Re: [BackupPC-users] problems with backup
On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 00:31:00 +0200, Edgars Abolin¹ wrote I have some major problems - BackupPC doesn't want to do backups. When I'm trying to backup localhost, it gives me error - NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME, but when i'm trying to backup regular WinXP machines, i get NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED error. I have tried all information in web that i can find, but it still didn't work. Please make a good question, don't use other subjet and send us more information for try help you. regards! http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html === Yo amo, tu amas, el ama, nosotros amamos, vosotros amaís, ellos aman... Ojalá no fuese conjugación sino realidad. -- Mario Moreno (Cantinflas). Actor mexicano. === - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Untar issue on windows
It seems that if I use WinRAR the files are shown correctly.
with 7-zip it is not.
And winrar opens the .tar.gz at once, 7zip has to extract the gz, then
the tar.
do I have to use winrar, or is there a fix for 7zip?
Craig Barratt escreveu:
Filipe writes:
I started using the archive function now.
The hosts that I archived have a lot of folders/files with special
characters like á ã ç ô ó and if I extract the tar.gz or tar.bz2 on
windows it becomes all messed up...
An example is a folder called Cópia becomes C¾pia
I was about to give up on this function, and then i remember to tar xvzf
the archive in linux. then, from the samba share when i extracted it, i
can see the names correctly..
Is there any explanation for this ? can I fix it so I could extract it
correctly on windows?
I use 7-zip on windows.
And I have a lot of trouble to put char codes working correctly on the
backuppc machine.
Are you using 3.0.0beta? In 3.x, $Conf{ClientCharset} specifies the
client's charset encoding. BackupPC_tarCreate converts all the file
names back to that encoding, plus it supports a -e charset option
that allows you to override the charset encoding.
Craig
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[BackupPC-users] Using LVM - I want to keep backups on a separate physical drive
I am using K12LTSP 6 (Fedora Core 6). When I installed it defaulted to LVM. Now I want to add a separate drive to store backups. How do I do it so that the backups are stored on the new physical drive so if there is system failure the backup directory is still ok. How do I do that? - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] problems with backup
Happy New Year, list, Diaz Rodriguez, Eduardo wrote on 01.01.2007 at 23:19:40 [Re: [BackupPC-users] problems with backup]: Please make a good question, don't use other subjet and send us more information for try help you. regards! while I fully agree with all three requests, you might want to check http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html your excellent reference (thank you for that pointer) yourself for information on proper line wrapping and avoiding HTML MIME parts ;-). Also, the original question *does* allow a pointer in the right direction: Edgars Abolin? wrote on 01.01.2007 at 00:31:00 [Re: [BackupPC-users] problems with backup]: I have some major problems - BackupPC doesn't want to do backups. When I'm trying to backup localhost, it gives me error - NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME, don't use SMB for backing up localhost. You're running BackupPC on Linux (or some other UNIX flavour), not on Windows. For backing up UNIX hosts, use tar via sudo, tar via ssh, or even rsync via sudo or ssh, or rsyncd. Not SMB. SMB (or CIFS) is a Windoze protocol. While you *can* both access and even serve content via SMB from a UNIX host, using SMB as communication method between UNIX hosts will almost certainly lose file status information that is not properly representable in SMB, not to speak of the unnecessary overhead involved or the security implications such a setup would have. For localhost, tar via sudo is most probably the way to go. but when i'm trying to backup regular WinXP machines, i get NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED error. I have tried all information in web that i can find, but it still didn't work. Well, NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED is quite self-explanatory, isn't it? Which information in the web did you find and try (assuming you found any at all)? I doubt anyone here is prepared to summarize every possible cause an NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED can possibly have, and I doubt you would be prepared to read through such a summary, given that you've already tried all information in the web you could find. Have you looked through the BackupPC documentation? I admit I haven't, but I'm quite confident your answer is in there. Regards, Holger - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] OK, how about changing the server's backuppc process niceness?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm running a 1.3Gig Duron, 512 DDR, LVM and 2x160GB drives, on Ubuntu 6.10. I have only 2 machines (at the moment) being backed up, but every time the backups start, the server system slows to an UNUSEABLE crawl, until I can, slowly, start top, and renice the 4 backuppc processes. Any way to make them start nicer, to begin with? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFmdbO3/Z3+N7G54kRAkf2AJ41m2Kkqu/0qX3ZbF3P+LIa5RxUKwCfSpuw uEsm01F98mCt7C9JBXbrTog= =MLs+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] OK, how about changing the server's backuppc process niceness?
