Debian sid
Backuppc V. 3.3.0-2
=
Hi list,
BackupPC svr: Debian sid
address 3 other machines than the server;
1 is Debian oldstable (squeeze), OK,
2 are Debian sid, but one is failing.
The message is: backup failed (fileListReceive failed)
All machines have exactly the
On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 10:31:42 +
Jürgen Depicker wrote:
> My setup: all virtualized; all backups stored in /var/lib/backuppc ,
> but that is /dev/sdb1 mounted there. So if that drive fails, I'm
> pretty sure Backuppc will fill up my / partition recreating the backup
> in the then empty /var/li
On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 11:40:58 +
Jürgen Depicker wrote:
> Unmounting /dev/sdb1 while Backuppc
> service is running is not possible either,
> so my other option would be
> to shutdown one of the virtual disk servers which I don't really want
> to do... Greetings, J
Simpler answer: IF you left
On Thu, 06 Aug 2015 20:31:27 -0700
yashiahru wrote:
Hi,
> 1st time
> after installation and config a apache user for backuppc
> when i visit http://localhost/BackupPC
> the login page is downloaded
Your browser indicating a download usually shows that the script
file is send by the http server
On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 22:48:43 +0200
Christian Völker wrote:
> Hi guys,
Hi Chris,
…
> The connection is now a 5Mbit/s (uplink) leased line with fixed IP
> (connected through OpenVPN to the BackuPC host). The backup takes
> ages!
How much is the downlink? (rsync needs a good deal of bi-dir excha
On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 05:41:31 +0200
Christian Völker wrote:
> >> When calculating with a 5Mbit/s linke 27GB should be transferred
> >> within ~15hours. Here, the initial full backup is not yet done and
> >> is already running more than 24hours!
> > Make sure you only use one compression order in a
On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 14:55:35 +0200
Christian Völker wrote:
> Hi all,
Hi alone ;-p)
…
> Why is it still so slow?
I recently ran into such a problem with an old laptop used as a HTTP svr
and having a dead battery.
It came from it but the problem was gone after a reboot (ssh it took
several minut
On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 13:31:34 -0400
Dave Sill wrote:
> Is there any reasonable way to do API? Is there an this for BackupPC?
May be a better way to get a deep check without esoteric fiddling
would be to raise $Conf{RsyncCsumCacheVerifyProb} and enable
checksum caching (if your distro doesn't set
Hi list,
First, I already have had this problem for this particular machine when
I wanted it to be a client (garbage into NewFileList).
It runs under a Debian sid 64bits, just like half of my park
(1/2: sid 64bits & 32bits, 2/2: jessie 32bits).
Today, it becomes the backuppc svr and I still have
On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 10:14:59 +1100
Adam Goryachev wrote:
Hi Adam,
I just reinstalled perl and all of backuppc dependencies, unfortunately,
this doesn't change anything about XferLOG.z :(
(no sign of HD degradation.)
JY
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On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 10:14:59 +1100
Adam Goryachev wrote:
> On 14/01/16 07:22, Bzzzz wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > First, I already have had this problem for this particular machine
> > when I wanted it to be a client (garbage into NewFileList).
> > It runs under a
On Fri, 9 Dec 2016 14:01:01 +0100
Peter Viskup wrote:
> Dear all,
Dear alone,
> would like to ask whether it would be possible to use BackupPC to
> store encrypted archives of sensitive directories from the clients
> *only*.
The easiest way I found to do so is to have each client encrypting it
debian jessie
===
Hi folks,
I had this problem some times ago, it disappeared I don't know how an
now it's back :/ The machine was left alone more than a month, but I
don't recall any major intervention on it.
ssh is working normally and is ok w/ BPC.
When I run BPC from the a c
g about not having TERM set - which it won't with ssh trying
> to start a command remotely.
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 11:48 PM, B wrote:
> >
> > Got remote protocol 1297237332
> > Fatal error (bad version): TERM environment variable not set.
