Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-14 Thread Carl W. Soderstrom
On 06/14 03:38 , Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 6/14/2018 3:27 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: > > Why are you using rsyncd over the loopback instead of … rsync? > > > > Mainly because that's the way all of my other clients are being backed > up and what I found when I searched for how to back up a local >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-14 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Bowie Bailey wrote on 2018-06-14 15:38:44 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup]: > On 6/14/2018 3:27 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: > > On 2018-06-14 10:05, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > > > I just installed BackupPC v4 on a CentOS 7 server with 4G ram.  I > > am trying to back up a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-14 Thread Carl W. Soderstrom
FWIW, here's my localhost.pl file: # # Local server backup of /etc as user backuppc # $Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar'; #for some reason pings fail $Conf{PingCmd} = '/bin/true'; $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/proc', '/sys', '/var/lib/backuppc', '/var/log', '/tmp', '/var/tmp', '/staff', '/mnt'];

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-14 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 6/14/2018 3:27 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: > > On 2018-06-14 10:05, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > I just installed BackupPC v4 on a CentOS 7 server with 4G ram.  I > am trying to back up a local 318G filesystem.  I am using rsyncd > over the loopback connection.  It has been running for 17

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-14 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-06-14 10:05, Bowie Bailey wrote: I just installed BackupPC v4 on a CentOS 7 server with 4G ram.  I am trying to back up a local 318G filesystem.  I am using rsyncd over the loopback connection.  It has been running for 17 hours so far and has backed up less than half of the directory

[BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-14 Thread Bowie Bailey
I just installed BackupPC v4 on a CentOS 7 server with 4G ram.  I am trying to back up a local 318G filesystem.  I am using rsyncd over the loopback connection.  It has been running for 17 hours so far and has backed up less than half of the directory (based on the size of the backup filesystem).