Re: [BackupPC-users] No backups are running automatically.
James writes: Manual full and incremental backups work. No backups are running automatically. I'm using the default schedule options, I changed the default blackout period to a negative value for testing purposes. I'm using rsyncd with Windows XP. See attached config.pl I don't see a problem. Have you waited at least a day since your manual backup? Craig - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Strange behavior when using backuppc with rsyncd or rsync+ssh
Hi, I'm trying to configure a backuppc solution to transparently do a remote backup of laptops. The server is running ubuntu 8.04 with the packaged version of backuppc installed. All the laptops are connected to the server's network using an openvpn tunnel (their upload bandwidth is supposed to be around 128kB/s), some of them are running windows (with rsyncd+cygwin) and others are linux machines (with rsync+ssh and keys). These laptops initially have a few GB of data to backup (not expected to change that often...) When I manually request a full backup of a linux laptop, the process starts and begin to fetch data from remote host. If I manually stop it for CGI interface, I get a clean partial backup. The problem is when a host disconnects from the network, backuppc doesn't seem to see that change and continues being in backup running state. After a long time (maybe around the 2-hours timeout or when the nightly wakeup occurs: both are possible in my test conditions!), the backup aborts and in the host summary I have a new full backup (not a partial one as I would have expected). As a consequence, even if the laptop reconnects, backuppc will not retry to get in sync. Does anyone know whether this behavior is normal? If I'm missing something, do you think backuppc could match my needs and what should I do to have the laptops being polled until I get one real full backup each day? I also have a remark about backuppc pooling feature: I think the server locally detects file duplicates by hashing them after download. As far as I know, rsync should also be able to send some kind of hash from remote host before download. Wouldn't it be possible to detect duplicates using this hash before the file is downloaded? This would for example save downloading files again when a user simply renames a directory... Thanks for your help, Louis-Marie - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] [SPAM] LOW * Disabling backups via BackupsDisable instead of FullPeriod
Hello,
I noticed some outdated documentation.
The 'Removing a client' section under 'Other installation topics' [0]
says to set $Conf{FullPeriod} to a negative value to disable backups
for a client. However, the documentation on $Conf{BackupsDisable} [1]
says:
In versions prior to 3.0 Backups were disabled by setting
$Conf{FullPeriod} to -1 or -2.
Could this be corrected?
Nils Breunese.
[0] http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#other_installation_topics
[1] http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_backupsdisable_
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[BackupPC-users] Is BackupPC still a no go with Fedora F9?
I never could get BackupPC to work with Fedora F9. It works fine with F8. I recently upgraded the F8 machine to F9 and BackupPC no longer works (tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED ). It seems like there was some issue with having to downgrade Samba or something like that. Does anyone remember? Thanks! Arch. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Is BackupPC still a no go with Fedora F9?
I dunno about Samba , but it works great with rsync. Why would you use samba anyway, isn't rsync better? -- I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends - Abraham Lincoln - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Is BackupPC still a no go with Fedora F9?
Arch Willingham wrote: I never could get BackupPC to work with Fedora F9. It works fine with F8. I recently upgraded the F8 machine to F9 and BackupPC no longer works (“tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED” ). It seems like there was some issue with having to downgrade Samba or something like that. Does anyone remember? I thought it had something to do with a change in the way smbclient parses its argument list but I don't remember any solution. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Question regarding BackupPC_tarPCCopy
Hello, I moved the data of my backups according to the wiki (rsync -a). Now, I'm trying to restore the symlinks. For that I issue these commands: cd /mnt/sda5/BackupPC/pc ; /usr/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_tarPCCopy /var/lib/BackupPC/pc/ |tar xvPF - This takes ages, which is ok, but I'm logged in to the server via ssh, so that using the nohup command would be useful. This has the drawback, that the nohup.out is empty, so that I cannot monitor the process. Furthermore: Would it be possible to limit the BackupPC_tarPCCopy command to one host only? Greetings, Hendrik - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups getting smaller and missing data
I stopped ClamWin and executed a manual full backup and ran into the same messages of the timeout. Since getting Craig's email have thought and yea, possibly backing up music and images is over kill. As these do not change regularly. However, as I have now encountered this problem I prefer to fix it than turn my back on it. If the issue is with SMB, should I then go for rsyncd? If so, then I have the issue that when I did try rsyncd some months ago, I had the backup running for hours and hours and hours, when it should have completed in about one hour in total. This was using rsyncd from the BackupPC download on cygwin. I read a message from a month or so that someone recommended using rsyncd from the normal cygwin site. I'll go back over the postings to see if I can find that one and look at more closely. Will that resolve the slowness issue? Peter - Original message - From: Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: BackupPC User List backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:55:25 +0800 Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups getting smaller and missing data Hi Craig Thanks for that information. I'm using ClamWin which I thought doesn't do online scanning, only as per schedules created. Anyway I'll try and disable the the AV and see if any difference is achieved. At the moment I want to keep it simple and allow BackupPC to take care of the music and image directories. Thanks Peter - Original message - From: Craig Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: BackupPC User List backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:35:23 -0700 Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups getting smaller and missing data Peter writes: 2008-09-06 16:49:21 Got fatal error during xfer (Call timed out: server did not respond after 2 milliseconds opening remote file \Data\Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Máire Brennan\Maire\03 Oro.mp3 (\Data\Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Máire Brennan\Maire\)) This is the well-known timeout in smbclient caused by antivirus software having to scan large files in the directory. This causes smbclient to exit and the backup stops. Disabling AV should solve the problem; perhaps you can have it skip your music directories? Tim Demarest reported several years ago that he could change the hard-coded timeout value in smbclient to avoid this issue. Craig - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Question regarding BackupPC_tarPCCopy
Hendrik Friedel wrote: This takes ages, which is ok, but I'm logged in to the server via ssh, so that using the nohup command would be useful. This has the drawback, that the nohup.out is empty, so that I cannot monitor the process. Install screen and see 'man screen'. Other than that I believe the general advice for moving your BackupPC data is to use dd and filesystem resize tools instead of programs that operate on files and links, which - as you are experiencing - can take forever. Nils Breunese. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] SMB Signature verification failed - windows 2003
I've just had this problem as well and here's what I did: In smb.conf add the following in the [global] section: client signing = no client use spnego = no I'm backing up an old Windows 2000 box, and without turning off client signing and spnego I was getting errors on any file or directory that was longer than 8.3 (or so it seemed). I'm running Samba 3.0.28a on Gentoo.. [/code] +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Question regarding BackupPC_tarPCCopy
screen then run command when it is running, do a Ctrl-A then D which will disconnect that screen. to get back to it, do screen -R On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hendrik Friedel wrote: This takes ages, which is ok, but I'm logged in to the server via ssh, so that using the nohup command would be useful. This has the drawback, that the nohup.out is empty, so that I cannot monitor the process. Install screen and see 'man screen'. Other than that I believe the general advice for moving your BackupPC data is to use dd and filesystem resize tools instead of programs that operate on files and links, which - as you are experiencing - can take forever. Nils Breunese. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
