Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental Seems To Backup Whole System

2010-03-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/3/2010 8:37 AM, Mike Bydalek wrote: > I hate bring this up again, but after taking advice from Les and John, > I'm not seeing what I think I should be seeing. After changing my > current config to the one below, I started to have incr, incr, full, > incr, incr, full, but the full's were doing

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental Seems To Backup Whole System

2010-03-03 Thread Bowie Bailey
Mike Bydalek wrote: > I hate bring this up again, but after taking advice from Les and John, > I'm not seeing what I think I should be seeing. After changing my > current config to the one below, I started to have incr, incr, full, > incr, incr, full, but the full's were doing the entire 600G. > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental Seems To Backup Whole System

2010-03-03 Thread Mike Bydalek
I hate bring this up again, but after taking advice from Les and John, I'm not seeing what I think I should be seeing. After changing my current config to the one below, I started to have incr, incr, full, incr, incr, full, but the full's were doing the entire 600G. Here's what I have for my Host

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental Seems To Backup Whole System

2010-02-19 Thread Mike Bydalek
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Timothy J Massey wrote: > Mike Bydalek wrote on 02/19/2010 > 11:28:25 AM: > >> Thanks for all the input.  I'm starting to fully understand how >> BackupPC scheduling is working now.  My apologies for not stating that >> I was/am using rsync as it is the only choic

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental Seems To Backup Whole System

2010-02-19 Thread Timothy J Massey
Mike Bydalek wrote on 02/19/2010 11:28:25 AM: > Thanks for all the input. I'm starting to fully understand how > BackupPC scheduling is working now. My apologies for not stating that > I was/am using rsync as it is the only choice that makes sense =) In which case, after your first (potential

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental Seems To Backup Whole System

2010-02-19 Thread Mike Bydalek
All, Thanks for all the input. I'm starting to fully understand how BackupPC scheduling is working now. My apologies for not stating that I was/am using rsync as it is the only choice that makes sense =) On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Craig Barratt wrote: > Mike, > >> Backup#         Type  

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental Seems To Backup Whole System

2010-02-18 Thread Craig Barratt
Mike, > Backup# TypeComp Level Size/MB Comp/MB Comp > Size/MB Comp/MB Comp > 0 full3 78446.6 45871.8 41.5% 258032.2 > 155715.639.7% > 2 incr3 276482.0165123.840.3%

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental Seems To Backup Whole System

2010-02-18 Thread Timothy J Massey
Mike Bydalek wrote on 02/18/2010 08:06:15 PM: > After re-reading the documentation for {IncrLevels} again the > configuration settings are starting to make sense. The only question > I have left is, does creating a new "full" backup *have* to do the > entire full backup again? Can't it just pe

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental Seems To Backup Whole System

2010-02-18 Thread Les Mikesell
Mike Bydalek wrote: > > > After re-reading the documentation for {IncrLevels} again the > configuration settings are starting to make sense. The only question > I have left is, does creating a new "full" backup *have* to do the > entire full backup again? Can't it just perform an increment and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental Seems To Backup Whole System

2010-02-18 Thread John Rouillard
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 06:06:15PM -0700, Mike Bydalek wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:04 PM, John Rouillard > wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 07:51:13AM -0700, Mike Bydalek wrote: > >> My question is, why did backups 13 and 14 backup all that data?  Same > >> with 2 and 7 for that matter.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental Seems To Backup Whole System

2010-02-18 Thread Kameleon
I can speak from experience on the matter of a slow link back to the backuppc server. We have mutliple sites that we backup to a central backuppc server. 2 of the sites have a 256k upload and 2 others are T1's. The only issue is getting the initial full. What I did on the 2 local (256k) sites is ta

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental Seems To Backup Whole System

2010-02-18 Thread Mike Bydalek
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:04 PM, John Rouillard wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 07:51:13AM -0700, Mike Bydalek wrote: >> My question is, why did backups 13 and 14 backup all that data?  Same >> with 2 and 7 for that matter. > > What level are your incremental backups? if backup 2 was at level 1

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental Seems To Backup Whole System

2010-02-18 Thread John Rouillard
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 07:51:13AM -0700, Mike Bydalek wrote: > Recently I've started using BackupPC to backup my file server and am > seeing some things that just don't quite make much sense. Lately > backups have been taking quite some time, in fact the current one > started on 2/16 @ 11pm and i

[BackupPC-users] Incremental Seems To Backup Whole System

2010-02-18 Thread Mike Bydalek
Hello. Recently I've started using BackupPC to backup my file server and am seeing some things that just don't quite make much sense. Lately backups have been taking quite some time, in fact the current one started on 2/16 @ 11pm and is still running. I do have a lot of data, around 330G, but no