-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
as I have the same issue with storing my BackupPC outside I tried another way the last days: First, my environment: 28 hosts to back up. Mostly idle machines with minor services (so no big databases and so on). Partially fileserver with only little daily changes. So I expected not too much daily changes on the pool. I want to copy the pool to a remote location after testing is done. So I used an USB 2.0 disk as "second backup device" to store the copied pool. The pool itself is aprox 540GB in total. And is not growing any more- even not all 12 full backups are stored. My first attempt was rsync the pool. This tooks ages. Second attempt was to "dd" the whole device (with less frequency), but for the size of the pool, took ages, too. Third try was to use "dump" for this hoping it would transfer only changed blocks after the initial dump. No way. After one day it transferred 300GB (!). I thought, dump might not bee a good solution... Last attempt now was to move the pool device to a VMware virtual disk and let rsync run over this file. Thus rsync backing up the block device. Best attepmt, I thought. Result: rsync transfers after the first run ~300GB, too. So what does this mean to me? Looks like on my pool BackupPC changes approx two third of the whole pool daily. So if I would transfer to a remote site I'd need to transfer 300GB daily! Can anyone confirm BackupPC changes so many data inside the pool DAILY? I can't imagine the backed up data itself is 300GB! Any clues? Christian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with CentOS - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFKp1ou0XNIYlAXmzsRAgJQAKDeon94S7nN550/kI8LeQaBSqpclgCfUAsF FFjtpAvcjcVG734c9dYuHVo= =i9KY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
