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

2010-04-22 Thread Saturn2888
I am listing the observations and complaints of mine after using BackupPC for 5 months. My system is running Ubuntu Hardy and has been kept up with the latest updates and patches. I upgraded from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 within my first few months and have kept this computer solely a BackupPC machine.

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

2010-04-22 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Thursday 22 April 2010 11:53:45 Saturn2888 wrote: I wish I could figure this out. Everything I'm seeing is attributed to Rsyncd. Samba was so fast and Rsync seems to work just fine but Rsyncd is entirely botched. All of my machines show a high amount of CPU usage whenever BackupPC beings

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

2010-04-22 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: Saturn2888 [mailto:backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 12:54 PM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 months ./05\. [...] This never seemed

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

2010-04-22 Thread Ryan Manikowski
On 4/22/2010 6:53 AM, Saturn2888 wrote: I am listing the observations and complaints of mine after using BackupPC for 5 months. My system is running Ubuntu Hardy and has been kept up with the latest updates and patches. I upgraded from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 within my first few months and have kept

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

2010-04-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/22/2010 5:53 AM, Saturn2888 wrote: I am listing the observations and complaints of mine after using BackupPC for 5 months. First, I'd recommend joining the backuppc email list instead of posting on backupcentral's forum because it works better for the people likely to answer questions.

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

2010-04-22 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Saturn2888 wrote at about 06:53:45 -0400 on Thursday, April 22, 2010: Please feel free, from here on in, to question or assert my obervations and complaints so that we may all get a well-rounded understanding of the situation Snipped thousands of words of high-level rambling complaints

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

2010-04-22 Thread Gerald Brandt
- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: That's partly from being implemented in perl and partly from counting iowait as CPU. Do you have the --checksum-seed=32761 option enabled for rsync? Not to hijack the thread, but I know what checksum-seed does, but how does it help?

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

2010-04-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/22/2010 1:55 PM, Gerald Brandt wrote: - Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: That's partly from being implemented in perl and partly from counting iowait as CPU. Do you have the --checksum-seed=32761 option enabled for rsync? Not to hijack the thread, but I know what

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

2010-04-22 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 04/22 10:55 , Les Mikesell wrote: Incrementals are based on the last full - so they should be expected to take longer each time until you do a full. One solution for this is to set: $Conf{IncrLevels} = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]; in config.pl. This way, each incremental will be made relative to

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

2010-04-22 Thread Gerald Brandt
--- Sent from my iPhone On Apr 22, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/22/2010 1:55 PM, Gerald Brandt wrote: - Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: That's partly from being implemented in perl and partly from counting iowait as CPU. Do