Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup problems with /home directory

ds to run as root to access most files and even then Selinux can prevent access. Try disabling Selinux to see if that allows access. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup problems with /home directory

between the rsync and rsyncd methods?Rsyncd expects a standalone rsync daemon listening on the client and backs up 'shares' in the rsyncd.conf setup. The rsync method connects over ssh to the client and either needs to connect as root on the client or have a more convoluted sudo configuration

Re: [BackupPC-users] PingCmd no longer having effect

able name). -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Proje

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to run a manual backup.

eptable key pairs for sshd in CS-9. I found this article saying you either have to configure the crypto policy to accept SHA1 or generate new key pairs with an acceptable format. https://serverfault.com/questions/1095898/how-can-i-use-a-legacy-ssh-rsa-key-on-centos-9-stream -

Re: [BackupPC-users] error restoring backup

e it expands to the list of files in your current directory before the command sees it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/li

Re: [BackupPC-users] error restoring backup

on this myself.Also, is the drive mounted as /mnt or something under /mnt? I'd cd into the top of that mount point to run the command instead of using -C. Also tar needs a '-' after the f option to tell it to read stdin. -- Les Mikesell lesmik

Re: [BackupPC-users] error restoring backup

appropriate tar restore command. Note that the extract will happen in your current directory unless you include a -C path option, and ownership is going to be set according to the numeric user id on the original file which may not match when on a different machine. -- Les Mikesell lesmik

Re: [BackupPC-users] error restoring backup

mage file instead you could use the web interface to download it on some other computer with space. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.

Re: [BackupPC-users] error restoring backup

le. Send it where you have space - or test again restoring only a small directory. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] error restoring backup

On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 2:46 PM daggs via BackupPC-users wrote: > > any ideas? maybe to use the cli interface? > If normal permissions and mount status are OK, the next thing that could be preventing writing is selinux. Is it enabled/enforcing? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@

Re: [BackupPC-users] error restoring backup

ill tell you. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Pr

Re: [BackupPC-users] Setup for Windows backup with rsync

an expert on that myself but you can probably find what has previously been posted to this list if you search. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Setup for Windows backup with rsync

list of clients. I was following > this guide but I get this error in the XferLOG.bad.z file: > You are supposed to use the rsyncd backup method in backuppc with that setup, not rsync. The difference is that rsyncd expects to connect directly with a listening rsync daemon, not start one with ss

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating User Data to New PC via BackupPC or Other?

p so much with extra utilities etc. that I take the opportunity to start from scratch and just move the documents I know I need. Having a backup of the old machine helps with that since I know I can retrieve anything I missed later. -- Les Mi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best Practice to Speedup RSYNC

S, that complete read will be over a network before it can decide how to reduce network use sending to the rsync partner. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why not use Backuppc to backup server systems?

On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 9:52 AM G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: > >> > ... bootable image ... integrate that into backuppc ... > > My head hurts. :) > Saving headaches would be the point... If you've ever had to re-create a one-off custom filesystem layout and get enough stuff installed

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why not use Backuppc to backup server systems?

reinstall script would pull the backup from backuppc. But there is a little too much black magic dealing with differences in Linux versions for me to trust that it would work if I tried to change it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why not use Backuppc to backup server systems?

a production system you should really have a formal version control system and deployment process to fix that sort of thing. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:ht

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pool hashing gives XXX repeated files with longest chain 1

nts frequently > have duplicated files scattered around. I used BackupPC for website backups; > my chain length was approximately equal to the number of WordPress sites I > was hosting. > Identical files are not collisions to backuppc - they are de-duplicated. -- Les M

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup strategy for rarely-connected clients

dmin gets the email that it hasn't been backed up, he can call the guy up and remind him... -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar causing problems with removable drive on localhost

y the right idea but also failing and continuing too quickly. 'fdisk -l' might be better but needs to run as root, or maybe just adding ";sleep 2' after your ls command would work. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing lis

Re: [BackupPC-users] File Size Summary shows too large value for host

them before finding they are duplicates and converting to hardlinks and only skips matches from a previous backup of the same host. Maybe it is calculating sizes from the transfers. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ Ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] Setuid problem

sn't. What's > involved in creating it post-hoc? > Is there some reason you don't use the packaged version for your linux distribution? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Missing backup files

e documentation would be a helpful thing to do -- it was > written for a purpose! The log location is almost certain a distribution-packaging choice, so along with recommending reading documentation you might also point out that the source documentation may not match what is actually installed

