Re: [BackupPC-users] How to really/immediately exclude stuff from next backup

2023-10-19 Thread Guillermo Rozas
It should be more or less as slow as doing the new backup without removing them, as it's doing essentially the same thing. The difference would be to do it out of "backup hours" or when the server has more free resources. On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 11:49 AM marki wrote: > Alright. In any case remov

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to really/immediately exclude stuff from next backup

2023-10-19 Thread marki
Alright. In any case removing files from the current backup (because they don't exist anymore / have been excluded / ...) is painfully slow. On 2023-10-19 16:04, Guillermo Rozas wrote: It's not a capacity problem. It's a performance problem. Sorry, you implied that the problem was the capacit

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to really/immediately exclude stuff from next backup

2023-10-19 Thread Guillermo Rozas
> > It's not a capacity problem. > It's a performance problem. > Sorry, you implied that the problem was the capacity when you said >> Also in the original example the disk isn't large enough, so we're >> not >> even making it to that stage. But again, that was not the question. > The question i

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to really/immediately exclude stuff from next backup

2023-10-19 Thread marki
It's all V4. It's not a capacity problem. It's a performance problem. And trying to figure out why it is so slow, I tried looking at what it is actually doing. Which brought me to what I was initially asking. I'm not sure where the stuff in 2846 is coming from before being deleted again (beca

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to really/immediately exclude stuff from next backup

2023-10-19 Thread Guillermo Rozas
Are you using V3 or V4? According to my understanding, this step However 2846 seems to be populated with the content from 2845 (including > the stuff I have excluded). > It looks like it's first copying all the stuff from 2845 (even the > excluded path) and then later tries to remove it again from

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to really/immediately exclude stuff from next backup

2023-10-19 Thread Marki
Sure we have and that's actually what we are doing. But until that is in place we need a workaround which is excluding stuff. So I would like to understand why the system behaves this way when I exclude a directory. On October 19, 2023 12:37:05 PM GMT+02:00, Paul Leyland wrote: >This may soun

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to really/immediately exclude stuff from next backup

2023-10-19 Thread Paul Leyland
This may sound fatuous but I am serious. Have you considered installing more disk(s)? Sometimes throwing hardware rather than liveware at a problem is more cost-effective. The former gets ever cheaper whereas the latter is ever more expensive. I doubled the size of my pool over the last year

[BackupPC-users] How to really/immediately exclude stuff from next backup

2023-10-14 Thread marki
Hello, I'm having a hard time here excluding stuff starting with the next backup. The problem is the disk containing the pools is not large enough to host more full backups. But we don't want to touch our retention policy for now, so we are trying to exclude some things starting now. But it