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

2012-08-17 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-08-16 18:20, Arnold Krille wrote: This variable (and also the corresponding FillLevels) works differently than you expect: It means keep one backup at IncrInterval, keep 2 backups at 2*IncrInterval before that, keep 3 backups at 4*IncrInterval before that, keep 5 backups at

[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