[BackupPC-users] Update (was Re: Problem with failed backups)

2007-09-09 Thread Marty
Marty wrote: > With one host I intermittently get the following error message with two > different servers running different versions of backuppc: > > Tar exited with error 256 () status I finally succeeded in backing up the problem host on both backup servers. Here is the log of the la

[BackupPC-users] Problem with failed backups

2007-09-09 Thread Marty
With one host I intermittently get the following error message with two different servers running different versions of backuppc: Tar exited with error 256 () status Judging from the Xferlog contents, the failure seems to occur only after the last files are transmitted successfully. I

[BackupPC-users] Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed)

2007-09-09 Thread Robert Saunders
I have successfully set up backuppc on a Ubuntu 7.04 box, and equally successfully set up one Ubuntu 7.04 laptop as a client, using rsync. I generated ssh keys on both the client (laptop) and host (backuppc), exchanged public keys and appended to the authorized_keys2 and known_hosts files. This f

Re: [BackupPC-users] apache 2.0.59 to 2.2.4 upgrade problem

2007-09-09 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 08:43:57 -0400 Scott wrote: > > On Sep 9, 2007, at 8:37 AM, David Relson wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > I just upgraded apache on my backuppc machine and now have a > > problem with backuppc's web interface. > > Is this Gentoo? I just did an emerge and noticed a similar apac

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to automate deleting of the "new files" during restoration?

2007-09-09 Thread Craig Barratt
Bachir writes: > My goal is simpel: When restoring a fileset for a specified date > (including "most recent"), BackupPC should give me exactly the files > and directories that existed at the time of the last backup prior to > that date. > > According to my several tests this doesn't works even if

Re: [BackupPC-users] md4 doesn't match

2007-09-09 Thread Craig Barratt
Lee writes: > I have been getting this error lately: Exchange-State.bkf: md4 doesn't > match: will retry in phase 1; file removed If the file changes during the backup it will be re-attempted. If it fails a second time it is removed. From your later email it appears to succeed on the second atte

Re: [BackupPC-users] IncrLevels with rsync

2007-09-09 Thread Craig Barratt
Rob writes: > I just noticed the $Conf{IncrLevels} setting. I'm using rsync and > rsyncd as my transport, and I'd like to minimize my network usage since > I'm backing up over the internet. I don't care about disk or cpu usage. > > Does setting: > $Conf{IncrLevels} = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]; > do

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync --compress broken ?

2007-09-09 Thread Craig Barratt
Rich writes: > Whenever I use these options, rsync "seems" to work and transfer > files but nothing ever seems to actually get written to the backup > dirs: > > $Conf{RsyncArgs} = [ # defaults, except I added the compress flags. > '--numeric-ids', > '--perms', > '--owner', > '--group', >

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync restore fails

2007-09-09 Thread Craig Barratt
Albert writes: > I'm having trouble with rsync restore. I can restore a small number of > files with no problem, but if I try to do a full restore (for example, > replacing a hard drive and then trying to restore to a base linux > install) it always fails with: > > exiting after signal ALRM > res

Re: [BackupPC-users] wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large

2007-09-09 Thread Craig Barratt
Rob Owens writes: > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > It would also be nice at times to be able to one-time-schedule the next > > backup of a particular host to be a full backup (for instance, if you knew > > that you'd just added some data). The way to do this right now is: > > - Start the backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] 100% disk full email notification

2007-09-09 Thread Craig Barratt
therebel writes: > is there a way to send a mail when backuppc is unable to do a backup because > disk is full : > > 2007-09-05 13:18:15 Disk too full (100%); skipping 9 hosts > > Because mail sent only say about hosts that failed before disk was full .. It happens as part of the nightly admin

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE

2007-09-09 Thread Craig Barratt
Keith writes: > Version 2.1.2 using rsync. > > I have a client that intermittently fails with "aborted by signal=PIPE", > which I realise is a common error. I have $Conf{ClientTimeout} = > 72000; the end of the log file (with $Conf{XferLogLevel} = 8;) looks like > this: > > -

Re: [BackupPC-users] XferLogLevel

2007-09-09 Thread Craig Barratt
shacky writes: > Even if my XferLogLevel is setted at 1 in my config.pl, backuppc > doesn't log me one line per file, and I cannot view no files logged. > Why? > > # Level of verbosity in Xfer log files. 0 means be quiet, 1 will give > # will give one line per file, 2 will also show skipped file

Re: [BackupPC-users] Wrong report in "File Size/Count Reuse Summary"

2007-09-09 Thread Craig Barratt
Matthias writes: > What it means if backuppc reports after a full backup in secton "File > Size/Count Reuse Summary" in column Totals 34727 #files and in column > Existing Files 35286 #files. > That means that more files are existing than backed up? Strange but true. It's a long standing minor

Re: [BackupPC-users] wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large

2007-09-09 Thread Craig Barratt
Jacob writes: > If this is really the way backuppc does incremental backups, I think > backuppc should be a bit more incremental with its incremental > backups. Instead of comparing against the last full, it should > compare against the last full and incremental backups. This would > solve this pr

Re: [BackupPC-users] restore hangs with permission denied - rsyncd on windows

2007-09-09 Thread Craig Barratt
Rob writes: > BackupPC saved my butt today. I accidentally deleted about 10 GB of > data from a network drive, and restored it in about 10 minutes. > However, the restore process has hung and BackupPC says "backup in > progress". > > I'm using rsyncd on Windows. I performed a direct restore. T

[BackupPC-users] apache 2.0.59 to 2.2.4 upgrade problem

2007-09-09 Thread David Relson
Greetings, I just upgraded apache on my backuppc machine and now have a problem with backuppc's web interface. Normally, I access backuppc via URL http://backuppc.osagesoftware.com/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin This is now returning Forbidden You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/Ba