That sounds like a different sort of problem then. A deduplicator is a program that walks through a filesystem and finds identical files, and then hard links them together to save space.
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Nick Bright <nick.bri...@valnet.net> wrote: > Shawn Perry wrote: >> Did you use a disk deduplicator on the drive? Is there a directory >> with alot of files in it? How many files are you backing up? > > Sorry, I'm not familiar with a "deduplicator". > > There aren't any directories with "a lot" of files any more than any of > the other systems I'm backing up. > > There are 202,984 files on the system. > >> >> If you have MANY hardlinks on a file system, rsync with the >> --hard-links option has a tendency to croak, leaving tar as the best >> option. > > find / -printf "%n %i %p\n" | sort -nr > > Doesn't seem to indicate that there is an unusually large number of hard > links. The only stuff listed with a sizable amount of hard links appear > to be directories that are all system stuff that would exists on all > servers. > > The system itself is a cPanel hosting server, and hasn't had anything > special done to it. Let me put it this way - I didn't do anything to > knowingly create "a lot" of hardlinks. I'm sure there's some, but > probably not an unusually high number. > >> >> Dirvish has this same issue. >> >> To answer your question, find a directory or a couple of them that >> have a lot of files. run "ls -l" or "ls -lR" (the latter is >> recursive) in that directory. Look at the output. >> >> sample: >> >> -rw-r--r-- 79 shawn users 37888 2005-12-04 14:36 X-mas list.xls >> >> The first field after the permissions us the number of links to the >> data in that file, 79 in this case. That means there are 79 hard >> links to that file. There will always be at least one. > > Similar to the output of my find command, which was telling me how many > hard links it found for each file/directory on the system. As I said, > nothing that seemed to unusual. > >> >> Shawn >> > > You mentioned TAR being a better option on a system with lots of hard > links. I'll give that a try and see if it's able to perform a successful > backup. > > I will point out that I have a 2nd BackupPC server that is backing up a > *different* machine running the cPanel system, which has many, many, > many more files/domains on it; and that is successfully backing up. > > I'll also try backing the client in question up to said 2nd BackupPC > server and see if that works. > >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Nick Bright <nick.bri...@valnet.net> wrote: >>>> Shawn Perry wrote: >>>> Does this host have alot of hard links? >>>> >>> That's a good question that I have no idea how to answer. >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> 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/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
