Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Friday 23 April 2010 00:56:42 Saturn2888 wrote: @Tyler J. Wagner If it's confirmed Rsync works better than Rsyncd, I'll switch to it. The problem with SSH Rsync configurations is the public/private keys. I seem to always have problems getting those setup, but I've recently not had those

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: Saturn2888 [mailto:backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 1:48 AM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon @Sorin Srbu I tested each and every new DLL and EXE

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Saturn2888
Since it was mentioned before, here's iostat: Every 2.0s: iostat Fri Apr 23 05:34:51 2010 Linux

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: Saturn2888 [mailto:backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 12:27 PM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon @Sorin Srbu I'll be excited to hear of your

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Saturn2888
The web server is the one thing that's ever seemingly been fast. There's never a problem so long as I use it. +-- |This was sent by saturn2...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: Saturn2888 [mailto:backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 1:07 PM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon The web server is the one thing that's ever

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Les Mikesell
Saturn2888 wrote: Since it was mentioned before, here's iostat: Every 2.0s: iostat Fri Apr 23

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Les Mikesell
Saturn2888 wrote: @Les Mikesell That makes sense then why RAID5 is bad for this. Now you know my trouble with Samba. Sure, if I can read the files they should be there, but they're not. This is why I stopped using Samba. It's like BackupPC get tired when using Samba and quits when it

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Les Mikesell
Tyler J. Wagner wrote: On Friday 23 April 2010 00:56:42 Saturn2888 wrote: @Tyler J. Wagner If it's confirmed Rsync works better than Rsyncd, I'll switch to it. The problem with SSH Rsync configurations is the public/private keys. I seem to always have problems getting those setup, but I've

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Saturn2888
Les Mikesell wrote: Saturn2888 wrote: Since it was mentioned before, here's iostat: Every 2.0s: iostat

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Friday 23 April 2010 14:02:13 Les Mikesell wrote: Errr... On the backuppc side you want to do this as the backuppc user... But what you really want it /home/backuppc/.ssh/id_rsa.pub appended to each remote's /root/.ssh/authorized_keys file (there could be other entries there already).

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc backup Freebsd box

2010-04-23 Thread Josh Malone
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:40:51 -0400, carnivora backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Thanks for your reply guys. I made it! Thanks bro.. i just replace my conf from /usr/bin/rsync to /usr/local/bin/rsync Right - I completely forgot ports install to /usr/local on BSD. It's been a while

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/23/2010 8:13 AM, Saturn2888 wrote: avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 19.910.042.99 70.840.006.23 But, that 70% iowait number pretty much tells you what the machine is doing with most of its time... I did watch iostat and saw that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines

2010-04-23 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Wednesday 21 April 2010 06:03:08 Tyler J. Wagner wrote: I am currently in the process of doing this in two steps: 1. Moving the cpool to a partition with LVM, so as to be able to make snapshot binary backups in future. 2. Copying the snapshot over the network to a backup server.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines

2010-04-23 Thread B. Alexander
Thanks Tyler, However, for snapshotting to work, don't you have to have at least as much space for the snapshot as you do for the original partition? I currently am using nearly 60% of the VG just for backups, which is the root of the problem. It wasn't apparent in my scanning of the article

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines

2010-04-23 Thread Kameleon
I too had the same question. However, I did think about mounting an iscsi volume and create a secondary LV on it to move the snapshot to. Other options would be to boot the server with something like clonezilla and the target machine with the same and do a direct copy that way. I am actually

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines

2010-04-23 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Friday 23 April 2010 22:33:49 B. Alexander wrote: However, for snapshotting to work, don't you have to have at least as much space for the snapshot as you do for the original partition? I currently am using nearly 60% of the VG just for backups, which is the root of the problem. It wasn't

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Saturn2888
I was gonna put it on 2x400GB in RAID0 and having that data backed up on another rig but didn't think that'd be such a good idea. As an update, while my graphs haven't updated, my pool info is back! I realized the extra 100GB was from the new files I wanted to start backing up so that