Does it work with rsyncd? On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Nick Bright <nick.bri...@valnet.net> wrote: > The backup successfully completed with the "tar" method. > > Shawn Perry wrote: >> 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. 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