Re: [BackupPC-users] Renaming files causes retransfer?

2011-04-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Holger Parplies wb...@parplies.de [2011.04.20.2001 +0200]: We'd all like to be able to choose an existing *pool file* as reference - this would save us transfers of *any* file already existing in the pool (e.g. from other hosts). Unfortunately, this is technically not possible

Re: [BackupPC-users] RAID and offsite

2011-04-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com [2011.04.27.1507 +0200]: I think a safer alternative would be to do what the OP proposes -- that way you always have one safe copy not part of the RAID in case something messes up You need that anyway, although starting from scratch it

Re: [BackupPC-users] RAID and offsite

2011-04-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/28/11 2:37 AM, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Les Mikeselllesmikes...@gmail.com [2011.04.27.1507 +0200]: I think a safer alternative would be to do what the OP proposes -- that way you always have one safe copy not part of the RAID in case something messes up You need that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup of random home PC's

2011-04-28 Thread Josh Harding
This Seems like a case of square peg/round hole. Depending on the size of the backup set, I would advocate exploring one of the various options that have a friendly Windows interface, like Dropbox or Crashplan. Regards, Josh Harding -Original Message- From: Adam Goryachev

[BackupPC-users] Slow Rsync Transfer?

2011-04-28 Thread Dan Lavu
Hi, I've been running BackupPC for a while now and I've been noticing an odd trend, I have 29 servers which are identical in hardware and very similar in configuration. 28 of these servers transfer at 30-40MB/s via Rsync, one host and the database servers transfer between 2-10MB/s, even when

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow Rsync Transfer?

2011-04-28 Thread Gerald Brandt
- Original Message - Hi, I've been running BackupPC for a while now and I've been noticing an odd trend, I have 29 servers which are identical in hardware and very similar in configuration. 28 of these servers transfer at 30-40MB/s via Rsync, one host and the database servers

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow Rsync Transfer?

2011-04-28 Thread Dan Lavu
Gerald, Not the case with me, if you look at the host ras03, you see that the average speed is .92MB/s while other host are significantly faster. It is taking 40 hours to do 110GB, while other hosts are doing it in about an hour. I’m about to patch this box and reboot it, it’s been up for

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows backups with vss/rsync?

2011-04-28 Thread higuita
Hi all I've found that vshadow (Using this method) doesn't work under Windows 7/Vista. Been there... its a pain, but i already have all the shadow executable for XP, vista and 7, 32bit and 64bit (i ignore XP 64bit, no one uses it) in this link:

Re: [BackupPC-users] RAID and offsite

2011-04-28 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Michael Conner wrote on 2011-04-27 10:27:18 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] RAID and offsite]: On Apr 26, 2011, at 12:08 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On 4/26/2011 11:38 AM, Michael Conner wrote: [...] Someone used a RAID 1 setup but only put in the second disk periodically, then removed it

Re: [BackupPC-users] RAID and offsite

2011-04-28 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2011-04-27 20:36:13 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] RAID and offsite]: On 4/27/11 7:10 PM, Chris Parsons wrote: On 28/04/2011 6:52 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: I've forgotten the original context, but if it is setting up a new system you don't have much to lose in the

Re: [BackupPC-users] RAID and offsite

2011-04-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/28/11 9:50 PM, Holger Parplies wrote: [...] But, note that even though you don't technically have to stop/unmount the raid while doing the sync, realistically it doesn't perform well enough to do backups at the same time. I use a cron job to start the sync very early in the morning so

Re: [BackupPC-users] RAID and offsite

2011-04-28 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/04/11 12:50, Holger Parplies wrote: I'm sure that's a point where we'll all disagree with each other :-). No doubt :) Personally, I wouldn't use a common set of disks for normal backup operation and offsite backups. BackupPC puts

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow Rsync Transfer?

2011-04-28 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/04/11 04:08, Dan Lavu wrote: Gerald, Not the case with me, if you look at the host ras03, you see that the average speed is .92MB/s while other host are significantly faster. It is taking 40 hours to do 110GB, while other hosts are

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't Fork Crash on Nexenta (Solaris)

2011-04-28 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Stephen Gelman wrote on 2011-04-20 22:57:38 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] Can't Fork Crash on Nexenta (Solaris)]: On Nexenta (which is essentially an OpenSolaris derivative), I seem to have issues where BackupPC crashes every once and a while. When it crashes, the log says: Can't fork at