> >
> > Sen
On Sun, 28 May 2017 20:50:55 +0200
Xuo wrote:
> Le 22/051/2217 à 198.44, Xuo a écrit :
> > Hi,
Hi,
> > I am using BackupPC on my laptop when it is connected to my local
> > network at home.
> > But, when I'm not at home (durin the work week), I don't know how to
> > do. I'm not in some hotels,
On Sun, 28 May 2017 21:21:32 +0200
B wrote:
> And this won't work, even if you know by advance the IP where your
> laptop can be reached, unless you open a hole in the firewall &| adsl
> box/modem in the home that host you.
Forget about that, I was thinking about a very d
On Mon, 29 May 2017 20:56:01 +0200
Xuo wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Xuo,
> My pc is running Mageia5.
> I don't understand how a VPN connection could help solving my problem.
> Could you please explain more in details ?
A VPN means either a roadwarrior (your itinerant laptop) can connect and
benefit from a
On Mon, 29 May 2017 14:21:18 -0500
Les Mikesell wrote:
Hi Les,
…
> to access the web interface. A good starting point would be looking
> at point-to-point configurations of OpenVPN.You'll need either a
> stable IP address for your home network or at least something that
> will work with a
On Tue, 30 May 2017 09:13:14 +1000
Adam Goryachev wrote:
> Wasn't there a recent extension to ClientNameAlias which allows
> multiple addresses to be used, which will be tried (in order), and the
> first found would run the backup?
Duno, Adam, I'm still in v.3 for production use and no time to e
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 18:22:54 -0400
Bob Katz wrote:
> Oh boy I get it!!! I can't believe how stupid I was about that.
Me too ;-p)
> Well, doesn't this mean I have to establish a whole bunch of modules
> with a different path for each module, in order to back up everything
> EXCEPT the ba
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 18:56:19 -0400
Paul Fox wrote:
> i confess i haven't been following this thread in all its gory detail,
The BackupPC god absolves you (although, it is the BPC v.3x god, so
you'll need to upgrade the confessionnal if you want to also be absolved
by the v.4.x one.)
> but i sus
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 18:56:19 -0400
Paul Fox wrote:
Just a precision for B.Katz: I also have a script that creates an
_INSTALLED_PKGS.txt file from the usual command (debian),
launched as a pre-backup command to be able to easily reconstruct
the full exact working system from a minimal install.
J
On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 16:20:32 +1000
Adam Goryachev wrote:
> Actually, I think you will find that /proc, /dev, /sys, etc are
> actually different filesystems, and so will automatically be excluded
> by --one-file-system.
On 2nd thought, that looks logical from a FS point of vue, and good to
know.
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:11:36 +0300
Tapio Lehtonen wrote:
> Running BackupPC 3 on Debian Wheezy. Ran out of inodes on 250 GB
> filesystem, max inodes was 15 million.
Use the force, change to a better FS: XFS (w/ the inode64 switch on)
eg: laptop 500GB HD filled @ 80% with many small pictures and
On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 10:12:39 -0400
Bob Katz wrote:
> I appreciate that. Well, if I have to do a bare metal restore I would
> use a clone, it's safer, if it's recent.
I don't see where it could be safer; the worse you can have are eventual
dangling files if the install image has changed a lot bet
Hi Bacukppcers,
My suggestion is to avoid using such things as FS snapshots during the
day to avoid work losses.
An addition to BPC could do the trick, preferably saving the result in
another directory than the main one, by checking which files have been
touched the present day and save them aut
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:26:18 +0200
Daniel Berteaud wrote:
> I think this is out of BackupPC's scope
Please develop, don't drop me dry, why is that?
