from:"Steve"


On Mar 23, 2017, at 11:22 AM, Craig Barratt <cbarr...@users.sourceforge.net> 
wrote:
> Yes, that's one of the major advantages of 4.x - the pool is now much easier 
> to copy or backup.

 HUGE HURRAH!  :)

> In 4.1.0 there is a new utility BackupPC_migrateV3toV4 that you can 
> optionally use to bulk upgrade old 3.x backups to v4 format.  Although that 
> might take a while, it allows you to eliminate all the old hardlinked backups.

 This is also great for a few systems that I have archival backups there, which 
have not been moved to other media yet, so I can get everything to v4 format.
 
 AWESOME WORK!  Can't thank you enough for your dedication to the project.

 Steve


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[BackupPC-users] BackupPC v4 -- pool backups easier?

Hi,

Simple question, I hope, but seeing the substantial differences "under the 
hood" on how BackupPC is handling things, no more hard links in particular, 
will this make it easier to backup the pool to other systems or tape?  It 
seemed to me that one of the sticking points has always been the huge number of 
hard links.

I have tried a number of things, I think my last serious effort was suing an 
xfsdump, but the restore time was on the order of many days... :(

This would be a nice improvement. :)

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Re: [BackupPC-users] No files dumped?

Well, I have one host backing up, finally But I have to revisit the 
settings and see how to propagate them to the others in the right way.

The essence, though, per my previous config, was that the RsyncSshPath was:
$sshPath -q -x -l backuppc -c arcfour

The RsyncClientPath was: nice -n 19 sudo /usr/bin/rsync

Yes, I should specify the path to nice, but also, yes, it is different on some 
different hosts. :(

Just saying, I'd upvote an upgrade feature that didn't break the client 
configs. :) :)  But since they are numerous and multivariate, that probably 
isn't possible. Maybe at least mention in the upgrade notes that you probably 
are going to have to revisit all your client configurations because they are 
all changed. If it was there, I didn't see it.

Don't want to sound like I'm complaining, just mentioning that it would be 
nice. I am very thankful for the upgrade, and now that I think I have a handle 
on how to reconfigure the hosts it will be interesting to see how performance 
has improved.

Thanks,
 Steve


> On Mar 23, 2017, at 8:45 AM, Steve Palm <n9...@n9yty.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm seeing this on all the hosts so far, the first batch have all been Linux 
> servers using an rsync backup method over ssh...
> 
> My understanding of what the logs are telling me is that the connection 
> closed. Maybe never really opened. I do see that my original ssh command 
> configuration was lost during the upgrade, and looking at the config now I am 
> not entirely sure how to put it back...
> 
> My previous config used these:
> 
> $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l backuppc -c arcfour $host nice -n 
> 19 sudo $rsyncPath $argList+';
> 
> $Conf{RsyncClientRestoreCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l backuppc -c arcfour $host 
> nice -n 19 sudo $rsyncPath $argList+';
> 
> Not sure how to get those back into the new config.  Do they all go on one 
> line on the RsyncSshArgs?  But clearly not all of them anymore, so what is 
> still relevant?  Or do they go as separate items in that list?  I tried both, 
> but they don't seem to work either.
> 
> The problem is, I think, I haven't touched the old configs for so long I 
> can't remember all of how that was even set up, and I'm not making the jump 
> to align with the new changes.
> 
> Suggestions?  Thanks!
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> More information below, from the initial post-upgrade configs before I 
> started trying to change RsyncSshArgs:
> 
> LOG:
> 2017-03-21 23:41:10 removing incr backup 2165
> 2017-03-23 01:52:12 Created directory /mnt/stage/BackupPC/pc/miscnet/refCnt
> 2017-03-23 01:52:13 Copying v3 backup #2172 to v4 #2173
> 2017-03-23 02:58:25 BackupPC_refCountUpdate: doing fsck on misspent #2173 
> since there are no poolCnt files
> 2017-03-23 03:00:43 BackupPC_refCountUpdate: host miscnet got 0 errors (took 
> 138 secs)
> 2017-03-23 03:00:43 BackupPC_backupDuplicate: got 0 errors and 0 file open 
> errors
> 2017-03-23 03:00:43 full backup started for directory /
> 2017-03-23 03:00:44 Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share /)
> 2017-03-23 03:00:49 Backup aborted (No files dumped for share /)
> 
> XferLog:
> XferLOG file /mnt/stage/BackupPC/pc/miscnet/XferLOG.2173.z created 2017-03-23 
> 01:52:13 
> Backup prep: type = full, case = 2, inPlace = 1, doDuplicate = 1, newBkupNum 
> = 2173, newBkupIdx = 8, lastBkupNum = , lastBkupIdx =  (FillCycle = 0, 
> noFillCnt = 4)
> Executing /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_backupDuplicate -h miscnet
> Xfer PIDs are now 7131
> Copying v3 backup #2172 to v4 #2173
> Xfer PIDs are now 7131,7795
> BackupPC_refCountUpdate: doing fsck on miscnet #2173 since there are no 
> poolCnt files
> BackupPC_refCountUpdate: host miscnet got 0 errors (took 138 secs)
> Xfer PIDs are now 7131
> BackupPC_backupDuplicate: got 0 errors and 0 file open errors
> Finished BackupPC_backupDuplicate (running time: 4110 sec)
> Running: /usr/local/bin/rsync_bpc --bpc-top-dir /mnt/stage/BackupPC 
> --bpc-host-name miscnet --bpc-share-name / --bpc-bkup-num 2173 
> --bpc-bkup-comp 1 --bpc-bkup-prevnum -1 --bpc-bkup-prevcomp -1 
> --bpc-bkup-inode0 51267 --bpc-attrib-new --bpc-log-level 1 -e /usr/bin/ssh\ 
> -q\ -x\ -l\ backuppc --rsync-path=/usr/bin/rsync --super --recursive 
> --protect-args --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --times --links 
> --hard-links --delete --partial --log-format=log:\ %o\ %i\ %B\ %8U,%8G\ %9l\ 
> %f%L --stats --checksum --one-file-system --iconv=utf8,utf8 --exclude=/proc 
> --exclude=/nfs miscnet.sga.org:/ /
> full backup started for directory /
> Xfer PIDs are now 7828
> This is the rsync child about to exec /usr/local/bin/rsync_bpc
> rsync_bpc: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
> Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 si

[BackupPC-users] No files dumped?

I'm seeing this on all the hosts so far, the first batch have all been Linux 
servers using an rsync backup method over ssh...

My understanding of what the logs are telling me is that the connection closed. 
Maybe never really opened. I do see that my original ssh command configuration 
was lost during the upgrade, and looking at the config now I am not entirely 
sure how to put it back...

My previous config used these:

$Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l backuppc -c arcfour $host nice -n 19 
sudo $rsyncPath $argList+';

$Conf{RsyncClientRestoreCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l backuppc -c arcfour $host 
nice -n 19 sudo $rsyncPath $argList+';

Not sure how to get those back into the new config.  Do they all go on one line 
on the RsyncSshArgs?  But clearly not all of them anymore, so what is still 
relevant?  Or do they go as separate items in that list?  I tried both, but 
they don't seem to work either.

The problem is, I think, I haven't touched the old configs for so long I can't 
remember all of how that was even set up, and I'm not making the jump to align 
with the new changes.

Suggestions?  Thanks!
 
Steve


More information below, from the initial post-upgrade configs before I started 
trying to change RsyncSshArgs:

LOG:
2017-03-21 23:41:10 removing incr backup 2165
2017-03-23 01:52:12 Created directory /mnt/stage/BackupPC/pc/miscnet/refCnt
2017-03-23 01:52:13 Copying v3 backup #2172 to v4 #2173
2017-03-23 02:58:25 BackupPC_refCountUpdate: doing fsck on misspent #2173 since 
there are no poolCnt files
2017-03-23 03:00:43 BackupPC_refCountUpdate: host miscnet got 0 errors (took 
138 secs)
2017-03-23 03:00:43 BackupPC_backupDuplicate: got 0 errors and 0 file open 
errors
2017-03-23 03:00:43 full backup started for directory /
2017-03-23 03:00:44 Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share /)
2017-03-23 03:00:49 Backup aborted (No files dumped for share /)

XferLog:
XferLOG file /mnt/stage/BackupPC/pc/miscnet/XferLOG.2173.z created 2017-03-23 
01:52:13 
Backup prep: type = full, case = 2, inPlace = 1, doDuplicate = 1, newBkupNum = 
2173, newBkupIdx = 8, lastBkupNum = , lastBkupIdx =  (FillCycle = 0, noFillCnt 
= 4)
Executing /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_backupDuplicate -h miscnet
Xfer PIDs are now 7131
Copying v3 backup #2172 to v4 #2173
Xfer PIDs are now 7131,7795
BackupPC_refCountUpdate: doing fsck on miscnet #2173 since there are no poolCnt 
files
BackupPC_refCountUpdate: host miscnet got 0 errors (took 138 secs)
Xfer PIDs are now 7131
BackupPC_backupDuplicate: got 0 errors and 0 file open errors
Finished BackupPC_backupDuplicate (running time: 4110 sec)
Running: /usr/local/bin/rsync_bpc --bpc-top-dir /mnt/stage/BackupPC 
--bpc-host-name miscnet --bpc-share-name / --bpc-bkup-num 2173 --bpc-bkup-comp 
1 --bpc-bkup-prevnum -1 --bpc-bkup-prevcomp -1 --bpc-bkup-inode0 51267 
--bpc-attrib-new --bpc-log-level 1 -e /usr/bin/ssh\ -q\ -x\ -l\ backuppc 
--rsync-path=/usr/bin/rsync --super --recursive --protect-args --numeric-ids 
--perms --owner --group -D --times --links --hard-links --delete --partial 
--log-format=log:\ %o\ %i\ %B\ %8U,%8G\ %9l\ %f%L --stats --checksum 
--one-file-system --iconv=utf8,utf8 --exclude=/proc --exclude=/nfs 
miscnet.sga.org:/ /
full backup started for directory /
Xfer PIDs are now 7828
This is the rsync child about to exec /usr/local/bin/rsync_bpc
rsync_bpc: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0 filesTotal, 0 
sizeTotal, 0 filesNew, 0 sizeNew, 0 sizeNewComp, 51267 inode
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(629) [Receiver=3.0.9.5]
rsync_bpc exited with fatal status 255 (65280) (rsync error: unexplained error 
(code 255) at io.c(629) [Receiver=3.0.9.5])
Xfer PIDs are now 
Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share /)
Backup aborted (No files dumped for share /)
BackupFailCleanup: nFilesTotal = 0, type = full, BackupCase = 2, inPlace = 1, 
lastBkupNum = 
BackupFailCleanup: inPlace with no new files... no cleanup
Running BackupPC_refCountUpdate -h miscnet -f on miscnet
Xfer PIDs are now 7833
BackupPC_refCountUpdate: host miscnet got 0 errors (took 2 secs)
Xfer PIDs are now 
Finished BackupPC_refCountUpdate (running time: 2 sec)
Xfer PIDs are now 




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Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.0.0 released

2017-03-22 Thread Steve Palm

I had installed BackupPC-XS and rsync-bpc, but I re-installed BackupPC-XS after 
the other module changes I made below, and now it is working.

