Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups tooo slow over WAN - how to split them
You could just keep the one machine entry, but use the exclude options to only back up a small portion of the machine. Once that completes gradually remove directories from the excluded list until the full backup completes fine. This assumes that most of your data is static and that any files that change can be easily backed up in a daily window. Brian On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:49 PM, David Herring d...@netfm.org wrote: I'm trying to backup windows servers with approx 3 partitions of 100G each over a WAN link. This takes 'days' to run and never successfully completes. I'm using rsyncd on the windows machines - and the backup is to a ubuntu server. So, how do you split the backups from a single machine - do you have to create multiple host entries for each machine ? Does this make restore too painful ? Is there anything else I should be doing ? MTU size ? Any help great-fully received, Dave -- David Herring -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d ___ 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/ -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] What is the latest on getting cygwin rsync/ssh to work for BackupPC
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Steen Eugen Poulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky skrev: I have googled and read a lot of posts about people having trouble with cygwin rsync/ssh but haven't seen any definitive solutions. I don't think it has anything to do with cygwin or how you backup windows machines, it's just that we keep running into file lock issues that messes up backups. I would tend to disagree because we have dozens of machines that backup successfully using rsyncd server (no ssh) but we ran into exactly the issues described when tunneling rsync in ssh. If it was a problem with locked files affecting rsync, we would see those problems in both instances. We've also tried backing up dummy directories that have no open files in them, and had that fail with rsync/ssh. To successfully backup Windows machine I need a huge exclude list, without it things always seem to be very troubled. We have a short exclude list, but we still get lots of failures on various files that should probably be excluded. We have no problems with the backups locking up on only certain files though. Brian Oborn - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc hangs on backing up WinXP c-drive
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using the rsync-method to back up the C-drive on a WinXP machine. I have cygwin ssh rsync installed on the remote machine. The backup repeatedly stalls after backing up: .file_store_32/runescape/main_file_cache.dat1 and in the middle (presumably) of backing up: .file_store_32/runescape/main_file_cache.dat2 This occurs only about a dozen files into the backup. I found this to be a bug with rsync launched from ssh. Even outside of Backuppc we consistently found problems with rsync tunneled inside of ssh. We would've liked to use ssh to encrypt all of our backups, but ended up going with the straight rsyncd instead, which has worked great. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ 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/
