Holger Parplies wrote: > While that is true, incremental backups should not be taking 5 hours (compared > to a 7 hour full backup). Something is going wrong, I just couldn't guess > what, and I'm not even sure what additional information to ask for, aside from > the usual: relevant config files settings (everything related to rsync or tar, > including BackupFilesOnly/BackupFilesExclude), details on your setup that you > missed (network, type of file system on both sides, number of files in backup > set ...). One other thought: what does your server status page say on the > matter of hash chains and their length? > > A BIG thanks to everyone for all the info! Because the difference was so massive between tar and rsync I figure I must have done something wrong. The question is what is wrong
Where do I find the hash chains and their length? Both drives are ext3. Lan is running at 1000 643,036 files Comp Level 3 From Incremental Log: Running: /usr/bin/ssh -c blowfish-cbc -q -x -l root myclient /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --checksum-seed=32761 . / Negotiated protocol version 28 Checksum caching enabled (checksumSeed = 32761) Sent include: /etc Sent include: /home Sent exclude: /* Sent exclude: */Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files Sent exclude: */Local Settings/Temp Sent exclude: */NTUSER.DAT Sent exclude: */ntuser.dat.LOG Sent exclude: */Local Settings/Application Data/Microsoft/Windows/UsrClass.dat Sent exclude: */Local Settings/Application Data/Microsoft/Windows/UsrClass.dat.LOG Sent exclude: */Local Settings/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/*/Cache Sent exclude: */Local Settings/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/*/OfflineCache Sent exclude: */.Junk Sent exclude: /Junk Sent exclude: /temp Sent exclude: *.junk Sent exclude: *.Junk Sent exclude: *.trash Sent exclude: *.Trash Sent exclude: *.gz Sent exclude: *.lock Sent exclude: Thumbs.db Sent exclude: IconCache.db Sent exclude: Cache Sent exclude: cache Sent exclude: /WINDOWS Sent exclude: */trash_yc Sent exclude: */RECYCLER Sent exclude: /MSOCache Sent exclude: /System Volume Information Sent exclude: /AUTOEXEC.BAT Sent exclude: /BOOTSECT.BAK Sent exclude: /CONFIG.SYS Sent exclude: /hiberfil.sys Sent exclude: /pagefile.sys > Your relevant XferLOG file might give some clues. Unchanged files should not > be mentioned for incremental backups and listed as "same" for full (rsync!) > backups. Directories are always listed. Sizes of XferLOG files should clearly > indicate which backups were full and which were incremental (meaning your > XferLogLevel should be at 1 ;-). Can you find anything obvious in there? (*) > > Regards, > Holger > I will look at the logs more closely. Thanks! -- gimili ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
