Re: [BackupPC-users] ACLs workaround
Daniel Haas schrieb: But now I have the problem, that we need a grained right-management on our samba-server. So I have to implement ACLs. As I read in the list ACLs are not supported by backuppc. But I read that star is workingh with ACLs and the rsync command normally work with ACls, too. ACL and xattr support is coming with rsync 3.0 which is still CVS. There are also patches for 2.6.x to support ACL's. I used star to copy a large amount of data with ACL's between 2 server. This was working quite well. But star or a patched rsync version are not supported by backuppc. So is there a wokaround to handle this problem? Backup your ACL's and xattr's to a text file (getfacl, getfattr). That's not an very practicable solution, because you might miss some ACL's if you run a cronjob for this only a few times a day. I would also be interested in a backuppc solution for this. At the moment this is what I miss most (by far) in backuppc. Ralf - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] permission to host to access its backup
I was just wandering how would i give access to particular host to restore its contents by itself. - Get the Yahoo! toolbar and be alerted to new email wherever you're surfing. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] permission to host to access its backup
Murtuza Dholkawala wrote: I was just wandering how would i give access to particular host to restore its contents by itself. See the last part of http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#step_4__setting_up_the_hosts_file. Nils Breunese. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Restore a backup to DVD ?
Hello, I am using backuppc to backup something like 30 servers. All that servers are in one place. The backup host is among them so in case of emergency (fire, e.g.) I need to have backups in a different place. So I'd like to burn DVDs which I could send to various places to keep my data safe. Is there a way to restore a backup and save it to a DVD (or on a given directory which I could burn on a DVD...). In fact, I'd like to get raw backups consisting of all my files without the backuppc format. Do you see what I mean ? Is there a simple way to do it ? Did I miss something obvious ? Alternatively, if I want to save on DVD a full backup of a given host, directly from the files in ~backuppc_user, what do I need to save ? ~backuppc_user/pc/my_host/0 (or 1, ..) ? Is it possible to reinsert that backup on a fresh backuppc install (from scratch) and use the web interface as if the backup had been generated by that instance of backuppc ? Thanks in advance, Anthony _ Découvrez le Blog heroic Fantaisy d'Eragon! http://eragon-heroic-fantasy.spaces.live.com/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Advice on BackupPC
Keith Edmunds wrote: Something like backup-rdiff might be better for huge files with small changes. Small correction: it's actually rdiff-backup (http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/). It might also be interesting to try the subversion version control system for something like this since it has a binary difference mechanism built in. You'd have to do some extra planning to use it for backups though, because it wants to keep an extra copy of the previous repository version locally (so it can compute the diffs to commit) and there is no easy way to ever remove anything from the repository. You'd probably want to create new repositories on some schedule so you could delete the old ones completely. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Advice on BackupPC
Hi Les It might also be interesting to try the subversion version control system for something I've looked into this in the past, and the two main problems are a) the proliferation of .svn directories and b) the inability to restore file metadata (owner, permissions, etc). There are other svn-like programs that overcome these issues. Keith -- Keith Edmunds +-+ | Tiger Computing Ltd | Helping businesses make the most of Linux | | The Linux Company | http://www.tiger-computing.co.uk | +-+ - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore a backup to DVD ?
From: Mekare Mekare [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 2:19 PM Subject: [BackupPC-users] Restore a backup to DVD ? So I'd like to burn DVDs which I could send to various places to keep my data safe. Is there a way to restore a backup and save it to a DVD (or on a given directory which I could burn on a DVD...). In fact, I'd like to get raw backups consisting of all my files without the backuppc format. Do you see what I mean ? Is there a simple way to do it ? Did I miss something I'm curious why BackupPC's archive method wouldn't work for you. I use it to burn DVDs of my backup sets on a periodic basis. Couldn't you do that and store the DVDs offsite? They aren't in BackupPC format, they are written as compressed tar files, which can be read on just about any out-of-the-box Unix or Windows system without any special tools or anything specific to BackupPC. -- Steve Willoughby| Using billion-dollar satellites [EMAIL PROTECTED] | to hunt for Tupperware. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Problems after upgrade to BackupPC 3.0.0
Hi, I have migrated my BackupPC pool to a new server and after having done that I upgraded my BackupPC from 2.1.1 to 3.0.0. I am able to back up one of my host only, and that is a Windows machine using rsync. All of my other hosts are Linux machines and I get the following error: incr backup started back to 2007-05-10 20:00:01 (backup #7) for directory /clmirror/feuerstein Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root feuerstein /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive . /clmirror/feuerstein/ Xfer PIDs are now 6693 Read EOF: Connection reset by peer Tried again: got 0 bytes Done: 0 files, 0 bytes Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4 bytes) Backup aborted (Unable to read 4 bytes) Any ideas would be most welcome Hamish - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Time to upgrade from 2.1.2?
We used apt-get to fetch and install BackupPC on our Edgy Eft server. The version is apparently 2.1.2 dated 5 Sept, 2005 according to the comments in the main BackupPC file. It's only been running a couple of weeks; would an upgrade be painful? Are there clear advantages? Regards - Miles Thompson - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ 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 after upgrade to BackupPC 3.0.0
Have you tried to ssh from the new server to the host as user backuppc? /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root feuerstein I guess the ssh host key of your new server has changed or something else with ssh. Ralf I had used the above command previously. Just an additional note, logged in as the backuppc user on my backup server, if I execute /opt/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump -i feuerstein, a complete incremental does work properly, just if the backuppc daemon executes the BackupPC_dump, it fails Hamish - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Delete directory from backup
On 5/17/07, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 05/17 06:24 , Keith Edmunds wrote:
Owing to a typo in $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}, a large directory has been
backed up that should have been excluded. What steps should be taken to
remove that directory from the BackupPC server and recover the pool
space
(the latter presumably not until BackupPC_nightly runs)?
you can find the directory in the backup tree (under the per-pc
directory),
and just do an rm -rf on it. Afterwards, you can invoke BackupPC_nightly
with something like /path/to/BackupPC_nightly 0-255 (if I remember
correctly); or wait overnight for it to run on its own.
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you can also schedule BackupPC_nightly to run at a different time. The
first entry of $Conf{WakeupSchedule} is when BackupPC_nightly is run. (I've
found this to be pretty useful )
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Delete directory from backup
On 05/17 03:33 , James wrote:
you can also schedule BackupPC_nightly to run at a different time. The
first entry of $Conf{WakeupSchedule} is when BackupPC_nightly is run. (I've
found this to be pretty useful )
- James
Indeed. I've found that the default time of midnight is a very poor one...
that's when you typically want your backups to be going off. I usually
reschedule mine to go off at 8am or so; but noon might actually be better.
$Conf{WakeupSchedule} = [8..24,1..7];
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