Re: [BackupPC-users] BPC 4 very slow

2016-01-17 Thread Alexander Moisseev
On 16.01.16 22:16, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > 2016-01-16 19:53 GMT+01:00 Alexander Moisseev : >> You mentioned earlier you are trying to backup dovecot with Maildir. Do you >> have considered to move from Maildir to mdbox? It will definitely help with >> BackupPC and

Re: [BackupPC-users] BPC 4 very slow

2016-01-17 Thread Alexander Moisseev
On 18.01.16 4:46, Adam Goryachev wrote: > So, while generating the file list might take a long time with BPC v3, I > don't think it should significantly change the overall backup time. Assuming checksum caching configured, for first and second backup, yes. But it is not true for subsequent

Re: [BackupPC-users] BPC 4 very slow

2016-01-17 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 17/01/16 05:53, Alexander Moisseev wrote: > On 16.01.16 15:04, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: >> I can't use v3 because i'm having servers with millions of file to be >> transfered and v3 takes ages in "Building files list". > You mentioned earlier you are trying to backup dovecot with Maildir.

Re: [BackupPC-users] BPC 4 very slow

2016-01-17 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 16/01/16 23:04, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > 2016-01-14 23:00 GMT+01:00 Adam Goryachev > : >> I would suggest anyone considering BPC should use v3 unless they >> specifically need the v4 features, and even then, are prepared for the >> possible

Re: [BackupPC-users] Retentiona and Archive

2016-01-17 Thread Andreas Piening
Hi Max, can you be more precise on the part in the docs you don’t understand that well? If your want to be able to have more than 365 days of retention I would suggest this as a possible configuration: $Conf{FullAgeMax} = 373; $Conf{FullKeepCntMin} = 53; $Conf{FullPeriod} = 6.97; You should

[BackupPC-users] Retentiona and Archive

2016-01-17 Thread Max Ricketts
I have installed Backuppc succesfully and all is working well. I am having troubles understanding the retention policies for full and incremental. I am looking at being able to restore one particular file from any day in the past year. I have read about archiving off, but not sure how to set