Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manually add a single file to a backed up host

2008-01-21 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich Rauenzahn wrote: > > > Les Mikesell wrote: >> Adam Goryachev wrote: >> >>> In this case, it no longer matters, and for those that are interested in >>> how to use rsync to transfer a 20G file full of 0's in a few minutes >>> over a very slow

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manually add a single file to a backed up host

2008-01-15 Thread Rich Rauenzahn
Les Mikesell wrote: Adam Goryachev wrote: In this case, it no longer matters, and for those that are interested in how to use rsync to transfer a 20G file full of 0's in a few minutes over a very slow connection, here is how: rsync --partial --progress source destination Then, cancel the t

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manually add a single file to a backed up host

2008-01-14 Thread Les Mikesell
Adam Goryachev wrote: > > In this case, it no longer matters, and for those that are interested in > how to use rsync to transfer a 20G file full of 0's in a few minutes > over a very slow connection, here is how: > > rsync --partial --progress source destination > Then, cancel the transfer after

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manually add a single file to a backed up host

2008-01-14 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig Barratt wrote: > Adam writes: > >> But now my backup is timeing out on this file, and it doesn't even run >> long enough to backup this entire file, so it removes the file each time >> it attempts to run the backup. > > What sort of timeout do

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manually add a single file to a backed up host

2008-01-14 Thread Craig Barratt
Adam writes: > But now my backup is timeing out on this file, and it doesn't even run > long enough to backup this entire file, so it removes the file each time > it attempts to run the backup. What sort of timeout do you get? If it is an ALARM signal you should significantly increase $Conf{Clie

[BackupPC-users] How to manually add a single file to a backed up host

2008-01-13 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have backuppc doing backups of my remote system using rsync, which is working well. Recently, I created a 10G file on the remote system like this: dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1M count=10240 Or whatever, so the file is not a sparse file or anyth