I did that. What I found was missleading (inode limit wrong).
I found the problem: beside the size off the Volume (HDD) I turned on another
feature of the NAS to Limit the folders size (I wanted to test it and forget
about that). So while the Volume had enough space, the system did not allow to
Thanks for the information Ed. I figured I could leave the '-z' off the rsync
command.
Regarding parallel backups: I see your point of chains exposing the potential
to nuke all backups but aren't you increasing the exposure of your production
system X2 by giving another backup process access
I can answer the rsync compression question. no. Running gzip'd data through
gzip is a waste of CPU power. Depending on your link and CPU speed it may even
slow down your ability to transfer data.
As for the recovery from an rsync'd backup...
If your /etc/BackupPC and /var/lib/BackupPC
