Re: [BackupPC-users] Detailed explanation on how pooling works

2009-05-12 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Backuppc does a hash over some portion of the file contents and uses that as the name in the pool directory (cpool if compression is on but the hash is for the uncompressed data). If this name doesn't exist, it is created as a link to the inode of the new file in a backup. If it does,

[BackupPC-users] Total amount of traffic data per session

2009-05-12 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello list. Is it possible to extract the value of the *effectively transferred data* in a backup session? Thanks in advance, Flavio Boniforti PIRAMIDE INFORMATICA SAGL Via Ballerini 21 6600 Locarno Switzerland Phone: +41 91 751 68 81 Fax: +41 91 751 69 14 URL: http://www.piramide.ch E-mail:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Meaning of File Size/Count Reuse Summary

2009-05-12 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hy everybody! Does anybody know something more on this subject? Really nobody has a clue? I'm trying to understand how that items sum up together, but still fail with the #Files sum! Thanks, F. -Original Message- From: Boniforti Flavio [mailto:fla...@piramide.ch] Sent: Thursday,

[BackupPC-users] Pre-Install Question on pooling

2009-05-12 Thread Skip Guenter
I am looking at installing backuppc. I have one server that contains a mirror (RAID 1) drive. This device (/dev/md0) contains a series of directories that are the mount point for several 'disk-less' clients (nfs mount point). Across these directories is a great deal of duplication (OS

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pre-Install Question on pooling

2009-05-12 Thread Les Mikesell
Skip Guenter wrote: I am looking at installing backuppc. I have one server that contains a mirror (RAID 1) drive. This device (/dev/md0) contains a series of directories that are the mount point for several 'disk-less' clients (nfs mount point). Across these directories is a great deal of

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pre-Install Question on pooling (was: Detailed explanation on how pooling works)

2009-05-12 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Skip Guenter wrote on 2009-05-12 10:31:27 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] Pre-Install Question on pooling]: [...] will pooling be in effect for the multitude of duplicates across these directories all on the same machine (from that servers perspective)? yes. Same content, same pool file,

[BackupPC-users] Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync

2009-05-12 Thread Ian Levesque
Hello, I've got a client I'm backing up via rsync (BackupPC v3.1). I recently added a very large directory to the filesystem I'm backing up, which has many hundred thousand files inside it. I don't need to backup this directory, so I've added a BackupFilesExclude entry (i.e., /home/

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pre-Install Question on pooling

2009-05-12 Thread Skip Guenter
Thanx much! This is the answer I was hoping for. Skip On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 11:23 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Skip Guenter wrote: I am looking at installing backuppc. I have one server that contains a mirror (RAID 1) drive. This device (/dev/md0) contains a series of directories

Re: [BackupPC-users] Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync

2009-05-12 Thread Tim Cole
Ian, I have a similar question. I'm using rsync for transfer and need to exclude a few windows directories such as system volume. I added the path to the directory as rsync sees it on the other end "/mnt/windows/system volume information" but it doesn't get excluded. I see a permission denied

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3.0.0 - 3.2.0 - Major increase in backup time consumption.

2009-05-12 Thread dan
Oblivion, did running a full backup fix the performance issue? On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:49 PM, oblivian n...@3056.net wrote: Thanks Adam, Holger and Mark. Sometimes the obvious is too obvious... well, for some at least. =/ Oblivian mark k wrote: I believe this has to do with