Very strange.  Don't know what I could have done wrong, but oh well 
Wouldn't be the first time. LOL

BTW: I really like the more modern look from GitHub.


> On Mar 22, 2017, at 4:43 PM, Steve Palm <n9...@n9yty.com> wrote:
> 
> Okay, I installed from Github to take advantage of recent fixes, and the 
> upgrade worked fine. The web interface came up straight away, no problems.
> 
> If these problems are BECAUSE I used the GitHub version, please advise and I 
> will back it out or wait for resolution.  Actually, I did install the 
> released 4.0.0 version after this and it seems to make no difference.
> 
> I am documenting some things I already fixed here in case others find it 
> useful, but in the end I still do not have it working.
> 
> However, trying to backup the localhost (previous v3 backup), I received this 
> error:
> 
> backuppc: getaddrinfo is not a valid Socket macro at 
> /usr/local/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm line 1413
> 
> It did a delete pass, but when I tell it to do a full backup I get the above 
> error in the log.
> 
> The strangest thing is, looking in the config, the host is defined as 
> 127.0.0.1, so how can that not be a valid address for 
> Socket::getaddrinfo($host); ?
> 
> I thought perhaps it was trying to use Socket::GetAddrInfo, which I was able 
> to install after having to install these:
> 
> File::Path File::Spec Test::More ExtUtils::CBuilder ExtUtils::CChecker
> 
> But still the same error.
> 
> For context, it is here in BackupPC:Lib, failing on the Socket::getaddrinfo 
> line.
> 
> sub getHostAddrInfo
> {
>my($bpc, $host) = @_;
>my($err, @addrs) = Socket::getaddrinfo($host);
>return undef if ( $err );
>return (($addrs[0])->{'family'} == Socket::AF_INET6) ? 6 : 4;
> }
> 
> Installed `cpan install Socket` and the line went away from the logs, but it 
> still is not making any backups. I don't know how to be sure all the modules 
> are up-to-date without causing problems. :(
> 
> Where to look, every log I look at doesn't show anything, it just logs that 
> the backup was requested but it never does anything. :(
> 
> Steve
> 
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Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.0.0 released

2017-03-22 Thread Steve Palm

Okay, I installed from Github to take advantage of recent fixes, and the 
upgrade worked fine. The web interface came up straight away, no problems.

If these problems are BECAUSE I used the GitHub version, please advise and I 
will back it out or wait for resolution.  Actually, I did install the released 
4.0.0 version after this and it seems to make no difference.

I am documenting some things I already fixed here in case others find it 
useful, but in the end I still do not have it working.

However, trying to backup the localhost (previous v3 backup), I received this 
error:

backuppc: getaddrinfo is not a valid Socket macro at 
/usr/local/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm line 1413

It did a delete pass, but when I tell it to do a full backup I get the above 
error in the log.

The strangest thing is, looking in the config, the host is defined as 
127.0.0.1, so how can that not be a valid address for 
Socket::getaddrinfo($host); ?

I thought perhaps it was trying to use Socket::GetAddrInfo, which I was able to 
install after having to install these:

File::Path File::Spec Test::More ExtUtils::CBuilder ExtUtils::CChecker

But still the same error.

For context, it is here in BackupPC:Lib, failing on the Socket::getaddrinfo 
line.

sub getHostAddrInfo
{
my($bpc, $host) = @_;
my($err, @addrs) = Socket::getaddrinfo($host);
return undef if ( $err );
return (($addrs[0])->{'family'} == Socket::AF_INET6) ? 6 : 4;
}

Installed `cpan install Socket` and the line went away from the logs, but it 
still is not making any backups. I don't know how to be sure all the modules 
are up-to-date without causing problems. :(

Where to look, every log I look at doesn't show anything, it just logs that the 
backup was requested but it never does anything. :(

Steve


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Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.0.0 released

2017-03-22 Thread Steve Palm

Thanks so much, Craig!  I really appreciate it. Looking forward to trying it 
out, although reading the list it might be better to wait for your 4.1.0 
release or grab the current from GitHub, as it seemed there are a few issues 
that are resolved which would affect us upgrading from v3.


> On Mar 22, 2017, at 11:17 AM, Craig Barratt <cbarr...@users.sourceforge.net 
> <mailto:cbarr...@users.sourceforge.net>> wrote:
> 
> Steve,
> 
> The error is that you don't have the required module "version" installed (ie, 
> running "perl -e 'use version;'" would fail).  Yes, the error is confusing 
> since "version" is such a generic name.
> 
> You can use CPAN (or your linux installer if that's what you normally use) to 
> install it:
> 
> sudo cpan
> install version
> 
> Craig
> 
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 7:40 AM, Steve Palm <n9...@n9yty.com 
> <mailto:n9...@n9yty.com>> wrote:
> Sorry, I sent this to the developer list, should probably have gone to the 
> users list... :(
> 
> On Mar 4, 2017, at 1:12 PM, Craig Barratt <cbarr...@users.sourceforge.net 
> <mailto:cbarr...@users.sourceforge.net>> wrote:
>> I'm happy to announce that BackupPC 4.0.0 has been released on Github 
>> <https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/releases> and SourceForge 
>> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/backuppc/files/backuppc/4.0.0/>.  
> 
>  I was excited to read this, congratulations on a huge milestone!
> 
>> BackupPC 4.0.0 requires the perl module BackupPC::XS 
>> <https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc-xs/releases> (>= 0.50) and rsync-bpc 
>> <https://github.com/backuppc/rsync-bpc/releases> (>= 3.0.9.5). 
> 
>  I installed these.
> 
>> After installing those two packages, BackupPC 4.0.0 can be installed from 
>> the tar ball with:
>> 
>> tar zxf BackupPC-4.0.0.tar.gz
>> cd BackupPC-4.0.0
>> perl configure.pl <http://configure.pl/>
>  And I was greeted with a very unhelpful
> 
> BackupPC needs the package version.  Please install version
> before installing BackupPC.
> 
> Even running with a trace is not helping me much, not sure what I'm looking 
> at here:
> 
> perl -d:Trace configure.pl <http://configure.pl/>
> >> configure.pl:54 <http://configure.pl:54/>: my @ConfigureBinList = qw(
> >> configure.pl:79 <http://configure.pl:79/>: my @ConfigureLibList = qw(
> >> configure.pl:137 <http://configure.pl:137/>: if ( $ConfigureBinList[0] eq 
> >> "__" . "CONFIGURE_BIN_LIST__" ) {
> >> configure.pl:145 <http://configure.pl:145/>: my @Packages = qw(version 
> >> Encode File::Path File::Spec File::Copy DirHandle
> >> configure.pl:149 <http://configure.pl:149/>: my $PackageVersion = {
> >> configure.pl:154 <http://configure.pl:154/>: foreach my $pkg ( @Packages ) 
> >> {
> >> configure.pl:155 <http://configure.pl:155/>: eval "use $pkg";
> >> (eval 1)[configure.pl:155]:2: ;>> configure.pl:156 
> >> <http://configure.pl:156/>: if ( !$@ ) {
> >> configure.pl:169 <http://configure.pl:169/>: if ( $pkg =~ 
> >> /BackupPC::Lib/ ) {
> >> configure.pl:184 <http://configure.pl:184/>: die <<EOF;
> 
> BackupPC needs the package version.  Please install version
> before installing BackupPC.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
>  Steve
> 
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Status on new BackupPC v4

2016-05-15 Thread Steve Willoughby

It’s going to be hard to find all 5 in one person.  I have 1, 2, and 4, which I 
suspect is the combination most of us possess.  5 is in terribly short supply 
for a lot of us too, so someone with 3 in particular, who can organize the 
efforts of many people who could contribute small bits of work would be quite 
valuable.

> On May 15, 2016, at 4:43 PM, Adam Goryachev 
>  wrote:
> 
> I had intentions of trying to pick up the project and start fixing 
> bugs/etc, but swiftly reached the end of my C programming experience, 
> and then time.
> 
> I honestly think it might be near impossible to find anyone to lead the 
> project that has all the needed assets:
> 1) Perl programming
> 2) C programming
> 3) Organisation skills
> 4) Git/CVS/Development skills
> 5) Time
> 
> However, someone with just 3 and 5 could easily be the right person. 
> There are a number of people supplying "patches" to the project, and the 
> right person only needs to "accept" the patches, push them into Git, and 
> release a new "version" from time to time.
> 
> I think the best approach is:
> 1) Send the email to Craig, and expect that no reply will be received. 
> If we get a response, great, lets move forward with his suggestions
> 2) Contact the owner of the backuppc/backuppc project on github and see 
> if anyone can get "admin" access to it, if not, create a new one called 
> backuppc-new or something similar (but try to show it is still the same 
> backuppc, in all honesty, the project is unlikely to make significant 
> changes to backuppc (and huge changes are probably not needed anyway)).
> 3) Try to give admin level access to a number of people that:
> a) Have been involved in the project for a reasonable length of time
> b) Contribute to support on the mailing list
> c) Have expressed an interest in supporting the project in any way
> This will allow for people to "drop out" over time, and still keep admin 
> access in the future. We don't want to get stuck in this place again, 
> with one "admin" and everybody else wondering what to do.
> 
> This also allows for "redundancy" of people. If we have 10 people, then 
> one of those 10 is probably available to contribute an hour or two out 
> of a week, even if it is a different "one" every week (ie, can you spare 
> 2 hours once every 10 weeks? Most people would probably say yes, but 
> probably can't actually commit to that, which is OK).
> 
> So, can you (the OP) do 1 and 2 above, give it 2 weeks, and then do 3?
> 
> PS, yes, I'd be happy to be one of the many people to contribute, but 
> clearly can't manage much, otherwise I would have already done it.
> 
> Regards,
> Adam
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Status on new BackupPC v4

2016-05-15 Thread Steve Willoughby

I’ve been using BackupPC for many years and would really hate to see it die. 
It’s the best solution I’ve found in a very long time.  If we can encourage 
Craig to pick it up, or pick it up and run with it ourselves, or both (help 
Craig with it), whatever keeps this excellent tool alive and evolving is worth 
doing.

