Les Stott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/31/2005 07:41:49 AM: > > >I have a half-dozen of these servers in place working very nicely. > >Removable IDE drives that get swapped weekly. > > > > What kind of setup are you using with removable drives? entire backuppc > directory lives on seperate partition, or only pool and pc directories?
The backup server has two drives: a removable and a fixed. The fixed has a single 4GB partition with a Knoppix-based install. The removable is mounted to (from memory) /var/lib/backuppc. > how do you manage it? stop backuppc, unmount, swap drive, remount, start > backuppc? Close. Shutdown, remove drive, restart, and run a script that reformats the new drive clean. It's very much like changing a tape: the new backup media is completely clean and ready to go. I know that this undoes a great deal of the timesavings that BackupPC can give you for future backups. I do not care. My backup servers are only backing up file servers, not piles of client computers with thousands of identical files. There is very little savings in the pool (leaving out future backups of the same box), and I greatly prefer treating the removable hard drives just like I would tapes. I *like* forcing regular copies of these files onto multiple hard drives. YMMV, of course. > What happens when the changeover happens? if you did this > weekly would it mean that as soon as you swap and restart backuppc that > all clients attempt either a full or incremental? A full. Which is *exactly* how I want it. THIS IS NOT MANDATORY! If you didn't reformat the drive between inserts (like I do), you would have to back up a lot less data. Again, I do not care. > TIA for your insights :-) > > >Except for an rsync problem with RHEL 4 (anyone else facing this?!?), it's > >working perfectly... > > I'm not sure about any rsync problems on RHEL4, can you elaborate? We've > always noticed that rsync falls behind on RHEL4 (in versions), along > with many other rpm's like spamassassin, perl etc. In most cases we have > built the latest rsync from source on RHEL4 and the like and all seems well. I have built 2.6.6 from source, as well as at least two previous versions. Same error. I get an error that says that the child process terminated unexpectedly. According to my examination of the source, it's because the TCP connection between the two is dropped. I have no idea why, but I have two completely different servers, both running RHEL4 that fail in exactly the same way. One was previously running RHEL3 with no problems, and I installed RHEL4 to a new partition and now it fails. I don't think it's related specifically to rsync. I think it may be more related to something else that is affecting the TCP session. Unfortunately, I can find nothing interesting in any of the logs on either box... :( So, for now, I'm backing up just the data using SMB. Works, but not *nearly* as clean as my normal rsync solution. I've asked for help on this one on both this list and a coule of others, but no one else has any ideas, and I've gotten very little feedback. This is *not* unique to me, however. There are others with simlar issues. But no solutions. Tim Massey ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
