Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2016-01-11 19:04 GMT+01:00 Les Mikesell : > Are you sure the full completely succeeded? If not it might have > been marked as a 'partial' which would be replaced by a subsequent run > with more files. 100% sure, i've seen backups marked as "full". Ok for "partial" backups, but at least 1 full (t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > 2016-01-11 18:53 GMT+01:00 Gandalf Corvotempesta > : >> I would like to add more ram, but i'm waiting for current backup to >> end from this Friday > > Anyway, 2 days ago I had 1 full backup completed. a couple of hours > aft

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2016-01-11 18:53 GMT+01:00 Gandalf Corvotempesta : > I would like to add more ram, but i'm waiting for current backup to > end from this Friday Anyway, 2 days ago I had 1 full backup completed. a couple of hours after, an incremental was started and completed the following day. Yesterday a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2016-01-11 18:47 GMT+01:00 Les Mikesell : > What about RAM and disk speed? 2GB and standard SATA disks @7200 Tomorrow (if backup will end) i'll add more ram up to 4GB or 8GB > In any case you might check > to see if the server side has free RAM and is not swapping to disk. Actually i'm using 146

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > 2016-01-11 17:28 GMT+01:00 Les Mikesell : >> I haven't used v4 but it sounds like you have some issue with your >> network, rsync, or lack of resources. The main difference between a >> full and incremental should just be that the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2016-01-11 18:18 GMT+01:00 Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom : > For initial transfers, rsync is notably slower than tar or the like (I don't > remember how Bacula does it). After the initial transfers tho, it should get > faster. If you're still seeing this slowness after a couple of transfers, > there prob

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/11 05:58 , Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > I don't have any issue with my network, the same server, with Bacula > (i'm running Bacula and BackupPC on the same server, obviously one per > time) > will backup the same huge client in 16 hours, not 3 days. > > Same server, same disks, same networ

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2016-01-11 17:28 GMT+01:00 Les Mikesell : > I haven't used v4 but it sounds like you have some issue with your > network, rsync, or lack of resources. The main difference between a > full and incremental should just be that the full will do a complete > read on the client side. The actual data

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > 2016-01-11 15:38 GMT+01:00 Les Mikesell : >> Also note that with backuppc it is generally better to run fulls more >> frequently, since unlike other backup programs they don't much >> additional space. And, unless your timing requir

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2016-01-11 15:38 GMT+01:00 Les Mikesell : > Also note that with backuppc it is generally better to run fulls more > frequently, since unlike other backup programs they don't much > additional space. And, unless your timing requirements are extremely > tight it is better to let the server do the s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 01/11 09:32 , Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: >> 2016-01-11 3:03 GMT+01:00 Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom : >> > I don't know v4, but in v3 we generally do this with a cron job. Something >> > like this, which causes a job to go off on Sep

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/11 09:32 , Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > 2016-01-11 3:03 GMT+01:00 Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom : > > I don't know v4, but in v3 we generally do this with a cron job. Something > > like this, which causes a job to go off on September 7th. > > 00 01 7 9 * backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2016-01-11 3:03 GMT+01:00 Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom : > I don't know v4, but in v3 we generally do this with a cron job. Something > like this, which causes a job to go off on September 7th. > 00 01 7 9 * backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup > host.example.com host.example.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-10 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/09 01:58 , Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > in v4, I would like to schedule a full backup on first Saturday for > each month, for example, 6th of February, 5th of March, 2nd of April, > and so on. > All other days, an incremental should be done. I don't know v4, but in v3 we generally do this

[BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-09 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
Hi, in v4, I would like to schedule a full backup on first Saturday for each month, for example, 6th of February, 5th of March, 2nd of April, and so on. All other days, an incremental should be done. Is this possible ? --