[BackupPC-users] winexe for Windows 8 / 2012 or greater for BackupPC client (Was: Re: A question about partial backups and fatal errors)

Michael Stowe wrote on 12/04/2015 06:17:01 PM: > I'm *pretty* sure both these things are fixed -- I took a quick look at > the code on github and it looks like it'll handle 7 drives in the > scripts and at least it thinks it detects 2012 (I'm pretty sure I tested

Re: [BackupPC-users] winexe for Windows 8 / 2012 or greater for BackupPC client (Was: Re: A question about partial backups and fatal errors)

Kris Lou wrote on 12/09/2015 01:23:05 PM: > I've had to build it myself for winexe-waf, but unfortunately the > lfarkas repo doesn't contain the necessary libraries anymore to do > that with CentOS 6. Ouch! You wouldn't happen to still have that binary, would you? :)

Re: [BackupPC-users] A question about partial backups and fatal errors

Michael Stowe wrote on 12/04/2015 06:17:01 PM: > I'm *pretty* sure both these things are fixed -- I took a quick look at > the code on github and it looks like it'll handle 7 drives in the > scripts and at least it thinks it detects 2012 (I'm pretty sure I tested

Re: [BackupPC-users] A question about partial backups and fatal errors

Timothy J Massey/OBSCorp wrote on 12/08/2015 01:46:31 PM: > 2) I looked for a github site for this software and couldn't find > one, including searching for various permutations of "backuppc > github". I probably don't need it with the updated items linked > above, but

Re: [BackupPC-users] A question about partial backups and fatal errors

Michael Stowe wrote on 12/04/2015 04:07:34 PM: > I do use rsync, and winexe to handle shadow copies so I don't have to > worry about open files and such. And I put together an installer > package with all the pieces. Funny you should mention that... I really

Re: [BackupPC-users] Automated regular archive of latest full backup

martin f krafft wrote on 12/02/2015 05:20:31 PM: > I am looking for a way to automate sending an archive (tarball) of > the latest backup of each of my hosts to an offsite machine, using > scp and GnuPG for encryption. Can this be done within BackupPC and > scheduled

Re: [BackupPC-users] Support Question

Les Mikesell wrote on 11/24/2015 01:29:24 PM: > > Also, can anyone explain why when our updates are set to every 6. > 97 days are still going out after the completition of every backup? > > A stock backuppc system never sends emails about success - only about > backups

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate with only certain types of files

Holger Parplies wb...@parplies.de wrote on 05/23/2015 09:29:25 AM: for the archives: you don't strictly *need* the free space. You can pipe the output of BackupPC_tarCreate directly into a 'tar x' and tell tar to only extract files named '*.pdf', something like BackupPC_tarCreate -h

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate with only certain types of files

will experiment with it is a need to use it in the future. Timothy J. Massey Sent from my iPad On May 23, 2015, at 7:43 AM, Holger Parplies wb...@parplies.de wrote: Hi, Timothy J Massey wrote on 2015-05-22 20:40:52 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate with only certain types

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate with only certain types of files

Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote on 05/22/2015 04:24:56 PM: What am I missing? How do I get BackupPC_tarCreate to create a tar file that contains all PDF's stored in that path? Thank you very much for any support you can give me. I've tried different escapings/not-escapings

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate with only certain types of files

Hello! I need to restore all PDF files from a particular backup share. It's 30,000 files scattered around thousands of locations. So, I was hoping to use BackupPC_tarCreate to do it. But I'm striking out. This works: ./BackupPC_tarCreate -l -h server -n 918 -s E /Shares/Shared But this

Re: [BackupPC-users] Outlook pst files backup

Michael Stowe mst...@chicago.us.mensa.org wrote on 03/13/2015 09:47:06 AM: I find that backing up open files is particularly useful: http://www.michaelstowe.com/backuppc/ I have found his tool quite helpful in every regard except one: the installer will fail to install on Windows Server

