Re: [BackupPC-users] Pushing backups from a client machine

2006-02-17 Thread Dan Pritts
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:27:54PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 22:08, Stephen Vaughan wrote: > > Does anyone know if it is possible to push a backup from a client TO > > backuppc? I've got several boxes running rsyncd and backuppc calls > > them to send data back and forth. I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Thrashing of backup drive.

2006-02-17 Thread Dan Pritts
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 03:40:46PM -0800, David Brown wrote: > I've been using backuppc for several days, and I really like the concept > behind it. The web interface is very helpful. However, I'm having a very > hard time figuring out what to store the backup filesystem on. I can tell you that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pushing backups from a client machine

2006-02-17 Thread David Rees
On 2/16/06, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is nothing built in to work that way but you might > establish a vpn connection from the client to the server > with something like openvpn at backup time or do some > tricky port-forwarding over an ssh connection. OpenVPN is a good solut

Re: [BackupPC-users] Thoughts: Running BackupPC on a Virtual Machine

2006-02-17 Thread Max Olivas
I'm running backuppc as a vm on xen. I use both vmware and xen for virtualization and I can tell you truthfully that xen vm's are quite a bit faster than the vmware ones. I was a little wary of this setup so I've really been hitting it hard and the performance is better than expected ( 200gb

Re: [BackupPC-users] "Unable to link" errors

2006-02-17 Thread Craig Barratt
Erik Meitner writes: > Craig Barratt wrote: > > Erik Meitner writes: > > > > > >> Hi. We are running BackupPC V2.11(Debian 2.1.1-2sarge1). The BackupPc > >> pool is on a 600 GB ext3 partition. For one of our users who has a > >> fairly deep directory structure we get a lot of "unable to link"

Re: [BackupPC-users] Make full backup out of incremental backup+last full?

2006-02-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 04:27, Herman Bos wrote: > One of our machines gets backups over the internet, but the uplink in > question there is quite limited. Incremental backups are not a problem. > But full backups will takes 4 days. :o > > I was wondering if its possible to let backuppc make the f

Re: [BackupPC-users] Make full backup out of incremental backup+last full?

2006-02-17 Thread Dan Pritts
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:45:50AM -0800, Justin Best wrote: > > I was wondering if its possible to let backuppc make the full backups by > > combining the last full backup and an incremental backup? The data is > > there after all. > > As far as I'm aware, this is the default behavior. If you l

Re: [BackupPC-users] directly use the data

2006-02-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 11:40, Travis Wu wrote: > I am using rsync xfer and wondering if I can just directly use the > data without doing the restore first? The backuppc archive copy is highly compressed so you can't use it directly. > The scenario is that I want to make a backup server for our pr

[BackupPC-users] directly use the data

2006-02-17 Thread Travis Wu
Hi, I am using rsync xfer and wondering if I can just directly use the data without doing the restore first?The scenario is that I want to make a backup server for our production server. In case of the production server goes down, hopefully the data is ready on the backup server so users will be ab

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_link

2006-02-17 Thread Khaled Hussain
Hi all, I have two questions that I would be glad to have answered: 1. What is meant by pool exactly? Is this referring to all previous backups? Is this reffering to files that are common between computers? 2. I have seen on the list archives some emails about link errors and it seems that .../l

Re: [BackupPC-users] "Unable to link" errors

2006-02-17 Thread Erik Meitner
Craig Barratt wrote: Erik Meitner writes: Hi. We are running BackupPC V2.11(Debian 2.1.1-2sarge1). The BackupPc pool is on a 600 GB ext3 partition. For one of our users who has a fairly deep directory structure we get a lot of "unable to link" errors (see end of message). The files in the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Thoughts: Running BackupPC on a Virtual Machine

2006-02-17 Thread jmyers
I was running about 3 firewire drives in a jbod config for a while, but just started to have some problems with then on boot, where one was a little dodgy and then linux wouldn 't reboot complaining that one drive was missing. But on the whole it worked fine for me And this would mostlikly

Re: [BackupPC-users] Thrashing of backup drive.

2006-02-17 Thread Guus Houtzager
Hi, On Friday 17 February 2006 07:53, Craig Barratt wrote: > David Brown writes: > > I've been using backuppc for several days, and I really like the concept > > behind it. The web interface is very helpful. However, I'm having a > > very hard time figuring out what to store the backup filesyste