—steve

> On May 15, 2016, at 9:35 AM, Mauro Condarelli <mc5...@mclink.it> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Il 15/05/2016 16:14, Les Mikesell ha scritto:
>> On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 5:23 AM, Raoul Bhatia <ra...@bhatia.at> wrote:
>>> Second, maybe we have some Googlers lurking on this list who might know
>>> a better way to reach out to Craig?
>> Yes, it looks like Google might be keeping him busy these days:
>> 
>> http://www.wsj.com/articles/googles-wireless-effort-is-led-by-a-geeks-geek-1421973826
>> http://www.recode.net/2016/4/14/11586114/access-google-fiber-ceo-interview
>> 
>> He does have a linkedin page but I don't know if that would work any
>> better to reach him.
> If You have a LinkedIn account please retrieve Craig's contacts.
> I have no account and I would rather not subscribe (I'm not a fan of "social 
> nets" of any kind).
> 
> I will rewrite the mail following Raoul advice, but that is useless if we 
> cant find
> a usable e-mail address :/
> 
> Thanks to all who expressed appreciation for the initiative.
> 
> Regards
> Mauro
> 
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Lots of nt_status_access_denied errors 2012R2

2014-02-12 Thread Steve Crow

Adding the backuppc user account to the Backup Operators group made no
difference.
Any other ideas or experiences to share with Server 2012R2 ?

Thanks!
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[BackupPC-users] Lots of nt_status_access_denied errors 2012R2

2014-02-11 Thread Steve Crow

We're trying to backup Server 2012R2 from a linux box.

We are receiving a lot of these types of errors:

NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \Users\Administrator\AppData\* 
NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \Users\Administrator\Application Data\* 
NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \Users\Administrator\Contacts\* 
NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \Users\Administrator\Local Settings\* 
NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \Users\Administrator\Music\* 
NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \Users\Administrator\My Documents\* 
NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \Users\Administrator\NetHood\* 
NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \Users\Administrator\Pictures\* 
NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \Users\Administrator\Templates\* 
NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \Users\Administrator\Videos\*

What causes these and how can we get all files backed up properly?

Thank you!

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Lots of nt_status_access_denied errors 2012R2

2014-02-11 Thread Steve Crow

Thank you for your input. A domain is not involved. 2012R2 is so different I
could not find a way to add the Backup Operators group. I will keep looking.
The user account is an Administrator though.

Steve

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Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Lots of nt_status_access_denied errors 2012R2

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Steve Crow sc...@amarilloheartgroup.com
wrote:
 We're trying to backup Server 2012R2 from a linux box.

 We are receiving a lot of these types of errors:

 NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \Users\Administrator\AppData\* 
 NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \Users\Administrator\Application 
 Data\* NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \Users\Administrator\Contacts\* 
 NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \Users\Administrator\Local Settings\* 
 NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \Users\Administrator\Music\* 
 NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \Users\Administrator\My Documents\* 
 NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \Users\Administrator\NetHood\* 
 NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \Users\Administrator\Pictures\* 
 NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \Users\Administrator\Templates\* 
 NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \Users\Administrator\Videos\*

 What causes these and how can we get all files backed up properly?

That basically means that the user backuppc connects as does not have access
to those locations.  Windows permissions can be somewhat weird.
  Is a domain involved, and is backuppc user a member of the Backup
Operators group?

Backuppc uses smbtar for the smb xfer operation, but it might be easier to
debug things if you use smbclient interactively to try to access these
locations.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Lots of nt_status_access_denied errors 2012R2

2014-02-11 Thread Steve Crow

I found the computer management gui (I'm too green on this version!) I've
added the backuppc user to the Backup Operators group. I'll see what happens
tonight.
Thanks again for your help and input!

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[BackupPC-users] Can't create test hardlink error

2013-08-01 Thread Steve Blackwell


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[BackupPC-users] Can't create test hardlink error

2013-07-28 Thread Steve Blackwell

I just rebooted to a new kernel and now I'm getting this error:

Can't create a test hardlink between a file in /var/lib/BackupPC//pc
and /var/lib/BackupPC//cpool.  Either these are different file systems,
or this file system doesn't support hardlinks, or these directories
don't exist, or there is a permissions problem, or the file system is
out of inodes or full.  Use df, df -i, and ls -ld to check each of
these possibilities. Quitting...

I don't think it has anything to do with the new kernel. It's just
that rebooting made me notice the problem.
I'm thinking it's a permissions
problem since there is on 6% space used and 1% of the inodes. Here's
some relevant info:

# cd /var/lib
# ls -l | grep BackupPC
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 backuppc backuppc   44 Apr 29 20:32 BackupPC
- /media/5d194bff-a222-49a8-bd90-4898fff9bdd8/
# cd BackupPC
ls -l
total 180
drwxr-x---. 18 backuppc backuppc  4096 Jun 11 01:00 cpool
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root   145 Mar 19 22:00 extlinux.conf
-r--r--r--.  1 root root 32768 Mar 19 22:00 ldlinux.sys
drwx--.  2 root root 16384 Jul 16  2008 lost+found
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 60928 Mar 19 22:00 menu.c32
drwxr-x---.  6 backuppc backuppc  4096 Jun  1 13:02 pc
drwxr-x---.  2 backuppc backuppc  4096 Jul 26  2008 pool
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root   145 Mar 19 22:00 syslinux.cfg
drwxr-x---.  2 backuppc backuppc  4096 Jun 11 01:12 trash
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 0 Mar 19 22:00 ubnfilel.txt
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 0 Mar 19 22:00 ubnpathl.txt

All the contents of cpool and pc all have the same permissions:
drwxr-x---. 18 backuppc backuppc

Any ideas?
Thanks,
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Email configuration

2013-06-01 Thread Steve Blackwell

On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 16:32:15 -0500
Michael Stowe mst...@chicago.us.mensa.org wrote:

 
  It also seems to imply that the username you're using is backuppc
  rather than zephod.  This will be set under hosts.
 
 Errr, you can safely ignore that, I was thinking of something else
 entirely, but it does appear your configuration isn't being read or
 used.
 
 I recommend trying out the -t switch to see if anything would be sent,
 
 And the -u switch to confirm your email is set up properly.  If those
 work, then it's simply your config.
Hmmm...
I assumed that the -u switch meant run the command as user whoever...
but I was wrong.
It seems that it means send the e-mail to whoever.

So...
# sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u 
zep...@cfl.rr.com

results in this in /var/log/maillog:
Jun  1 18:18:18 localhost postfix/pickup[9126]: 907191840E9: uid=496 
from=backuppc
Jun  1 18:18:18 localhost postfix/cleanup[9278]: 907191840E9: 
message-id=20130601221818.907191840E9@stevesDesktop.localdomain
Jun  1 18:18:18 localhost postfix/qmgr[4236]: 907191840E9: 
from=backuppc@stevesDesktop.localdomain, size=497, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jun  1 18:18:18 localhost postfix/smtp[9269]: 907191840E9: host 
cdptpa-smtpin01.mail.rr.com[75.180.132.243] refused to talk to me: 554 5.7.1 - 
ERROR: Mail refused - 184.90.56.138 - See 
http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=184.90.56.138
Jun  1 18:18:19 localhost postfix/smtp[9269]: 907191840E9: 
to=zep...@cfl.rr.com, relay=cdptpa-smtpin02.mail.rr.com[75.180.132.244]:25, 
delay=0.94, delays=0.61/0/0.33/0, dsn=4.7.1, status=deferred (host 
cdptpa-smtpin02.mail.rr.com[75.180.132.244] refused to talk to me: 554 5.7.1 - 
ERROR: Mail refused - 184.90.56.138 - See 
http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=184.90.56.138)

which makes more sense.

Now I need to find out how to get the server to listen.
OK, it appears from the URL given that my IP address is blocked because it is 
on some Policy Block List.
But my IP address comes from my ISP via DHCP. Are they blocking their own IP 
address?
It looks like I can remove it from the list but I'd like to understand this a 
little better first.

Steve

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore after upgrade advice?

2013-05-01 Thread Steve


 backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: 
 Steve wrote at about 23:51:11 -0400 on Monday, April 29, 2013:
   I'd run out of time and decided it must be a filesystem problem and I 
 would look at it more tomorrow.
   
   However...
   
   # ls -l /var/lib/BackupPC
   drwxr-x---. 18  495 root  4096 Mar 18 06:00 cpool
   -rw-r--r--.  1 root root   145 Mar 19 22:00 extlinux.conf
   -r--r--r--.  1 root root 32768 Mar 19 22:00 ldlinux.sys
   drwx--.  2 root root 16384 Jul 16  2008 lost+found
   -rw-r--r--.  1 root root 60928 Mar 19 22:00 menu.c32
   drwxr-x---.  5  495 root  4096 Mar 17 19:31 pc
   drwxr-x---.  2  495 root  4096 Jul 26  2008 pool
   -rw-r--r--.  1 root root   145 Mar 19 22:00 syslinux.cfg
   drwxr-x---.  2  495 root  4096 Mar 18 06:00 trash
   -rw-r--r--.  1 root root 0 Mar 19 22:00 ubnfilel.txt
   -rw-r--r--.  1 root root 0 Mar 19 22:00 ubnpathl.txt
   
   Hmmm... there is no user 495. Perhaps that was the backuppc user on my old 
 system.
   Do cpool, pc etc have to be owned by backuppc?
 
 BINGO.
 The program is run as user 'backuppc' so the data must be
 readable/writeable by user backuppc.
 
 you need to do something like:
 
 chown -R backuppc pc cpool pool trash

Yup, that gets backuppc to start and I can get to the admin web page.

On to the next problem. I expected to see all my backups so I could start 
restoring but there are none.
Then I remembered that I named the computer differently when I upgraded.
I see in /var/lib/BackupPC/pc there is a directory called steve which was the 
name of my old computer so I tried renaming that to stevesDesktop which is 
the new name. (I also have a stevesLaptop in case you were wondering) I 
restarted backuppc but I still don't see my old backups.

I noticed on the host status page that it knows about a host called 
stevesdesktop (all lower case) so I'll try renaming to that tonight.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore after upgrade advice?

2013-04-29 Thread Steve


 backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: 
 Steve wrote at about 13:06:18 -0400 on Saturday, April 27, 2013:
   It's time for an upgrade. I've been putting this off for a long time but 
 my motherboard died and has been replaced so now is as good a time as any.
   I'm currently running Fedora 12 for which I have a full backup.
   I'm going to go to CentOS 6.4.
   
   Any gotyas to be aware of? 
   Any similar experiences anyone would care to share?
   I hoping it will be as simple as install CentOS, setup BackupPC, and 
 restore my home directories.
   
   Thanks,
   Steve
 
 One of these days I will be doing the same thing... I am running
 Fedora 12 on an ancient P4 system (almost 11 years old)... I got sick
 of the every 6 month Fedora update where it would take the first month
 or two just to get it all stable... so I plan to switch to the latest
 Centos.
 
 I would love to hear about your experiences -- good, bad, and
 gotchas...
 
I had the same as you - F12 on a P4 system. F13 increased the required boot 
partition size and I didn't feel like reinstalling at the time. Then Fedora 
went off the rails with their GNOME3 experiment which put me off completely. 
Finally though, the caps gave ot on my motherboard so I bought a new 
motherboard, processor and memory. I also had to get a new optical drive since 
the new motherboard had no IDE interface.

