On 2007/04/23 05:53 AM, Alex Schaft wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:      Re: [BackupPC-users] Archive problem
> Date:         Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:21:55 +0200
> From:         Alex Schaft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To:   Craig Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> References:   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>
> On 2007/04/22 09:14 AM, Craig Barratt wrote:
>   
>> Alex writes:
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> I've just upgraded to version 3, and all of a sudden my archive went 
>>> from 7 hours to under 1 hour.
>>>     
>>>       
>> Do you really mean "archive", or do you mean "backup"?
>>
>>   
>>     
> I meant archive :).
>   
>> Did you upgrade using the vanilla tarball and configure.pl?
>> What XferMethod are you using on this host?
>>
>>   
>>     
> Yes. From sourceforge. This is an archive host so XferMethod is archive
>
>
>   
>>> I noticed that the biggest host didn't backup it's full data. Below an 
>>> extract from the hosts backup history
>>>
>>> Backup Summary
>>> Backup#     Type    Filled  Level   Start Date      Duration/mins   
>>> Age/days 
>>> Server Backup Path
>>>
>>>
>>> 227 
>>> <http://qsbs.quicksoftware.co.za/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?action=browse&host=qsfs&num=227>
>>>  
>>>     full    yes     0       4/21 03:00      260.6   1.2     
>>> /backups/pc/qsfs/227
>>> 228 
>>> <http://qsbs.quicksoftware.co.za/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?action=browse&host=qsfs&num=228>
>>>  
>>>     incr    no      ARRAY(0x9c09620)        4/22 03:17      3.4     0.2     
>>> /backups/pc/qsfs/228
>>>     
>>>       
>> Hmmm, that ARRAY() shouldn't be there.  What is $Conf{IncrLevels}
>> set to?  I suspect it is missing from your config.pl.  It's a new
>> setting in 3.x that should be automatically added during the upgrade.
>>
>>   
>>     
> IncrLevels was missing. I've added it
>   
>>> File Size/Recount Summary
>>> Totals      Existing Files  New Files
>>> Backup#     Type    #Files  Size/MB         MB/sec  #Files  Size/MB         
>>> #Files  Size/MB
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>>   
>>     
>>> 227 
>>> <http://qsbs.quicksoftware.co.za/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?action=browse&host=qsfs&num=227>
>>>  
>>>     full    317664  71094.2         4.55    317535  70765.7         193     
>>> 329.0
>>> 228 
>>> <http://qsbs.quicksoftware.co.za/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?action=browse&host=qsfs&num=228>
>>>  
>>>     incr    5347    316.2   1.57    5332    78.4    34      237.9
>>>
>>> The archived source is only 75 Meg, and should be a lot bigger.
>>>     
>>>       
>> I'm not sure which 75MB you are referring to.  The full is ~71GB with 317K
>> files.  The incremental is ~316MB.  Are you saying that the archive you
>> create is only 75MB?
>>
>>   
>>     
> 75MB was the size created by the archive of the host.
>   
>>> What could be causing this?
>>>     
>>>       
>> I suspect the missing $Conf{IncrLevels} causes the incremental level to be
>> written as a bogus ARRAY(0x9c09620), instead of the integer 1.  That bogus
>> value is interpreted as 0, and that causes the incremental to look like
>> a full when the archive is done.
>>
>> So you should:
>>
>>   - carefully edit the pc/HOST/backups file and replace "ARRAY(0x9c09620)"
>>     with the integer 1.  Very important: keep the one tab before and after,
>>     since this is a tab-delimited file.
>>
>>   
>>     
> Have done this
>   
>>   - make sure that your config.pl contains a setting for $Conf{IncrLevels}.
>>     I don't know why it didn't get added during the upgrade.  Did you
>>     manually edit or shuffle the main config.pl file around after
>>     upgrading?
>>
>>   
>>     
> Not sure either. Will see if I can recreate.
>
> I've restarted the archive. Will advise once done, but I think it'll 
> work after adding the IncrLevels and editing the backups file
>
>   
Ok, it's fixed now. I might have "lost" the IncrLevels setting when I 
was trying to fix admin user problem

Alex


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