Re: [BackupPC-users] NFS woes

2011-04-18 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 19/04/2011 8:57 AM, comfi wrote: > However, I'm having massive performance issues after switching to an NFS > mount for my backup data. > > I'm using the following options: > > nfs.server.ourstuff.com:/backup/backuppc /var/lib/backuppc nfs > nfsvers=3,tcp,hard,intr,rsize=32768,w

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup stalls - exiting after signal ALRM

2011-04-18 Thread Manu Poletti
Thanks Carl, This was good advice. I tried a number of your approaches like a manual dump and using rsyncd and even set up a new data directory for Backuppc to eliminate filesystem corruption, but nothing worked. Then I did a manual dump as you suggested again but this time I used the IP addres

[BackupPC-users] NFS woes

2011-04-18 Thread comfi
I recently fired up BackupPC as a replacement for our convoluted and outdated Amanda setup to backup an environment of about 200 servers. So far, I have BackupPC version 3.1.0 installed on an Ubuntu 10.04 system. I'm using this to back up a grand total of three systems: 2 other Ubuntu machines a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Viewing detail of a backup in progress?

2011-04-18 Thread Jake Wilson
Determine how far along the backup is in terms of % would require some sort of total size determination before the backup begins. I'm not sure if this is something BPC does already on the backend or not. At least keeping track of how many kilobytes/megabytes/gigabytes have been xfered so far and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Renaming files causes retransfer?

2011-04-18 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 15:43 -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Well... you could write a script (or even one-liner) to do the same name > change (modulof-mangling) on the last backup... this would be pretty easy if > your > name change is well-defined... What about the file attributes stored in