Anyhow the installation of CentOS 6.4 went very smoothly. The only issue is 
that the networking doesn't start automatically. I have to press a button in 
the top menu bar. I'll look into that later.

I am having some issues setting up backuppc. First of all, backuppc is not in 
the standard Centos repoitories. I found a web page (don't have the URL at the 
moment) that described installing backupc on Centos 6.3 and got it installed. I 
set up apache from my old notes but right now I can't get my browser to go to 
backuppc admin page. It's not authenticating even though I know I have the user 
and password correct.

I didn't get to spend too much time on it so I'm not panicing yet.

Steve.


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Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore after upgrade advice?

2013-04-29 Thread Steve


 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: 
 On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Steve zep...@cfl.rr.com wrote:
 
  Anyhow the installation of CentOS 6.4 went very smoothly. The only issue is 
  that the networking doesn't start automatically. I have to press a button 
  in the top menu bar. I'll look into that later.
 
 During install you are supposed to check the 'set up networking' box
 where you can set the options.  For a wired server you might want to
 just turn of NetworkManager and be sure you have the right things in
 the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth? file.
 
  I am having some issues setting up backuppc. First of all, backuppc is not 
  in the standard Centos repoitories. I found a web page (don't have the URL 
  at the moment) that described installing backupc on Centos 6.3 and got it 
  installed. I set up apache from my old notes but right now I can't get my 
  browser to go to backuppc admin page. It's not authenticating even though I 
  know I have the user and password correct.
 
  I didn't get to spend too much time on it so I'm not panicing yet.
 
 Backuppc is in the EPEL repository.  You are likely to want other
 things from there too.

OK, so my authentication problem is solved. /etc/httpd/conf.d/BackupPC.conf had 
AuthUserFile set to /etc/BackupPC/apache.users but I had created it in 
/etc/httpd/passwd. I guess the preferred location has changed over the years. I 
modified the BackupPC.conf file to point to /etc/httpd/passwd and now I can get 
to the BackupPC server.
Any specific reason to rebuild the password file in the default location with 
the default name?

Or I should say I could get to the server before I tried to configure the 
BackupPC server to point at my old backup.
The problem is that my backups are on an ext3 filesystem whereas my new CentOS 
6.4 is partitioned with ext4.

I can use tune3fs to convert ext3 to ext4 but I'm a little nervous about doing 
it. If it goes wrong, there go my backups.
On the other hand the backups are no use if I can't get to them.

Anyone done this before? The h/w the backups are on is an external 1T USB 
MyBook.

Thanks,
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore after upgrade advice?

2013-04-29 Thread Steve


 backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: 
 Steve wrote at about 01:13:15 + on Tuesday, April 30, 2013:
   Or I should say I could get to the server before I tried to configure 
 the BackupPC server to point at my old backup.
   The problem is that my backups are on an ext3 filesystem whereas my new 
 CentOS 6.4 is partitioned with ext4.
   
   I can use tune3fs to convert ext3 to ext4 but I'm a little nervous about 
 doing it. If it goes wrong, there go my backups.
   On the other hand the backups are no use if I can't get to them.
   
   Anyone done this before? The h/w the backups are on is an external 1T USB 
 MyBook.
 
 I'm confused... if your backups are on an ext3 filesystem then just
 mount them ext3
 CentOS (like any *nix) can work with multiple filesystem types
 simultaneously - ext2/3/4, ntfs, reiserfs, vfat, solaris, hfs,
 etc. 
 
 In fact, 'mount' is usually able to figure out the filesystem type
 automatically... worst case, if it can't specify -t ext3 on the
 command line or give the equivalent parameter in your fstab.
 
 Saying my new CentOS 6.4 is partitioned with ext4 really makes
 no sense -- disks are partitioned, filesystems sit on individual
 partitions and are formatted, the actual distro (CentOS 6.4) is not
 partitioned nor does it have a fixed associated filesystem...
 
 Perhaps, though I am not understanding your issue...

Or perhaps I'm misinterpreting the error message. 

The external drive is mounted ext3. 
I created a symbolic link from /var/lib/BackupPC to /media/my external HD uuid
When I try to restart the backuppc service I get this error:

Starting BackupPC: 2013-04-29 20:37:21 Can't create a test hardlink between a 
file in /var/lib/BackupPC//pc and /var/lib/BackupPC//cpool.  Either these are 
different file systems, or this file system doesn't support hardlinks, or these 
directories don't exist, or there is a permissions problem, or the file system 
is out of inodes or full.  Use df, df -i, and ls -ld to check each of these 
possibilities. Quitting..

I'd run out of time and decided it must be a filesystem problem and I would 
look at it more tomorrow.

However...

# ls -l /var/lib/BackupPC
drwxr-x---. 18  495 root  4096 Mar 18 06:00 cpool
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root   145 Mar 19 22:00 extlinux.conf
-r--r--r--.  1 root root 32768 Mar 19 22:00 ldlinux.sys
drwx--.  2 root root 16384 Jul 16  2008 lost+found
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 60928 Mar 19 22:00 menu.c32
drwxr-x---.  5  495 root  4096 Mar 17 19:31 pc
drwxr-x---.  2  495 root  4096 Jul 26  2008 pool
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root   145 Mar 19 22:00 syslinux.cfg
drwxr-x---.  2  495 root  4096 Mar 18 06:00 trash
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 0 Mar 19 22:00 ubnfilel.txt
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 0 Mar 19 22:00 ubnpathl.txt

Hmmm... there is no user 495. Perhaps that was the backuppc user on my old 
system.
Do cpool, pc etc have to be owned by backuppc?

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[BackupPC-users] Restore after upgrade advice?

2013-04-27 Thread Steve

It's time for an upgrade. I've been putting this off for a long time but my 
motherboard died and has been replaced so now is as good a time as any.
I'm currently running Fedora 12 for which I have a full backup.
I'm going to go to CentOS 6.4.

Any gotyas to be aware of? 
Any similar experiences anyone would care to share?
I hoping it will be as simple as install CentOS, setup BackupPC, and restore my 
home directories.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Per-PC pools

2013-03-15 Thread Steve

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote:
 On 2013-03-15 15:27, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
 I am also not happy with the snarky responses lately.

I understand both points of view - while this is supposed to be the
users list, it has become the list for just about everything
backupPC.  So coding, development  (and people knowledgeable on those)
regularly respond alongside the guru users.  It's easy to get annoyed
with stupid development/coding questions when you just want the
person asking the question to use backuppc as it was designed (and
visa versa).

I forgive everyone, and appreciate all the time you put into backuppc :)

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync never starts transferring files (but does something)

2012-11-15 Thread Steve

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Markus unive...@truemetal.org wrote:
 Any suggestions on what I could do or what could go wrong here?

Since your things are working well on all other machines, try a backup
on the trouble machine of just one directory (or a few) and see if
that works normally.  If it does, your guess about the large size of
the backup makes sense; just break that client up into multiple
separate backups and you should be fine.  Backuppc can still consider
it all under one client if you setup aliasing correctly.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync never starts transferring files (but does something)

2012-11-15 Thread Steve

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Markus unive...@truemetal.org wrote:
 Your suggestion sounds great. I just found this small how-to on a forum.
 Is this how it works or is there another/better way?

 Create as many client names as you like, eg: client-share1,
 client-share2, client-share3, client-share4 (replace client with the
 real host name and share with the share names). In each
 pc/client-xxx/config.pl file, use;

 $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = client;

 (where client is the real host name). Add any other client-specific
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 the same real client. All backups happen independently.

That's what I meant.  Good luck!

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Copy host backups from one BackupPC server to another

2012-07-30 Thread Steve

If you had space somewhere and it is only a few old machines...it
wouldnt be too much trouble to just restore them someplace and then
let the new server back up the restored directories...that way you get
to keep the pooling advantages.
A.

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 Hello,

 Am 30.07.2012 10:55, schrieb Tim Fletcher:
 On 30/07/12 09:43, Jonas Meurer wrote:
 what's the prefered way to copy/move backups of one or more hosts
 from
 one BackupPC instance to another?

 Normal solutions are:

 1. Copy the raw disks from the old server to the new server (eg via
 dd and ssh or netcat)

 2. Leave the old server running and setup a new one, allow the new
 one to populate and retire the old server when the archives are no
 longer needed

 Unfortunately neither of both solutions work for me. I setup a new
 backup-server which replaces the old one. For all active hosts, I did it
 exactly as your second solution suggested. By now, the new backup-server
 backupped more than one full backup cycle of all active hosts.

 But my problem is with inactive hosts. I have some old hosts which
 aren't available anymore, but for which I keep the last backups in the
 system. I'd like to migrate these backups to the new backup server as
 well, as the old one will be powered off in near future.

 I cannot believe that it's impossible to move backups of hosts from one
 BackupPC instance to another. And actually I believe that
 BackupPC_tarPCCopy is the right tool to do so. But I don't get how to
 use it.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems

 under frootfs  folder.


 When the target is a linux system, why not just use rsync over ssh?



Because I do not want to  spend cpu time on ssh - And why not rsyncd for
local LAN. It should be done that way when encryption is not needed.


Backuppc hardlinks all identical files for its own storage - which is
 most of the point of using it.   Normal tar will only include
 hardlinks as links in its archive if it has the content earlier in the
 stream, so I'm not sure what is going on here.   I haven't used the
 rsyncd setup in combination with archivehost so I'm not sure what to
 expect there.  If the module name is included as a top level directory
 in the tar output, I would have expected extraction to have created it
 and pushed everything else down a level.  Is there something in the


Yes it created the rootfs dir and put everything down to that folder.
Extract using normal tar xzf



 way you extract that would prevent that?Does this scenario happen
 in any other case?   Maybe it is somehow confused by the module name
 and a directory being named the same, or by what happens to '/' as the
 real top level when it is converted to a relative path in extraction.


Directory name  (rootfs) is generated by backuppc - It think It is based on
the rsynd module name (if I named it differently then the foldername is
changed as well).

When doing restore and select download as Tar archive, all is fine, the tar
archive have no hardlink in it, and I can extract it correctly. I noticed
that there is no top level folder rootfs anymore.

So there might be somewhere when doing archive it add the top folder (from
looking at the frootfs and generated folder name rootfs and put all thins
under it, that confused tar.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems

 Does anyone choose to deal with this by simply specifying no encryption as
 an ssh option?


I have heard that ssh no longer support option cipher=none but I will
recheck - last time I did not work for me





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Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems

 III days, but really, what else does your CPU have to do during the
 backup time?  You are mostly disk bound anyway -  unless maybe you are
 using IDE or USB drives that need CPU for the I/O work.


