On 28/10/16 03:36, Johan Ehnberg wrote: > On 10/27/2016 07:23 PM, Alain Mouette wrote: >> On 27-10-2016 13:16, Bowie Bailey wrote: >>> The BackupPC project has a single developer who tends to be rather busy >>> most of the time, so development happens in bursts with months or years >>> between releases. >> Thank you very much for your grat work! >> >>> but I know >>> there are some people on the list who have been using it version 4 for >>> some time now. >> Hi guys, could you give us some information about it? > Have a look at the v4 documentation intro for an overview of features: > https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/blob/master/doc-src/BackupPC.pod > > And the issues for an idea of the status of development: > https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/issues > > For me using rsync, v4 is promising to become cloud capable where v3 is > not. V4 has some excellent new features such as checksum matching before > transfer. However, some features that make BackupPC great, such as > checksum caching, are not yet implemented, making v4 still much slower > in those cases. FYI I've been using v4 for over a year now, I recently patched my install to include a solution to a bug/issue I raised a couple years ago, but even without that patch it would appear to have been working well. From my experience, I would advise to start v4 with a clean pool, and avoid trying to re-use the old v3 pool. A lot of my issues were caused by that. Doing work recently (adding new hosts) I realised that performance on v4 is hit hard because of a couple of "bugs" (undeveloped sharp edges) which makes it do a full fsck on all existing backups after every new backup (or partial), and if you have a large number of backups, and/or a lot of files on the machines, then this will cause some significant drop in performance.
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