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to delete backups

Holger Parplies wb...@parplies.de wrote on 12/10/2014 10:59:17 AM: Colin Shorts wrote on 2014-12-10 11:45:41 + [Re: [BackupPC- users] How to delete backups]: You might want to press Enter before typing `/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 255', otherwise it will get deleted

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why Child is aborting?

something I'll actually have to play with. However, I have seen this on servers with a very large image files, usually of things like Very large ISO's. Timothy J. Massey Sent from my iPad On Nov 30, 2014, at 10:29 AM, Christian Völker chrisc...@knebb.de wrote: Hi all, I am trying

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why Child is aborting?

before they die? You might be able to alter the time out in smaller increments and see if the delay changes along with your changes in timeout. Or it might be something else completely. Timothy J. Massey Sent from my iPad On Nov 30, 2014, at 1:43 PM, Christian Völker chrisc...@knebb.de wrote

Re: [BackupPC-users] Running BackupPC and Nagios web interfaces from the same box

xpac backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote on 10/14/2014 03:59:26 PM: Ok I found this little tidbit in some documentation: As mentioned, the BackupPC user created on the system when installing the RPM has to run Apache in order for everything to work properly with the CGIs and mod_perl.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best backup system for Windows clients

Michael Stowe mst...@chicago.us.mensa.org wrote on 08/25/2014 09:16:09 AM: Given that, a VSS/rsync combination is more or less required. There are two methods for coordinating the shadow copy service with rsync -- ssh and winexe. I use the winexe method here, and put together an installer

Re: [BackupPC-users] Help before giving up on BackupPC

Marco Nicolayevsky ma...@specialtyvalvegroup.com wrote on 05/14/2014 08:47:24 PM: Hello all, I am using a pretty vanilla installation of BackupPC and love the simplicity and fact that it just works as it’s supposed to. My problem arises when trying to back up windows clients over

Re: [BackupPC-users] Centralized storage with multiple hard drives

Holger Parplies wb...@parplies.de wrote on 03/19/2014 07:26:02 PM: Les Mikesell wrote on 2014-03-19 11:25:38 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC- users] Centralized storage with multiple hard drives]: Throwing RAM at a disk performance problem usually helps. You've used BackupPC before, Les, right? ;-)

Re: [BackupPC-users] Got fatal error during xfer after 20 MiB (tar on localhost)

Jost Schenck jost.sche...@gmx.de wrote on 03/14/2014 07:37:00 AM: I guess you're right that backing up the backup servers system config with backuppc itself may not be such a brilliant idea :) You can *never* back up something with itself. What I thought was, that in case my home server

Re: [BackupPC-users] Centralized storage with multiple hard drives

Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote on 03/20/2014 01:59:47 PM: On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.com wrote: You've used BackupPC before, Les, right? ;-) BackupPC prefers pool reads over writes when possible, and it typically accesses large

Re: [BackupPC-users] Centralized storage with multiple hard drives

Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote on 03/20/2014 03:48:51 PM: It's all about statistics and the odds of having to move the disk head to get a directory entry or inode vs already having it in cache for instant access (and sometimes even some data...). In theory, theory and practice are

Re: [BackupPC-users] Centralized storage with multiple hard drives

thorvald backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote on 03/19/2014 06:53:19 AM: Let's say that the storage is not a problem for me and I can have as many TB or PT as I need. However the main assumption is that every box has got a separate disk to be backed up to. So now I faced the problem with

Re: [BackupPC-users] Ftp fails

Søren Brøndsted s...@ufds.dk wrote on 03/17/2014 04:43:16 AM: Hi On 14-03-2014 16:23, Timothy J Massey wrote: Have you tried performing the same FTP manually from the command line of the BackupPC box? Yes. I have tried as backuppc user and it works. Obviously, you need to use

Re: [BackupPC-users] Ftp fails

Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.com wrote on 03/18/2014 01:09:16 PM: Søren Brøndsted s...@ufds.dk wrote on 03/17/2014 04:43:16 AM: On 14-03-2014 16:23, Timothy J Massey wrote: Are you using shared folders on i? You could also try to get the folders using SMB, which is what I have

