[BackupPC-users] What do I need for backing up the pool?

2010-07-01 Thread Saturn2888
:: INTRO :: I've been really curious about a few things on backing up the backup because I've been doing it for a while from an ext3 filesystem for a zfs one and have noticed quite a few issues especially when my zfs drive suddenly filled up and rm -rv pc/blah would give me immediate feedback

[BackupPC-users] What do I need for backing up the pool?

2010-07-01 Thread Saturn2888
I forgot to add, my rsync command also has --delete. +-- |This was sent by saturn2...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com.

Re: [BackupPC-users] What do I need for backing up the pool?

2010-07-01 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Thursday 01 July 2010 11:31:05 Saturn2888 wrote: The rsync command I cron to copy the /var/lib/backuppc directory ... Stop there. That's your problem. Others here have had luck doing this in under 24 hours, but my pool takes at least 7 days to copy with rsync. Consider cloning the volume

Re: [BackupPC-users] What do I need for backing up the pool?

2010-07-01 Thread Josh Malone
The last time I backed up my entire pool I simply used 'dump' on the ext3 filesystem on Linux. I'd simply run 'dump -a0f - /dev/disk| ssh freenas dumpfile' ... or any other way you choose to move the data from dump. -- Joshua

[BackupPC-users] What do I need for backing up the pool?

2010-07-01 Thread Saturn2888
@Josh Malone, what do you mean by that? @Tyler J. Wagner, thanks! I'm gonna look at that article and see what I can do. I haven't seen any numbers of the speed difference between LVM or no LVM so I haven't yet used it. I'm wanting to make sure enabling LVM doesn't screw up my current speed

[BackupPC-users] What do I need for backing up the pool?

2010-07-01 Thread Saturn2888
Can't I just dd the entire partition or that one directory into a file? +-- |This was sent by saturn2...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com.

[BackupPC-users] What do I need for backing up the pool?

2010-07-01 Thread Saturn2888
Well BackupPC only runs in Linux I thought. I'm running BackupPC in Linux, the zfs filesystem I'm copying this stuff to in an embedded FreeBSD 7.3. I say embedded bc the OS is read-only and most of the normal functionality is missing such as ports.

Re: [BackupPC-users] What do I need for backing up the pool?

2010-07-01 Thread Josh Malone
'dump' just read the filesystem inode-by-inode and writes the contents to a file. It's a lot like 'dd' but it knows about the ext3 filesystem and won't copy empty blocks, and can be read using the 'restore' utility to pull out individual files. So just mount your freenas and 'dump -a0f

Re: [BackupPC-users] What do I need for backing up the pool?

2010-07-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/1/2010 8:18 AM, Saturn2888 wrote: Can't I just dd the entire partition or that one directory into a file? If it will fit and you unmount the partition during the copy, that would be fine. You'd have to copy back to a partition or loopback-mount the file before being able to access it,

[BackupPC-users] What do I need for backing up the pool?

2010-07-01 Thread Saturn2888
Over 4 hours for just hosts A through D, not even all the way to Z. +-- |This was sent by saturn2...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com.

[BackupPC-users] What do I need for backing up the pool?

2010-07-01 Thread Saturn2888
Things are changing. What I'm hoping for it that I can capture whatever I can. I used to have a 700GB pool which is now only 366GB after I got rid of things I don't need snapshots for (music, pictures, installer files). It still takes freakin' forever though! Just deleting the files, which I'm