On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Nick Smith <nick.smith79 AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> I have a couple clients backup nightly over the internet.
> I seem to be doubting if the backups are actually being completed 
> successfully.
> Backuppc tells me they are, but the reason im questioning is because
> it is suppose
> to backup 10gigs a night (their sql db changes daily) and backup
> completes in 40mins
> over a max connection of 600kb.  The backup results do say its getting
> about 50%
> compression and the backup is only 5gigs when it complete.
>
> How does backuppc handle databases? does it take just whats changed or if the 
> DB
> changes does it have to backup the entire thing again?
>
> ive gotten 14 complete full backups (one a day) and they all have the
> same results
> completed successfully and are about 10gigs before compression and pooling.
>
> its there a way i can make sure that things are working as planned?
>
> i mean without doing a restore and testing what its backing up.
>
> i just dont want to think im getting good backups when im really not.
>
> im using scripts that use volume shadow to get backups of their windows 
> servers
> after hours.
>
> it just seems like the backups are going way to fast with the speed of
> the connection
> and the size of the data.
>
> thanks for any light you can shed on the subject.
>
and to add to my own post im doing these backups over a pfsense
firewall on both sides and the stats for the last 4 hours
(when the 10gig backup was supposedly preformed), the output
transmitted on the WAN was only 50megs. so something
isnt working correctly here.

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