We have a server (nagios) that constantly having load around 15 to 20 -
only two cores. Before we usd rsync over ssh and usually the backup lasts
forever  to finish and it is not good as nightly backup lasts the whole
next day and until the next nightly backup, sometimes it has not finished
it yet.

I therefore change all to use rsyncd module  and backuppc is happy ever
since -

Nevertheless that problem needs to be fixed anyway - I hope I have sometime
this weekend to look at the backuppc source code and see what I can do
about it. In the mean time, restore from tar archive works for now so it is
not kind of show stopper ...

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Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems

I think the problem is that your rsync module name doesn't match the

 mountpoint.  I don't know if that is even possible for '/'.  But the
 error message still does not make sense to me.


I can not use /  as rsyncd module name. So I must use something else.
I would like to emphasize that using rsyncd module is perfectly legitimate
and good use. The bug needs to be fixed - I will do it  when I can
prioritize my time though ,

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Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems

2012-06-16 Thread Steve Kieu

 What is the ./rootfs/ directory, and why is that not the place it is
 trying to write?   Do you actually have a hardlinked structure like
 that on the backup target?


I use the rsyncd and modules name for path = / is rootfs . Then backup the
whole root (with some exclude of course) using backuppc. Backuppc write it
under frootfs  folder.

When doing archive backupps put all file under / into a folder rootfs .

Nope backup target is normal centos 6 system so no hardlink at all for such
like /sbin/e2fsck , etc.. . When backuppc does the backup as there are two
nealry identical target  system it makes hardlink for the second one I
guess to same disk space. But when dong an archive it should dereference
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Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems

2012-06-14 Thread Steve Kieu

 I don't think I've ever seen that.  Is there some simple way to reproduce
 it?



Yes just choose archive host and select a host and archive it, choose tar
gz as format, and type the path to the file. Then move the file to some
other boxes probably different OS than the archived host  like in my case
archived host is RHEL 5 and I moved to my Ubuntu desktop. Then extract it
using tar xf command

For now I have to use the restore options and download as tar archive,
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Update on BackupPC Development / Is backuppc dead?

2012-06-14 Thread Steve

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Philipp Raschdorff
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 Questions:
 1) Is BackupPC development dead?

Just because a piece of software doesn't need to be patched every two
weeks doesn't mean no one is working on it :)

My novice understanding is that the next release is a whopper which
fundamentally changes many things about how BackupPC works...so it's
taking a long time.  The current version, in my opinion, enjoys
excellent support on this list.

 2) Windows 7 and BackupPC ... will it work?

Yes.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems

2012-06-14 Thread Steve Kieu

Hello


That has always been filled for me.

  For now I have to use the restore options and download as tar archive,
 which
  works.

 I think both approaches should do the same thing.  And the same for
 running Backuppc_tarCreate from the command line.  Not sure where to
 start to debug it, though.   Most oddball bugs are from having some
 old/wrong perl module on the system somewhere.   Have you installed
 any CPAN modules instead of .deb packaged versions?


It is running on redhat 5 uptodate system

cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Tikanga)

[root@backup01 ~]# rpm -qa|grep perl
perl-DBI-1.52-2.el5
perl-Compress-Zlib-1.42-1.fc6
perl-libwww-perl-5.805-1.1.1
perl-BSD-Resource-1.28-1.fc6.1
newt-perl-1.08-9.2.2
perl-XML-Parser-2.34-6.1.2.2.1
perl-String-CRC32-1.4-2.fc6
perl-Convert-ASN1-0.20-1.1
mod_perl-2.0.4-6.el5
perl-Archive-Zip-1.16-1.2.1
perl-HTML-Tagset-3.10-2.1.1
perl-DBD-MySQL-3.0007-2.el5
perl-5.8.8-38.el5
perl-suidperl-5.8.8-38.el5
perl-URI-1.35-3
perl-HTML-Parser-3.55-1.fc6

I have just been able to reproduce it with completely new test backuppc
server on Centos 6

[root@catch9log tmp]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 6.2 (Final)

[root@catch9log tmp]# rpm -qa|grep perl
perl-suidperl-5.10.1-119.el6_1.1.x86_64
perl-Params-Validate-0.92-3.el6.x86_64
perl-Compress-Zlib-2.020-119.el6_1.1.x86_64
perl-version-0.77-119.el6_1.1.x86_64
perl-XML-Parser-2.36-7.el6.x86_64
perl-CGI-3.51-119.el6_1.1.x86_64
perl-DateTime-Format-Mail-0.3001-6.el6.noarch
perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.023-119.el6_1.1.x86_64
perl-URI-1.40-2.el6.noarch
perl-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.020-119.el6_1.1.x86_64
perl-Module-Pluggable-3.90-119.el6_1.1.x86_64
perl-Archive-Zip-1.30-2.el6.noarch
perl-Pod-Simple-3.13-119.el6_1.1.x86_64
perl-File-RsyncP-0.68-6.el6.x86_64
perl-5.10.1-119.el6_1.1.x86_64
perl-HTML-Tagset-3.20-4.el6.noarch
perl-libwww-perl-5.833-2.el6.noarch
perl-Time-modules-2006.0814-5.el6.noarch
perl-Net-FTP-RetrHandle-0.2-3.el6.noarch
perl-List-MoreUtils-0.22-10.el6.x86_64
perl-DateTime-Format-W3CDTF-0.04-8.el6.noarch
perl-XML-RSS-1.45-2.el6.noarch
perl-IO-Compress-Base-2.020-119.el6_1.1.x86_64
perl-Pod-Escapes-1.04-119.el6_1.1.x86_64
perl-libs-5.10.1-119.el6_1.1.x86_64
perl-HTML-Parser-3.64-2.el6.x86_64
perl-Class-Singleton-1.4-6.el6.noarch
perl-DateTime-0.5300-1.el6.x86_64
perl-Net-FTP-AutoReconnect-0.3-3.el6.noarch

I do not install any CPAN module on the test server.

It has only two host to backup (for testing purposes) - do full dump host1
and host2 - they are all Centos 6 system. Dump host1 first, then finished,
then dump host2. and than archive host2. After that extract it suing tar
from my Ubuntu 10.10 Macbook

tar: ./rootfs/usr/sbin/named: Cannot hard link to `usr/sbin/lwresd': No
such file or directory
tar: ./rootfs/sbin/fsck.ext2: Cannot hard link to `sbin/e2fsck': No such
file or directory
tar: ./rootfs/sbin/fsck.ext3: Cannot hard link to `sbin/e2fsck': No such
file or directory
tar: ./rootfs/sbin/fsck.ext4: Cannot hard link to `sbin/e2fsck': No such
file or directory
tar: ./rootfs/sbin/fsck.ext4dev: Cannot hard link to `sbin/e2fsck': No such
file or directory
tar: ./rootfs/sbin/mkfs.ext2: Cannot hard link to `sbin/mke2fs': No such
file or directory
tar: ./rootfs/sbin/mkfs.ext3: Cannot hard link to `sbin/mke2fs': No such
file or directory
tar: ./rootfs/sbin/mkfs.ext4: Cannot hard link to `sbin/mke2fs': No such
file or directory
tar: ./rootfs/sbin/mkfs.ext4dev: Cannot hard link to `sbin/mke2fs': No such
file or directory
tar: ./rootfs/sbin/tune2fs: Cannot hard link to `sbin/e2label': No such
file or directory


Obvoulsy it is reproducable here.

BackupPC installed from BackupPC-3.2.1.tar.gz into /usr/local/BackupPC


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[BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems

2012-06-11 Thread Steve Kieu

Hello everyone,

I used the archive host and archive one host to a file. When extracting the
file I saw many error like:

tar: ./rootfs/usr/lib/locale/fr_FR/LC_TELEPHONE: Cannot hard link to
`usr/lib/locale/br_FR/LC_TELEPHONE': No such file or directory

I guess when backupPC doing teh tar command it does not specify option
--hard-dereference so the hardlink is replaced by actual file content. The
system I do a extract does not have the target for the link.

Is it intentional? If so I would argue that the archive dump is not
complete and usable to be offline storage as it does not self contained
file system. I am currently testing the Restore options as downloading the
tar restore file to see if it behaves the same way.

Is there any option to fix that?

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[BackupPC-users] Strange behaviour when download the restore tar archive

2012-05-18 Thread Steve Kieu

Hi all,

Today I did a test to see if I can restore the whole root / file system
from backup pc. SO go to the cgi interface, browse the host and browse the
/ path. Click select all check box and saw all folders are seelcted. Click
Restore and then choose download tar.

It started to download and inform that it is done with size only ~120M .
Check inside the tar abll, the whole content of /usr ; /sbin and several
folders are empty. I can browser /usr using the web cgi ...

The second time I do not click select all check box, but only check the
folder /usr and do the same . NOw it is downloading 580M already and
continuing...

Why is that? is it a bug? Should I have to download for each foder at the
root level ?

right it is done the usr folder. Check inside the /usr/sbin is empty so
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Strange behaviour when download the restore tar archive

2012-05-18 Thread Steve Kieu

Sorry false alarm. It is because my proxy server - it probably has a bug.
Turn off proxy in browser fixed the problem.



On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Steve Kieu msh.comput...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi all,

 Today I did a test to see if I can restore the whole root / file system
 from backup pc. SO go to the cgi interface, browse the host and browse the
 / path. Click select all check box and saw all folders are seelcted. Click
 Restore and then choose download tar.

 It started to download and inform that it is done with size only ~120M .
 Check inside the tar abll, the whole content of /usr ; /sbin and several
 folders are empty. I can browser /usr using the web cgi ...

 The second time I do not click select all check box, but only check the
 folder /usr and do the same . NOw it is downloading 580M already and
 continuing...

 Why is that? is it a bug? Should I have to download for each foder at the
 root level ?

 right it is done the usr folder. Check inside the /usr/sbin is empty so
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[BackupPC-users] Change Xfer type from ssh to rsyncd and can not browse backup

2012-05-15 Thread Steve Kieu

Hello everyone,

I have some host configureed before suing the ssh (rsync over ssh) and the
mount point di is   /  (root). It was backing up fine

Now I change to sue rsyncd module, - I created a module named rootfs and
path is / in the client. Then form existing host config click edit and
change to rsyncd and suing rootfs as rsync share name. All good,  the
backup runs fine.

but I no longer to browse to the new run (the old run is still browsable
though). The error is:

Error: Can't browse bad directory name /

If I go to the backupc pool , go to the pc/HOSTNAME/RUNNUMBER  and rename
the folder named  frootfs   to the same as the other run before which is
f%2f  - I can browse it again.

It does not happen with compltely new host using rsyncd.

How can I fix it - please help.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] TIMEOUT on SMB causes missed files and undetected partial.

