Author: Matthias Meyer <matthias.meyer AT gmx DOT li>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:43:23 +0200
Hi Jeffrey, Thanks for sending your perl script. Unfortunately I can't answer you because: -- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -- <jeff AT kosowsky DOT org> -- Transcript of session
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:47:10 -0400
Matthias Meyer wrote at about 11:43:23 +0200 on Monday, April 25, 2011: Hmmm... not sure I even remember which of my scripts you are talking about... PLEASE DO NOT include my personal email address i
Author: Matthias Meyer <matthias.meyer AT gmx DOT li>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:09:42 +0100
Hi Jeffrey, I can't find your BackupPC_copyPcPool. I looking for it on the wiki as well as in "backuppc.general". What/where are this recent archive ? Thanks in advance Matthias -- Don't Panic -- Col
Author: Dennis Blewett <dennis.blewett AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:00:12 -0600
Hey, folks. I've come back into the arena of using BackupPC. At the moment, one of my main goals is to rsync the pool and whatever else to an offsite storage area. I'm a student with access to a serv
Author: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome AT real-time DOT com>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:41:47 -0600
rsync'ing the BackupPC data pool is generally recommended against. The number of hardlinks causes an explosive growth in memory consumption by rsync and while you may be able to get away with it if y
Author: gregwm <backuppc-users AT whitleymott DOT net>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:26:51 -0600
this issue sure comes up alot, and perhaps i should just keep quiet since i personally am in no position to do it or even go off looking for an rsync forum, nor do i have any knowledge of just how c
Author: Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:21:23 -0500
gregwm <backuppc-users AT whitleymott DOT net> wrote on 02/22/2011 11:26:51 AM: it The software is not far off from doing that. Now multiply that by a billion files.... The reason why some people cla
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:53:28 -0500
gregwm wrote at about 10:26:51 -0600 on Tuesday, February 22, 2011: Well I wrote a perl script that does something quite similar: - Creates a pool indexed by inode number - Creates a list of hard lin
Author: Dennis Blewett <dennis.blewett AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:17:29 -0600
rsync'ing the BackupPC data pool is generally recommended against. The number of hardlinks causes an explosive growth in memory consumption by rsync and while you may be able to get away with it if
Author: Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:13:52 -0500
to use Please Google this and read the results: this question has been asked dozens of times, and always boils down to the same points. I will sum it up *briefly*: * For most people, rsync does not w
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:01:52 -0500
Timothy J Massey wrote at about 23:13:52 -0500 on Tuesday, February 22, 2011: I think there is a 3rd camp: 3. Scripts that understand the special structure of the pool and pc trees and efficiently cr
Author: Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey AT BUC DOT com>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:08:29 -0500
What it boils down to is this: Try it and see. If the rsync process is still churning after 24 hrs, then it is probably not a practical option... :) Also keep in mind that as your pool grows, the rsy
Author: John Goerzen <jgoerzen AT complete DOT org>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:26:33 +0000 (UTC)
One thing to consider: you could omit the syncing of pool/ and cpool/ when rsyncing to remote if you are rsyncing for disaster recovery purposes only. This will save some memory/time. Note however th
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:37:08 -0500
John Goerzen wrote at about 14:26:33 +0000 on Wednesday, February 23, 2011: And of course you either lose pooling (if you don't use the -H flag) or you are back to the same rsync memory bottleneck if
Author: gregwm <backuppc-users AT whitleymott DOT net>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:30:28 -0600
i've been having good success with a script that selects only the most recent full and most recent incremental for each backup in the pc directory, as well as the set of backups last successfully tra
Author: Dennis Blewett <dennis.blewett AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:41:00 -0600
@ Tim I did *briefly* search before making this email thread. As I found it similar to looking for the right kind of pants in a clothing store, I made the thread with particular keywords with the hop
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:21:27 -0600
It seems reasonable for that scale. Alternatively, for something that size you probably have enough of a backup window overnight to let the offsite server run an independent instance of backuppc hitt
Author: Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:23:25 -0500
the link. Well, for starters: http://www.google.com/search?q=backuppc+offsite One cool thing about Google: while you type in your search request, it suggests commonly searched strings. When I typed
Author: Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:29:22 -0500
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote on 02/24/2011 05:21:27 PM: files, I lose to and will the EPEL put Which, conveniently, is backed up by the default localhost backup job that is inclu