Re: [BackupPC-users] autossh issues

2010-01-31 Thread Matthias Meyer
Trey Nolen wrote: We've been using Backuppc for years to backup machines over the WAN. It has worked nearly flawlessly for us in the past, but we are starting to see issues with new machines that we bring online. I think the trouble may have to do with the recent updates to Cygwin. When

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bakuppc shutdown clinets

2010-01-31 Thread Matthias Meyer
egrimisu wrote: hi and thanks for the repley, unfortunetly that does not work. i put the command there and after the pc's backup the pc does not shut down. http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/65/66670236.jpg DumpPostUserCmd will be executed on your BackupPC Server. Try /sbin/halt and

[BackupPC-users] long rsync backup time

2010-01-31 Thread Bob Wooden
I am new to backuppc. I got my first rsync backuppc client to run but, it takes a long time (5GB data, 15 hours and I stopped it.) I have excluded: '/proc', '/dev', '/tmp', '/mnt', '/media', '/sys', '/lost+found', '/usr/src', '/var/lib', '/var/tmp', '/var/cache', '/var/spool', '/var/run',

Re: [BackupPC-users] long rsync backup time

2010-01-31 Thread dan
Any thoughts on why it is taking so long? what are the specs on the backup server and the client? CPU RAM specifically. what is their connectivity? is the 5GB is small files, large files, or a mix? what is the system load on the backup server and the client?

Re: [BackupPC-users] long rsync backup time

2010-01-31 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Wooden wrote: I am new to backuppc. I got my first rsync backuppc client to run but, it takes a long time (5GB data, 15 hours and I stopped it.) I have excluded: '/proc', '/dev', '/tmp', '/mnt', '/media', '/sys', '/lost+found', '/usr/src',

Re: [BackupPC-users] long rsync backup time

2010-01-31 Thread Bob Wooden
Thanks Dad, dan wrote: Any thoughts on why it is taking so long? what are the specs on the backup server and the client? CPU RAM specifically. server: P3-1.0GHz, 384Mb RAM server is also the nfs server for two clients in my house. So, minimal load while running as nfs server.

Re: [BackupPC-users] long rsync backup time

2010-01-31 Thread Bob Wooden
Ok, let us try one question at a time for now. I had written in my first post: I have manually run: sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f backupclient and I get confused as I am seeing /proc and /dev stuff in the verbose output. Is backuppc backing up those

Re: [BackupPC-users] Strict backup schedule

2010-01-31 Thread Gerald Brandt
- Gerald Brandt g...@majentis.com wrote: Hi, I have a situation where I need a 'strict' backup schedule. Our accounting data must be backed up daily, with weekly fulls on Friday and Monthly fulls on the last day of the month. Have mid-week and every 4 week fulls could mean we

Re: [BackupPC-users] long rsync backup time

2010-01-31 Thread Michael Stowe
Ok, let us try one question at a time for now. I had written in my first post: I have manually run: sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f backupclient and I get confused as I am seeing /proc and /dev stuff in the verbose output. Is backuppc backing up those