rauenzahn
dan wrote: no, incrementals are more efficient on bandwidth. they do a less strenuous test to determine if a file has changed. at the expense of CPU power on both sides, you can compress the rsync traffic either with rsync -z Have you tried rsync -z? Last I heard, BackupPC's rsync

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2008-02-19 Thread Nick Webb
Rich Rauenzahn wrote: dan wrote: no, incrementals are more efficient on bandwidth. they do a less strenuous test to determine if a file has changed. at the expense of CPU power on both sides, you can compress the rsync traffic either with rsync -z Have you tried rsync -z? Last I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2007-11-29 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 11/28 09:39 , Tim Hall wrote: Are there any known backuppc tweaks/settings that are proven to increase transfer performance over wan links? Specifically with using rsyncd or rsync as the transfer method. the -C option to compress your SSH data is highly recommended. Also, going with '-c

[BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2007-11-28 Thread Tim Hall
Hi, new to backuppc, I want to use to send my backups across the Internet (DSL) to an offsite server. Are there any known backuppc tweaks/settings that are proven to increase transfer performance over wan links? Specifically with using rsyncd or rsync as the transfer method. For example a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2007-11-28 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Hall wrote: Hi, new to backuppc, I want to use to send my backups across the Internet (DSL) to an offsite server. Are there any known backuppc tweaks/settings that are proven to increase transfer performance over wan links? Specifically