Re: [BackupPC-users] want to take backup in human readable format in BackupPC

2012-11-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:37 PM, niraj_vara backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: HI I want this because if I my archive storage in tar.gz format then I can restored the backup anywhere in the PC/Laptop where backupPC not installed. Right now what happened I can restored the

[BackupPC-users] rsync never starts transferring files (but does something)

2012-11-15 Thread Markus
Hi list, I'm new here. At first, thank you for BackupPC! :) I'm trying to backup a new client. The problem is: rsync never starts to transfer files, not even after 12 hours of waiting. rsync is doing something, though. More on that below. The client is a quad core 2.8 GHz CPU, 8 GB RAM and

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync never starts transferring files (but does something)

2012-11-15 Thread Steve
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Markus unive...@truemetal.org wrote: Any suggestions on what I could do or what could go wrong here? Since your things are working well on all other machines, try a backup on the trouble machine of just one directory (or a few) and see if that works normally.

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync never starts transferring files (but does something)

2012-11-15 Thread Markus
Hi Steve, Am 15.11.2012 19:07, schrieb Steve: On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Markus unive...@truemetal.org wrote: Any suggestions on what I could do or what could go wrong here? Since your things are working well on all other machines, try a backup on the trouble machine of just one

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync never starts transferring files (but does something)

2012-11-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Markus unive...@truemetal.org wrote: The client is a quad core 2.8 GHz CPU, 8 GB RAM and 1.6 TB of many many small files in a RAID0. CPUs 75-95% idle most of the time, load around 0.3. No swap used. rsync 3.0.7 on the client, rsync 3.0.6 on the server.

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync never starts transferring files (but does something)

2012-11-15 Thread Steve
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Markus unive...@truemetal.org wrote: Your suggestion sounds great. I just found this small how-to on a forum. Is this how it works or is there another/better way? Create as many client names as you like, eg: client-share1, client-share2, client-share3,

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync never starts transferring files (but does something)

2012-11-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Steve lepe...@gmail.com wrote: Create as many client names as you like, eg: client-share1, client-share2, client-share3, client-share4 (replace client with the real host name and share with the share names). In each pc/client-xxx/config.pl file, use;

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync never starts transferring files (but does something)

2012-11-15 Thread Arnold Krille
Hi, On Thursday 15 November 2012 19:14:53 Markus wrote: Your suggestion sounds great. I just found this small how-to on a forum. Is this how it works or is there another/better way? Create as many client names as you like, eg: client-share1, client-share2, client-share3, client-share4