[BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3.2.1, changing Xfer method from rsync to rsyn

Hi,

we have a couple of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Debian 7.1 servers being backed up by BackupPC 3.2.1 running on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

The backups were taking a long time to finish, even after the initial one or two full backups.
Part of this is due to old 10/100 Mbit switches that are being replaced.
But after searching the internets for a while, I came to the conclusion that it is an issue with running rsync over ssh,
in combination with the type of data we're backing up.

So I changed the Xfer method to running rsyncd on the clients and saw significant speed improvments.
Since rsyncd uses modules, whose names can not contain forward slashes, the RsyncShareName array had to be changed.
"/bin" was changed to "bin".
"/etc" -> "etc"
and so on.

This had the unfortunate effect of disabling the ability of browsing, using the web interface, of any backup that had been performed with the rsyncd method.
The files are there in the file directory, they just aren't accessible when browsing client backups.
I'm just presented with the message:
"Error: Can't browse bad directory name /"

So how can I fix this? Should I just wait for the old backups to be trashed?
Delete the client from BackupPC, then add it again after purging everything associated with the old client?

Obviously I'd like there to be an easy way out of this quagmire, the "delete client from backuppc" solution is obviously the last option here.

Thanks in advance,
Johan Boström

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[BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3.2.1, changing Xfer method from rsync to rsyncd makes browsing new backups impossible