Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2016-01-11 19:04 GMT+01:00 Les Mikesell : > Are you sure the full completely succeeded? If not it might have > been marked as a 'partial' which would be replaced by a subsequent run > with more files. 100% sure, i've seen backups marked as "full". Ok for "partial" backups, but at least 1 full (t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > 2016-01-11 18:53 GMT+01:00 Gandalf Corvotempesta > : >> I would like to add more ram, but i'm waiting for current backup to >> end from this Friday > > Anyway, 2 days ago I had 1 full backup completed. a couple of hours > aft

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2016-01-11 18:53 GMT+01:00 Gandalf Corvotempesta : > I would like to add more ram, but i'm waiting for current backup to > end from this Friday Anyway, 2 days ago I had 1 full backup completed. a couple of hours after, an incremental was started and completed the following day. Yesterday a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2016-01-11 18:47 GMT+01:00 Les Mikesell : > What about RAM and disk speed? 2GB and standard SATA disks @7200 Tomorrow (if backup will end) i'll add more ram up to 4GB or 8GB > In any case you might check > to see if the server side has free RAM and is not swapping to disk. Actually i'm using 146

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > 2016-01-11 17:28 GMT+01:00 Les Mikesell : >> I haven't used v4 but it sounds like you have some issue with your >> network, rsync, or lack of resources. The main difference between a >> full and incremental should just be that the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2016-01-11 18:18 GMT+01:00 Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom : > For initial transfers, rsync is notably slower than tar or the like (I don't > remember how Bacula does it). After the initial transfers tho, it should get > faster. If you're still seeing this slowness after a couple of transfers, > there prob

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/11 05:58 , Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > I don't have any issue with my network, the same server, with Bacula > (i'm running Bacula and BackupPC on the same server, obviously one per > time) > will backup the same huge client in 16 hours, not 3 days. > > Same server, same disks, same networ

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2016-01-11 17:28 GMT+01:00 Les Mikesell : > I haven't used v4 but it sounds like you have some issue with your > network, rsync, or lack of resources. The main difference between a > full and incremental should just be that the full will do a complete > read on the client side. The actual data

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > 2016-01-11 15:38 GMT+01:00 Les Mikesell : >> Also note that with backuppc it is generally better to run fulls more >> frequently, since unlike other backup programs they don't much >> additional space. And, unless your timing requir

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2016-01-11 15:38 GMT+01:00 Les Mikesell : > Also note that with backuppc it is generally better to run fulls more > frequently, since unlike other backup programs they don't much > additional space. And, unless your timing requirements are extremely > tight it is better to let the server do the s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 01/11 09:32 , Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: >> 2016-01-11 3:03 GMT+01:00 Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom : >> > I don't know v4, but in v3 we generally do this with a cron job. Something >> > like this, which causes a job to go off on Sep

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/11 09:32 , Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > 2016-01-11 3:03 GMT+01:00 Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom : > > I don't know v4, but in v3 we generally do this with a cron job. Something > > like this, which causes a job to go off on September 7th. > > 00 01 7 9 * backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2016-01-11 3:03 GMT+01:00 Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom : > I don't know v4, but in v3 we generally do this with a cron job. Something > like this, which causes a job to go off on September 7th. > 00 01 7 9 * backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup > host.example.com host.example.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-10 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/09 01:58 , Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > in v4, I would like to schedule a full backup on first Saturday for > each month, for example, 6th of February, 5th of March, 2nd of April, > and so on. > All other days, an incremental should be done. I don't know v4, but in v3 we generally do this