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From: | Thomas S. Dixon |
Subject: | Re: [rdiff-backup-users] remove-older-than takes hours and slows down the system.... |
Date: | Tue, 08 Feb 2005 08:47:57 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041127) |
hth -tommy Maarten Bezemer wrote:
Hi, My first guess would be that the harddisk containing the backup is dying. By pure coincidence, I've got a (Maxtor) 18GB harddisk with exact that problem. No bad blocks, just *very* slow. Trying to open a new xterm while accessing data on that drive occasionally takes up to 30 seconds... If the system is running some Unix flavor, you can try tools like 'top' and 'ps' to figure out if it's rdiff-backup running like a madman or it's maybe just the hardware. HTH, Maarten On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Ryan Castle wrote:That seems very odd. You could probably write a fairly quick perl script that does the same as remove older than. All it does is removed increments older than a certain date. In theory, it should be a simple process. Ryan On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:35:59 -0500, George Gallen <address@hidden> wrote:I currently backup to a directory on the same system as the data for an online backup system. The filesystem it's backing up has been reduced to just about 0% space available.I executed a rdiff-backup --force --remove-older-than mm/dd/yyyy/targetdirectoryIt should have been about 60 incremental backups during that time frame, andan overall of about 15-20gb, with maybe a 1% daily change rate of the data.Is it normal for rdiff-backup to slow the system down to a crawl, and/ortake over 3 hours (I had to Control-C the program), and in that amount of time only 1% diskspace had been reclaimed? The total filesystem space is 18gb.I will most likely backup the directory to tape, then I will hard delete the incremental backup directory, and start from scratch online, unless there isa faster way to remove the files?This is running on a RH 7.3, The number of users is usually about 20, and isnot open to the internet. Thanks George _______________________________________________rdiff-backup-users mailing list at address@hidden http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki_______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at address@hidden http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki_______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at address@hidden http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
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