Re: [BackupPC-users] errors on network-mounted pool filesystem

sk operation now has to run the whole contents of each file over the network. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backupp

Re: [BackupPC-users] Import pool or clients

On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 11:36 AM backuppc--- via BackupPC-users wrote: > > > Right, I guess I should have mentioned that I don't trust that old HDD > anymore. Plus keeping backups of two old clients that only exist in BackupPC > has been a bad idea because if my backups get corrupted or deleted,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Import pool or clients

ks with the old drive mounted? Then on the odd chance that you need something from it, just fire up that VM again. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Real Time View of What Is Being Copied

ith the rsync back then and slower CPUs. It could be that rsync tried to write them all at the other end too. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Real Time View of What Is Being Copied

t tools to copy it will act as though the empty parts were filled with nulls. Rsync might handle them these days but may still take the time to send the stream of nulls. But in any case they are rarely used on Windows. -- Les Mikesell lesmik

Re: [BackupPC-users] Real Time View of What Is Being Copied

be to use windows VSS snapshots. You can search the mail list for other discussions but there is a link here to a tool to do that. https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/message/37189039/ -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___

Re: [BackupPC-users] Question about full backups

n incremental but get them in a full. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Getting lost in installation following documentation

runix.com/install-backuppc-on-debian-11/ -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't access older backups after upgrade

e backuppc pool on NFS. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommend an external drive

very-services.product.100458004.html I'm not even sure you have to be a member to order it online. I've generally had better luck with Seagate than WD but I think they are mostly the same these days. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] We need excellent and well-written documentation for linux backup software

proach for most people will be to install the packages built for your linux distribution so it will stay updated with the rest of the system along with its dependencies. And then the final configuration will depend somewhat on the package and distribution defaults as well as your local clients. --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Lost config.pl file during full backup

u mentioned 'which' system you are talking about. I'd guess it was some linux distribution, but their packaging and updates work differently. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.4.0: Incremental smb backup is skipping not backed-up files under certain conditions

ns. I think I recall something about the third rsync backup getting a speedup too, where the block checkums are saved on the 2nd run after a file has been copied. Not sure if that still applies to v4. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ Backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem with WakupSchedule and Backupplan

nclude specific directories you may miss later additions or changes on the host. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] Copied config with old hostname and backing up myself by mistake

ios names it would be the client's own idea of its name that matters. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Renaming clients from IPs?

e name or IP address that will work on your network to reach it. It can also be used if you want to split a single large host into separate runs with subsets of directories. You can make it appear like separate hosts for scheduling while still pointing to the same actual target. -- Les Mikesell

Re: [BackupPC-users] Renaming clients from IPs?

S or puts the IP in ClientAliasName he still needs to rename the existing backups made with the IP as the hostname. Does that take more than just changing the host and renaming the directory under pc/ to match? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@

Re: [BackupPC-users] Handling machines too large to back themselves up

f tiny files that could feasibly be archived as a tar or zip file instead of stored separately? Also, rsync versions newer than 3.x are supposed to handle it better. Is your server side extremely old? https://rsync.samba.org/FAQ.html#4 -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gma

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Stuff on HTTP Servers

nfigurable and will notify you about all kinds of things. I used it very extensively, but again it was several years ago - I'm retired now. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Stuff on HTTP Servers

em into subversion or cvs (perhaps editing out any timestamps inserted by the retrieval process so only 'real' changes will show as a new commit with differences) and having a viewvc wrapper to make the changes easy to spot. -- Les Mikesell les

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full backups taking a very long time

re sensitive to out-of-spec cables or something and auto-switch down. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backupp

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using BackupPC 4.x with rrsync on the client

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 1:58 PM wrote: > > 4. Further, along that line, while sudoer has been well-tested, About that https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/01/27/cve-2021-3156/ -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using BackupPC 4.x with rrsync on the client

fully! – be the > solution. Isn't rrsync just a perl wrapper to start rsync but ensure it is only accessing a permitted subdirectory? If so it should be a matter of tweaking the command to start it to be compatible. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com __

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

l publicized. If you connect 2 drives configured as time machine backups and keep them both connected it will automatically alternate between them. Since it runs every hour, I think this is a more robust scheme than using raid for redundancy with the things that can go wrong in raid recovery. --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

zfs_linux/ Torvalds declared: "Don't use ZFS. It's that simple." So, there's always freebsd... -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