Re: [BackupPC-users] Ftp fails

Søren Brøndsted s...@ufds.dk wrote on 03/14/2014 10:46:37 AM: Hi I am trying to do a ftp backup fra an iSeries 5 (AS400), but I get the following result: Unneeded log info remotels: adding name QIMGCLG, type f, size 272496, mode 33152 remotels: adding name VOL001, type f, size

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync building file list takes forever

Dr. Boris Neubert om...@online.de wrote on 03/04/2014 12:23:15 PM: What was irritating to me was the rsyncd log entry Building file list... with nothing else afterwards and the empty BackupPC host XferLog during backup. In fact the backup was already transferring all the files all the time.

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC Client and Windows Server 2012 / 2012 R2

Hello! I tried to install Michael Stowe's BackupPC client (with VSS support) on a Windows Server 2012 R2 server today. Unfortunately, the installer program popped up an error: Cannot determine version of vshadow to use. There is only one choice: OK. When you click on it, the installer

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

Russell R Poyner rpoy...@engr.wisc.edu wrote on 12/17/2013 11:12:07 AM: This is a poor comparison since we have different data sets, but it would appear that BackupPC's internal dedupe and compression is comparable to, or only slightly worse than what zfs achieves. This in spite of the

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote on 12/16/2013 09:40:56 AM: Anyway, Anaconda objected at my choosing ext4 for the 40 TB raid-array when I recently set up a new system, and defaulted to xfs instead. EXT4 won't support file systems 16TB at all with 4k blocks, and depending on OS and

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

Mark Rosedale mrosed...@vivox.com wrote on 12/16/2013 09:06:07 AM: I'm working on bringing back a backuppc instance. It is very large 3 +TB. The issue I'm having is e2fsck is taking an extremely long time to finish. It is stuck on the checking directory structure. We are going on 48 hours.

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.com wrote on 12/16/2013 02:35:44 PM: Mark Rosedale mrosed...@vivox.com wrote on 12/16/2013 09:06:07 AM: I'm working on bringing back a backuppc instance. It is very large 3 +TB. The issue I'm having is e2fsck is taking an extremely long time to finish

Re: [BackupPC-users] Disk space used far higher than reported pool size

Craig O'Brien cobr...@fishman.com wrote on 11/01/2013 09:48:23 AM: This error shows BackupPC_dump segfault, and pointing to libperl.so How do you install your BackupPC ? From source or from RPM? I did a yum install backuppc, which got it from epel That's how I do it. That tells you it

Re: [BackupPC-users] Disk space used far higher than reported pool size

Craig O'Brien cobr...@fishman.com wrote on 10/31/2013 08:49:15 AM: The du -hs /backup/pool /backup/cpool /backup/pc/* has finished. Basically I had 1 host that was taking up 6.9 TB of data with 2.8 TB in the cpool directory and most of the other hosts averaging a GB each. Well, there's your

Re: [BackupPC-users] Disk space used far higher than reported pool size

Holger Parplies wb...@parplies.de wrote on 10/30/2013 10:24:05 PM: as I understand it, the backups from before the change from smb to rsyncd are linked into the pool. Since the change, some or all are not. Whether the change of XferMethod has anything to do with the problem or whether it

Re: [BackupPC-users] Disk space used far higher than reported pool size

Craig O'Brien cobr...@fishman.com wrote on 10/31/2013 01:33:30 PM: Just out of curiosity, why hadn't you already done that?!? I didn't know which host was the problem and didn't think of it. Although I'll readily admit it seems painfully obvious to me now. :) Just so you're sufficiently

Re: [BackupPC-users] Disk space used far higher than reported pool size

Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote on 10/31/2013 01:54:24 PM: On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Craig O'Brien cobr...@fishman.com wrote: fsck the filesystem. bash-4.1$ fsck /dev/sda1 fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) /dev/sda1: clean,

