Jeremy Mann wrote:
> I'm still having severe bandwidth issues causing are once nightly backups
> to take days to finish with BackupPC. I am monitoring one server right now
> by tailing the NewFileList log file in its pc directory. What I'd expect
> to see are filenames flying by, but no, it just goes by maybe 1 file every
> minute or so. Then occasionally there's a spurt of maybe 10 file names.

That's a good thing.  It means most of the files are already in the pool 
and not being transferred - and not using bandwidth...

> Right now, the logfile is "hung" and hasn't had any output in the last 5
> minutes. Just what is BackupPC doing during this time?

If it is a full rsync it is block-checksum comparing with the target.

> On the BackupPC server, top shows an idle load and the BackupPC daemons
> aren't even at the top of the list.

The other end is reading the disk, backuppc is probably mostly using 
cached checksums.

> I thought this would solve our storage problem, but I'm afraid I cannot
> spend more time on this. I'm going to revert back to our old rsync
> scripts.

The fulls take time, but not much bandwidth.  Which is the real problem?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com



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