USE or questionable legality. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

found its tools to be good at repairs (had trouble with XFS long ago, back when it's speed of creating/deleting files made it seem to be worth using). -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list Backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

asional > backuppc gremlin of disappearing files in that I can find the cpool > file and revert it from past snapshots. Are you sure that the disappearing files aren't a quirk of btrfs in the first place? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com __

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: To top-post or not?

o it doesn't matter much whether the new part was on the top or bottom. And when you reply, if you expand the old part it shows as >prefixed if you want to interleave your reply or trim the quoted part. -- les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com _

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: To top-post or not?

at you can ignore or expand that it doesn't really matter whether the new part is at the top or bottom. But yes if you need to reply to different parts it should be interwoven. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Checking rsync progress/speed/status

lot of reading before it finds something that doesn't match what the server already has. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/list

Re: [BackupPC-users] Checking rsync progress/speed/status

ret it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: ht

Re: [BackupPC-users] Return to BackupPC

On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 10:49 AM Jan Stransky wrote: > > Sorry, I did not read full thread... But I use a Docker image, that is > very easy at home. Do you lose any efficiency between the docker image and the mounted storage? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@

Re: [BackupPC-users] Return to BackupPC

be too complicated for most casual users to tackle on their own. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Return to BackupPC

w anything to build your own package if that is ever necessary. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.x on Raspberry PI?

others and you can find some YouTube demonstrations/reviews of them. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.x on Raspberry PI?

iences will be that helpful. One thing to consider, though, is that the tiny CPU fans that some of the kits provide are remarkably noisy. I ended up swapping with a fanless Flirc case but you might want to check some reviews or youtube demonstrations before picking anything. -- Les Mikesell le

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.x on Raspberry PI?

t you'd want to use ethernet for backups anyway. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https:

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.x on Raspberry PI?

the place to start. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wik

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows (rsyncd) Backup issues

BackupPC? Or am I > missing something? VSS gives you a frozen snapshot that you can copy without contention of worrying about changes. It doesn't protect against future corruption or other problems with that disk or filesystem. -- Les Mikesell

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc in large environments

robably need to interact with the database servers with commands backuppc can send to get dumps that won't change during the copy. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.source

Re: [BackupPC-users] Turn-key backup solution for all-Windows network

n what you have connected and your cabling. - Les Mikesell l...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backupp

Re: [BackupPC-users] [BackupPC-devel] BackupPC 4.4.0 released

> The system got itself into this state from a standard yum update. That's why you want to stick to all packaged modules whenever possible. Over time, dependencies can change and the packaged versions will update together. You can probably update a cpan module to the correct version manually

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating Hosts

at you lose the hardlinks into the pool/cpool directory that next backup run needs to be able to match files and make new hardlinks. So you'll get a 2nd copy of each file in your archive until the copied backups expire and are deleted. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com _

Re: [BackupPC-users] Large directory

till sending files. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http:/

Re: [BackupPC-users] Large directory

slowing down from swapping. For a brute-force approach to see what is happening you could strace the rsync process on the sending side. You could at least tell if it is still opening/reading files. -- Les Mikesell

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

e), so I expect it to take longer. > > This time, I'm seeing higher IO-wait numbers: Moving the disk head around is almost always the slowest operation and on the first full it has to traverse every file. And backups tend to not fit the normal OS caching mechanisms that try to hide that slowness.

Re: [BackupPC-users] about migrate to a new server

an make tar images with BackupPC_tarCreate from the old server. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http:/

Re: [BackupPC-users] about migrate to a new server

imilarly-sized device. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! htt

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best way to copy backuppc data

em may be confused by the identical UUID's if you have both drives connected when you reboot, though. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can not start backup when client was a long time away

ity it never works directly except I wait > for hours. The thing most likely to fix itself over time would be name resolution for a DHCP client. Do you know how the name is registered after the machine is connected? And then how it propagates to your DNS service? -- Les Mikesell

Re: [BackupPC-devel] Windows share not backing up - NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \System Volume Information\SRM\*

for a particular share, then $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} takes precedence and $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} is ignored." -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most

Re: [BackupPC-users] Host Priority Option

appen first just before the blackout time ends. If everything has the same schedule, these will continue to run first as long as everything completes in order. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Check o

