Re: [BackupPC-users] Update to 3.0

2007-02-19 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi there, I just wanted to report that my upgrade to 3.0 (from 2.1.1) worked without a glitch! And backups are significantly faster, too! It now backups all 21 servers each night while 2.1.1 only accomplished about 12 to 15. Very nice work! Thanks a lot. Tino. PS: I will give a talk about

Re: [BackupPC-users] Update to 3.0

2007-02-19 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Tino Schwarze wrote: I just wanted to report that my upgrade to 3.0 (from 2.1.1) worked without a glitch! And backups are significantly faster, too! It now backups all 21 servers each night while 2.1.1 only accomplished about 12 to 15. Sadly I'm seeing the opposite: most backups are failing

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3 load

2007-02-19 Thread Jason Hughes
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: Any ideas on how we can reduce the load? More/less nightly jobs? Less concurrent backups? Other tips? We used to backup 15 servers onto one BackupPC server, but now almost all of our backups are failing and the load is through the roof. Can we just go and

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3 load

2007-02-19 Thread John Pettitt
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: I wrote: I recently upgraded to BackupPC 3 and although the idea of being able to run the nightly jobs, the trashClean job and dump jobs all at the same time is nice it seems it's a bit too much for our server (load = 10 at the moment). Can I make backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] Update to 3.0

2007-02-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: Tino Schwarze wrote: I just wanted to report that my upgrade to 3.0 (from 2.1.1) worked without a glitch! And backups are significantly faster, too! It now backups all 21 servers each night while 2.1.1 only accomplished about 12 to 15. Sadly I'm seeing the

Re: [BackupPC-users] {Fraud?} {Disarmed} rsyncd problem

2007-02-19 Thread Jim McNamara
Ok, now it gets weird. After removing the passwords, I also changed the UPC share to upc, and it worked. Then apps, which had been working without a problem, failed. So the issue seems to be for what ever reason we can get the first of 2 shares, but not both. Here is the Xferlog:

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3 load

2007-02-19 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Jason Hughes wrote: Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: Any ideas on how we can reduce the load? More/less nightly jobs? Less concurrent backups? Other tips? We used to backup 15 servers onto one BackupPC server, but now almost all of our backups are failing and the load is through the roof.

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3 load

2007-02-19 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
John Pettitt wrote: The #1 way to bring the load down if you haven't already done it is to mount the pool filesystem with noatime - BackupPC does a lot of reading files and if you have access time stamping enabled there are lots of writes to update the access time stamp. Remove that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Update to 3.0

2007-02-19 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Les Mikesell wrote: Sadly I'm seeing the opposite: most backups are failing (aborted by signal=PIPE / Child exited prematurely) and they especially seem to be failing when the nightly/trashClean jobs are also running (which wasn't possible under 2.1). Under 2.1 everything worked just

Re: [BackupPC-users] Update to 3.0

2007-02-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: You are probably short on RAM when you add in the nightly run. Tuning down the number of concurrent backups might help. That probably shouldn't be higher than the number of processors in the server anyway unless you have some low-bandwidth connections to

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC v3

2007-02-19 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Dienelt V?clav wrote on 09.02.2007 at 09:31:11 [[BackupPC-users] BackupPC v3]: Hello, when I start backuppc service I receive following error: Starting BackupPC: No language settings BackupPC::Libnew failed. Could you help me please? what value is $Conf{Language} set to in your

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd problem

2007-02-19 Thread Craig Barratt
Jim writes: $Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['UPC', 'apps']; Here are the last few lines of the backuppc error log: The interesting part of the log file will be the beginning, since that's where UPC is backed up. BackupPC believes that no files were dumped for that share. It complains about it

Re: [BackupPC-users] using BackupPC_tarPCCopy

2007-02-19 Thread Craig Barratt
daniel writes: I'm using tar-1.14-12.RHEL4 But I've found the problem yesterday, I need to use the -P option for tar, if I don't, I've got this message: removing leading ../ from hardlink targets So now, If I do a sudo -u backuppc BackupPC_tarPCCopy /opt/backuppc/files/pc/ | tar xvPf