Re: [BackupPC-users] Split share into several shares

2008-06-11 Thread Kurt Tunkko
Hello Hendrik, Hendrik Friedel wrote: [...] My last incremental took nearly 280 minutes for about 600 MB. This is over a 54 Mbit Wlan connection. But even over this connection 600MB are transferable in a fraction of 280 minutes... I had a similar problem when backing up Windows-Clients to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Split share into several shares

2008-06-11 Thread Peter
Hi Kurt, I would be interested in reading your HowTo for cygwin and rsncyd. As I tried that on Windows and it was s slw, so, I went back to Samba. Let me know when you have done your HowTo and I'll put it through its paces and add what ever else I find. Thanks Peter - Original

Re: [BackupPC-users] Split share into several shares

2008-06-09 Thread Hendrik Friedel
the problem. Have you checked, how much time you save by splitting the backup? Greetings, Hendrik _ Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Samstag, 7. Juni 2008 03:55 An: Hendrik Friedel Cc: BackupPC User List Betreff: Re: [BackupPC-users] Split share into several

Re: [BackupPC-users] Split share into several shares

2008-06-09 Thread dan
*An:* Hendrik Friedel *Cc:* BackupPC User List *Betreff:* Re: [BackupPC-users] Split share into several shares I actually do this on my tru64 unix and my sco unix machines. This works quite well. It also uses up way less RAM with rsync, which is good because some of the tru64 machines don't have

[BackupPC-users] Split share into several shares

2008-06-06 Thread Hendrik Friedel
Hi, My backups often don't complete due to time-outs (or whatever). Would it make sense, to split the rsyncd share into several shares (for example: /pictures /data /[rest]), in order to make it more likely, that a backup finishes, and that I don't have to start from scratch if the whole backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] Split share into several shares

2008-06-06 Thread dan
I actually do this on my tru64 unix and my sco unix machines. This works quite well. It also uses up way less RAM with rsync, which is good because some of the tru64 machines don't have a lot of extra RAM. I have one specific tru64 alpha 4cpu machine that I have 4 hosts setup for and I trigger