Re: [BackupPC-users] circular problem?

[Les M. <le...@fu...>]

On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 16:33, Jean-Yves F. Barbier wrote:
> Debian Sarge Vanilla
> =======================
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> I now use BackupPc for more than a year without any problem;
> however, I installed a new machine (4 GB to backup) and even
> if BackupPC gives me the same readings (Full = 4.1GB), it
> takes hours to backup.
> 
> I've got another machine with 13 GB to backup, and it takes
> less than 90 min., this one is working now for... 4 hours!
> 
> I made an iptraf, and saw that the amount of full backup
> should have been tranfered in about 15 min.
> 
> I suspect a circular symlink reference; can you tell me how
> to find it? (and where does it come from?)

Most backup methods should copy symlinks as symlinks, not
follow them.  You can look through the Xferlog to see
what actually was copied.  I like to add --one-file-system
to the rsync and tar commands to avoid accidentally
walking into CD or nfs mounts, but then you have to be
very careful to include each filesystem you want.
At least make sure you have excluded /proc, and if you
have a 64 bit system /var/log/lastlog may be a huge
sparse file that you don't really need in a backup.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   les...@gm...