Re: [BackupPC-users] Archive without tarball - directly to the file system

2011-05-25 Thread samuel_w...@t-online.de
Its not really easy to backup a backuppc, read in the mailing list rsync is not a good idea because there a lot of hardlinks. Whats the best way to creat offline backups? -Original-Nachricht- Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Archive without tarball - directly to the file system Date:

Re: [BackupPC-users] session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE

2011-05-25 Thread Audi Narayana Reddy
Thanks for given replay how to find out SMB authentication problem Thanks Audi From: ty...@tolaris.com To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 06:24:56 +0100 Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE Audi, You've asked

[BackupPC-users] XFS BackupPC optimal mount options

2011-05-25 Thread Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago
Hi everyone, First of all thank you for your advice, I think I'll give XFS a try. Has anyone tuned XFS with its several mount options? -- Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago System administrator marcos.lore...@andago.com ÁNDAGO INGENIERÍA Tlf: +34 916 011 373 Álcalde Ángel Arroyo, 10, 1º

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best FS for BackupPC

2011-05-25 Thread Michael Stowe
On 24/05/2011 11:25 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: I did a relatively short filesystem comparison when I moved my BackupPC pool to another set of drives. The high level results: jfs, xfs: quick, stable reiserfs: not stable ext4: slow ext3: very slow The not stable designation

Re: [BackupPC-users] XFS BackupPC optimal mount options

2011-05-25 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
http://everything2.com/title/Filesystem+performance+tweaking+with+XFS+on+Linux Basically when creating the xfs use : mkfs.xfs -l size=64m and when mounting use: mount -t xfs -o noatime,nodiratime,logbufs=8 device mountPoint in fstab: device mountPointxfs

Re: [BackupPC-users] XFS BackupPC optimal mount options

2011-05-25 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 08:58 -0500, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote: and when mounting use: mount -t xfs -o noatime,nodiratime,logbufs=8 device mountPoint As someone recently pointed out to me, nodiratime is a subset of noatime. Just use noatime.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup backuppc

2011-05-25 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 5/25/2011 5:02 AM, samuel_w...@t-online.de wrote: Its not really easy to backup a backuppc, read in the mailing list rsync is not a good idea because there a lot of hardlinks. Whats the best way to creat offline backups? First, if you are changing topics, please create a new thread rather

Re: [BackupPC-users] session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE

2011-05-25 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 5/25/2011 6:37 AM, Audi Narayana Reddy wrote: Thanks for given replay how to find out SMB authentication problem If you look in the BackupPC config, you should be able to find the command it is using to do the backup (SmbClientFullCmd) as well as the username and password that are being

Re: [BackupPC-users] XFS BackupPC optimal mount options

2011-05-25 Thread Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago
Sabuj Pattanayek sab...@gmail.com wrote [8:58am -0500] SP http://everything2.com/title/Filesystem+performance+tweaking+with+XFS+on+Linux SP SP Basically when creating the xfs use : SP SP mkfs.xfs -l size=64m SP SP and when mounting use: SP SP mount -t xfs

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best FS for BackupPC

2011-05-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/25/2011 8:40 AM, Michael Stowe wrote: 2) It does sometimes have problems resurrecting the filesystem when it has been corrupted, I did lose *one* home directory out of 400 once upon a time (about 9 years ago...) Like I said, a filesystem that loses data *sometimes* doesn't really

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best FS for BackupPC

2011-05-25 Thread Michael Stowe
On 5/25/2011 8:40 AM, Michael Stowe wrote: 2) It does sometimes have problems resurrecting the filesystem when it has been corrupted, I did lose *one* home directory out of 400 once upon a time (about 9 years ago...) Like I said, a filesystem that loses data *sometimes* doesn't really

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best FS for BackupPC

2011-05-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/25/2011 10:12 AM, Michael Stowe wrote: To be fair, those sometimes are crash situations and it is also a good idea to run hardware/operating systems/UPS's, that... don't cause that problem. And to have an offsite copy for the things you can't control. I'm not arguing against either

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best FS for BackupPC

2011-05-25 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, first of all, my personal experience with reiserfs is also that it lost a complete pool FS (apparently, the cpool directory disappeared and was re-created by BackupPC *several times* before I noticed the problem). Rebuilding the tree obviously gave me a state that is next to impossible to fix

Re: [BackupPC-users] XFS BackupPC optimal mount options

2011-05-25 Thread Dan Pritts
Has anyone tuned XFS with its several mount options? some useful info below, which I didn't know (logbsize delaylog). I suspect it would increase backuppc performance. http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ: Q: I want to tune my XFS filesystems for something The standard answer you will

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best FS for BackupPC

2011-05-25 Thread Michael Stowe
So I certainly don't disagree with your results, but I do partly disagree with your reasoning and interpretations. Err, actually, you don't ... or perhaps more accurately, I don't disagree with any of the points you make, so rather than agree with everything you said individually, I'll skip

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best FS for BackupPC

2011-05-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/25/2011 1:46 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: I'm really suggesting that the experience of somebody who has run a file system for a period of time without (for example) a power failure is likely to have little to contribute to answer the question on how stable a file system is during a power

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2011-05-25 Thread akeem abayomi
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Best FS for BackupPC

2011-05-25 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My only other comment I forgot to make in my original response, were the same options enabled for each of the tested filesystems. Some filesystems by default enable data and metadata journalling, while others require an option to enable this (AFAIK).

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best FS for BackupPC

2011-05-25 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/05/11 04:59, Les Mikesell wrote: On 5/25/2011 1:46 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: I'm really suggesting that the experience of somebody who has run a file system for a period of time without (for example) a power failure is likely to have little