Re: [BackupPC-users] Update to 3.0

2007-02-21 Thread David Rees
On 2/20/07, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/20 12:39 , Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: All my clients are servers with fast connections. I'll take MaxBackups down to 1 then. I haven't done any thorough empirical testing on this, but I suspect that MaxBackups=2 would

Re: [BackupPC-users] Update to 3.0

2007-02-20 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Les Mikesell wrote: You are probably short on RAM when you add in the nightly run. Tuning down the number of concurrent backups might help. That probably shouldn't be higher than the number of processors in the server anyway unless you have some low-bandwidth connections to handle.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Update to 3.0

2007-02-20 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 02/20 12:39 , Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: All my clients are servers with fast connections. I'll take MaxBackups down to 1 then. I haven't done any thorough empirical testing on this, but I suspect that MaxBackups=2 would give you higher throughput overall (tho not individually). the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Update to 3.0

2007-02-19 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi there, I just wanted to report that my upgrade to 3.0 (from 2.1.1) worked without a glitch! And backups are significantly faster, too! It now backups all 21 servers each night while 2.1.1 only accomplished about 12 to 15. Very nice work! Thanks a lot. Tino. PS: I will give a talk about

Re: [BackupPC-users] Update to 3.0

2007-02-19 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Tino Schwarze wrote: I just wanted to report that my upgrade to 3.0 (from 2.1.1) worked without a glitch! And backups are significantly faster, too! It now backups all 21 servers each night while 2.1.1 only accomplished about 12 to 15. Sadly I'm seeing the opposite: most backups are failing

Re: [BackupPC-users] Update to 3.0

2007-02-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: Tino Schwarze wrote: I just wanted to report that my upgrade to 3.0 (from 2.1.1) worked without a glitch! And backups are significantly faster, too! It now backups all 21 servers each night while 2.1.1 only accomplished about 12 to 15. Sadly I'm seeing the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Update to 3.0

2007-02-19 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Les Mikesell wrote: Sadly I'm seeing the opposite: most backups are failing (aborted by signal=PIPE / Child exited prematurely) and they especially seem to be failing when the nightly/trashClean jobs are also running (which wasn't possible under 2.1). Under 2.1 everything worked just

Re: [BackupPC-users] Update to 3.0

2007-02-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: You are probably short on RAM when you add in the nightly run. Tuning down the number of concurrent backups might help. That probably shouldn't be higher than the number of processors in the server anyway unless you have some low-bandwidth connections to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Update to 3.0

2007-01-29 Thread Klaas Vantournhout
Hi Christophe, I would not really worry about an update. I have always updated without a single problem and this since version 1 of BackupPC. If you install BackupPC, untar the file in a new directory (for backupreaasons if things go wrong, you should still have the old install dir of your

[BackupPC-users] Update to 3.0

2007-01-28 Thread Ourliac Christophe
Good morning to all, Now that release for version 3.0 has been done, I want to change version. But I have doubts about what should be update method ? I have backuppc running (version 2.x) on computer and many backups existing. Should I follow standard installation as mentioned in