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan sharuzza...@gmail.com wrote on 10/30/2013 10:06:18 PM: Hi Holger, Based on short session of troubleshooting, I believe the machine actually suffer from low I/O speed to the disk. Average read is about 3 MB/s, which I considered slow for a SATA disk in IDE

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan sharuzza...@gmail.com wrote on 10/31/2013 02:38:01 PM: Hi Timothy, I got the number by observing the output of iotop while file transfer is running. Also, on BackupPC host summary page, average transfer rate for full backup is also around 3MB/s It could be a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Disk space used far higher than reported pool size

Craig O'Brien cobr...@fishman.com wrote on 10/29/2013 08:21:11 PM: I'm not sure how I can go about determining if a particular backup is using the pool or just storing the files in the PC folder. What's the best way to check if a given backup set is represented in the pool or not? Would

Re: [BackupPC-users] Disk space used far higher than reported pool size

Adam Goryachev mailingli...@websitemanagers.com.au wrote on 10/30/2013 09:18:59 AM: Not really relevant to this thread, but I have in the past added a empty file to each of the removable drives, then test if the file exists before creating the archives. If the drive isn't mounted, the file

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: rsyncd as a service on Windows 8

Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote on 10/27/2013 02:26:06 PM: Have you checked the Event Viewer? It usually shows you what's going on with rsync... This seemed to have gotten missed. Is there anything in there? Rsync is usually pretty expressive in the Event Viewer... Also,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Disk space used far higher than reported pool size

Craig O'Brien cobr...@fishman.com wrote on 10/29/2013 01:53:31 PM: On the General Server Information page, it says Pool is 2922.42GB comprising 6061942 files and 4369 directories, but our pool file system which contains nothing but backuppc and is 11 TB in size is 100% full. My strong

Re: [BackupPC-users] Disk space used far higher than reported pool size

Craig O'Brien cobr...@fishman.com wrote on 10/29/2013 03:30:46 PM: The topdir is /var/lib/BackupPC which is a link to /backup I missed that in your previous e-mail. Stupid proportional fonts... (And you might want add a -h for commands like du and df: the -h is for human-readable... When

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: rsyncd as a service on Windows 8

Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote on 10/26/2013 08:37:48 AM: Any suggestions on a) how to find out why rsyncd dies in the first place Not really: I have never run rsync on Windows 8. I *have* done it on Windows Server 2012 (based on Win8) with zero crashes across 3-4 servers on

Re: [BackupPC-users] Repeated error on more than one client; rsync timeout

Hans Kraus h...@hanswkraus.com wrote on 10/23/2013 11:35:47 AM: Hi, that's the strange thing: initial backups worked, only the following backups showed the timeout. I'd get that. With the initial backup, there are no checksums performed: what would you checksum on the backup server? So

Re: [BackupPC-users] Repeated error on more than one client; rsync timeout

Hans Kraus h...@hanswkraus.com wrote on 10/22/2013 01:25:30 PM: It was very simple: I copied the 'rsyncd.conf' file on the Clients ( all Debian at the moment) from an example file, as I read in http://howden.net.au/thowden/2012/11/rsync-on-debian/. Namely I did 'cp

Re: [BackupPC-users] Writing archives to external drive

Phil Reynolds phil-backu...@tinsleyviaduct.com wrote on 10/15/2013 08:05:14 AM: I haven't seen BackupPC write an archive during my testing - maybe I'm missing some settings? More likely, you're just expecting too much: BackupPC does not write an archive on a schedule at all. It only writes

[BackupPC-users] Cannot use Linux (Was: Re: FW: no rrd graphs in version 3.3.0)

Charles Belarmino charles.belarm...@maximintegrated.com wrote on 10/13/2013 10:54:20 PM: Hello Everyone, Do I still first need to do “Connect to Network”…. [image removed] before I can get my BackupPC Server running like this one? First, the positive. You *did* ask a question.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issues with Include and Exclude for a SMB backup

