Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-29 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: Saturn2888 [mailto:backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com] Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 1:18 AM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon I've been reading a lot. Apparently Rsync over

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-29 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: Saturn2888 [mailto:backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com] Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 5:50 AM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon So you still need Cygwin even if you don't have

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-29 Thread Saturn2888
Well I do have a Linux AD server. I also have a WinServer2008R2 for 6 months, but it's having issues connecting into the domain for whatever reason. I was referring to the SSH encryption. I don't recall Samba using encryption for file transfers, just for user/pass, maybe even just pass. Are

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-29 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: Saturn2888 [mailto:backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com] Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 9:51 AM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon Well I do have a Linux AD server. I also have

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-29 Thread Saturn2888
Sorin, with your setup, VLANs don't seem out of the question. In another case, I seem to be figuring out more and more why my machines are taking so long, Windows and Linux ones included. This PC started backing up over 8 hours ago. I looked at the PID, nothing. I looked at the Xfer PID,

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-29 Thread Saturn2888
So what's the maximum amount of incrementals I should do then? For wireless devices it's best to keep it going and let the server handle the rest, for my wired computers, I'm assuming anywhere from 6-8 is plenty and I should probably not do more than that.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/29/2010 2:02 PM, Saturn2888 wrote: So what's the maximum amount of incrementals I should do then? For wireless devices it's best to keep it going and let the server handle the rest, for my wired computers, I'm assuming anywhere from 6-8 is plenty and I should probably not do more than

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-29 Thread Saturn2888
Yeah, that's what I meant, depth, not number. There are very few changes to most of my systems, what does change are the file folders I'm backing up on my main rig. Those files change daily, but not all of them of course. What are your thoughts? Probably less level changes are good if there

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-28 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: Saturn2888 [mailto:backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 12:27 PM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon @Sorin Srbu I'll be excited to hear of your

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-28 Thread Saturn2888
I've been reading a lot. Apparently Rsync over Cygwin or anything using those DLLs hangs. I haven't yet felt like upgrading my memory for money reasons, but I'm wondering if I should include the -W or --whole-file into the Rsync options for backups. From what I read online, a lot of Windows

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-28 Thread Saturn2888
Correctioni, it took 8 hours for the full, and as you can see in http://badmarkup.com/backuppc/majin.png, almost all of the files were already backed up before. +-- |This was sent by saturn2...@gmail.com via Backup Central.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-28 Thread Trey Nolen
Saturn2888 wrote: I've been reading a lot. Apparently Rsync over Cygwin or anything using those DLLs hangs. I haven't yet felt like upgrading my memory for money reasons, but I'm wondering if I should include the -W or --whole-file into the Rsync options for backups. From what I read

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-28 Thread Saturn2888
I don't understand. Which DLLs and what versions? I use DeltaCopy and can't imagine why I'd not need Rsyncd. Are you saying use it over mounted Samba shares, or you're telling me to use SSH? In DeltaCopy, I'm able to just pop in compatible Cygwin DLL files. Cygwin itself is far too bulky and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-28 Thread Les Mikesell
Saturn2888 wrote: I don't understand. Which DLLs and what versions? I use DeltaCopy and can't imagine why I'd not need Rsyncd. Are you saying use it over mounted Samba shares, or you're telling me to use SSH? In DeltaCopy, I'm able to just pop in compatible Cygwin DLL files. Cygwin

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-28 Thread Saturn2888
Yeah, but with version of the DLL is the newest one in this case that solves it? I refuse to install Cygwin, but I also can't seem to find that DLL on this page: ftp://sourceware.org/pub/cygwinports/. I would still need Cygwin to run an SSH server right or would I just use some form of PuTTY?

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-28 Thread Les Mikesell
Saturn2888 wrote: Yeah, but with version of the DLL is the newest one in this case that solves it? I refuse to install Cygwin, but I also can't seem to find that DLL on this page: ftp://sourceware.org/pub/cygwinports/. You really only need to waste the dollar's worth of disk space a cygwin

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-28 Thread Saturn2888
The $100-worth of writes lowering the life of my SSD for features I don't ever need nor will ever use in Windows ooor I find someone that has it installed or could find the DLL and links me :P since I really only need cygwin1.dll. The cwRsync one is from 1.7.2 which I believe is the version I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-28 Thread Les Mikesell
Saturn2888 wrote: The $100-worth of writes lowering the life of my SSD for features I don't ever need nor will ever use in Windows ooor I find someone that has it installed or could find the DLL and links me :P since I really only need cygwin1.dll. The cwRsync one is from 1.7.2 which I

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-28 Thread Saturn2888
Yeah, I know that. That's why I keep saying, I need the DLL somehow to test if it will fix this. +-- |This was sent by saturn2...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-28 Thread Les Mikesell
Saturn2888 wrote: Yeah, I know that. That's why I keep saying, I need the DLL somehow to test if it will fix this. The cwRsync download would have it in a small package. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-28 Thread Saturn2888
So after installing Cygwin into my RAID of hard drives and waiting the forever it took, I finally have a cygwin1.dll. I gave up looking through those tar.bz2 files for it. The cwRsync package had the same old 1.7.2 version of the DLL I already got in February not the one being proposed. The