Why adding a kinda-Xtiple-fugitive-daily-snapshots of only touched files
is out of the BPC's scope ? On the other hand, I see this as the missing
co
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 09:17:29 -0500
Les Mikesell wrote:
> You can set the schedule to run as often as you like, but the
> underlying tools are going to have to traverse the whole directory
> tree to find the touched files, which you probably don't want to
> happen while you are working.
This stag
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 08:18:44 -0600
Ray Frush wrote:
> I believe you could do something like you propose with the current
> BackupPC by setting the "IncrPeriod' to 0.04 (1/24 of a day). You'd
> have to make some interesting settings for "FillCycle" and
> "FullKeepCnt" to make it keep a usable sc
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 17:27:30 +0200
Daniel Berteaud wrote:
> Because what you want to achieve is not really backups, but some kind
> of rotative snapshots. There are lots of different ways to do this
> (LVM, LVM-thin, btrfs, zfs etc..), and this is very dependant on the
> system hosting your data,
On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 06:29:46 -0700
Kenneth Porter wrote:
> A better solution would be a change to rsyncd to monitor its
> filesystem and remember which files were touched since the last
> backup.
Yep, this is much closer to what I imagined.
> Some filesystems have a "backdoor" like inotify that
On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 09:27:41 -0500
Les Mikesell wrote:
> The quick fix here is to use a Mac with an external or network drive
> for time machine. If you aren't familiar with it, it does exactly
Among many other, Apple products are to stay out of the company.
> what you suggested with easy acce
On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 02:40:57 +1000
Adam Goryachev wrote:
> I think you want both snapshots on the local server, as well as BPC on
> a remote server. They each serve a different need.
Hmm, I'm not that sure; for the time being, snapshots will be kept and
doubled w/ other BPC servers for daily "sn
On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 13:12:25 -0500
Les Mikesell wrote:
> There is a missing piece in terms of recreating the
> partitions/filesystems/raids to match the system you want to recreate,
OMFG, ZE missing link ? ;-p)
> unless you have already automated that with tuned kickstart files or
> all of your
On Tue, 1 Aug 2017 22:20:23 -0400
Romain Pelissier wrote:
> Hi,
> I have check the setting:
>
> $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root $host $rsyncPath
> $argList+';
>
> and all seems to be fine but every backup tries to login on a host
> with the backuppc account... I am lost...
Begi
Hi backuppcers,
I'm gonna switch from v3 to v4 and have a question about it:
* doc says hardlinked files inodes are stored in each backup tree,
I guess that BPC partition being formatted in XFS, any optimization
(that might move any file) of this partition is out of the question ?
Jean-Yves
27;s own not-hardlinking-but-much-like-it, moving a file whose inode's
reference is contained in another one would break this system (?)
JY
> --
> Ray Frush
> Colorado State University.
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 6:10 PM, B wrote:
>
> > Hi backuppcers,
&g
On Mon, 7 Aug 2017 10:17:41 -0700
Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users
wrote:
> Sorry that it isn't very clearly stated
Nooo, there's no more sorry in stock… may be a little forgive,
for the lowest rate of $.91 (sub-primed credit allowed) ;-p)
> and it doesn't depend on the real client's inode
On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 22:47:25 +0200
Hannes Elvemyr wrote:
> Hi!
Biscotte Hannes,
> I'm using BackupPC for all my machines and it's great! I would now
> like to protect my BackupPC pool somehow (if my BackupPC server
> crashes, gets stolen or burns up I don't want to loose the data).
Use an encry
On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 22:47:25 +0200
Hannes Elvemyr wrote:
I forgot: for either solution, you wanna have a deep look at
https://www.wireguard.com/ , a VPN solution faster than any
competition, very easy to set up, protected by PFS and
elliptic curve crypto.
JY
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On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 16:29:49 -0600
Ray Frush wrote:
> A snapshot of the BackupPC Filesystem does not protect from gross
> hardware failure of the storage that destroys both the data and the
> snapshots.
I think he meant making a snapshot then convey it to he's 2nd site.