Bowie Bailey bowie_bai...@buc.com wrote on 10/11/2013 03:38:29 PM: The first entry in the BackupFilesOnly (the key) should be the sharename, Users. After you add that, use the buttons to the right to add the directories you want to backup within that share. Or, if there's only one share,

Re: [BackupPC-users] no rrd graphs in version 3.3.0

Charles Belarmino charles.belarm...@maximintegrated.com wrote on 10/10/2013 01:52:26 AM: I cannot run my backuppc server installed in Virtual Box using CentOS6.4. Attached is the error. That error message told you exactly what was wrong (the CGI script can't talk to the BackupPC server)

Re: [BackupPC-users] no rrd graphs in version 3.3.0

Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote on 10/09/2013 10:15:57 AM: On 2013-10-09 14:09, Holger Parplies wrote: Hi, vano wrote on 2013-10-09 05:17:53 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] no rrd graphs in version 3.3.0]: Found that after upgrade to version 3.3.0, rrd graphs is missing in web

Re: [BackupPC-users] simple backup scheme, 1xfull, 6xinc

µicroMEGAS microme...@mail333.com wrote on 10/04/2013 09:29:22 AM: I have red many times the manual and of course I tried many settings, still without luck. I have 30 hosts which have about 1400Megabytes of data in summary. As I am using a 2TB harddisk for my backuppc pool, I would like

Re: [BackupPC-users] simple backup scheme, 1xfull, 6xinc

Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote on 10/04/2013 02:20:19 PM: Are all of your backup runs completing every day? That is also a great question. If your incrementals span more than a week, there will be more than one full that they depend on. All of the assumptions you've put in place

Re: [BackupPC-users] simple backup scheme, 1xfull, 6xinc

µicroMEGAS microme...@mail333.com wrote on 10/04/2013 02:42:15 PM: I think here's my problem: let's say one or two host were not able to be backed up (incremental) Then I miss one or more incremental backups, so BackupPC doesn't delete the last Full after 7 days (when the new Full backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] New backup server

Erik Hjertén erik.hjer...@companion.se wrote on 05/24/2013 12:15:22 PM: Hi all I have invested in a used HP Proliant ML150 G5 server as a new backup server. I have about 500 GB of data in 40 000 files spread over 8 clients to backup. Data doesn't grow fast so I'm aiming at two 1TB disks

Re: [BackupPC-users] New backup server

Erik Hjertén erik.hjer...@companion.se wrote on 05/24/2013 03:40:36 PM: Thanks for your thorough reply Timothy. No problem. BackupPC (well, all system backup) is a *lot* more complex than people think! About 8000 files a photos between 5 and 15 MB each, in total around 100 GB. This will

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC not obeying blackout times

Changing the ping command to a different command can be done on a per host basis. Timothy J. Massey Sent from my iPhone On May 22, 2013, at 4:52 PM, Zach lace...@roboticresearch.com wrote: This is true only for one host. This is why I wouldn't want to change ping to /bin/true...I want

Re: [BackupPC-users] mysql streaming

Arnold Krille arn...@arnoldarts.de wrote on 04/26/2013 04:27:44 PM: On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:45:50 -0700 Lord Sporkton lordspork...@gmail.com wrote: I'm currently backing up mysql by way of dumping the DB to a flat file then backing up the flat file. Which works well in most cases except

Re: [BackupPC-users] mysql streaming

backu...@kosowsky.org wrote on 04/26/2013 05:04:07 PM: If you are indeed talking about files in the 50-200GB range, you are not going to fit more than a handful of files per TB disk... even if you have a RAID array of multiple disks, you are still probably talking about only a small number of

Re: [BackupPC-users] mysql streaming

backu...@kosowsky.org wrote on 04/26/2013 06:27:32 PM: My point is that even with o(100) files/copies which assuming you are backing up multiple versions means you have far fewer distinct files -- you may be better off just writing a script... I get your point, though I would ask you to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Forcing time distribution of backups?

