[BackupPC-users] Choice of b/u drive
As a Mac user there is no PCMCIA. The choice is FW400/800, USB2 or a NAS drive. Ethernet would be easiest, but does not work well with Apple's otherwise brilliant 'rewindable' TimeMachine software and as I said Apple seem to be loosing interest in FW, so it rather leave USB ... Cheers, Colin +-- |This was sent by co...@nehoc.co.uk via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- ___ 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] Large Amounts of Data
Adam Goryachev wrote: We're a mid-sized university academic department and are fairly happy with our current BackupPC setup. We currently backup an 800 GB fileserver (which has an iSCSI-attached drive), a few other sub-300 GB fileservers, a bunch of XP desktops. The 800 GB fileserver takes a long time to back up...almost a full day, and I think this is normal for BackupPC. We'd like to use BackupPC to backup some of our heftier linux servers -- moving into the multiple terabyte range (5-10 TB). We're considering a ZFS filesystem over gigabit for our backup target, but obviously are concerned that backing up 5 TB of data would take a week. Is this where we should consider multiple BackupPC servers to break up the backup time? Should we move to a solution with less overhead (if there is one)? Thanks for any input or experiences. You haven't specified your backup method, but I'll make a couple of assumptions: * you are using rsync over SSH If your 800G file server is taking 24 hours per backup, there are probably some optimisations you can make. Firstly, check if either your backup server or file server are consuming all available memory and swapping during the backup. Adding some extra RAM will drastically reduce the backup time. The other issue is the size of the files on your fileserver, lots of small files will take longer than lots of small files. Also, incremental runs should be substantially faster than fulls, even when using rsync where the data tranfer amount is similar. If all the fulls are happening at the same time, force some to run on a different day to skew them. You might push the larger fulls to Friday night if it is OK to run into the weekend. Other than that, you can look at IO etc on both fileserver and backup server. Probably your bigger fileservers are faster, but you backup server is only so fast... Examine where the bottlenecks are, and then you can either remove/improve those bottlenecks, or else add additional backuppc servers (if the backup server is the bottleneck and removing it is too costly). Some files are just not backup-friendly, like unix mailbox format or big databases. You may need to handle them some other way and exclude them from the backuppc runs. Raid5 is generally a bad idea performance-wise unless you have 12 or more disks in a set. It is usually much more expensive to go above 'commodity-size' servers than to add more so you may be better off splitting the backups to different servers, especially if you can group similar targets for better pooling and knowing where to look when you need to restore. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- ___ 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] Choice of b/u drive
colinc wrote: As a Mac user there is no PCMCIA. The choice is FW400/800, USB2 or a NAS drive. Ethernet would be easiest, but does not work well with Apple's otherwise brilliant 'rewindable' TimeMachine software and as I said Apple seem to be loosing interest in FW, so it rather leave USB ... Some do. How about one of these: http://gizmodo.com/5119452/hp-mediasmart-ex487-server-has-remote-mp3-streaming-mac-time-machine-compatibility or Apple's combo drive and wireless router? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- ___ 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] gui exclude
hello and Happy new year, I'm searching a GUI where people can click on the hierarchical file system to tell which folder they do not need to be saved. And then this application should also provides the amount of data that it is going to save. And it will be even nicer if it could also give this information in such format that rsync will understand it. And it will be even more nicer if it could be in java webstart which fits nicely in backuppc. So do you guys have some clues, hints, ideas that I can go for ??? thanks for you help cEd -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland -- ___ 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] Backuppc timing out
As I could not get smb working (probably my fault) I've installed rsyncd on my XP PC and have got it running. I have configured backuppc to to a backup using an online turorial. When I run a backup I get a timeout error in the log file: 2009-01-06 14:28:12 full backup started for directory docs 2009-01-06 14:31:21 Got fatal error during xfer (inet connect: Connection timed out) 2009-01-06 14:31:26 Backup aborted (inet connect: Connection timed out) Nothing is copied to the server. Can anyone give me a clue as to how to resolve this? +-- |This was sent by forumsmail...@btinternet.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- ___ 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] net connect: Connection timed out
Did you resolve this? I have the same problem. +-- |This was sent by forumsmail...@btinternet.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- ___ 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] Large Amounts of Data
