Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failing to back up a host with big files

2012-08-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:09 AM, martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net wrote: also sprach Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com [2012.08.27.2326 +0200]: The only setting I can see that relates to this would be PartialAgeMax. Are the retries happening before this expires? Otherwise you'd have to

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failing to back up a host with big files

2012-08-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com [2012.08.28.1455 +0200]: The ClientTimeout setting may be your real issue though. A running backup should never time out as long as anything is transferring, even if it takes days to complete but with rsync that value can be for the whole backup.

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failing to back up a host with big files

2012-08-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:29 AM, martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net wrote: The ClientTimeout setting may be your real issue though. A running backup should never time out as long as anything is transferring, even if it takes days to complete but with rsync that value can be for the whole

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failing to back up a host with big files

2012-08-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com [2012.08.28.1650 +0200]: Maybe it is a bug that has been fixed in the current version but I know I have seen situations where the backup ended with an Alarm signal but files in the backup had been updating not long before the timeout. I assumed

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failing to back up a host with big files

2012-08-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:35 AM, martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net wrote: also sprach Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com [2012.08.28.1650 +0200]: Maybe it is a bug that has been fixed in the current version but I know I have seen situations where the backup ended with an Alarm signal but

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC failing to back up a host with big files

2012-08-27 Thread martin f krafft
Dear list, I am very happy with BackupPC, except that it hasn't been able to back up my workstation for more than 3 months. It started a full backup on 14 May 2012, shortly after I had stored a set of large files to disk. Since my workstation is behind an ADSL connection, the backup eventually

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failing to back up a host with big files

2012-08-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 4:19 AM, martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net wrote: However, the status quo seems broken to me. If BackupPC times out on a backup and stores a partial backup, it should be able to resume the next day. But this is not what seems to happen. The log seems to suggest that

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failing to back up a host with big files

2012-08-27 Thread Mike
On 12-08-27 09:57 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 4:19 AM, martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net wrote: However, the status quo seems broken to me. If BackupPC times out on a backup and stores a partial backup, it should be able to resume the next day. But this is not what seems

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failing to back up a host with big files

2012-08-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Mike ispbuil...@gmail.com [2012.08.27.1502 +0200]: The fix I've used is to --exclude a good chunk of the backup so it does finish in a day, then --exclude a little less the next time it runs, and so forth. I have used this method, which you and Les suggested. And yes, it works.

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failing to back up a host with big files

2012-08-27 Thread Bryan Keadle (.net)
Thinking outloud here - could you change the sync method to SMB to get a new full copy, then switch back to rSync? On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 3:45 PM, martin f krafft madd...@madduck.netwrote: also sprach Mike ispbuil...@gmail.com [2012.08.27.1502 +0200]: The fix I've used is to --exclude a

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failing to back up a host with big files

2012-08-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 3:45 PM, martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net wrote: also sprach Mike ispbuil...@gmail.com [2012.08.27.1502 +0200]: The fix I've used is to --exclude a good chunk of the backup so it does finish in a day, then --exclude a little less the next time it runs, and so forth.

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failing to back up a host with big files

2012-08-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: The best solution would be to have enough bandwidth to meet your requirements... Or at least enough to catch up by running through weekends. Forgot to mention that you might have to bump ClientTimeout way up. In

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failing to back up a host with big files

2012-08-27 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 08/27/2012 07:19 PM, martin f krafft wrote: Dear list, I am very happy with BackupPC, except that it hasn't been able to back up my workstation for more than 3 months. It started a full backup on 14 May 2012, shortly after I had stored a set of large files to disk. Since my workstation is

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failing to back up a host with big files

2012-08-27 Thread backuppc
Adam Goryachev wrote at about 09:23:51 +1000 on Tuesday, August 28, 2012: PS, the real problem with what you are seeing is possibly that backuppc isn't backing up one of the large files before being interrupted/timing out. Since it doesn't continue the backup from the middle of the file,

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failing to back up a host with big files

2012-08-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach backu...@kosowsky.org backu...@kosowsky.org [2012.08.28.0208 +0200]: Given that the fate and timing of a new 4.x version of BackupPC is uncertain at best and that this is a relatively common problem, maybe we should think about how to *patch* BackupPC 3.x so that partially backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failing to back up a host with big files

2012-08-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com [2012.08.27.2326 +0200]: The only setting I can see that relates to this would be PartialAgeMax. Are the retries happening before this expires? Otherwise you'd have to poke though the code to see why it prefers the previous full. This is a good