Re: [BackupPC-users] Trouble with tape archiving

2007-10-26 Thread Stian Jordet
Craig Barratt wrote: Stian writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h pontiac -n -1 -s \* . | /bin/gzip /dev/nst0 which is what backuppc tries to do when archiving to tape. And this does not work. As Dan and Ali mention, you can use buffer or dd

[BackupPC-users] URGENT !! Windows+WIFI imcompatible with BACKUPPC

2007-10-26 Thread tuxoide
Hello i have a wifi server with backuppc , connect to a freebox(wifi) and my wifi laptop. want to backup my windows laptop in ntfs ... all Xfer method , i trying for backuppc FAILED to backuppc my windows machine. i precise , that i test all possible solution : different rsync version of cygwin

[BackupPC-users] tar over ssh error

2007-10-26 Thread Lai Chen Kang
I am using CentOS as the backup server try to backup a Solaris 5.8 server. Below is the output from the logs Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l root 10.250.2.200 /usr/bin/tar -cvf - -C / ./opt/rts/rtd ./etc/hosts ./etc/services ./var/spool/cron full backup started for directory / Xfer PIDs are

[BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work

2007-10-26 Thread Arch Willingham
I am trying to exclude one directory on a windows share but nothing I have tried works. In short, I want to exclude c:\backup on a machine called PARKS. I have a custom config.pl for that computer. I set the exclude directory via the web address. The entry it made in PARKS.pl is:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work

2007-10-26 Thread Toni Van Remortel
Arch Willingham wrote: Even though the slashes go the other way in Windows Yes. It's a Unix system that is taking the backups, so you need to use the Unix way to address directories. So / is the separator, \ is just an escape character. -- Toni Van Remortel Linux System Engineer @

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work

2007-10-26 Thread dan
you are specifying the directory incorrectly. instead of \\backup\\* it should be /backup/ On 10/26/07, Arch Willingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to exclude one directory on a windows share but nothing I have tried works. In short, I want to exclude c:\backup on a machine called

Re: [BackupPC-users] tar over ssh error

2007-10-26 Thread dan
im not very familiar with solaris 5, does it do file locking on the cron files? if you exclude the cron directory to you get the same error on other files? On 10/26/07, Lai Chen Kang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using CentOS as the backup server try to backup a Solaris 5.8 server. Below is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work

2007-10-26 Thread Arch Willingham
Even though the slashes go the other way in Windows Arch -Original Message- From: dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 10:43 AM To: Arch Willingham Cc: BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work you are

Re: [BackupPC-users] Host not showing up

2007-10-26 Thread Yaakov Chaikin
On 10/25/07, dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are you login in to the web interface with the admin password or your own? if it your own, you dont have that configured in the host file hostdhcpusermoreUsers # --- do not edit this line tbiqdev 0 yaakov yaakovlt

Re: [BackupPC-users] Host not showing up

2007-10-26 Thread Yaakov Chaikin
Yes, I did restart the Apache server. In fact, I even restarted the machine. Still the same thing. Any ideas? On 10/25/07, John Rouillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:12:24PM -0400, Yaakov Chaikin wrote: I have one host working just fine for already a couple of

Re: [BackupPC-users] Host not showing up

2007-10-26 Thread Stephen Joyce
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Yaakov Chaikin wrote: On 10/25/07, dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are you login in to the web interface with the admin password or your own? if it your own, you dont have that configured in the host file hostdhcpusermoreUsers # --- do not edit this

Re: [BackupPC-users] Host not showing up

2007-10-26 Thread dan
kindof the username you put in the host file in backuppc only applies to the web session you login to backuppc as if i pick some random name(it does not have to be for a user on the system) franko and add that users to the htpasswd file htpasswd /etc/backuppc/htpasswd franko it will ask me

Re: [BackupPC-users] Host not showing up

2007-10-26 Thread Stephen Joyce
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Yaakov Chaikin wrote: Really? Cool! So, the user listed in the 'hosts' files has nothing to do with the user set up on the yaakovlt machine, but has to do with the user setup in BackupPC? Correct. Look at User name and More users at

Re: [BackupPC-users] Host not showing up

2007-10-26 Thread Yaakov Chaikin
Really? Cool! So, the user listed in the 'hosts' files has nothing to do with the user set up on the yaakovlt machine, but has to do with the user setup in BackupPC? Thanks, Yaakov. On 10/26/07, Stephen Joyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Yaakov Chaikin wrote: On 10/25/07,