In one of the installations of backuppc I manage there are 6 real servers and about 15 virtual servers and a storage total size combined about 10 TB and it a works great with backuppc. On the servers running VMware I do a full backup every 30 days with a weekly incremental backup. On the vmware hosts we backup the we retain 2 full backups with daily incremental backups for 30 days also and the same apply to the real servers. With pooling and compression we don't have more than 8 TB, the fs is reiserfs. Usually backups run at night in the weekdays and freely on weekends. what take longer is the storage that has about 5TB and takes more than a day to do a full backup, i also allow multiple backups to run at the same time (10) this will allow to take full use of the gigacards, cpu, memory and cpu (it's a quad core) with 4 gb ram. if you do just a backup at a time you will waste your cpu as many of the files you do backup are small and your hosts don't send enough info to saturate the backuppc server hardware. with lots of backuppc at the same time we have steady mdstat stats of 50-60 Mb/s written to disk. the backuppc has sata drives with hardware raid 5. so i can say i'm real happy with backuppc. right now i have 4 major backuppc servers running with multiple configuration, backups over internet (if you teak a bit ssh options you can compress data on the move). i also have some minor installations at my house for my data for instance. cheers Pedro On Monday 05 January 2009 23:39:43 Christopher Derr wrote: We're a mid-sized university academic department and are fairly happy with our current BackupPC setup. We currently backup an 800 GB fileserver (which has an iSCSI-attached drive), a few other sub-300 GB fileservers, a bunch of XP desktops. The 800 GB fileserver takes a long time to back up...almost a full day, and I think this is normal for BackupPC. We'd like to use BackupPC to backup some of our heftier linux servers -- moving into the multiple terabyte range (5-10 TB). We're considering a ZFS filesystem over gigabit for our backup target, but obviously are concerned that backing up 5 TB of data would take a week. Is this where we should consider multiple BackupPC servers to break up the backup time? Should we move to a solution with less overhead (if there is one)? Thanks for any input or experiences. Chris -- ___ 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/ -- -- Pedro M. S. Oliveira IT Consultant Email: pmsolive...@gmail.com URL: http://pedro.linux-geex.com Cellular: +351 96 5867227 -- -- ___ 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] gui exclude
Maybe you're looking for Restore (http://restore-backup.com/), although their site is down as I write this. Their software looked interesting, but I was unable to get it to work correctly. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 04:21, cedric briner w...@infomaniak.ch wrote: hello and Happy new year, I'm searching a GUI where people can click on the hierarchical file system to tell which folder they do not need to be saved. And then this application should also provides the amount of data that it is going to save. And it will be even nicer if it could also give this information in such format that rsync will understand it. And it will be even more nicer if it could be in java webstart which fits nicely in backuppc. So do you guys have some clues, hints, ideas that I can go for ??? thanks for you help cEd -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland -- ___ 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/ -- [EOM] -- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB___ 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] Archive full backups?
Hi, I've been using BackupPC (3.0.0) on Ubuntu (8.x) for a while and am quite happy with it ... thanks a lot for the effort to all BackupPC developers and contributors! I've started to look at the Archive functions. What I want to achieve is to do regular full and incremental backups, while archiving the most recent full backups to different media regularly (say once per week). As I understand, Archive will transfer the most recent backup to the archive storage location ... even if this is an incremental and the corresponding full backup has not been archived (which makes the incremental more or less unusable for disaster recovery purposes) Is there a setting somewhere to achieve this? Is ``filled incremental'' the best/recommended/only way? What are other people using? The only idea I have currently is to script the archive process to check for full backups on a daily basis, copy them to a staging area, and archive from there once a week ... this is possible, but lacks elegance :-) I've searched the archives (and also did some source code reading), but havn't found a discussion of this situation (I may have used the wrong search terms, though, so please point me in the right direction if I missed the obvious!) Thanks, \Bernhard. -- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB ___ 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] automated backup of specific dirs to local hdd
Hi All, Is this app purely for backup across networks to servers, or is it also perfectly fine for local backups of stipulated dirs? For starters I'm just wanting to regularly backup my Tbird/FF profiles to a separate hdd on the same Mac.. Can it deal with folders that contain data that's live and may be updating at the time of a backup? (hope that makes sense) I was going to start fiddling with all this but why reinvent the wheel?!? http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=enclient=firefox-arls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficialq=bash+scripting+how-tobtnG=Searchmeta= http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=enclient=firefox-arls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficialq=crontab+os+xbtnG=Searchmeta= or this may have worked better in practise than the above? http://rajeev.name/blog/2008/09/01/automated-osx-backups-with-launchd-and-rsync/ Any advice greatly appreciated :-) Seasons well wishes, Jed -- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB ___ 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] no files dumped for share c$
Hello everybody ! And happy new year :)
I got the following problem :
A backup server on Debian 2.6.26-1-686 (résultat d'une commande uname
-a). After the vulnerability on ssh for debian, all the backups failed,
on both debian clients and Windows clients.
After renewing ssh keys and exchanging them, the backups are working
again for the linux clients, but not for the windows machines.
The first one is a windows machine with sp4.