2012-02-25 Thread Steve

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Pedro M. S. Oliveira 
pmsolive...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello,
 I would advise you to use the rsync method on Windows as it's less tricky
 than smb.
 There's an how to at
 www.linux-geex.com
 Just search for backuppc on the search field.
 Cheers
 Pedro Oliveira
 On Feb 22, 2012 2:29 PM, Steve jellosk...@gmail.com wrote:



 On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Steve jellosk...@gmail.com wrote:

 I am backing a Windows XP PC that is remote (Internet) and it takes
 several hours. I am selectively backing up a small amount of data.
 Somewhere in the middle of the backup, I start getting lines like these:

 NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_INVALID listing \ramu\*

 NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_INVALID listing \temp\*

 NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_INVALID listing \temp_wks_5418\*

 Once I get these lines, they seem to be continues for every subfolder and 
 the files do not get backed up.

 Additionally, those lines are always preceded by a line like this:

 Error reading file 
 \backup\Canon_2GB_SDC\dvd-backup\sees\msp430\MSP430_Console_IAR_STD\timerb.c
  : NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT

 Which is sometimes a large file but often a small file.

 The worst part of this is that the backup misses the remaining data AND 
 gets flagged as Full and not Partial. Therefore Backuppc won't try to 
 continue or do any more with that PC until next week. See the 14917 Xfer 
 errs below.


 I've seen that happen where there was a duplex mismatch between the
 target host and its switch connection (one configured for 'full', one for
 auto, but  full means don't negotiate and auto means assume half if
 there is no negotiation).  Any bad network connection could probably cause
 it.  I'd agree that it should probably be interpreted as a more fatal error.

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 No new news on this. It still happens and I haven't been able to figure
 it out. The network topology is this:

 Windows PC  - (10.10.0.?) SonicWallVPN Client - Internet - SonicWall
 VPN Router (10.10.0.1) - BackupPC on Linux-x64 (10.10.0.12)


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Re: [BackupPC-users] TIMEOUT on SMB causes missed files and undetected partial.

2012-02-22 Thread Steve

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Steve jellosk...@gmail.com wrote:

 I am backing a Windows XP PC that is remote (Internet) and it takes
 several hours. I am selectively backing up a small amount of data.
 Somewhere in the middle of the backup, I start getting lines like these:

 NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_INVALID listing \ramu\*

 NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_INVALID listing \temp\*

 NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_INVALID listing \temp_wks_5418\*

 Once I get these lines, they seem to be continues for every subfolder and 
 the files do not get backed up.

 Additionally, those lines are always preceded by a line like this:

 Error reading file 
 \backup\Canon_2GB_SDC\dvd-backup\sees\msp430\MSP430_Console_IAR_STD\timerb.c 
 : NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT

 Which is sometimes a large file but often a small file.

 The worst part of this is that the backup misses the remaining data AND gets 
 flagged as Full and not Partial. Therefore Backuppc won't try to 
 continue or do any more with that PC until next week. See the 14917 Xfer 
 errs below.


 I've seen that happen where there was a duplex mismatch between the target
 host and its switch connection (one configured for 'full', one for auto,
 but  full means don't negotiate and auto means assume half if there is
 no negotiation).  Any bad network connection could probably cause it.  I'd
 agree that it should probably be interpreted as a more fatal error.

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No new news on this. It still happens and I haven't been able to figure it
out. The network topology is this:

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Router (10.10.0.1) - BackupPC on Linux-x64 (10.10.0.12)
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Full backup locks up computer.

2012-02-21 Thread Steve Blackwell

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:12:23 -0500
Steve Blackwell zep...@cfl.rr.com wrote:

8  snip

 The problem I'm having is that whenever I try to do a full backup, the
 computer locks up. There are no messages in any of the logs to
 indicate what might have caused the problem. Interestingly,
 incremental backups work OK. 

8  snip

Huh! After month of having this problem, last night it did a full
backup, unattended with no errors. Weird.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Remote Mgmt

2012-02-17 Thread Steve Willoughby

On 17-Feb-12 12:35, Les Mikesell wrote:
 On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Zach Lanich zlan...@gmail.com
 mailto:zlan...@gmail.com wrote:
 How do I access my backuppc interface from outside the local
 network? I have a webserver set up through isp config and I can get
 to my website I built but isp gives me a 500 error when i try to
 access backuppc.


 The packaged apache config probably restricts access to the local host.
 In the EPEL rpm that would be in /etc/httpd/conf.d/BackupPC.conf, but
 the ubuntu version might be somewhere else.   If you can find it, change
 it to allow from all and restart apache (if you are sure you want to do
 that...).

If you are sure you want to do that...

Re-read Les' last sentence a few times and let it really sink in before 
going further with this.

BackupPC has essentially root-level access to all your backed-up 
systems, and certainly has access to all their file data (and can 
restore back onto them, probably).

Do you *really* feel confident that the way you log in to BackupPC over 
the web is secure?  Using only HTTPS?  Checking certificates properly? 
Even with that, you're 100% sure your webserver can't be compromised 
from the outside?

If you really need this, perhaps a better thing to do would be to SSH in 
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[BackupPC-users] Full backup locks up computer.

2012-02-16 Thread Steve Blackwell

I have a fairly old computer, a ~6yr old dual 3.4GHz Pentium 4 that is
running Fedora 12. It's (past) time for an upgrade. I'm want to do a
clean install as the requirements for boot partition size have
increased and so I need a good complete backup before I start. 

The problem I'm having is that whenever I try to do a full backup, the
computer locks up. There are no messages in any of the logs to indicate
what might have caused the problem. Interestingly, incremental backups
work OK. Here's some output from the BackupPc log.

2012-02-16 01:00:00 Next wakeup is 2012-02-16 02:00:00
2012-02-16 01:00:10 Started full backup on steve (pid=5106, share=/)
2012-02-16 01:18:15 Finished  admin1  (BackupPC_nightly 128 255)
2012-02-16 01:18:19 BackupPC_nightly now running BackupPC_sendEmail
2012-02-16 01:18:42 Finished  admin  (BackupPC_nightly -m 0 127)
2012-02-16 01:18:42 Pool nightly clean removed 0 files of size 0.00GB
2012-02-16 01:18:42 Pool is 0.00GB, 0 files (0 repeated, 0 max chain, 0
max links), 1 directories 2012-02-16 01:18:42 Cpool nightly clean
removed 0 files of size 0.00GB 
2012-02-16 01:18:42 Cpool is 181.90GB, 799760 files (63 repeated, 27
max chain, 2403 max links), 4369 directories 
2012-02-16 09:06:56 Reading hosts file 2012-02-16 09:06:56 BackupPC
started, pid 4161 
2012-02-16 09:06:57 Running BackupPC_trashClean (pid=4163) 
2012-02-16 09:06:57 Next wakeup is 2012-02-16 10:00:00 
2012-02-16 09:13:08 User steve requested backup of steve (steve)
2012-02-16 09:13:10 Started incr backup on steve (pid=4235, share=/)
2012-02-16 09:39:13 Finished incr backup on steve 
2012-02-16 09:39:13 Running BackupPC_link steve (pid=4373) 
2012-02-16 09:39:25 Finished steve (BackupPC_link steve) 
2012-02-16 10:00:01 Next wakeup is 2012-02-16 11:00:00

You can see that the full backup was initiated at 1am. At 9am the
computer was completely locked - screen on, ie screensaver had not
kicked in, no mouse or keyboard response so I rebooted and forced an
incremental. I thought it may be a problem with the HD but I forced an
e2fsck on boot and no change.

Ideas?

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[BackupPC-users] TIMEOUT on SMB causes missed files and undetected partial.

2012-02-13 Thread Steve

I am backing a Windows XP PC that is remote (Internet) and it takes several
hours. I am selectively backing up a small amount of data. Somewhere in the
middle of the backup, I start getting lines like these:

NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_INVALID listing \ramu\*

NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_INVALID listing \temp\*

NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_INVALID listing \temp_wks_5418\*

Once I get these lines, they seem to be continues for every subfolder
and the files do not get backed up.

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Error reading file
\backup\Canon_2GB_SDC\dvd-backup\sees\msp430\MSP430_Console_IAR_STD\timerb.c
: NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT

Which is sometimes a large file but often a small file.

The worst part of this is that the backup misses the remaining data
AND gets flagged as Full and not Partial. Therefore Backuppc won't
try to continue or do any more with that PC until next week. See the
14917 Xfer errs below.

0
http://svn.css-design.com/backuppc/index.cgi?action=browsehost=nalininum=0fullXferLOG
http://svn.css-design.com/backuppc/index.cgi?action=viewtype=XferLOGnum=0host=nalini,
Errors
http://svn.css-design.com/backuppc/index.cgi?action=viewtype=XferErrnum=0host=nalini14917000

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc is Hammering My Clients

2012-01-31 Thread Steve

 On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Kimball Larsen quang...@gmail.com wrote:
 Is there anything I can to to have the backups run in a more transparent 
 manner?  We are not all that concerned with speed of backup process - we're 
 all here all day anyway, so as long as everyone gets a backup at least once 
 a day we're happy.

check the nice level during the backup (on the client) and see where
rsync is running.  If it's the same as the other user processes, maybe
change the $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} to include a nice level?  I know that
is suggested here:
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/ssh.html

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Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc incremental taking up a lot of bandwidth with no additional changes

2012-01-20 Thread Steve Willoughby

On 20-Jan-12 12:07, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
 Stefan Peter wrote at about 21:00:22 +0100 on Friday, January 20, 2012:
 On 01/20/2012 08:49 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
   In summary, I think you are trying to solve a problem that may not
   need to be solved, using a tool that is not meant to solve it, without
   understanding what is causing your problems and without knowing how
   the tool actually works in the first place :)
   
 can I use this sentence for my own purposes or do you have a copyright
 on it?

 Sure use it to your hearts content... but if anyone asks you where it
 came from, I just made it up on the spur of the moment...

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Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

2012-01-16 Thread Steve Willoughby

On 16-Jan-12 14:31, Timothy J Massey wrote:
 Honest answer? My prejudice against non-Linux UNIX, especially with
 something as important as backup. I don't want to run into subtle issues

Fair enough, as long as you admit it's prejudice on your part.  There's 
a lot of history of Unix being proven stable in server applications for 
a lot longer than Linux has been around.  You have to set up and 
maintain the systems, though, so go with what you're comfortable with 
and know best how to use.

 that won't show themselves until I really, really need those backups...
 (That red text right up near the top of your link? *That* is what I'm
 talking about...)

Yeah, but don't rely on ANY platform to just work.  If you need the 
backups, always get in the habit of verifying them on a regular basis.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] The infamous backuppc_link got error -4

2012-01-06 Thread Steve

If you haven't stumbled on it yet, read this:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Change_archive_directory

Particularly if you have a version prior to 3.2, look in the section
Changing the name of the archive directory.

A.

