Re: [BackupPC-users] Client Push revisited

2006-09-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 22:48, John Locke wrote: > This isn't the issue--I've already got DHCP updating DNS with client > hostnames. BackupPC can find the hosts, no problem. The issue is that I > would rather keep server software (rsyncd, ssh, Windows > Networking/Samba) off my mobile clients, and i

Re: [BackupPC-users] Client Push revisited

2006-09-18 Thread John Locke
Hi, Ski, Thanks for your reply, but I don't think it addresses my need... Ski Kacoroski wrote: > John, > > I have used two approaches to this problem. > > 1. Change to rdiff-backup for the mobile clients. It does not have > the GUI, but it does have a nice command line for dealing > incrementals

Re: [BackupPC-users] Client Push revisited

2006-09-18 Thread Ski Kacoroski
John, I have used two approaches to this problem. 1. Change to rdiff-backup for the mobile clients. It does not have the GUI, but it does have a nice command line for dealing incrementals, expiring incrementals, etc. I use it on my laptop. 2. The second option is more time consuming to set u

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc and incremental backup question

2006-09-18 Thread Philip Gleghorn
Les Mikesell wrote: > Has anyone looked at using the bacula client as another > transfer method? I'm not sure how it handles incrementals > but using the native backup api on windows clients might > have some advantages. > The bacula client also has the same problem of not being able to intellig

[BackupPC-users] Archive: Error: /usr/bin/par2 failed

2006-09-18 Thread tmassey
Hello! I have an archive host set up. I can archive to it just fine, as long as parity is set to 0. However, if I set the parity to anything but zero, the archive will create the tar file, but I then get the following error: Archive failed (Error: /usr/bin/par2 failed) However, if I

Re: [BackupPC-users] REG: Changing the Backuppc backup data Location.

2006-09-18 Thread Karl McMurdo
I had the same issue, I really think the top backuppc directory should be a configurable option. I solved the problem using a symbolic link. Moved the data using tar (I've done this on a couple systems, and tar seems to be the fastest at handling all the hard links), then being paranoid I ren

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unable to read 2757426 byte s from /home/backuppc/pc/mail/new

2006-09-18 Thread David Koski
On Monday 18 September 2006 11:19, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 09:59 -0700, David Koski wrote: > > But this error occurs in the same position day after day, increasing in > > number of times it is found in the log. > > > > Now for a dumb question: Does that error indicate a problem

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unable to read 2757426 bytes from /home/backuppc/pc/mail/new

2006-09-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 09:59 -0700, David Koski wrote: > But this error occurs in the same position day after day, increasing in > number > of times it is found in the log. > > Now for a dumb question: Does that error indicate a problem on the backuppc > server or the server being backed up? I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unable to read 2757426 bytes from /home/backuppc/pc/mail/new

2006-09-18 Thread David Koski
On Monday 18 September 2006 09:48, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 09:27 -0700, David Koski wrote: > > Just to clarify, I am not getting "file has vanished" errors since I > > excluded the Queue directory from backup. > > > > > Same problem, different place. The files are disappearing b

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unable to read 2757426 bytes from /home/backuppc/pc/mail/new

2006-09-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 09:27 -0700, David Koski wrote: > Just to clarify, I am not getting "file has vanished" errors since I excluded > the Queue directory from backup. > > > Same problem, different place. The files are disappearing between > > the time the directory is read to find the name and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unable to read 2757426 bytes from /home/backuppc/pc/mail/new

2006-09-18 Thread David Koski
On Monday 18 September 2006 09:18, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 09:10 -0700, David Koski wrote: > > > On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 10:01 -0700, David Koski wrote: > > > > Last nights backup looks about the same with same errors. There are > > > > about 64 of these: > > > > > > > > Unable to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unable to read 2757426 bytes from /home/backuppc/pc/mail/new

2006-09-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 09:10 -0700, David Koski wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 10:01 -0700, David Koski wrote: > > > Last nights backup looks about the same with same errors. There are about > > > 64 of these: > > > > > > Unable to read 2757426 bytes from /home/backuppc/pc/mail/new//f%2f/RStmp > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unable to read 2757426 bytes from /home/backuppc/pc/mail/new

2006-09-18 Thread David Koski
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 10:19, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 10:01 -0700, David Koski wrote: > > Last nights backup looks about the same with same errors. There are about > > 64 of these: > > > > Unable to read 2757426 bytes from /home/backuppc/pc/mail/new//f%2f/RStmp > > got=2