The message i get is always the same :
no files dumped for share c$
session resquest to .. failed (called name not present)
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
But the config for these hosts had not changed. When i tried to do a
manual dump, here is what it gave me :
/backu...@backup:/usr/share/backuppc/bin$ ./BackupPC_dump -v -f
192.168.0.100
cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/echo -c 1 192.168.0.100
cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output -c 1 192.168.0.100
cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/echo -c 1 192.168.0.100
cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output -c 1 192.168.0.100
CheckHostAlive: can't extract round-trip time (not fatal)
CheckHostAlive: returning 0
Running: /usr/bin/smbclient 192.168.0.100\\C\$ -U
BLACKUP\\Administrateur\\
-E -N -d 1 -c tarmode\ full -Tc -
full backup started for share C$
started full dump, share=C$
Xfer PIDs are now 24737,24736
xferPids 24737,24736
cmdExecOrEval: about to exec /usr/bin/smbclient 192.168.0.100\\C\$
-U
BLACKU
P\\Administrateur\\ -E -N -d 1 -c tarmode\ full -Tc -
session request to 192.168.0.100 failed (Called name not present)
session request to 192 failed (Called name not present)
Anonymous login successful
Domain=[] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
session request to 192.168.0.100 failed (Called name not present)
session request to 192 failed (Called name not present)
Anonymous login successful
Domain=[] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp,
0
filesT
otal, 0 sizeTotal
Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share C$)
cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/echo -c 1 192.168.0.100
cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output -c 1 192.168.0.100
cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/echo -c 1 192.168.0.100
cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output -c 1 192.168.0.100
CheckHostAlive: can't extract round-trip time (not fatal)
CheckHostAlive: returning 0
Backup aborted (No files dumped for share C$)
Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the
prior
one
(got 0 and 0 files versus 0)
dump failed: No files dumped for share C$/
I checked in the config.pl , and the $Conf{SmbShareName} do correspond
to the id and password used by the admin account on this windows machine.
I checked in the topdir/pc/hostname too, but couldn't find any specific
config file for this host...
So I'm at a loss. Is there somebody who could give me some tips/solutions ?
Thansk a lot in advance.
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[BackupPC-users] I received the error No files dumped for share
Hi, I have tried to do a full backup of a Windows XP PC. the Backup is successful. Although I get the error “No files dumped for share. What is wrong? Regards, Sean -- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] configure.pl fails
I am trying to install BackupPC on ubuntu server edition. I am running the confiure command as sudo perl configure.pl it fails with the error message Making init.d scripts can't chown 1000, 1000 init.d/gentoo-backuppc.conf at configure.pl line 1011. Not sure where the permissions have to be changed. Can somebody help me fix this? Thanks, Kiran -- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] no files dumped for share c$
Gilles writes:
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
David Kahn reports that this happens with recent versions
of smbclient. Removing the -N option fixes it.
Can you confirm this fix works for you?
Craig
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Subj: [BackupPC-users] tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
It appears that that have changed the way smbclient works with version 3.2.3,
and it is causing this problem. A problem identical to yours was reported as
being a bug in Ubuntred 8.10 (Intrepid):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/backuppc/+bug/283652. However, the
actual source of the problem is smbclient, which is called by backuppc.
Therefore, I reported a second bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/297025 that
will hopefully fix the problem.
The solution to your backup problem is to edit /etc/backuppc/config.pl on
server #2, which is using backuppc version 3.1.0 and smbclient 3.2.3. Do not
make this modification to server #1, as it will break it.
There are three strings that you need to modify in config.pl:
$Conf{SmbClientFullCmd}
$Conf{SmbClientIncrCmd}
$Conf{SmbClientRestoreCmd}
which control Samba backups and restore. In all three strings remove the -N
flag.
My understanding that the flag is no longer needed, because the login prompt is
automatically suppressed by smbclient when backuppc passes the password through
the PASSWD environment variable. But for some unfathomable reason, when the
-N flag is used, the password does not get passed to Windows' LAN Manager.
Good luck.
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Re: [BackupPC-users] I received the error No files dumped for share
Sean writes: I have tried to do a full backup of a Windows XP PC. the Backup is successful. Although I get the error ?No files dumped for share. What is wrong? The backup isn't successful (since no files were dumped for one (or more) shares). Please look at the XferLOG.bad file (which should be quite short) and if the answer isn't apparent, email the contents of the file (or at least the first few lines) to this thread. You should also explain which XferMethod you are using and the corresponding Share and Include/Exclude settings. Craig -- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB ___ 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] configure.pl fails
Kiran writes: I am trying to install BackupPC on ubuntu server edition. I am running the confiure command as sudo perl configure.pl it fails with the error message Making init.d scripts can't chown 1000, 1000 init.d/gentoo-backuppc.conf at configure.pl line 1011. Not sure where the permissions have to be changed. Can somebody help me fix this? It is trying to change the ownership from root (who is running configure.pl) to the BackupPC user. The strange thing is that many chown() calls prior to this were successful. Does init.d/gentoo-backuppc.conf exist? (The path is relative to the unpacked release - ie: the place you ran configure.pl from.) What happens when you manually try to chown it, eg: sudo chown 1000:1000 init.d/gentoo-backuppc.conf Craig -- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB ___ 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/