Koen Vermeer k...@vermeer.tv wrote on 03/13/2013 08:13:45 PM: On 2013-03-13 21:20, Brad Alexander wrote: So I'm wondering, is there a way to better force a better distribution of backup jobs during the day? What about setting MaxBackups to a smaller number than 4? That's what I'd do: set

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Pool synchronization?

Mark Campbell mcampb...@emediatrade.com wrote on 03/06/2013 11:01:28 AM: I don't mean to bring up another RTFM moment, but I've searched around, and I haven't found the location for enabling/disabling the pooling. The compression option I've found, but not pooling. There is no way of doing

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to disable Outlook Backup?

Andrew Mark andr...@aimsystems.ca wrote on 12/11/2012 10:20:15 AM: Hi all, We use MS Outlook for its calendar and contact functions; our email is web-based. It there a way to disable BackupPC from checking and warning that Outlook is not backed up? ie. stop checking the value of

Re: [BackupPC-users] archive aborts after signal ALRM

Stefan Peter s_pe...@swissonline.ch wrote on 11/18/2012 04:55:49 PM: On 18.11.2012 20:44, Till Hofmann wrote: But now, when I'm trying to archive more clients at once, the process receives ALRM after exactly 20 hours. 2012-11-09 19:54:29 Starting archive 2012-11-10 15:54:29 cleaning

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync never starts transferring files (but does something)

Markus unive...@truemetal.org wrote on 11/19/2012 04:03:03 PM: For fun, here's the output of find / | wc -l: 24478753 real 490m35.602s user 0m21.013s sys 1m23.305s 25 million files! OMG. find took 8 hours to complete. Nice, hm? :-) Wow. If a simple find took 8 hours to complete,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Performance reference (linux --(rsync)- linux)

Cassiano Surek c...@surek.co.uk wrote on 11/22/2012 05:43:30 AM: Dear all, For reference on the matter I was trying to resolve or improve, I have increased RAM from 2Gb to 4Gb (the max for that machine) and backups reduced by 50% in completion time. I had wrongly assessed in the past

Re: [BackupPC-users] Afraid of the midnight monster?

Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote on 11/08/2012 10:51:53 AM: On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Jimmy Thrasibule thrasibule.ji...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I wonder if it is possible to wake BakupPC at midnight. In the documentation or on the Internet, they all start at 1 to 23.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Performance reference (linux --(rsync)- linux)

Cassiano Surek c...@surek.co.uk wrote on 11/06/2012 05:03:44 AM: Of course, how could I have missed that! I did find it now, thanks Michał. Last full backup (of 100 odd Gb) took slightly north of 10 days to complete. Incremental, just over 5 days. I did not see if you mentioned how *many*

Re: [BackupPC-users] Any procedure for using 2 external harddrives

Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote on 10/25/2012 09:14:47 AM: On 2012-10-25 14:10, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 10/24/2012 12:41 PM, dixieadmin wrote: I am currently using BackupPC 3.2.1 on SME Server 8.0. I wanted to know if there is a correct procedure for using 2 different external

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to deactive the file mangling on backups ?

, and I think you will find very, very little interest in your small change . Timothy J. Massey Sent from my iPhone On Sep 24, 2012, at 3:46 PM, Serge SIMON serge.si...@gmail.com wrote: The point is that it barely miss nothing to have a browsable uncompressed rsynced backup folder for people

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote on 09/18/2012 07:04:21 PM: The guest servers are not hurting for resources. They are not part of the problem. The problem seems to be contained completely inside of the BackupPC server. If you aren't seeing big speed differences among clients

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

backu...@kosowsky.org wrote on 09/18/2012 09:51:11 PM: Timothy J Massey wrote at about 12:54:35 -0400 on Monday, September 17, 2012: I have several very similar configurations. Here's an example: Atom D510 (1.66GHz x 2 Cores) 4GB RAM CentOS 6 64-bit 4 x 2TB Seagate SATA

