Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another filesystem thread

2011-07-03 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Holger Parplies wrote at about 19:31:14 +0200 on Sunday, July 3, 2011: > While the comments in config.pl state > > # This can be set to a string, an array of strings, or, in the case > # of multiple shares, a hash of strings or arrays. > > that is actually incorrect. A hash of strings mak

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another filesystem thread

2011-07-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/3/11 12:31 PM, Holger Parplies wrote: > > unless I missed something, I'd say XFS is perfectly stable - more stable than > reiserfs in any case. The only thing that makes me hesitate with that > statement > is Les' remark "XFS should also be OK on 64-bit systems" - why only on 64 bit > systems

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another filesystem thread

2011-07-03 Thread Doug Lytle
Holger Parplies wrote: > unless I missed something, I'd say XFS is perfectly stable - more stable than > reiserfs in any case. The only thing that makes me hesitate with that > statement > is Les' remark "XFS should also be OK on 64-bit systems" - why only on 64 bit I thought the same thing. I'm

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another filesystem thread

2011-07-03 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, C. Ronoz wrote on 2011-06-30 12:54:44 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another filesystem thread]: > [...] > >> - How stable is XFS? unless I missed something, I'd say XFS is perfectly stable - more stable than reiserfs in any case. The only thing that makes me hesitate wi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another filesystem thread

2011-06-30 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/30/2011 9:09 AM, C. Ronoz wrote: > > I see how you use excludes to exclude back-ups of files with specific > extensions, but then how do I now exclude specific paths per host? > > I am planning to back-up about 15 Linux webservers with different roles. Some > host specific archives that take

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another filesystem thread

2011-06-30 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:09 AM, C. Ronoz wrote: > I see how you use excludes to exclude back-ups of files with specific > extensions, but then how do I now exclude specific paths per host? Well, it's not file specific. Some of those are directories. On a per host basis you just override the sy

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another filesystem thread

2011-06-30 Thread C. Ronoz
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 07:56:59AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:54 AM, C. Ronoz wrote: > > I found out that BackupPC is ignoring my Excludes though, while I have a > > 15GB /pub partition. > > This could explain why the run takes longer, but it should still finish > > w

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another filesystem thread

2011-06-30 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:54 AM, C. Ronoz wrote: > I found out that BackupPC is ignoring my Excludes though, while I have a 15GB > /pub partition. > This could explain why the run takes longer, but it should still finish > within an hour? > Rsnapshot runs were always lightning fast, network is 1

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another filesystem thread

2011-06-30 Thread C. Ronoz
>> What filesystem should I use? It seems ext4 and reiserfs are the only viable >> options. I just hate the slowness of ext3 for rm -rf hardlink jobs, while >> xfs and btrfs seem to be very unstable. >> >> - How stable is XFS? >> - Is reiserfs (much) better at hard-link removal? >> - Is reiserfs

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another filesystem thread

2011-06-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/29/2011 9:31 AM, C. Ronoz wrote: > What filesystem should I use? It seems ext4 and reiserfs are the only viable > options. I just hate the slowness of ext3 for rm -rf hardlink jobs, while xfs > and btrfs seem to be very unstable. > > - How stable is XFS? > - Is reiserfs (much) better at hard

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another filesystem thread

2011-06-29 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
C. Ronoz wrote at about 16:31:33 +0200 on Wednesday, June 29, 2011: > What filesystem should I use? It seems ext4 and reiserfs are the only viable > options. I just hate the slowness of ext3 for rm -rf hardlink jobs, while > xfs and btrfs seem to be very unstable. > > - How stable is XFS?

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another filesystem thread

2011-06-29 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 6/29/2011 10:31 AM, C. Ronoz wrote: > What filesystem should I use? It seems ext4 and reiserfs are the only viable > options. I just hate the slowness of ext3 for rm -rf hardlink jobs, while xfs > and btrfs seem to be very unstable. > > - How stable is XFS? > - Is reiserfs (much) better at har

[BackupPC-users] Yet another filesystem thread

2011-06-29 Thread C. Ronoz
What filesystem should I use? It seems ext4 and reiserfs are the only viable options. I just hate the slowness of ext3 for rm -rf hardlink jobs, while xfs and btrfs seem to be very unstable. - How stable is XFS? - Is reiserfs (much) better at hard-link removal? - Is reiserfs (much) less stable c