JY
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On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 11:26:26 +0800
Alexey Safonov wrote:
> you can use for example FreeNAS (ZFS based) which can sync snapshots.
you can even do better (depending on your IT Dpt size), using GlusterFS
onto ZFS, and synchronize with the remote site :)
However, these solutions implies to transmit
On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 00:16:27 +0200
Hannes Elvemyr wrote:
> Would it be wise to stop/start BackupPC every night? Can it introduce
> any problem? What if my copy process (for instance rsync over Internet
> to an off-site storage) takes 1 hour, maybe 2 hours some days, well
> that interfere with Bac
On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 07:12:30 +0200
Hannes Elvemyr wrote:
> I'm taking about BPC itself. Why? Let's take an example.
>
> 00:30 My nightly rsync script starts to sync pool to off-site storage.
> This night, there happens to be a lot of new data an it takes time.
> 01:00 BackupPC_Nightly starts cle
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017 11:50:25 -0500
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Large, changing files can be a problem, but log files tend to be
> highly compressible.
Yup, I confirm, a large VM file (50G) on one laptop extends the backups
time from a few hours to 2 days when it has been used :/
JY
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On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 23:55:50 +0200
Maxime Chupin wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm facing a problem. I want to get back the files of a backup of a
> down server. I have mount my disk on another machine, and I want to
> get the files.
> The files are stored (if I understand) in the
> /PATHBACKUP/serve
On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 00:08:34 +0200
Maxime Chupin wrote:
> Ah ouf :). And how can I uncompressed them ?
> Thanks a lot !
Never tried, but from what Les told you, I'd say some' like:
BackupPC_zcat monfichieràmoikilèbomècompressé > fichierorg
JY
On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 00:24:00 +0200
Maxime Chupin wrote:
> Yes, I received the Les' mail after. Sorry. zcat works for one file,
> thank you !
> Now I'm looking for restoring a directory...
PLS do not top post.
As Les said, it would be much more efficient to (re)install BPC and use
your copy as it
On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 17:18:40 +0300
Anton Torkunov wrote:
> Hello everyone!
Hi alone!!
> I've tried to backup host via rsyncd, but got error: Backup aborted
> (unexpected response: '')
>
> rsyncd is well configured, because If I try to run just rsync,
> everything is fine:
>
> rsync rsync://o
On Sun, 10 Sep 2017 23:37:52 +0300
Anton Torkunov wrote:
> Hi all!
Hi you!!
> I forgot to say that I have 3.3.0 version installed from Ubuntu 14.x
> repositories.
Hmm, memory lapses are precursors to the Alzheimer disease…
> Thanks for suggestions: I asked Robert Duval tomb and his say that
On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:29:34 -0500
"Gerald Brandt" wrote:
> Hi,
Ho
> Has anyone done an upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 on an active
> BackupPC system?
This is ZE problem w/ your distro, cycles are too short, meaning you have
to upgrade often (every 6 months IIRC) to avoid further problems
On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:29:34 -0500
"Gerald Brandt" wrote:
Oops, I forgot an important point: if you use system rescue CD on a USB
key, do NOT mount anything on /mnt as it is used by the USB burner to
mount the ISO966 image file (took me some time to figure out why my burns
were non-operational:/)
On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 15:03:08 + (UTC)
Michael Stowe wrote:
> needs, you may choose to ignore this, or implement the
> Windows-recommended solution of shadow-copies.
It seems to be the right answer, as many (if not all?) w$ backup programs
(O-S or commercial) use the shadow copy to ensure no l
On Wed, 25 Oct 2017 10:23:29 -0700
Ethan Tarr wrote:
> I’m having a funny issue with a host. A few weeks ago, the machine
> running BackupPC lost the ability to find the NetBIOS name of a laptop
> (10.1.10.121) on the network. I eventually just resolved the issue by
> adding an entry to the hosts
On Wed, 25 Oct 2017 11:52:23 -0700
Ethan Tarr wrote:
> Nothing has changed, as far as I know.