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote on 09/17/2012 01:34:33 PM: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.com wrote: I'm writing a longer reply, but here's a quick in-thread reply: I know exactly what you mean by waiting until after the first full. Often

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

that, too. It's just a big pain to use, that I would rather do nearly anything else than depend on it! :) Unfortunately, none of this gets us closer to the source of the terrible performance we're seeing... :) Timothy J. Massey Out of the Box Solutions, Inc. Creative IT Solutions Made

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

John Rouillard rouilj-backu...@renesys.com wrote on 09/17/2012 02:05:28 PM: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:54:35PM -0400, Timothy J Massey wrote: No matter the size of the system, I seem to top out at about 50GB/hour for full backups. Here is a perfectly typical example: Full Backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

Tim Fletcher t...@night-shade.org.uk wrote on 09/17/2012 08:50:39 AM: You are being hit by disk io speeds, check you dont have atime turned on on the fs. I agree that noatime is a net win for *very* little pain. I found a system where I had not mounted the datastore noatime and swiched it.

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

bigger, is at least *somewhat* comparable. And you're getting four times the performance, which is what I would have estimated that my box was capable of doing, but is not. Timothy J. Massey Out of the Box Solutions, Inc. Creative IT Solutions Made Simple! http://www.OutOfTheBoxSolutions.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote on 09/17/2012 02:44:20 PM: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.com wrote: However, I have recently inherited a server that is 3TB big, and 97% full, too! Backups of that system take 3.5 *days* to complete. I

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

-based rsync is *terrible*. But it makes the magic of BackupPC work--if you feed it enough resources, it seems. Timothy J. Massey Out of the Box Solutions, Inc. Creative IT Solutions Made Simple! http://www.OutOfTheBoxSolutions.com tmas...@obscorp.com 22108 Harper Ave. St. Clair Shores, MI

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC is awesome

involved with the list. His participation is certainly missed. Timothy J. Massey Out of the Box Solutions, Inc. Creative IT Solutions Made Simple! http://www.OutOfTheBoxSolutions.com tmas...@obscorp.com 22108 Harper Ave. St. Clair Shores, MI 48080 Office: (800)750-4OBS (4627) Cell: (586)945-8796

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.com wrote on 09/18/2012 11:07:18 AM: John Rouillard rouilj-backu...@renesys.com wrote on 09/17/2012 02:33:34 PM: I have another system that is lower power: 2632652.8 MB at 662.5 minutes or 66MB/s That's 2.6TB in 11 hours. That is perfectly

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote on 09/18/2012 12:42:26 PM: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.com wrote: Fortunately, BackupPC is a backup of the backup right now, and is not expected to be used for real. Yet. That's why I can take the time

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote on 09/18/2012 03:34:56 PM: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.com wrote: That is a good point, but if I ever have to do a full 3TB restore from BackupPC, the 12 hours a (properly performing) BackupPC will take

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote on 09/17/2012 11:51:09 AM: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Mark Coetser m...@tux-edo.co.za wrote: Its the first full run but its taking forever to complete, it was running for nearly 3 days! As long is it makes it through, don't make any

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

they compare to see at what performance cost this protection is coming. Thank you very much for your help! Timothy J. Massey Out of the Box Solutions, Inc. Creative IT Solutions Made Simple! http://www.OutOfTheBoxSolutions.com tmas...@obscorp.com 22108 Harper Ave. St. Clair Shores, MI

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

the user tells me so when I restore it... :( Timothy J. Massey Out of the Box Solutions, Inc. Creative IT Solutions Made Simple! http://www.OutOfTheBoxSolutions.com tmas...@obscorp.com 22108 Harper Ave. St. Clair Shores, MI 48080 Office: (800)750-4OBS (4627) Cell: (586)945-8796

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

doubt that this is it. Timothy J. Massey Out of the Box Solutions, Inc. Creative IT Solutions Made Simple! http://www.OutOfTheBoxSolutions.com tmas...@obscorp.com 22108 Harper Ave. St. Clair Shores, MI 48080 Office: (800)750-4OBS (4627) Cell: (586)945-8796

