Re: [BackupPC-users] Full backup bandwidth reduction

2007-11-26 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Toni Van Remortel wrote: How can I reduce bandwidth usage for full backups? Even when using rsync, BackupPC does transfer all data on a full backup, and not only the modified files since the last incremental or full. That's not true. Only modifications are transfered over the network

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full backup bandwidth reduction

2007-11-26 Thread Toni Van Remortel
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: Toni Van Remortel wrote: How can I reduce bandwidth usage for full backups? Even when using rsync, BackupPC does transfer all data on a full backup, and not only the modified files since the last incremental or full. That's not true. Only modifications are

[BackupPC-users] How can I let users browse and restore their backups

2007-11-26 Thread Alexander Lenz
Hi there, BackupPC Community, what is the easiest way to let our users (we are about 30 here) browse and restore the backups that were made from their machines ? - Without granting admin access to them. - We'd need some restricted accounts to access backuppc via http, which should allow

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full backup bandwidth reduction

2007-11-26 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Toni Van Remortel wrote: Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: Toni Van Remortel wrote: How can I reduce bandwidth usage for full backups? Even when using rsync, BackupPC does transfer all data on a full backup, and not only the modified files since the last incremental or full. That's not

Re: [BackupPC-users] How can I let users browse and restore their backups

2007-11-26 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Alexander Lenz wrote: Hi there, BackupPC Community, what is the easiest way to let our users (we are about 30 here) browse and restore the backups that were made from their machines ? - Without granting admin access to them. - We'd need some restricted accounts to access backuppc via http,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full backup bandwidth reduction

2007-11-26 Thread Les Mikesell
Toni Van Remortel wrote: How can I reduce bandwidth usage for full backups? Even when using rsync, BackupPC does transfer all data on a full backup, and not only the modified files since the last incremental or full. That's not true. Only modifications are transfered over the network when

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full backup bandwidth reduction

2007-11-26 Thread Les Mikesell
Toni Van Remortel wrote: Could you give us some numbers? How much traffic are you seeing for a BackupPC backup compared to a 'plain rsync'? Full backup, run for the 2nd time today (no changes in files): - - BackupPC full dump : killed it after 30mins, as it pulled all data again (2.8GB)

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc and Amanda

2007-11-26 Thread Paddy Sreenivasan
I'm a developer in Amanda (http://amanda.zmanda.com) project. Is anyone using Amanda and Backuppc together? I'm interested in integrating Backuppc with Amanda. Amanda will be the media manager (support for tapes and other media) consolidator of data from a group of BackupPC clients. Amanda's

Re: [BackupPC-users] [BackupPC-devel] Backuppc and Amanda

2007-11-26 Thread Stephen Joyce
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Paddy Sreenivasan wrote: I'm a developer in Amanda (http://amanda.zmanda.com) project. Is anyone using Amanda and Backuppc together? I've always thought that Bacula was a better fit to be integrated (how tightly or loosely is debatable) with BackupPC. Looking at this

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc and Amanda

2007-11-26 Thread Les Mikesell
Paddy Sreenivasan wrote: I'm a developer in Amanda (http://amanda.zmanda.com) project. Is anyone using Amanda and Backuppc together? I'm using them separately with some of the same hosts as targets. I'm interested in integrating Backuppc with Amanda. Amanda will be the media manager

[BackupPC-users] define destination dir

2007-11-26 Thread Holm Kapschitzki
Hello, i habe 4 older ide devices a 160 gb and i want to backup a few client hosts. So i cannot use one single device for backuppc. I read the doku and read something of configuring topdir to config the path where the data is backupt. On the other hand i read on debian package topdir is

Re: [BackupPC-users] define destination dir

2007-11-26 Thread Paul Archer
Look in the config.pl file (if debian, it's probably /etc/backuppc/config.pl). If you have four 160GB drives, I would suggest using MD/LVM to create one large logical volume. The best arrangement would probably be something like a RAID 5 with all four drives, and maybe an LVM volume on top of

Re: [BackupPC-users] define destination dir

2007-11-26 Thread dan
enter the ZFS troll :) if you run opensolaris or a BSD with ZFS you can use ZFS as a zraid and you get the benefits of LVM, Raid5, and filesystem level compression all in one. I have noticed ZFS to be very resource friendly under heavy load even with compression and zraid enabled. search google

Re: [BackupPC-users] define destination dir

2007-11-26 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Holm Kapschitzki wrote: i habe 4 older ide devices a 160 gb and i want to backup a few client hosts. So i cannot use one single device for backuppc. I read the doku and read something of configuring topdir to config the path where the data is backupt. On the other hand i read on debian

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full backup bandwidth reduction

2007-11-26 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Toni Van Remortel wrote: And I have set up BackupPC here 'as-is' in the first place, but we saw that the full backups, that ran every 7 days, took about 3 to 4 days to complete, while for the same hosts the incrementals finished in 1 hour. That's why I got digging into the principles of