scottk Posted May 6, 2013 Report Share Posted May 6, 2013 Just installed BitTorrent Sync, sounds like it'll be perfect for me as I have some VMs that I really need to keep backed up (they're part of my thesis )I've set up BT Sync on my host (Ubuntu Server x64) and added the folder with my VM images but it's taking a long time to index anything. It shows "12.6kB in 1 files (Indexing...)" - there's a lot more files than that (both the VMs themselves and the little files VirtualBox creates), and there's definitely a lot bigger files. It's been probably 10 minutes - how long should I expect until these start popping up?I have a Windows 7 image around 150GB and a Linux image around 25GB, is it just not long enough or could something be wrong? Just want to make sure I'm not waiting around all day when it turns out there was some detail I missed or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreithub Posted May 6, 2013 Report Share Posted May 6, 2013 Indexing the big files might just take a little while.I don't know what btsync indexes exactly, but I think it's generating some sort of checksum of chunks of the file (like bittorrent does...)).So it has to read the whole 175GB of VM image files which might take quite some time.Btw.: I don't quite know whether btsync is the best software for your purpose:If VirtualBox is running, it writes to the virtual disk quite frequently, with each of the writes causing the file system watcher to fire and btsync to checking the file (and trying to transmit the changes). A better idea might be to setup a daily backup process...But I don't know the internals of btsync, so please if anyone notices anything wrong here, correct me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottk Posted May 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2013 Ok never mind, it just shot up to 111.6 GB in 14 files (Indexing...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottk Posted May 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2013 Indexing the big files might just take a little while.I don't know what btsync indexes exactly, but I think it's generating some sort of checksum of chunks of the file (like bittorrent does...)).So it has to read the whole 175GB of VM image files which might take quite some time.Btw.: I don't quite know whether btsync is the best software for your purpose:If VirtualBox is running, it writes to the virtual disk quite frequently, with each of the writes causing the file system watcher to fire and btsync to checking the file (and trying to transmit the changes). A better idea might be to setup a daily backup process...But I don't know the internals of btsync, so please if anyone notices anything wrong here, correct me I'll keep that in mind. I'll see how it works out, the files shouldn't be changing all too frequently and most of the time only the Ubuntu image will be running, the W7 image I'm mostly just using for Visio right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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