Re: [BackupPC-users] Why does my rsync backup takes 7 hours?

2010-09-21 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 09/15 04:49 , Les Mikesell wrote: Perhaps you could start a run manually when going to lunch or some other known slack time. Or maybe the bulk of files could be moved to an always-on server and mapped back to this machine for access. I have a couple of client locations where I use cron

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why does my rsync backup takes 7 hours?

2010-09-21 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom chr...@real-time.com wrote: On 09/15 04:49 , Les Mikesell wrote: Perhaps you could start a run manually when going to lunch or some other known slack time.  Or maybe the bulk of files could be moved to an always-on server and mapped back

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why does my rsync backup takes 7 hours?

2010-09-15 Thread George Adams
on in the morning, used sporadically (but consistently) during the day, then turned off at night. Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:38:49 -0500 From: lesmikes...@gmail.com To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Why does my rsync backup takes 7 hours? That seems slow

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why does my rsync backup takes 7 hours?

2010-09-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/15/2010 4:22 PM, George Adams wrote: Thanks for the replies, Kenneth and Les. Kenneth, do you find that SMB is faster than rsync for backing up Windows boxes? Les, that' not good news if 2-3 hour incremental backups and 7 hour full backups are par for the course. Is the slowdown due

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why does my rsync backup takes 7 hours?

2010-09-15 Thread Jeff Schmidt
On Wed, September 15, 2010 16:22, George Adams wrote: Thanks for the replies, Kenneth and Les.  Kenneth, do you find that SMB is faster than rsync for backing up Windows boxes? Les, that' not good news if 2-3 hour incremental backups and 7 hour full backups are par for the course.  Is the

[BackupPC-users] Why does my rsync backup takes 7 hours?

2010-09-13 Thread George Adams
Hi, all.  I'm running BackupPC 3.1.0 on a Linux server (in my home), using it to backup my WinXP box (on the same network) via rsync (which is run as a service under WinXP via Cygwin). The process seems to work, but it's really, really slow.  Here's what I mean: Backup# Type Filled Level

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why does my rsync backup takes 7 hours?

2010-09-13 Thread Kenneth L. Owen
Hi George, I run BackupPC on Ubuntu Linux to backup my data. Several years ago, I was running a windows network with a file server housing all of the data. I am trying desperately to totally stop using windows, but it's tough when so many vendors will only support Windows systems. But that is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why does my rsync backup takes 7 hours?

2010-09-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/13/10 10:26 PM, George Adams wrote: Hi, all. I'm running BackupPC 3.1.0 on a Linux server (in my home), using it to backup my WinXP box (on the same network) via rsync (which is run as a service under WinXP via Cygwin). The process seems to work, but it's really, really slow. Here's