[BackupPC-users] Restore starts then pauses

2009-07-21 Thread Jeremy Mann
y log that will tell me what's its transferring at this moment (or if anything). Any suggestions? -- Jeremy Mann jer...@biochem.uthscsa.edu University of Texas Health Science Center Bioinformatics Core Facility http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.edu P

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore starts then pauses

2009-07-21 Thread Jeremy Mann
rver to create the > tarball, > remember that netcat is your friend.) Right now I've stopped the backup and am doing each directory manually. I'm just curious if the sheer amount of data (~400 GB) I selected to restore confused the program. -- Jeremy Mann jer...@biochem.uthscsa.

[BackupPC-users] Cannot get tarCreate to work manually

2009-08-12 Thread Jeremy Mann
create, I type: /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h -n -1 -l -s usr / and I get: No language setting BackupPC::Lib->new failed -- Jeremy Mann jer...@biochem.uthscsa.edu University of Texas Health Science Center Bioinformatics Core Facility http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.

[BackupPC-users] Is there a speed setting?

2009-08-17 Thread Jeremy Mann
Just curious if there is a bandwidth speed setting for BackupPC because I'm not seeing a lot of bandwidth when the backups occur. All my servers are on gigE and I'm not even seeing 50Mbit speeds between the servers and backupPC server. -- Jeremy Mann jer...@biochem.uthscsa.edu Uni

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is there a speed setting?

2009-08-17 Thread Jeremy Mann
when I'm used to our old rsync scripts that utilized our full gigE network. -- Jeremy Mann jer...@biochem.uthscsa.edu University of Texas Health Science Center Bioinformatics Core Facility http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.edu Phone: (210) 567-2672 -

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is there a speed setting?

2009-08-17 Thread Jeremy Mann
l rsync scripts I've seen sustained speeds up to 95 MB/s from all over campus. Now since I've switched to BackupPC for deduplication, I'm seeing 1-5 MB/s on the same servers. -- Jeremy Mann jer...@biochem.uthscsa.edu University of Texas Health Science Center Bioinformatics Co

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is there a speed setting?

2009-08-17 Thread Jeremy Mann
ptable for a full backup. Now if you tell me my hardware isn't fast enough, the BackupPC server is a dual Opteron 2.2 Ghz with 8 GB RAM and 24 300GB drives in a 3ware RAID5 array, it isn't. -- Jeremy Mann jer...@biochem.uthscsa.edu University of Texas Hea

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is there a speed setting?

2009-08-17 Thread Jeremy Mann
Jon Craig wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Les Mikesell > wrote: >> Jeremy Mann wrote: > >>> I'm watching a live output of Ganglia showing network usage while the >>> backups are going. Also simple math.. I just finished one full backup, >&

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is there a speed setting?

2009-08-19 Thread Jeremy Mann
RAM and 24 300GB drives in a 3ware RAID5 >> array, it isn't. > > Either end can limit the speed. How many concurrent runs do you do? > Also, you should expect much faster rates if you have a few large files > than if you have millions of tiny ones. I am retrying the same

[BackupPC-users] Still having problems with BackupPC

2009-08-26 Thread Jeremy Mann
mons aren't even at the top of the list. I thought this would solve our storage problem, but I'm afraid I cannot spend more time on this. I'm going to revert back to our old rsync scripts. -- Jeremy Mann jer...@biochem.uthscsa.edu University of Texas Health Sci

[BackupPC-users] One server takes too long to backup

2009-09-11 Thread Jeremy Mann
add a line for each subdirectory. Would this speed it up? -- Jeremy Mann jer...@biochem.uthscsa.edu University of Texas Health Science Center Bioinformatics Core Facility http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.edu Phone: (210

Re: [BackupPC-users] One server takes too long to backup

2009-09-11 Thread Jeremy Mann
morning and saw all 28 servers were done. -- Jeremy Mann jer...@biochem.uthscsa.edu University of Texas Health Science Center Bioinformatics Core Facility http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.edu Phone: (210) 567-2672 -

Re: [BackupPC-users] One server takes too long to backup

2009-09-11 Thread Jeremy Mann
es for approximately 20 GB of files. I reenabled the server and added each directory in /export to the config file. I will see what happens tomorrow when it runs tonight. -- Jeremy Mann jer...@biochem.uthscsa.edu University of Texas Health Science Center Bioinformatics Core Facility http://www.bio

Re: [BackupPC-users] One server takes too long to backup

2009-09-11 Thread Jeremy Mann
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > What version of rsync are you running on the client and server? All servers (and BackupPC client) is version 3.0.6. -- Jeremy Mann jer...@biochem.uthscsa.edu University of Texas Health Science Center Bioinformatics Core Facility h

Re: [BackupPC-users] Setting up a new BackupPC server

2009-09-14 Thread Jeremy Mann
is a no-no as is ext3? > > What is the best way to set up the RAID array for BackupPC? In my personal experience, on our large arrays we use RAID5 with XFS filesystem. -- Jeremy Mann jer...@biochem.uthscsa.edu University of Texas Health Science Center Bioinformatics Core Facility http://ww