[BackupPC-users] rsync: full backup more than twice faster than incremental backup

2012-08-16 Thread Udo Rader
Hi, after adding one of our customers' server we see some weird backup effects with a full backup taking (somewhat expected) 7 hours but incremental backups taking more than twice that time. See for yourself: 2012-08-10 01:30:01 full backup started for directory /backup_tree 2012-08-10 08:35:12

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync: full backup more than twice faster than incremental backup

2012-08-16 Thread Tim Fletcher
On 16/08/12 09:47, Udo Rader wrote: One of the reasons I can think of is the file structure on that host. It serves as a special storage pool for a customer developed application and as such it has really really many subdirectories with really really many subdirectories with really really many

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync: full backup more than twice faster than incremental backup

2012-08-16 Thread Udo Rader
On 08/16/2012 12:02 PM, Tim Fletcher wrote: On 16/08/12 09:47, Udo Rader wrote: One of the reasons I can think of is the file structure on that host. It serves as a special storage pool for a customer developed application and as such it has really really many subdirectories with really really

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync: full backup more than twice faster than incremental backup

2012-08-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Udo Rader list...@bestsolution.at wrote: Hi, after adding one of our customers' server we see some weird backup effects with a full backup taking (somewhat expected) 7 hours but incremental backups taking more than twice that time. [...] One of the reasons

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync: full backup more than twice faster than incremental backup

2012-08-16 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-08-16 15:51, Les Mikesell wrote: I've now disabled incremental backups on this server, but maybe someone has an idea how to enable incremental backups for this host as well. I think you've jumped to conclusions here - you need to time full runs other than the first. Other things to

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync: full backup more than twice faster than incremental backup

2012-08-16 Thread Arnold Krille
On Thursday 16 August 2012 16:35:49 Tyler J. Wagner wrote: On 2012-08-16 15:51, Les Mikesell wrote: I've now disabled incremental backups on this server, but maybe someone has an idea how to enable incremental backups for this host as well. I think you've jumped to conclusions here - you

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC not starting at boot

2012-08-16 Thread Norman Goldstein
I posted a solution in the FedoraForum Servers forum: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=283264 In summary, I edited /usr/lib/systemd/system/backuppc.service to start with the following block [Unit] Description= BackupPC server After=syslog.target remote-fs.target the change being