Re: [BackupPC-users] problem with samba

running a samba server you may have configured options that are incompatible with the backuppc client use. But that still doesn't explain a difference between full and incremental runs. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) (Restoring)

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 12:08 PM, B <lazyvi...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:45:40 -0600 > Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Yes, but things have to be very, very screwed up to get to the point >> where the user can't fix it with

Re: [BackupPC-users] error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) (Restoring)

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:37 AM, B <lazyvi...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:21:49 -0600 > Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> damaging) direct restore. But the admin should know what to tweak if >> he does need that massive

Re: [BackupPC-users] error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) (Restoring)

copies of old files or directories but could not do a massive (and potentially damaging) direct restore. But the admin should know what to tweak if he does need that massive restore. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ---

Re: [BackupPC-users] Execute bash script after each share on backup server

Anything else will be considered an error status. Scripts normally return the exit value from the last command executed. If that is not following conventions you can add a line 'exit 0' at the end to make backuppc consider it successful regardless.

Re: [BackupPC-devel] SMB Windows share not backing up

ame from another windows box if you map the share with the same credentials. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.o

Re: [BackupPC-users] Phantom host

is querying those PDC/SDC boxes themselves or some other systems that would have to be kept in sync? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most e

Re: [BackupPC-users] Phantom host

self into DNS? Also, is your backuppc DNS server your PDC or does it have to keep DNS updated to some other server for your domain? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Check out the vibrant tech communit

Re: [BackupPC-users] BPC4: checksum

multiple names, each with different shares, using ClientNameAlias to point it to the same target to make it possible to split the fulls into different days so each completes in the available time. -- Les Mikesell

Re: [BackupPC-users] BPC4: checksum

, so removing it might be a bad idea aside from eliminating the check for corruption or changes in content that don't update the directory/inode. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Check out the vibrant te

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupFilesOnly file with format date

luded in today's backup too, you aren't going to take more space, or even much more time by including it again. You'll only save space if you are expiring the backups earlier than you remove the files on the source system. --

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackuPC 4 hang during transfer

this is happening? Remember, your situation is unusual in that you are competing with the ZFS compression activity. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackuPC 4 hang during transfer

anges is pretty expensive. Also, I'm not sure anyone has experience with changing the compression level between runs. If you've done that it might add overhead. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Check out the

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackuPC 4 hang during transfer

about 12 times slower than any other tested solution. > Obviously, same backup server, same source servers. You mentioned using zfs with compression. What kind of disk performance does that give when working with odd sized chunks? -- Les Mi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up Windows using rsync

tup by adding them in the web interface with the syntax newname=oldname instead of just the new name. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most e

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up Windows using rsync

if that would help, but it > didn't. > What do you see if you look at it in the web configuration interface for that host? If it is still trying to access '/' it is not parsing your sharename the way you expect

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackuPC 4 hang during transfer

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta <gandalf.corvotempe...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2017-09-19 17:41 GMT+02:00 Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com>: >> If your client rsyncd is configured to write a log file you should be >> able to see the invocation ther

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackuPC 4 hang during transfer

should be able to see the invocation there. Just guessing, I'd say there is probably something wrong in your excludes and you are wandering into the /sys, /proc, or /dev directories and hanging when you access the contents. -- Les Mikesell

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up Windows using rsync

onf{XferMethod} = 'rsyncd'; > > $conf{RsyncShareName} = 'C'; Something is wrong in your config. Backuppc thinks you have $conf{RsyncShareName} = '/'; (the default). Are you using the web interface to make and view the config changes for this host? --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up Windows using rsync

mon on the target system, use rsyncd as the xfermethod instead of rsync. > $conf{RsyncShareName} = 'C'; And the sharename(s) should match the 'modules' you configured in your rsyncd.conf. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -

Re: [BackupPC-users] pc files ereadable (encoding?)

installed where you access the disk so that you can use the command line tools BackupPC_zcat or BackupPC_tarCreate. See the 'Command Line' section of http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -

Re: [BackupPC-users] Email in backup success/failure

upPC-4.1.1.html#Email-reminders-status-and-messages It doesn't notify you specifically if one backup attempt fails. It notifies you when you don't have a good backup newer than EmailNotifyMinDays. -- Les Mikesell lesmik

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling advice

On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta <gandalf.corvotempe...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2017-09-01 18:29 GMT+02:00 Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com>: >> Unless you have a huge turnover in data, keeping more backups will not >> take a lot more space on the

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