Re: [BackupPC-users] FS and backuppc performance

2009-03-19 Thread Pedro M. S. Oliveira
With the amount of data I reported and number of files I just have 6% of inodes occupied so I don't think that is really a problem, do you use XFS for any special purpose besides dynamic inode creation? What do you think about recovery and maintenance tools for XFS. And least but not lest don't

Re: [BackupPC-users] cloning the pool

2009-03-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Koen Linders wrote: If you want an idea what isn't possible; A year ago I tried copying a much pool much smaller too an USB disk than my current (see lower), using a Xeon 2.8 GHz/1 MB with 2 GB DDR and it ran out of memory copying via rsync -H Somewhere in the mailing is other

Re: [BackupPC-users] cloning the pool

2009-03-19 Thread Koen Linders
If you want an idea what isn't possible; A year ago I tried copying a much pool much smaller too an USB disk than my current (see lower), using a Xeon 2.8 GHz/1 MB with 2 GB DDR and it ran out of memory copying via rsync -H Somewhere in the mailing is other information. Someone said he does an

Re: [BackupPC-users] FS and backuppc performance

2009-03-19 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 03/19 11:56 , Pedro M. S. Oliveira wrote: With the amount of data I reported and number of files I just have 6% of inodes occupied so I don't think that is really a problem, do you use XFS for any special purpose besides dynamic inode creation? The ability to be resized while mounted is

Re: [BackupPC-users] FS and backuppc performance

2009-03-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: Backuppc will use all the processor, ram, and disk speed you give it. I've not had a box where they weren't all pegged. I tend to limit concurrent backups to 2; maybe 3 or 4 on a really high-end box (multiple processors and a proven fast disk array); to control

Re: [BackupPC-users] Debian Etch to Lenny problem with external disks

2009-03-19 Thread olafkewl
Les Mikesell a écrit : [...] The whole archive needs to be on the same filesystem. If you use a separate disk/partition it needs to be mounted or symlinked at the /var/lib/backuppc level. Thanks a lot, this worked out !

Re: [BackupPC-users] FS and backuppc performance

2009-03-19 Thread stoffell
2009/3/18 Pedro M. S. Oliveira pmsolive...@gmail.com: From what I've seen on the list there are some people using XFS, Ext3, and so on. What's your experience with the different file systems? What FS do you guys use recommend/used and why? We use XFS on a 3-disk raid 5 (3x500gb). Just because

[BackupPC-users] Grouping by network connectivity (aka replacement queue mechanism)

2009-03-19 Thread John Rouillard
This was originally part of: Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] FS and backuppc performance In-Reply-To: 49c29c96.4030...@gmail.com I am starting a new thread on this rather then hijacking the original thread. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 02:27:18PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom

[BackupPC-users] Error: auth required, but service web_backup is open/insecure

2009-03-19 Thread Clint Alexander
Hi everyone. As the subject says, I've run into this issue where BackupPC believes the connection is unsecure when it is not. I did some general debugging and info collection... ON BACKUPPC CLIENT # cat /etc/hosts.allow empty # cat /etc/hosts.deny empty # /usr/bin/rsync