Steve Willoughby writes: > I'm just getting started with BackupPC and up until the last machine I added, > things were going fairly well. I'm backing up to a 250Gb external USB drive, > which is being incredibly slow. It's taken it something like 4 days to > perform > the BackupPC_dump operation, and about another 4 days now to run > BackupPC_link. > > I've already figured out why it's being so slow in the first place, and will > be correcting it as soon as this finishes running, but the behaivor of > BackupPC in relation to this running job is a little unclear from what I've > read in the docs. > > It looks like the BackupPC_link is preventing any other job from starting. > I have other backups in the queue, but the status page says "idle; nothing > to do" for them. Is there something about BackupPC_link that can't allow > any other backups or restores to start while it runs? > > Is there a way to look at the current server status and actually see > what's queued up and what's blocking each job from starting?
It's actually a pending BackupPC_nightly that is preventing new backups from starting. Each night BackupPC_nightly is queued, and while it is queued no new backups will be started. Since the existing BackupPC_link takes a long time to finish, BackupPC_nightly is still pending, and no new backups will start (unless you start one manually). At most a single BackupPC_link or BackupPC_nightly can run. BackupPC_dump can run in parallel with BackupPC_link, but not BackupPC_nightly. I am considering methods for the next release to reliably decouple BackupPC_dump from BackupPC_nightly. Craig ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