As far as you know, or you know for sure it hasn't?
Make several arp checks anyway, with all machines on line, 'cos this
looks like a MAC conflict.
JY
On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 15:34:38 -0700
Ethan Tarr wrote:
> Finally had a few minutes this afternoon to sort some lists of MAC
> addresses, and I couldn’t find any duplicates. This is very
> mysterious. Not a huge problem, but annoying.
Ok, from the server, can you test what is the answer of:
* a DN
On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 12:56:36 +0200
Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote:
> What happens if I remove "--checksum" from "full" backups ?
Monstrosities:
* an A380 will holographically crash onto your house,
* your dog/cat/children/wife/goldfish will turn gay,
* you'll awake one morning and all your machines
On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 16:24:51 +0200
B wrote:
Correction (as often,I read much too fast):
> This i going against: "I don't think so, because on incrementals BPC
> doesn't use "--checksum" at all." (v.4.x doc):
The doc doesn't speak about incremental
On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 10:03:45 -0500
Les Mikesell wrote:
> I thought in v4 this
> mechanism is also related to the ability to match copied, moved or
> renamed files to existing matching content in the pool, so removing it
> might be a bad idea aside from eliminating the check for corruption or
>
On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:11:26 +0200
Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote:
> I'm using ZFS, so checksumming is done by ZFS itself, is not an issue
> for me to skip any data corruption check, as zfs does this
> automatically
ZFS is very good at this, but for data I'd like to have both belt and
suspenders (n
On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 09:23:36 -0700
Ethan Tarr wrote:
> nslookup mylaptop
> ;; Got SERVFAIL reply from 10.1.10.3, trying next server
> Server: 10.1.10.4
> Address:10.1.10.4#53
> ** server can't find mylaptop: SERVFAIL
>
> nslookup mylaptop.mydomain.com
> Server: 10.1.10.3
On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 10:00:11 -0700
Ethan Tarr wrote:
> Oh, I forgot to mention, I use rsyncd as the transport method, so even
> if samba has any issues it should still back up fine.
Whatever the method, your problem has good chances to live around the DNS
servers, as you can't resolve (both dire
On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 14:18:28 -0700
Ethan Tarr wrote:
> I resolved the issue by deleting the laptop’s DHCP entries on the PDC,
> then running ipconfig /release -> /flushdns/ -> /renew -> /registerdns
> on the laptop itself. Now it has a different IP assigned through DHCP,
> which is being properly
On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:59:28 -
Jamie Burchell wrote:
> Hi!
Ho¡
> Hoping someone can give me that “ah ha!” moment that I’m so desperately
> craving after pouring over the documentation, mailing lists and various
> forum posts.
Jiff chops a “ah ha!” moment from the (near) field,
cooks it and
On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:52:26 -
Jamie Burchell wrote:
> I've gone with the schedule that looks correct for now and will see
> what happens!
Terrible things, you'll lose confidence in closed source softwares
(hence, in m$ "products"), your HD will fill with many little gremlins,
and finally y
On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:48:01 -
Jamie Burchell wrote:
> I followed the instructions to make a restricted backuppc user on
> client machines with limited sudo permission thus:
> backuppc ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender *
Why on earth did you use that instead of let it to root !?
On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:29:58 -
Jamie Burchell wrote:
> Because you'll seldom find any good advice that advocates doing
> anything as root.
You misread it.
Doing stuffs as root when it can be done by a regular user, or a sudo
user _can_ be a risk (although I don't know any real admin that ha
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:21:49 -0600
Les Mikesell wrote:
> damaging) direct restore. But the admin should know what to tweak if
> he does need that massive restore.