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-27 Thread Saturn2888
Hey Les, after putting that checksum stuff in, I get a lot of errors which say verified cached digest. To me that's not an error, that's a good thing right? +-- |This was sent by saturn2...@gmail.com via Backup Central.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-27 Thread Les Mikesell
Saturn2888 wrote: Hey Les, after putting that checksum stuff in, I get a lot of errors which say verified cached digest. To me that's not an error, that's a good thing right? I'm not sure what that means - you might get it once when the values are added to an existing file that didn't

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-27 Thread Saturn2888
If that's the case, other computers would show the error too but they do not. It's only that one PC that has 'em. It shows 139 errors for the last full whereas the ones before had around 24. The previous fulls used to have a lot of errors as well, but only because files were vanishing such

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-24 Thread Saturn2888
Use this as the root directory: http://badmarkup.com/backuppc/ Note, full-backups of laptops or netbooks are done using 100Mbits wired Ethernet links, everything else is under 802.11g. Since I can't upload any, here's my most-recent pic of the Host Summary screen. As you can see, the smallest

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Friday 23 April 2010 00:56:42 Saturn2888 wrote: @Tyler J. Wagner If it's confirmed Rsync works better than Rsyncd, I'll switch to it. The problem with SSH Rsync configurations is the public/private keys. I seem to always have problems getting those setup, but I've recently not had those

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: Saturn2888 [mailto:backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 1:48 AM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon @Sorin Srbu I tested each and every new DLL and EXE

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Saturn2888
Since it was mentioned before, here's iostat: Every 2.0s: iostat Fri Apr 23 05:34:51 2010 Linux

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: Saturn2888 [mailto:backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 12:27 PM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon @Sorin Srbu I'll be excited to hear of your

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Saturn2888
The web server is the one thing that's ever seemingly been fast. There's never a problem so long as I use it. +-- |This was sent by saturn2...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: Saturn2888 [mailto:backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 1:07 PM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon The web server is the one thing that's ever

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Les Mikesell
Saturn2888 wrote: Since it was mentioned before, here's iostat: Every 2.0s: iostat Fri Apr 23

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Les Mikesell
Saturn2888 wrote: @Les Mikesell That makes sense then why RAID5 is bad for this. Now you know my trouble with Samba. Sure, if I can read the files they should be there, but they're not. This is why I stopped using Samba. It's like BackupPC get tired when using Samba and quits when it

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Les Mikesell
Tyler J. Wagner wrote: On Friday 23 April 2010 00:56:42 Saturn2888 wrote: @Tyler J. Wagner If it's confirmed Rsync works better than Rsyncd, I'll switch to it. The problem with SSH Rsync configurations is the public/private keys. I seem to always have problems getting those setup, but I've

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Saturn2888
Les Mikesell wrote: Saturn2888 wrote: Since it was mentioned before, here's iostat: Every 2.0s: iostat

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Friday 23 April 2010 14:02:13 Les Mikesell wrote: Errr... On the backuppc side you want to do this as the backuppc user... But what you really want it /home/backuppc/.ssh/id_rsa.pub appended to each remote's /root/.ssh/authorized_keys file (there could be other entries there already).

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/23/2010 8:13 AM, Saturn2888 wrote: avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 19.910.042.99 70.840.006.23 But, that 70% iowait number pretty much tells you what the machine is doing with most of its time... I did watch iostat and saw that

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-23 Thread Saturn2888
I was gonna put it on 2x400GB in RAID0 and having that data backed up on another rig but didn't think that'd be such a good idea. As an update, while my graphs haven't updated, my pool info is back! I realized the extra 100GB was from the new files I wanted to start backing up so that

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-22 Thread Saturn2888
@Tyler J. Wagner If it's confirmed Rsync works better than Rsyncd, I'll switch to it. In my experience, transferring over SSH is only a bit slower than FTP so it should work just as well. I've also tried adding a -z option into Rsync transfers outside of BackupPC and noticed that with -z

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-22 Thread Saturn2888
@Tyler J. Wagner If it's confirmed Rsync works better than Rsyncd, I'll switch to it. In my experience, transferring over SSH is only a bit slower than FTP so it should work just as well. I've also tried adding a -z option into Rsync transfers outside of BackupPC and noticed that with -z

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Saturn2888 wrote: @Les Mikesell I thought this was the mailing list. I've seen things frequently posted in both areas with replies in both areas. I'm assuming that you mean the mailing list posts to the forums whereas it's not the forum that posts to the mailing list. It is a

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-22 Thread Saturn2888
I've seen so many things on the mailing list. I don't know how to respond, what program to use if any, if there's some special way to keep track. Think of if you've never come across a forum before. Someone would have to teach you how to use it. This is the same thing. Pointing me to where a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

2010-04-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Saturn2888 wrote: I've seen so many things on the mailing list. I don't know how to respond, what program to use if any, if there's some special way to keep track. Think of if you've never come across a forum before. Someone would have to teach you how to use it. This is the same thing.