Author: Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:07:46 -0400
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote on 09/17/2012 01:34:33 PM: full. Often limited him nor I are Interesting possibility. However, on the "big" server, it's new enough to see the first
Author: Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:13:58 -0400
Yeah, I probably should have mentioned that. I knew it was there, but I'd rather have that set to 1.00 than 0.10... :) of to This is perfectly valid. However, I'm less worried about data that has mu
I am busy running a full clean rsync to time exactly how long it will take and will post results compared to a clean full backup with backuppc, I can tell you that the network interface on the backup
Author: Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:53:52 -0400
50GB/hour for works out to be that can move Woo. I like that. Now let's see why is yours different! So this "backup drive" server is simply the iSCSI target that provides the storage used by BackupPC
Author: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:58:18 +0100
There is no "norelatime" as far as I know. "noatime" implies "nodiratime", and it certainly prevents "relatime". Default mount options are specified in the ext4 filesystem superblock. So "acl" isn't
Author: Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:01:03 -0400
Tim Fletcher <tim AT night-shade.org DOT uk> wrote on 09/17/2012 08:50:39 AM: I agree that noatime is a net win for *very* little pain. I found a system where I had not mounted the datastore noatime
Author: Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:07:18 -0400
That's 2.6TB in 11 hours. That is perfectly acceptable for me. And *way* better than I'm getting. So 2 CPU sockets, each of which is a dual-core processor? So a single block device presented to the
Author: Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:24:03 -0400
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote on 09/17/2012 02:44:20 PM: and 97% I *can't* <Quick fixes snipped> you ever price with and Fortunately, BackupPC is a "backup of the backup" right no
Author: Frédéric Massot <frederic AT juliana-multimedia DOT com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:32:16 +0200
Le 18/09/2012 16:58, Tyler J. Wagner a écrit : Hi, On my system Debian Squeeze/Wheezy the mount man page indicates: norelatime Do not use relatime feature. See also the strictatime mount option. Rega
Author: Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:34:10 -0400
Mark Coetser <mark AT tux-edo.co DOT za> wrote on 09/18/2012 10:21:42 AM: server Once it is complete, wait a day or so and then re-run the full backup *and* the native rsync over the contents of the
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:24:59 -0500
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com> wrote: Raid5 has its own reasons for bad write performance. You sort-of make up for it with 8+ drives in an array, but w
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:28:06 -0500
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com> wrote: I'd expect cygwin tar over ssh to work on windows, but haven't tried it and wouldn't expect it to beat rsync. --
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:42:26 -0500
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com> wrote: It is more than a band-aid to have a warm-spare disk ready to pop in instead of waiting for a 3TB restore even w
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:45:38 -0500
What's the target here? It takes a pretty good disk system at both ends to sustain rates like that, especially if you have a tree of small files. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com -- Live
Author: Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:14:03 -0400
Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com> wrote on 09/18/2012 11:07:18 AM: 02:33:34 PM: And I have just performed some full backups on a host after disabling compression. Results: Not-first backu
Author: Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:18:20 -0400
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote on 09/18/2012 12:42:26 PM: now, and is not take the time and try in That is a good point, but if I ever have to do a full 3TB restore from BackupPC,
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:40:55 -0500
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com> wrote: Can you repeat those the 3rd time with checksum-caching enabled so we have a better idea of how much time that sa
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:34:56 -0500
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com> wrote: Off topic, but if you haven't already, have a look at ReaR for linux bare-metal restores. There is some active de
Author: Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:50:44 -0400
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote on 09/18/2012 03:34:56 PM: wrote: from take is not my disaster recovery what file-levelrestores, small. Will do. You were the one that turned me on t
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:04:21 -0500
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com> wrote: Yes, and that even looks like the current stuff - they recently moved from sourceforge. Packages should be availa