Paul Harmor wrote: I'm running a 1.3Gig Duron, 512 DDR, LVM and 2x160GB drives, on Ubuntu 6.10. I have only 2 machines (at the moment) being backed up, but every time the backups start, the server system slows to an UNUSEABLE crawl, until I can, slowly, start top, and renice the 4 backuppc processes. Any way to make them start nicer, to begin with? If you nice the backuppc parent process when you originally launch it (man nice to see how) it's children will inherit the nice value. you might also want to look at tweaking how many backups BackupPC will run at once to 1 so that it does the machines sequentially - if you only have one disk spindle in your backup pool filesystem it may actually run faster that way. John - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] OK, how about changing the server's backuppc process niceness?
Hi (or ok, hi),
Paul Harmor wrote on 01.01.2007 at 20:51:43 [[BackupPC-users] OK, how about
changing the server's backuppc process niceness?]:
I'm running a 1.3Gig Duron, 512 DDR, LVM and 2x160GB drives, on Ubuntu 6.10.
while that's a nice start and possibly hints at a memory bottleneck, the
more interesting detail would be your BackupPC setup. Are you using 'rsync'
as transfer method? How fast is your network? What are you backing up (type
of host, backup volume, approximately how many files, full or incremental ...)?
What commands are started exactly? See the log files for details. At which
point exactly does the problem appear? What can you find out about what the
processes are doing at this point? How high is your hard disk activity at
this point? How large and how full is the partition your pool is on? What
kind of FS are you using? Any possibly related errors in /var/log/messages
such as hard disk failures?
I have only 2 machines (at the moment) being backed up, but every time
the backups start, the server system slows to an UNUSEABLE crawl, until
I can, slowly, start top, and renice the 4 backuppc processes.
Any way to make them start nicer, to begin with?
Well, yes. Does that answer your question? ;-)
I'm not sure that solves your issue though. It may be a kludge, provided it
really *does* make your server usable. If your BackupPC daemon process is
started reniced, its children will inherit the value. Depending on what you
mean by 'the 4 backuppc processes', you might, alternatively, be able to add
a 'nice -n 4' (or whatever value) to the respective ClientCmd (presuming
you're backing up localhost as one of the two machines).
I wouldn't be surprised, though, if your problem is either not CPU related
or caused by a misconfiguration if it really is. Please someone correct me
if I'm wrong, but a 1.3 GHz Duron doesn't sound slow enough by far to me to
be legitimately overloaded by 2 backups. 512MB of memory maybe, but renicing
wouldn't help then, would it?
Have you tried what happens, if you only run *one* backup at a time
($Conf{MaxBackups} = 1;)?
Regards,
Holger
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Using LVM - I want to keep backups on a separate physical drive
I am using K12LTSP 6 (Fedora Core 6). When I installed it defaulted to LVM. Now I want to add a separate drive to store backups. How do I do it so that the backups are stored on the new physical drive so if there is system failure the backup directory is still ok. How do I do that? I don't think this is really a backuppc issue, but anyway: First of all, read http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html Then, you can add the physycal volume and create a logical volume (backuppc) on it. At the end you can add something like this to your /etc/fstab /dev/vg/backuppc/var/lib/backuppc ext3defaults 0 0 Maybe a symlink to the mount point would also work. Eduardo. PD: You don't have to use lvm for backuppc (you could change the fstab line above to use directly the device). But I think it's a good idea to have backuppc put its files on lvm. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
