Re: [BackupPC-users] Interrupted rsyncd backups on Backuppc4 and rsyncTMP.XXXX files, these files never get cleaned out.

2017-02-01 Thread Mike Dresser
Now that I've poked this again, even a network error such as the client went away while backup was in progress will leave behind these files. A really unstable client could leave a lot of orphan rsyncTmp's. Mike --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems using the wiki script

2017-02-01 Thread Kent Tenney
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 1:14 AM, Johan Ehnberg wrote: > On 01/30/2017 04:58 PM, Kent Tenney wrote: > > The error msg has changed with current version: > > commit edbd1a4613e0125ed65372738abff935230db075 > > > > when the script executes 'makeDist ...' > > > > Unexpected Conf

Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression benchmark

2017-02-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 2:53 AM, Jan Stransky wrote: > > 3) Full backup of each dataset as separate host, then second with > already filled pool. Preferably from SSD to SSD to not be IO limited. > In practice if you use the --checksum-seed option with rsync the timing

[BackupPC-users] Compression benchmark

2017-02-01 Thread Jan Stransky
Hi, as I have installed BackupPC, I was pleasantly surprised with compression effectiveness (data savings), but unpleasantly surprised with its CPU dependence. Therefore, I am thinking about preparing some compression CPU performance benchmark for BackupPC. Potential new users or HW buyers

Re: [BackupPC-users] skip folders with ignore file or whitelist

2017-02-01 Thread Jan Stransky
I think you would have to make a script to modify host-specific config file for backuppc. Jan On 02/01/2017 09:26 AM, Andreas Roth wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to backup a filesystem structure of a big data application. The > application having a data directory structure. Every directory > Which

[BackupPC-users] skip folders with ignore file or whitelist

2017-02-01 Thread Andreas Roth
Hi all, I want to backup a filesystem structure of a big data application. The application having a data directory structure. Every directory Which don't need to be backed up contains a kind of ignore file. Is there a possibility to configure backuppc to skip a complete folder when there is a