On 08/31 02:53 , charlesboyo wrote: > 1. since over 90% of the files change every day and "incremental" backups > involve transferring the whole file to the BackupPC server, won't it make > better sense to just run a full backup everyday? > 2. from Pavel's questions, he observed that BackupPC is unable to recover > from interrupted tar transfer. Such interruptions simply cannot happen in my > case. Should I switch to tar? And in the unlikely event that the transferred > does get interrupted, what mechanisms do I need to implement to > resume/recover from the failure?
Tar can often give several times greater performance than rsync, if most of the files are being transferred. In your case, I would suggest experimenting with it and seeing how much of a difference it makes. As for recovering from tar errors; I would think it just involves re-running the backup. As for how to make the change; just edit your per-host config file (/etc/backupc/<hostname>.pl). I don't know how extensive the compatibility problems are; some experimentation may be in order. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/
