[BackupPC-users] Subject: Re: distribution packages and tar upgrades + full backups

2010-09-11 Thread Timothy Omer
The previous full run is used as the comparison unless you have configured incremental levels.   But, why not just do more frequent full runs to keep the base more current?  Fulls take longer in elapsed time because the remote files are all read for comparison, but they don't use a lot more

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc looks at files permissions but not at user's ones.

2010-09-11 Thread Xuo
Le 28/08/2010 20:02, Les Mikesell a écrit : On 8/28/10 7:01 AM, Xuo wrote: Hi, I would like to notice a behavior that (I think) should be modified. By default, my ping and ssh executables have the following file attributes : -rwsr-x--- 1 root ntools 34920 2010-04-18 12:31 /bin/ping

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc looks at files permissions but not at user's ones.

2010-09-11 Thread Xuo
Le 28/08/2010 20:02, Les Mikesell a écrit : On 8/28/10 7:01 AM, Xuo wrote: Hi, I would like to notice a behavior that (I think) should be modified. By default, my ping and ssh executables have the following file attributes : -rwsr-x--- 1 root ntools 34920 2010-04-18 12:31 /bin/ping

[BackupPC-users] XferLog size

2010-09-11 Thread Andrew LaPierre
Why is my XferLog 291GB large? I'm trying to backup 650GB worth of data, I don't understand the purpose of the file, it seems like it's dumping the binary of the backup files into the log. I also am seeing a fair amount of Error: opendir errors for that machine. Is that related at all? I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Subject: Re: distribution packages and tar upgrades + full backups

2010-09-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/11/10 2:22 AM, Timothy Omer wrote: -for rsyncd, fulls and incrementals are the same other than the fact that full takes longer checking all files. The reason full is the same is due to it will not transfer any files in the pool that are the same, hence it only transfers changes... just

Re: [BackupPC-users] Subject: Re: distribution packages and tar upgrades + full backups

2010-09-11 Thread Timothy Omer
On 11 September 2010 17:13, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/11/10 2:22 AM, Timothy Omer wrote: -for rsyncd, fulls and incrementals are the same other than the fact that full takes longer checking all files. The reason full is the same is due to it will not transfer any files in

Re: [BackupPC-users] Subject: Re: distribution packages and tar upgrades + full backups

2010-09-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/11/10 11:38 AM, Timothy Omer wrote: So when an Incremental runs, if the last backup is a Full backup files that are the same never get transferred to the server. Yes, and in an incremental run, only the filename, timestamp, and length are compared. In a full run, a block checksum