Hi,
No, it continues to take 22 hours or so each day.
-Thomas
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Paul Mantz <pcmantz AT zmanda DOT com> wrote:
> Hello Thomas,
>
> Did the BackupPC_nightly jobs take 22 hours on the 17th as well? If
> they didn't, I would suspect that since you restored the TopDir from a
> tarball, that the hardlinking wasn't handled correctly in the tar
> compression. BackupPC_nightly would have been re-establishing the
> de-duplication between the pc/ and pool/ directories all in one go,
> which could reasonably take that long.
>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Thomas Smith <thomathom AT gmail DOT com>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm running BackupPC 3.0.0 under Ubuntu. I'm having problems similar
>> to the ones some people have had with 3.1.0 on XFS, but I also did
>> some other odd things before this started happening, so I want to
>> relate the whole scenario, in case I did something else to break it.
>>
>> I accidentally corrupted the filesystem /var/lib/backuppc lived on.
>> Luckily, I had a backup of the backup filesystem (which contains about
>> 700GB of compressed data), just a giant tarball of the whole thing,
>> sitting on another server. It was from a couple weeks ago. So I blew
>> away the old (ext3) volume from my LVM volume group and put a new XFS
>> filesystem in its place, then I extracted the tarball, giving me a
>> several-week-old snapshot of BackupPC. Then I just started BackupPC
>> up again. Now, BackupPC_nightly takes a zillion years to run:
>>
>> 2008-12-16 01:00:01 Running 2 BackupPC_nightly jobs from 0..15 (out of 0..15)
>> 2008-12-16 01:00:01 Running BackupPC_nightly -m 0 127 (pid=7491)
>> 2008-12-16 01:00:01 Running BackupPC_nightly 128 255 (pid=7492)
>> [...]
>> 2008-12-16 23:11:42 Finished admin1 (BackupPC_nightly 128 255)
>> 2008-12-16 23:12:42 BackupPC_nightly now running BackupPC_sendEmail
>> 2008-12-16 23:12:45 Finished admin (BackupPC_nightly -m 0 127)
>>
>> It used to take about an hour, now it takes 22 hours.
>>
>> I found mailing list threads about similar problems in 3.1.0, but they
>> seemed to have to do with IO::Dirent.pm, which isn't even installed on
>> my system. Should I update to 3.1.0 and then install the patch for
>> the Dirent problem? Or is it maybe not an XFS bug, and I did
>> something wrong when I restored the BackupPC filesystem? Something
>> else?
>>
>> Thank you for your help,
>> -Thomas
>>
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