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Fab

Member

Registered: 2019-03-06

Posts: 3

Rsync instead of XSITools is used by XSIBACKUP-PRO

Hi!

I am a new user of XSIBACKUP-PRO. I created a backup job using the GUI and choose XSITools as the backup-prog. When I start the job and watch the backup job activity I see some lines indicating that not XSITools but rsync is used. Is this the expected behaviour?

[quote=activity]
2019-03-06T15:20:29|  Rsync file transfer (1st)
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2019-03-06T15:20:29|  From: /vmfs/volumes/...
2019-03-06T15:20:29|  To: /vmfs/volumes/...
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sending incremental file list
Nextcloud_2.vmdk
           481 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00 (xfr#1, to-chk=0/1)

sent 575 bytes  received 35 bytes  1,220.00 bytes/sec
total size is 481  speedup is 0.79
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[/quote]

[quote=job definition]
--backup-prog=XSITools:z \
--snapshot=doquiesce \
--certify-backup=yes \
--backup-point=...:22:"/vmfs/volumes/.../xsi-backup-repo" \
--backup-type=All \
--backup-how=Hot \
--backup-id=all \
--description="backup all machines to esxi2" \
--exec=yes >> "/vmfs/volumes/.../xsibackup.log"
[/quote]

admin

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Registered: 2017-04-21

Posts: 2,072

Re: Rsync instead of XSITools is used by XSIBACKUP-PRO

Rsync is used to send the auxiliary files, that doesn't make any difference in speed, the bulk of the data is in the [b]-flat.vmdk[/b] files.
In your case you are using [b](c)XSITools[/b], which is our propietary deduplication engine, and it looks like you are using it over IP to backup to a remote host. In case of [b](c)XSItools[/b], the binary transfer agent is [b]dd[/b] over SSH, so the data is optionally compressed and directly tunnelled.

Fab

Member

Registered: 2019-03-06

Posts: 3

Re: Rsync instead of XSITools is used by XSIBACKUP-PRO

Thank you for your answer!

Last edited by Fab (2019-03-07 13:03:47)