Hi, all. I'm running BackupPC 3.1.0 on a Linux server (in my home), using it
to backup my WinXP box (on the same network) via rsync (which is run as a
service under WinXP via Cygwin).
The process seems to work, but it's really, really slow. Here's what I mean:
Backup# Type Filled Level Start Date Duration/mins Age/days Server Backup Path
568 incr no 1 8/25 08:00 428.5 19.6 /backup/Photos/568
569 incr no 1 9/11 09:00 171.4 2.6 /backup/Photos/569
570 incr no 1 9/12 21:00 156.8 1.1 /backup/Photos/570
As you can see, the last couple of incremental backups of the photos
directories on my XP box have taken between 2-3 hours, and the full backup
takes a whopping 7 hours.
TOTAL TOTAL TOTAL EXIST EXIST NEW NEW
Backup# Type #Files Size/MB MB/sec #Files Size/MB #Files Size/MB
568 full 21665 132328.3 5.15 21665 132328.3 1 0.0
569 incr 21702 132850.0 12.92 21673 132848.9 29 1.1
570 incr 21719 132850.4 14.12 21694 132849.8 80 0.6
Now granted, this is a lot of files - 21,000+ files, 132GB. But even given
that, are these incredibly long backup durations REALLY to be expected? Even
worse, the WinXP computer really is almost unusable while this is going on.
The hard drive is so busy (and rsync so resource-intensive) that other
applications take forever to launch, run, etc. What I had hoped would be a
quiet, unobtrusive way to backup the PC during the day actually makes it fairly
unusable for several hours.
And in the end, when the result of a 2-3 hour incremental backup is that less
than 100 files even needed to be backed up... well, it just makes me wonder if
I'm doing something wrong. I hope that this isn't just par-for-the-course.
I don't really know how to diagnose this problem, so here are some config
details, from the PC config file and the header from the latest XferLog. I'd
be happy to provide any other configuration details if they'll help.
/ETC/BACKUPPC/PC/PHOTOS.PL
--------------------------
$Conf{ClientNameAlias} = 'myhostname-is-here.org';
$Conf{FullPeriod} = '21';
$Conf{FullKeepCnt} = '1';
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsyncd';
$Conf{RsyncdUserName} = 'backuppc';
$Conf{RsyncdPasswd} = 'password-is-here';
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
'cDrive'
];
$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = [
'Documents and Settings/George Adams/My Documents/My Pictures',
'Documents and Settings/George Adams/My Documents/Photos',
];
XFERLOG.570.Z
-------------------
incr backup started back to 2010-08-25 08:00:03 (backup #558) for directory
cDrive
Connected to myhostname-is-here.org:873, remote version 30
Negotiated protocol version 28
Connected to module cDrive
Sending args: --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D
--links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive
--checksum-seed=32761 . .
Checksum caching enabled (checksumSeed = 32761)
Sent include: /Documents and Settings
Sent include: /Documents and Settings/George Adams
Sent include: /Documents and Settings/George Adams/My Documents
Sent include: /Documents and Settings/George Adams/My Documents/My Pictures
Sent include: /Documents and Settings/George Adams/My Documents/Photos
Sent exclude: /*
Sent exclude: /Documents and Settings/*
Sent exclude: /Documents and Settings/George Adams/*
Sent exclude: /Documents and Settings/George Adams/My Documents/*
Xfer PIDs are now 16059
create d 775 544/18 0 .
create d 775 544/18 0 Documents and Settings
create d 770 544/18 0 Documents and Settings/George Adams
create d 700 1003/513 0 Documents and Settings/George Adams/My
Documents
create d 700 1003/513 0 Documents and Settings/George Adams/My
Documents/My Pictures
create d 0 4294967295/4294967295 0 Documents and Settings/George
Adams/My Documents/My Pictures/2002
create d 0 4294967295/4294967295 0 Documents and Settings/George
Adams/My Documents/My Pictures/2002/2002_04_30
same 0 4294967295/4294967295 899062 Documents and Settings/George
Adams/My Documents/My Pictures/2002/2002_04_30/100-0023_IMG.JPG
same 0 4294967295/4294967295 900896 Documents and Settings/George
Adams/My Documents/My Pictures/2002/2002_04_30/100-0024_IMG.JPG
same 0 4294967295/4294967295 929666 Documents and Settings/George
Adams/My Documents/My Pictures/2002/2002_04_30/100-0025_IMG.JPG
same 0 4294967295/4294967295 820660 Documents and Settings/George
Adams/My Documents/My Pictures/2002/2002_04_30/100-0026_IMG.JPG
... more files get processed ...
Done: 21719 files, 139303771902 bytes
Thanks to anyone who can help!
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