Yup, and the problem is: in this configuration, you *need* an admin
intervention to fix a restore, when the other solution easily l
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:45:40 -0600
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Yes, but things have to be very, very screwed up to get to the point
> where the user can't fix it with a tar download through a browser
> followed by an appropriate restore command. When things have been
> broken that badly it may be time
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:57:59 +0100
Holger Parplies wrote:
Whoops, wrong from: (and strange setup), putting this back in the list.
> Bzzzz wrote on 2017-11-16 00:50:52 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] error
> in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) (Restoring)]:
> > [...]
> > In
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 12:22:00 -0600
Les Mikesell wrote:
> No, but when doing a restore for any reason other than accidental
> complete deletion of a file or directory I nearly always restore to a
> different location and compare things instead of overwriting the
> existing current versions anyway.
On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:01:46 +0100
"Jens Potthast" wrote:
> tar:1596 Can't mkdir Path to filename: NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_COLLISION
^^
You obviously already have a file having the same name in this restore
DIR.
t; restoring to a new and empty directory fails with the same error.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: B [mailto:lazyvi...@gmx.com]
> Sent: Mittwoch, 13. Dezember 2017 14:25
> To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Trouble with restore
On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 15:21:09 +0100
"Jens Potthast" wrote:
> Ok, I don't understand, what you are talking about. Sorry.
>From some Samba ML posts, this error code means the server command is
not able to either create the destination directory OR can't write in it.
But it is Samba, not m$.
> Bac
On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 12:16:50 -0500
David Owens wrote:
> Hello,
Hi
> I want to backup my backuppc server. Questions:
Shall we imagine it runs under Linux?
>1. Where is the catalog, and what is the best practice for backing
> it up.
There isn't one, the list is determined by the root of y
On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:15:16 +0100
Adrien Coestesquis wrote:
> Thanks for your replay Stefan.
>
> So this is related to the 95% and that's why the DfMaxUsagePct change
> is not taken ?
>
> this is the output of tune2fs -l /dev/sda1:
…
doesn't seems there's any problem.
…
> But today i have
On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:43:35 +0100
Adrien Coestesquis wrote:
> Hey ! Indeed, it solves problems sometimes :)
> I reboot the machine right now, and I will see tomorrow
If it still goes on, it might also be for this reason:
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2316
which you may be able to visualiz
On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:43:35 +0100
Adrien Coestesquis wrote:
> Hey ! Indeed, it solves problems sometimes :)
> I reboot the machine right now, and I will see tomorrow
It may also be tied to another cause which appears quite silly:
https://serverfault.com/questions/482173/is-there-any-other-reaso
On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 12:15:05 +0100
Adrien Coestesquis wrote:
…
> another weird thing backups seems to be repeated :
>
> 2017-12-19 05:00:00 incr backup started back to 2017-12-17 05:00:03
> (backup #274) for directory /var/lib/jenkins/jobs
>
> 2017-12-19 08:49:39 incr backup started back to 201
On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 13:10:44 +0100
Adrien Coestesquis wrote:
> i don't think so, the BPC arborescence is somewhere else
Like the truth, apparently :/
Hmm, devs, could it be something weird in the code, like the use of a
signed int that would overflow?
--
On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 23:51:51 +0100
Patrik Janoušek wrote:
> I've read compression in BackupPC is much better than in ZFS. So is it
> not true? Should I definitely use compression in ZFS or is there any
> reason to use BackupPC compression?
> I've found BackupPC use zlib and ZFS use lz4 that is mu
On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 14:46:18 +0200
Pelle Hanses wrote:
> In my
> discussions with lawyers, you should have some form of backup filters
> so that the data requested deleted is not restored. For BackupPC you
> probably have to write some scripts and store all documents names that
> should not b
Hi list,
BPC v4.1.5 (Debian pkg) made a cryptic error:
2018-03-29 03:00:04 incr backup started for directory /
2018-03-29 03:00:06 Got fatal error during xfer (rsync error:
unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(629) [Receiver=3.0.9.12])
2018-03-29 03:00:11 Backup aborted (rsync error: unexplaine
On Sat, 14 Apr 2018 11:24:14 -0400
Steve wrote:
…
> The problem I have is that I cannot restore. When I look at old backups
> there are no checkboxes to check to select something to restore.
