Re: [BackupPC-users] Prioritising user restore jobs

2007-03-21 Thread Craig Barratt
Matt writes: > I have in my status page: > > # 23 pending backup requests from last scheduled wakeup, > # 1 pending user backup requests, > # 1 pending command requests, > > The 23 pending requests are a full nightly run which seems to have been > hung by a single host. > > The 1 pending user r

Re: [BackupPC-users] Timing out full backups

2007-03-21 Thread Jason Hughes
Michael Mansour wrote: I'm wondering why the full backups numbered 2 are not going back down to 1 to free up some space on the server? In the glbal Schedule, I have the following: FullPeriod: 6.97 FullKeepCnt: 1 FullKeepCntMin: 1 FullAgeMax: 7 and it's my understanding that backuppc should cy

Re: [BackupPC-users] WARNING regarding using solaris with UFS as your backuppc server

2007-03-21 Thread Dan Pritts
> I had about 250GB of real files (over 400GB in the virtual pool). I never had > any disk corruption. In my case it didn't show up until i had about 4T in the virtual pool, with about 350GB of real files. I also noticed somewhere along the line that i had LOTS of identical small files from som

Re: [BackupPC-users] What do to when backuppc dies?

2007-03-21 Thread Frej Eriksson
Hi, Thank you for a great reply! The disks will most likely reside inside a cabinet, and some of the full backups will probably be stored on tape too. I have seen that you can choose to "export" files from one backup archive to a zip file, and if you do so i guess you can just unzip it and do a m

Re: [BackupPC-users] WARNING regarding using solaris with UFS as your backuppc server

2007-03-21 Thread backuppc
In the message dated: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:09:49 EDT, The pithy ruminations from Dan Pritts on <[BackupPC-users] WARNING regarding using solaris with UFS as your backuppc ser ver> were: => Hi all - => => I've been running solaris 10 as my backuppc server for quite a while => now. I ran BackupPC

[BackupPC-users] Prioritising user restore jobs

2007-03-21 Thread Matt Baker
Hi all, This problem doesn't seem to follow my understanding of the config... I have in my status page: # 23 pending backup requests from last scheduled wakeup, # 1 pending user backup requests, # 1 pending command requests, The 23 pending requests are a full nightly run which seems to have bee

[BackupPC-users] rsyncd: chdir failed

2007-03-21 Thread LluĂ­s Forns
when doing a backup using rsyncd I recive this error: Connected to 192.0.0.98:873, remote version 29 Error connecting to module home at 192.0.0.98:873: chdir failed Got fatal error during xfer (chdir failed) Backup aborted (chdir failed) both server and client are Linux (ubuntu); I have read some