Cristian writes:
Craig, maybe a good idea to add --specials to the default list of options?
(or, even better, ignore sockets altogether somehow).
It's fixed in BackupPC 3.0.0beta and is also fixed if you upgrade
to File::RsyncP 0.68.
Craig
Hi,
I'm running version 2.1.1 and have the following config file for one
machine, but the BlackoutPeriod doesn't seem to be respected. Is there
anything wrong with this?
Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/charles/config.pl, modified
2007-01-04 12:29:12
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude}
Hi,
we are experimenting with backuppc et we are backuping a 30 GB share
over Internet with rsyncd. This morning, after more than 30 hours of
transfer, the remote host was accidentely rebooted so the connection
was lost for a few minutes. Backuppc restarted the backup very nicely
but,
Unfortunately, yes.
What you might want to do is put some of the larger directories in the
BackupFilesExclude folder for that client. Then, do a full backup.
After that backup succeeds, remove one of the excluded folders and
trigger another backup. Rinse, repeat.
This way you will populate
From the documentation:
Other installation topics
*Removing a client*
If there is a machine that no longer needs to be backed up (eg: a
retired machine) you have two choices. First, you can keep the
backups accessible and browsable, but disable all new backups.
Alternatively,
On 01/10 02:50 , Ryan Turnbull wrote:
Is there a way to have backuppc backup a system once and keep the backup
indefinately?
put this in your per-pc config file (uncommented, obviously).
# use this if you want to stop backing the box up.
#$Conf{FullPeriod} = -1;
#$Conf{EMailNotifyMinDays} =
We have a CMS that basically stores user data in a fs structure such as
/users/a/b/abraham/. Whenever a user edits one of their own files, the
webapp will touch a file in a specific location such as
/activeUsers/abraham. We use a predump script that quickly generates a
list of recently
I made the mistake of deleting some archives manually and now my status.pl
file is zero size and backuppc will not start unless I delete status.pl
but none of my archives are visible in backuppc. How can I recover from
this?
Thank you,
David Koski
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can I put a slightly different spin on this question? Is there a way to earmark
a backup not to be overwritten? In my situation, I just brought up the backuppc
server, and now I have a good backup of everything on each box. In the future,
I would like to only back up a subset of the directories
Yves writes:
we are experimenting with backuppc et we are backuping a 30 GB share
over Internet with rsyncd. This morning, after more than 30 hours of
transfer, the remote host was accidentely rebooted so the connection
was lost for a few minutes. Backuppc restarted the backup very
Tom writes:
Is this it? To get File::RsyncP, I just did a apt-get on this:
ii libfile-rsyncp 0.52-1 A perl based implementation of an
Rsync clie
That's pretty old ( 2.5 years). Please upgrade to 0.68.
Craig
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David writes:
I made the mistake of deleting some archives manually and now my status.pl
file is zero size and backuppc will not start unless I delete status.pl
but none of my archives are visible in backuppc. How can I recover from
this?
It's ok to delete status.pl. Over time the status
Bradley writes:
Can I put a slightly different spin on this question? Is there a
way to earmark a backup not to be overwritten? In my situation, I
just brought up the backuppc server, and now I have a good backup
of everything on each box. In the future, I would like to only back
up a subset
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