[BackupPC-devel] Re: Performance improvements to backuppc (Patch included)

[Denny F. <de...@mi...>]

Hi Michael,

I have applied your patch manually to BackupPC 2.1.2. I was having problems
backing up Windows hosts with the rsyncd method over a WAN connection. For
full backups, the filelist generation would get stuck. Your patch seems to
have improved the file list generation enough to make the incrementals
pretty reliable, but does not seem to be the whole answer, since the fulls
are still failing. I'm running BackupPC on Debian Sarge, so I had a /dev/shm
all ready to use.

BTW, there seems to be some typos in your patch, each occurance of
die("can"t open $TopDir/pc/$client/NewFileList")
should be
die("can't open $TopDir/pc/$client/NewFileList") (single quote in can't)

I will post more details about my WAN backup issue in a new thread.

Thanks for your patch,

Denny Fox