[rdiff-backup-users] Re: parallelized rdiff-backup running on multiple hosts connected to shared source and destination filesystems and reporting scripts

2008-06-25 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
Hi, > directories to backup. Each process will open a file called > rdiff-backup-data/prdiff-backup.running (under various destination > dirs), then lock the file using advisory locking (to make sure it > doesn't collide with other rdiff-backup jobs trying to backup to the > same destination direc

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [PATCH] makedist on Windows

2008-06-25 Thread Andrew Ferguson
On Jun 22, 2008, at 1:29 AM, Josh Nisly wrote: Here is another, simpler patch. This makes so that the makedist script works on Windows, by using native python functions instead of unix programs. The patch only uses the python functions if it's running on windows, because some of the module

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [PATCH] Optimization for --check-destination

2008-06-25 Thread Andrew Ferguson
On Jun 25, 2008, at 10:24 AM, Josh Nisly wrote: Actually, since the optimization affects determining whether the destination needs checking, it speeds up all backups. What is happening is that we are going through the rdiff-backup-data directory, looking for current_mirror files. But for ea

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] problem with rdiff-backup

2008-06-25 Thread Dave Kempe
Madan Kumar wrote: Hi all, I am new to rdiff-backup. No doubt that it provides great functionality but I am facing problem with it, please do me some needfull.   I am using rdiff-backup on windows Vista and on XP. I have downloaded the setup.exe for windows by following the

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [PATCH] Optimization for --check-destination

2008-06-25 Thread Dave Kempe
Josh Nisly wrote: I've been backing up to a repository daily for a year and a half, and over my 300ms latency link, it takes >30 minutes to run --check-destination, which runs for over 30 minutes, then says, "Fatal Error: Destination dir does not need checking." With this patch, it takes about

[rdiff-backup-users] [PATCH] Optimization for --check-destination

2008-06-25 Thread Josh Nisly
Actually, since the optimization affects determining whether the destination needs checking, it speeds up all backups. What is happening is that we are going through the rdiff-backup-data directory, looking for current_mirror files. But for each file in the directory, we instantiate an RORPath

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] one more bug in rdiff-backup-1.1.16

2008-06-25 Thread Andrew Ferguson
On Jun 25, 2008, at 3:19 AM, Oliver Hookins wrote: Not sure if this is at all related to what's been going on in this thread but I just started using 1.1.16 to backup one host and it has been having similar errors: No, not related (I don't think), but a separate bug that came up earlier

[rdiff-backup-users] problem with rdiff-backup

2008-06-25 Thread Madan Kumar
Hi all, I am new to rdiff-backup. No doubt that it provides great functionality but I am facing problem with it, please do me some needfull. I am using rdiff-backup on windows Vista and on XP. I have downloaded the setup.exe for windows by following the link http://solutionsfirst.com.au/~dave/ba

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] one more bug in rdiff-backup-1.1.16

2008-06-25 Thread Oliver Hookins
Not sure if this is at all related to what's been going on in this thread but I just started using 1.1.16 to backup one host and it has been having similar errors: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/backup/1.1.16/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ? rdiff_backup.Main.error_check_Main(sys.