Re: [BackupPC-users] Changing from smb to rsyncd

[Kyle A. <ky...@tu...>]

I found these notes to be very helpful for specifying excludes:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/projs/backuppc_guide.html#Xfer

They are very comprehensive and minimize errors.

Kyle

On 07/28/2010 10:47 AM, Thus spake Jim Kyle:
> On Wednesday, July 28, 2010, at 11:09:06 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> 
>> Is there anything I should watch for before I make this change?
>> Anything I should do other than just changing the appropriate config
>> settings for the client?
> 
> When I made such a change for several Windows boxes on my LAN, I found it
> advisable to immediately run a full backup, manually, for each of them, to
> give the rsyncd setup a new baseline. My experience was that rsyncd
> returned many files that smb had been getting "permission denied" on. Since
> these files didn't exist on the last smb full backup, each incremental
> transferred them all over again. Establishing the new baseline sped matters
> up considerably.
> 
> One of them, though, ran for some 13 hours attempting the full backup
> before I stopped it, and at that point it was less than half done. I
> removed that share (it was an archival drive) from the configuration before
> continuing, and the next full backup took only about 20 minutes.
> 
> It's also helpful to exclude directories such as /WINDOWS and /WINNT from
> consideration; of course if you're only backing up data that won't enter
> into it, but I prefer to back up the full drive and exclude the directories
> that I don't want...
>