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Jim Durand jdur...@hrsg.ca wrote:
 Hey guys! Doing my best to get up to speed with Backuppc, pretty impressive
 so far. Logs are filled with “backuppc_link got error -4” errors, and from
 the research I have done it seems that because my TopDir (/mnt/sdb1) and the
 cpool location (/home/users/backuppc/data/cpool) are on different
 filesystems, hard links will obviously fail. Is the answer to soft link “ln
 –s /mnt/sdb1 /home/users/backuppc/topdir” and change TopDir in config.pl to
 the “/home/users/backuppc/topdir”? It can’t be that easy, right?





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Re: [BackupPC-users] The infamous backuppc_link got error -4

2012-01-06 Thread Steve

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Steve lepe...@gmail.com wrote:
 If you haven't stumbled on it yet, read this:
 http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Change_archive_directory

 Particularly if you have a version prior to 3.2, look in the section
 Changing the name of the archive directory.

 A.

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to Jim's quesiton below:

 On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Jim Durand jdur...@hrsg.ca wrote:
 Hey guys! Doing my best to get up to speed with Backuppc, pretty impressive
 so far. Logs are filled with “backuppc_link got error -4” errors, and from
 the research I have done it seems that because my TopDir (/mnt/sdb1) and the
 cpool location (/home/users/backuppc/data/cpool) are on different
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Re: [BackupPC-users] 8.030.000, Too much files to backup ?

2011-12-16 Thread Steve

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Jean Spirat jean.spi...@squirk.org wrote:
 The issue is that we are now at 100GB of data
 and 8.030.000 files so the backups takes 48H and more (to help the files
 are on NFS share). I think i come to the point where file backup is at
 it's limit.

What about a script on this machine with all the files that uses tar
to put all (or some, or groups) these little files into a few bigger
files, stored in a separate directory?  Run your script a few times a
day and just exclude the directories with gazillions of files and
backup the directory you created that has the tar archives in them.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrade on Ubuntu

2011-12-10 Thread Steve

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Arnold Krille arn...@arnoldarts.de wrote:
 And then update that 8.04 to 10.04 to get new features, more security fixes 
 and
 less trouble when 12.04 arrives...

Honestly, once you get the current thing functional, get another
machine and clean-install everything yourself with the latest and
greatest LTS.  When that new install is up, running, and verified to
restore everything you want the right way you can take the old one
offline (keep it's archives as long as you need though).

If backup PC was this messed up, do you trust the rest of the machine?
 I wouldn't.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] cpool always empty?

2011-11-21 Thread Steve

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:
 Update: I just now found this page that I had not found previously
 even though I had looked for that type of page.  It doesn't seem to be
 very well linked into the upper documentation.

  http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Change_archive_directory

In Changing the name of the archive directory, the part about
changing Lib.pm is critical for the pre-3.2 version and easily missed.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclusion not working with rsync

2011-11-17 Thread Steve M. Robbins

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:08:23AM +0100, Holger Parplies wrote:

 Actually, it's
 
 $Conf {BackupFilesExclude} = {
   '/home' = [
   '/steve/Packages'
   ]
 };
 
 presuming you *only* want to exclude /home/steve/Packages and not [...]

Thanks -- that is indeed what I wanted.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar exited with error 65280 () status

2011-11-02 Thread Steve

I've accidentally changed universal backup settings instead of an
individual machine before when adding a new machine...I'd check that
first.  The new machine works fine but some other starts messing up
because it was using the old default setting which I messed up...
evets

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 seen on google
 when researching it but it cropped up for me now.

 I have been running successfully for quite some time under Ubuntu 11.04 and 
 BackupPC 3.1.0.
 I back up an Ubuntu 11.04 server (named r4p17).

 Yesterday I added a windows client to using cygwin-rsync per the 
 documentation.  The backup
 worked fine.  I changed nothing on r4p17 and nothing on the backuppc server 
 configuration.
 Today I received an email...

 The following hosts had an error that is probably caused by a
 misconfiguration.  Please fix these hosts:
   - 10.0.0.8 (No files dumped for share /)

 Regards,
 PC Backup Genie

 ...and the error in the log is...

 Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l root 10.0.0.8 env LC_ALL=C /bin/tar -c -v 
 -f - -C / --totals --exclude=./sys
 --exclude=./proc .
 full backup started for directory /
 Xfer PIDs are now 9123,9122
 Tar exited with error 65280 () status
 tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0 
 filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal
 Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share /)
 Backup aborted (No files dumped for share /)
 Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior 
 one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0)

 ...I'm not sure how adding a windows client affected backing up r4p17 and I'm 
 not totally sure that is the
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Re: [BackupPC-users] How to choose files to backup?

2011-10-30 Thread Steve M. Robbins

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 12:03:52AM -0500, John Smith wrote:
 I have Backuppc running on Debian Lenny.  I can see that backuppc is backing 
 up /etc to /var/lib/backuppc
 but where in the configuration is /etc set as the directory to be backed up? 

The configuration is all in /etc/backuppc.

You can point your web browser to http://localhost/backuppc/ to
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[BackupPC-users] File Counts do not add up

2011-10-29 Thread Steve M. Robbins

Hi,

I'm puzzled by the File Size/Count Reuse Summary section of the web
interface.

This table includes Total Number of Files, Number of Existing
Files, and Number of New Files.  I had expected the first to be the
sum of the second two, but that's not the case.  The sum of Existing
and New files always exceeds Total Number of Files.

For example, a recent incremental claims:
Total: 680
Existing: 503
New: 258

How is this possible?
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclusion not working with rsync

2011-10-27 Thread Steve M. Robbins

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 07:49:48PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:

 I'm backing up my local machine using rsync; see configuration below.
 Despite the exclusion, I still get /home/steve/Packages in my backup.
 I tried also '/home/steve/Packages/*' with the same result.  What's
 the magic?

Well, experimentation indicates that I need to strip off
the prefix; i.e. change from

 $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
   '/home' = [
 '/home/steve/Packages'
   ]
 };

to

 $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
   '/home' = [
 'steve/Packages'
   ]
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[BackupPC-users] Exclusion not working with rsync

2011-10-26 Thread Steve M. Robbins

Hi,

I'm backing up my local machine using rsync; see configuration below.
Despite the exclusion, I still get /home/steve/Packages in my backup.
I tried also '/home/steve/Packages/*' with the same result.  What's
the magic?


#
# Local server backup of /etc as user backuppc
#
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync';

$Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
  '/etc',
  '/boot',
  '/home',
  '/var/mail',
  '/var/www',
  '/sound+vision'
];

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
  '/home' = [
'/home/steve/Packages'
  ]
};


Thanks,
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication

2011-10-25 Thread Steve M. Robbins

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:21:26PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
 On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Steve M. Robbins st...@sumost.ca wrote:
 
  I know many people have discussed how to achive an offsite archive of
  backuppc pool.  During a discussion last February [1], Timothy Massey [2]
  and Jeffrey Kosowsky [3] summarized the options as follows:
 
  1) Run two BackupPC servers and have both back up the hosts
    directly.  No replication at all:  it just works.
  2) Use some sort of block-based method of replicating the data
  3) Scripts that understand the special structure of the pool and pc
    trees and efficiently create lists of all hard links in pc directory.
 
  I'll be replicating over a thin residential ISP connection (rules out
  option #1)
 
 Unless you have several hosts that hold duplicate data, after you get
 the initial fulls option #1 with rysnc transport over ssh or a vpn
 with compression enabled won't be moving more data than other ways you
 might attempt it.

At the risk of exposing my ignorance of BackupPC internals, I don't see
how this is possible.  For a full back-up, isn't it true that all the
files are transferred to the backup host, then compared to the pool?

One host of mine has 1.4M files totalling 550 GB, but the last full
backup recorded 1400 new files totalling 57GB.  Thus option #1 would
transfer all 550 GB, whereas my proposal would transfer a tenth of
that.  No?

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[BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication

2011-10-24 Thread Steve M. Robbins

Hi,

I know many people have discussed how to achive an offsite archive of
backuppc pool.  During a discussion last February [1], Timothy Massey [2] 
and Jeffrey Kosowsky [3] summarized the options as follows:

1) Run two BackupPC servers and have both back up the hosts 
   directly.  No replication at all:  it just works.
2) Use some sort of block-based method of replicating the data
3) Scripts that understand the special structure of the pool and pc
   trees and efficiently create lists of all hard links in pc directory.

I'll be replicating over a thin residential ISP connection (rules out
option #1) and I want it to be completely unattended (no option #2).
As for Option #3, I tried J. Kosowsky's script BackupPC_copyPcPool but
stopped it after 12 hours without completing.

One thing that all these methods have in common is that they scan the 
entire pool filesystem.  I accept that I will have to do that at
least initially.  However, to send daily updates, it seems unnecessary
to re-scan the filesytem again when backuppc itself already computes the
information needed:

* the set of files added to the pool
* the set of hardlinks in __TOPDIR__/pc/$host/$backup
* the set of files expired

It strikes me that backuppc could be taught to write all this out to
one or more journal files that could be replayed on the remote system
after the new files are transferred.

Does this make sense?  Has anyone investigated this approach?

Thanks,
-Steve


[1] 
http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg20839.html
[2] 
http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg20853.html
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Search for File

2011-09-28 Thread Steve

Don't know if it's faster than your way or not, but I've used:
find -type f -name *thing_i_want
note you can use wildcards...

a.

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Gerald Brandt g...@majentis.com wrote:

 Hi Tim,

 That's basically what I did, but I have a couple of BackupPC users that have 
 no clue about command line stuff, so I was hoping for a BackupPC web based 
 solution.

 Gerald


 

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 To: General list for user discussion, questions and support 
 backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
 Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 9:30:18 AM
 Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Search for File

 Gerald Brandt g...@majentis.com wrote on 09/28/2011 10:15:12 AM:

  I need to search for a specific file on a host, via backuppc.  Is
  there a way to search a host backup, so I don't have to manually go
  through all directories via the web interface?

 The easiest, most direct way of doing that would be:

 cd /path/to/host/pc/directory
 find . | grep ffilename

 I'm sure someone with more shell-fu will give you a much better command line 
 (and I look forward to learning something!).  I'm sure there's a way to do it 
 simply with the find command alone, but I've had limited success trying to 
 limit the find command to find specific files.  For me, it's easier to use 
 grep as above.  My way will work, if a bit slowly:  there's lots of files in 
 there...

 Don't forget the leading f in the filename:  BackupPC puts an f in front of 
 every filename in the directory structure.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Too many links : where is the problem ?

2011-08-08 Thread Steve

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
 Finally, out of curiosity, I grepped the BackupPC code base for the
 error language too many links cited verbatimu by the OP and found that such
 a phrase only occurs in the comments and hence is not even a valid
 error code...

That error is almost certainly directly from rsync, not backuppc.  I
saw it many times trying to use rsync to duplicate backuppc.  I never
figured out what caused it, since I never exceeded the number of
links.  I just gave up duplicating that way :)

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Re: [BackupPC-users] serial or parallel backups

2011-06-26 Thread Steve

I just depends on any particular setup, and what the most limiting
factor is.  Sound like for you it's bandwidth, but that may not always
be true, even for you, depending on how much your data changes from
backup to backup and things like that.