Debian and it's derivates are centering _all_ web operations against the
www-data group, so, to avoid us
Hi list,
The digest gives 1 error for a machine, but it's logs show several
cryptic lines I don't understand very much, such as:
…
Xfer PIDs are now 10411,10498
[ skipped 6075 lines ]
Unexpected call
BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncFileIO->unlink(usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xlwt/BIFFRecords.py)
Unexpect
On Sat, 14 Apr 2018 19:07:25 -0400
Steve wrote:
> Turns out it was the browser. I was using a browser called Web that
> comes with Devuan and the checkboxes don't shown up but when I switched
> to Firefox they were there.
Good to know.
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On Sat, 14 Apr 2018 17:31:06 -0700
Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users
wrote:
> It's probably benign (sorry I can't be very definitive). Just to be
> safe, you could browse the backup tree to make sure those files are
> stored correctly.
Yup, the first thing I did (and forgot to mention:/)
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On Sat, 14 Apr 2018 17:31:06 -0700
Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users
wrote:
Whoops, I forgot an important thing: the BPC server is running on
unstable (sid) !
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On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:55:59 + (UTC)
Michael Stowe wrote:
> While there's nothing inherently wrong with selecting an older
> filesystem, ext4's design decision of backward compatibility has
> essentially set some of its limitations in stone. (Your article below
> elaborates on this point;
On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 19:11:08 +
Steve Richards wrote:
Hi Steve,
> I took that to mean that I would have the option to view the contents
> of the file, either directly in the browser for content it can render
> (text, pdf etc.) or by opening the application associated with the
> relevant MIM
On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:55:31 +
Jaime Fenton wrote:
> "Your PC (COMPUTERNAME.GOES.HERE) has not been successfully backed up
> for 17851.4 days. Your PC has been correctly backed up 1 times from
> 0.3 to 17851.4 days ago. PC backups should occur automatically when
> your PC is connected to the
On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 21:48:30 +
Jaime Fenton wrote:
> Where in the conf file will that be? (yes we had a chuckle at how far
> back that time/date was).
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html
look after: $Conf{EMailNotifyOldBackupDays} = 7.0;
and following.
d° for v4 into: http://b
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> for this issue.
>
> Craig
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 2:14 PM B wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 21:48:30 +
> > Jaime Fenton wrote:
> >
> > > Where in the conf file will that be? (yes we had a chuckle at how
> > >
On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 22:22:48 +0100
Hubert SCHMITT wrote:
> Good evening to all.
Good dayght
> I updated my Gentoo recently and since it's done i can't write any
> BackupPC configuration changes through the CGI, i always get the same
> message : *TextFileWrite: Failed to
> write /etc/BackupPC/pc
On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 22:36:26 +0100
Hubert SCHMITT wrote:
> But i really don't understand what's wrong.
>
> The rights are the same on my side :
> -rw-r- 1 backuppc apache 85K 21 févr. 20:31 config.pl
> -rw-r- 1 backuppc apache 82K 27 déc. 2014
> config.pl_20141227_OK -rw-r-
On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 12:25:21 +
Stefan Schumacher wrote:
Hi
> I want to set up a new zfs volume as storage for Backuppc. I plan on
> using the zfs features encryption, deduplication and compression.
Unless you have an _absolute_ need, do NOT use deduplication into ZFS
and if you persist, do n
On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 14:20:34 +0100 (BST)
"G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users"
wrote:
Hi G.W.,
> You will need to test the performance yourself. Performance can be
> improved by avoiding disc writes, which will take orders of magnitude
> longer than reading RAM. ZFS checksums are in RAM, so you mig
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