Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup time has increased??

Rob Morin Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:04:57 -0800

I guess i worded my email in a weird way.....Sorry.. :) I understand that file quantity can increase, but i also meant to ask that a full back up is just that, a full backup , so it backs up all the files, so what i was wondering is why each week, the files are increasing so much??? Since its a virtual hosting server, its hard to tell since i have no history on how big or how many files were in certain dirs weeks ago.... I am nervous to let it run its next full backup as twice it killed the server... would a recursive dir loop be bad for backuppc? or does it ignore that stuff... is ther any magic command that i can use to detect a directory loop, i am on Debian Etch....

here is my localhost conf file...

# Local server backup of / as user backuppc
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar';
$Conf{TarShareName} = ['/'];
#$Conf{TarClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/sudo /usr/local/bin/tarCreate -v -f - -C $shareName+ --totals';
$Conf{TarClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/sudo $tarPath'
. ' -c -v -f - -C $shareName --totals';
$Conf{TarClientRestoreCmd} = '/usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/sudo $tarPath -x -p --numeric-owner --same-owner'
. ' -v -f - -C $shareName+';
$Conf{TarFullArgs} = '$fileList';
$Conf{TarIncrArgs} = '--newer=$incrDate $fileList';
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/data', '/tmp', '/root/.cpan', '/var/log', '/var/downloads', '/media', '/mnt', '/proc', '/var/lib/backuppc', '/sys', '/var/oldjoe', '/var/run'];

Thanks!

Rob Morin
Dido Internet Inc.
Montreal,Canada
http://www.dido.ca
514-990-4444

Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:

Rob Morin wrote:

SO i checked out my log files for full backups and i see this....

Does this simply mean its backing up more and more files each  
time.... i
mean a full backup is ALL files right? so with that, does that mean
somehow i am having more and more files on the server?


Of course it's possible that the number of files is increasing, but  
are you backing up localhost without excluding the BackupPC pool? In  
that case you are recursively backing up all of your files...

Nils Breunese.

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