I would argue that if you have so few machines that you can run them
one-at-a-time, you should, and why not?  It's clearly faster for you
and in addition, keeps the server less loaded and the network less
loaded.  What possible advantage could there be to run them together?

E.

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Chris Baker cba...@intera.com wrote:
 I have been wondering about this for a while. Am I better off having
 backups run parallel or in series?

 By running in series, I mean one backup runs at a time. When it finishes,
 another one starts.

 By running parallel, I mean that several backups run at once. It seems
 that when backups have to fight over bandwidth, they all end up running
 much more slowly. I have it set up to run four backups at once.

 A server that rarely runs more than one back has achieved throughput as
 high as 24.13 MB/sec. However, the server with four backups has a maximum
 of only 5.71 MB/sec. Bottom line, the four when added up still don't get
 as good a throughput as the single backup.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] [newb] ssh rsync with restricted permissions

2011-04-05 Thread Steve

I'm deliberately top-posting to ask, did you setup everything the
standard way and get it working?  If not, try that first and then
start changing things.  The above (below) suggestion may simply be
failing due to some other setup issue, not the security issue that
concerns you.  And I am not expert enough to diagnose much at all, and
certainly not a non-standard setup :)

 Can really nobody help me out, or should I start a new subject?

Uh, there were 6-7 suggestions/replies.  We're trying.

A.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 5:45 PM, yilam backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote:
 Well I tried your setup (need I say I am new to backuppc?) with on the client:

 * /etc/sudoers:
 Cmnd_Alias      BACKUP = /usr/bin/rsync --server --daemon *
 buclient          my-host = NOPASSWD: BACKUP

 * ~buclient/.ssh/authorized_keys2
 no-pty,no-agent-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-port-forwarding,command=sudo 
 /usr/bin/rsync --server --daemon --config=/etc/rsyncd.conf . ssh-rsa 
 B

 * /etc/rsyncd.conf
 uid = root
 pid file = /var/lib/buclient/run/rsyncd.pid
 use chroot = no
 read only = true
 transfer logging = true
 log format = %h %o %f %l %b
 syslog facility = local5
 log file = /var/lib/buclient/log/rsyncd.log
 [fullbackup]
        path = /var/log/exim4
        comment = backup

 From the server (backuppc machine), I can do the following:

 /usr/bin/rsync -v -a -e /usr/bin/ssh -v -q -x -2 -l buclient -i 
 /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/id_rsa backuppc@192.168.1.1::fullbackup /tmp/TEST

 However, I have not found the correct $RsyncClientCmd to use, for backuppc to 
 work. The following value
 $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l buclient -i 
 /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/id_rsa.backuppc_casiopei $host $rsyncPath $argList+';

 Gives me (using /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f 192.168.1.1):
 [...]
 full backup started for directory fullbackup
 started full dump, share=fullbackup
 Error connecting to rsync daemon at 192.168.1.1:22: unexpected response 
 SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-5

 Got fatal error during xfer (unexpected response SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1p1 
 Debian-5
 )
 [...]

 And on the client, I have, in /var/log/auth.log:
 Mar 30 23:35:22 my-host sshd[1389]: Bad protocol version identification 
 '@RSYNCD: 28' from 192.168.1.22

 Any ideas on how to get this to work (BTW, server is Debian/Squeeze, client 
 is Debian/Lenny).

 Thank you

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Re: [BackupPC-users] CPOOL, PC directories and backuppc statistics generation -- moving cpool possibly?

2011-03-18 Thread Steve

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 3/18/2011 12:06 PM, Scott wrote:
 I am trying to figure out why my backuppc statistics are not generating
 (everything is basically all 0's in the status page -- see below).

 What version are you running?  I thought that before 3.2 you had to
 either reinstall from the sourceforge tarball (where a part of the
 install script lets you set the archive location where you want it) or
 you had to either mount or symlink a new partition into the old location
 (/var/lib/backuppc, for distribution-packaged versions).  There are some
 instructions for that here:
 http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Change_archive_directory

There is a way to edit the perl; just takes one line of edit, on the
old systems and that will fix everything too.  See the section
Changing the name of the archive directory at this link:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Change_archive_directory#Changing_the_name_of_the_archive_directory

I thought this was fixed in new releases so the perl did not need to
be edited, but i am still running the old version.
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Re: [BackupPC-users] speed up backups

2010-05-26 Thread Steve

it's in the documentation - click on documentation over on the left of
the web interface and search for checksum;
the section is rsync checksum caching
evets

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote:
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Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:55 PM
To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] speed up backups

After the 1st 2 fulls, rsync should be better if you have enabled checksum
caching.  You do need plenty of RAM to hold the directory listing if you
 have a
large number of files.

 That was the checksum= 31thousandsomething to be added somewhere. I need to
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Syntax for excluding .gvfs

2010-05-13 Thread Steve Blackwell

On Wed, 12 May 2010 12:36:47 -0400
Steve Blackwell zep...@cfl.rr.com wrote:

 On Wed, 12 May 2010 10:48:03 -0500
 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 
  A quick fix might be to add the --one-file-system option to the tar 
  command so it will ignore all mount points.  I always do that anyway
  to avoid picking up ad-hoc DVD/USB or network mounts that might
  happen to be active, but then you have to be sure you explicitly add
  every filesystem that you do want to back up.
  
 
 I have a dual boot system and I keep all my music on the Windows side
 so that I can access it from either. So I want to back up the Windows
 stuff too. As I understand it the .gvfs directory has to do with fuse
 filesystems, ie Windows in my case. The Windows drive is mounted
 on /mnt. If I use the --one-file-system option and add /mnt/c_drive to
 my TarShareName, am I not going to have the same problem?
 
 I guess I'll try it and see.
No luck. Ignoring the fact I didn't get all the shares/excludes right, I
still get the .gvfs error.

Running: /usr/bin/sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C / --totals
--one-file-system --newer=2010-05-06 00:00:09 --exclude=./proc
--exclude=./sys --exclude=./tmp --exclude=./media --exclude=./selinux
--exclude=./misc --exclude=./home/*/.gvfs . 
incr backup started back to 2010-05-06 00:00:09 (backup #284) for
directory / 
Xfer PIDs are now 29228,29227 
/bin/tar: ./boot/: file is on a different filesystem; not dumped 
[ skipped 6882 lines ] 
/bin/tar: ./dev/: file is on a different filesystem; not dumped
[ skipped 134 lines ] 
/bin/tar: ./home/steve/.gvfs: Cannot stat: Permission denied 
[ skipped 4481 lines ] 
/bin/tar: ./mnt/c_drive/: file is on a different filesystem; not dumped
[ skipped 27693 lines ] 
/bin/tar: ./net/: file is on a different filesystem; not dumped
[ skipped 304 lines ] 
/bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors Tar exited
with error 512 () status 
[ skipped 32 lines ] 
tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 3843 filesExist, 18817093 sizeExist,
3858427 sizeExistComp, 10576 filesTotal, 7797716344 sizeTotal 
Got fatal error during xfer (Tar exited with error 512 () status)
Backup aborted (Tar exited with error 512 () status)

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Syntax for excluding .gvfs

On Thu, 6 May 2010 17:38:46 -0400
Steve Blackwell zep...@cfl.rr.com wrote:

 I'm running F11 and I keep getting an error on my backups. I've
 tracked this down to a file, .gvfs, in users home directories. From
 the log file:
 
 /bin/tar: ./.gvfs: Cannot stat: Permission denied
 
 I use the web interface to edit the configuration but I cannot find
 the correct syntax to exclude these files. The TarShareName is / and
 I've tried the following for BackupFilesExclude
 
 .gvfs
 *.gvfs
 /home/*/.gvfs
 
 none of which work. How have others overcome this? And, yes, I do have
 the Override box checked.
 
 Thanks,
 Steve

I still don't have a solution for this and because of it all my backups
fail. Now I think my HD may be on its way out becaus of errors I'm
seeing in logwatch:
 /dev/sdb :
Prefailure: Seek_Error_Rate (7) changed to 
  200, 100, 200, 100, 

I did learn that you can't use an unquoted * in the exclude list.

Really need help and for those who did not read the original thread I'm
using 

BackupPC-3.1.0-9.fc11.noarch

and my computer.pl file looks like this:

$Conf{TarClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/sudo $tarPath -c -v -f - -C $shareName
--totals'; 
$Conf{TarFullArgs} = '$fileList';
$Conf{TarClientRestoreCmd} = '/usr/bin/sudo $tarPath -x -p
--numeric-owner --same-owner -v -f - -C $shareName';
$Conf{TarClientPath} = '/bin/tar'; 
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
  '/' = [
'/proc',
'/sys',
'/tmp',
'/media',
'/selinux',
'/misc',
'/home/*/.gvfs'
  ]
};
$Conf{TarIncrArgs} = '--newer=$incrDate $fileList';
$Conf{TarShareName} = [
  '/'
];
$Conf{BlackoutPeriods} = [
  {
'hourEnd' = '23.5',
'weekDays' = [
  '0',
  '1',
  '2',
  '3',
  '4',
  '5',
  '6'
],
'hourBegin' = '8.5'
  }
];

Thanks,
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Syntax for excluding .gvfs

On Wed, 12 May 2010 09:29:32 -0400
Bowie Bailey bowie_bai...@buc.com wrote:


 
 What version of tar do you have?
 
 From the manual:
 Note that GNU tar version = 1.13.7 is required for the exclude
 option to work correctly.
 
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tar (GNU tar) 1.22
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Re: [BackupPC-users] exclude not working

On Wed, 12 May 2010 10:01:15 -0400
Mark Maciolek m...@sr.unh.edu wrote:

 Hi,
 
 Backuppc 3.1 using rsync
 
 $Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
'/raid1'
 
 $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'*' = [
  '/raid1/*/tilecache',
  '/raid1/temp',
  '/raid1/osmplanet'
]
 
 
 
 NewFileList still shows
   2a85606be4fcc25d294720dfb67d183b 3657 
 f%2fraid1/fcaribbean/ftilecache/fNOAA_ENCT/f14/f000/f005/f746/f000/f009/f048.png
 2a85606be4fcc25d294720dfb67d183b 3657 
 f%2fraid1/fcaribbean/ftilecache/fNOAA_ENCT
 
 
 Do I need to specify /raid1/caribbean/tilecache ?
 
 Mark
Hi Mark,

I, too, have been having problems with exclude. See the (long) thread
titled Syntax for excluding .gvfs. 

What I discovered is that if you use the wildcard, *, it must be quoted
otherwise all the excludes are ignored so 'raid1/*/tilecache' should be
'raid1/*/tilecache'.

Also, though I'm not 100% sure about this, 

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'*' = [
...

should be 

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/raid1' = [
...

HTH
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