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

of the connection--even if it's a Gigabit connection. For subsequent runs, see my other (very long) e-mail. Examine the CPU usage (and I/O usage!) of your BackupPC server and see what is limiting you. Timothy J. Massey Out of the Box Solutions, Inc. Creative IT Solutions Made Simple! http

Re: [BackupPC-users] Adding client file accesses to AV exceptions

At a high-level, VSS works the same way as LVN snapshots. At an executional level, it's completely different. You do not need a separate partition; you just need enough free space on the volume. Timothy J. Massey Sent from my iPhone On Sep 12, 2012, at 2:27 PM, Kenneth Porter sh

Re: [BackupPC-users] WinXX file ownership / permissions

Michael Stowe mst...@chicago.us.mensa.org wrote on 09/03/2012 07:33:39 PM: I'd recommend rsync+vshadow to get all the files, of course -- for a bare metal restore, if you don't recover the registry, you won't have anything to map to, anyway, so I'm assuming you're going to do that as well,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Error Backing up Servers

Ray Frush ray.fr...@avagotech.com wrote on 08/21/2012 11:30:22 AM: You need to exclude /proc from your backups. It's a virtual file system maintained by the kernel, and does not need to be backed up. Here's the excludes we use for Linux hosts: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '*' = [

Re: [BackupPC-users] backupPC and backup via VPN connection.

Of course, in the original request, inside the office was already working perfectly. Therefore, there's no need to do anything. Of course, if that's what the original person wanted, they wouldn't have written the message in the first place. Timothy J. Massey Sent from my iPhone On Jul 27

Re: [BackupPC-users] backupPC and backup via VPN connection.

bubolski backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote on 07/24/2012 05:51:47 AM: I got a problem with this (topic). When i'm connected to the same wireless via cable I can start backup on backuppc. When i got internet from wifi and i'm connected to my work wireless via vpn i can ping my

Re: [BackupPC-users] backupPC and backup via VPN connection.

Arthur Darcet arthur.darcet+l...@m4x.org wrote on 07/26/2012 03:20:15 PM: You can easily configure the VPN to give static IP to your clients, and then just map a dummy name to the VPN IP using /etc/hosts on the BackupPC server. Static IP addresses that are on the same local broadcast domain

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC data pool

, a VM of backup PC as a supported solution does not seem like a good idea to me. Timothy J. Massey Sent from my iPhone On Jul 20, 2012, at 6:03 PM, Bryan Keadle (.net) bkea...@keadle.net wrote: Sorry for the late reply. anything/everything in a VM is an attraction. :-) I had hoped

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC data pool

ones, it is still very much a small NAS box. BackupPC really wants to be set up on a standalone PC with directly attached disks. Timothy J. Massey Sent from my iPhone On Jul 13, 2012, at 12:39 PM, Bryan Keadle (.net) bkea...@keadle.net wrote: Thanks for your reply. Yeah, we're using a NAS

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC data pool

and unique from the parts used for your production data. Otherwise, it can't act as a backup for those parts. A self-contained box that includes the processing and storage is by far the simplest way to achieve this. Timothy J. Massey Sent from my iPhone On Jul 13, 2012, at 1:05 PM, Mike ispbuil

Re: [BackupPC-users] Process for Overriding hosts configuration

Michael Stowe mst...@chicago.us.mensa.org wrote on 07/10/2012 11:14:34 AM: How are you backing the junction points up. AFAIK backuppc treats those as actual directories and not junction points (i.e. the concept of a junction point doesn't exist in backuppc's universe like a symbolic link

Re: [BackupPC-users] windows and Rsyncd : secure connexion ?

Depends on what you mean by secure. If you mean, is the connection encrypted?, then no. You want to use rsync over SSH, which is perfectly possible on Windows as well. Timothy J. Massey Sent from my iPhone On Jul 4, 2012, at 8:34 AM, galemberti greg galembe...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, I have

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