[BackupPC-users] Hanging rsync backup on /usr/local

2007-10-26 Thread John Rouillard
Hi all: Figured I should start a new thread on this as it is a separate problem from the SIGPIPE issue. I have a backup hanging until the SIGALARM triggers some 20 hours later. The (partial) config is: $Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync'; $Conf{RsyncClientPath} = '/usr/bin/rsync';

Re: [BackupPC-users] Debugging a SIGPIPE error killing my backups

2007-10-26 Thread John Rouillard
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 11:13:14AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: John Rouillard wrote: $Conf{ClientTimeout} = 72000; which is 20 hours and the sigpipe is occurring before then. You'd see sigalarm instead of sigpipe if you had a timeout. Something like this I assume: [...] create

Re: [BackupPC-users] Debugging a SIGPIPE error killing my backups

2007-10-26 Thread Les Mikesell
John Rouillard wrote: $Conf{ClientTimeout} = 72000; which is 20 hours and the sigpipe is occurring before then. You'd see sigalarm instead of sigpipe if you had a timeout. Something like this I assume: [...] create d 755 0/1 12288 src/fastforward-0.51 finish:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Host not showing up

2007-10-26 Thread Yaakov Chaikin
THANKS! On 10/26/07, dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kindof the username you put in the host file in backuppc only applies to the web session you login to backuppc as if i pick some random name(it does not have to be for a user on the system) franko and add that users to the htpasswd file

Re: [BackupPC-users] Debugging a SIGPIPE error killing my backups

2007-10-26 Thread John Rouillard
This is a resend. The original went missing apparently. On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 02:10:12PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: John Rouillard wrote: 2007-10-25 10:54:00 Aborting backup up after signal PIPE 2007-10-25 10:54:01 Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE) This means the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Debugging a SIGPIPE error killing my backups

2007-10-26 Thread Les Mikesell
John Rouillard wrote: And similar results on the server side process. Maybe a deadlock somewhere? The ssh pipe appeared open. I set it up to forward traffic and was able to pass traffic from the server to the client. Are these 2 different scenarios (the sigalarm and sigpipe)? Yes, I just

Re: [BackupPC-users] tar over ssh error

2007-10-26 Thread Craig Barratt
Lai writes: I am using CentOS as the backup server try to backup a Solaris 5.8 server. Below is the output from the logs Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l root 10.250.2.200http://10.250.2.200 /usr/bin/tar -cvf - -C / ./opt/rts/rtd ./etc/hosts ./etc/services ./var/spool/cron full

[BackupPC-users] odd problem

2007-10-26 Thread dan
i have an odd problem. i am missing some of the statistics! shows Pool is 0.00GB comprising 0 files and 1894 directories but Pool file system was recently at 59% anyone seen this before? here are some system details below. see here: - The servers PID is 12931, on host backupa, version

[BackupPC-users] backuppc Windows client failed !

2007-10-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello i have a wifi server with backuppc , connect to a freebox(wifi) and my wifi laptop. want to backup my windows laptop in ntfs ... all Xfer method , i trying for backuppc FAILED to backuppc my windows machine. i precise , that i test all possible solution : different rsync version of

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hanging rsync backup on /usr/local (w/ strace output)

2007-10-26 Thread John Rouillard
Trying to split theads here. In a prior discussion on the hang issue, on Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 11:13:14AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: John Rouillard wrote: [rouilj] $Conf{ClientTimeout} = 72000; which is 20 hours and the sigpipe is occurring before then. You'd see sigalarm instead of

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hanging rsync backup on /usr/local (w/ strace output)

2007-10-26 Thread Les Mikesell
John Rouillard wrote: open(/usr/local/src/fastforward-0.51/warn-auto.sh, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=64, ...}) = 0 read(3, #!/bin/sh\n# WARNING: This file w..., 64) = 64 close(3)= 0 select(2, NULL, [1], NULL, {60,

Re: [BackupPC-users] [BackupPC-devel] BackupPCd: dead?

2007-10-26 Thread dan
interesting little project there. it definitely looks to be dead but i think the same thing could be done with cygwin, ssh remote commands, and rsyncd. and if anyone is curious about how to deploy this on many PCs, i suggest looking into NSIS, which is the nullsoft installer. i use NSIS on my

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hanging rsync backup on /usr/local (w/ strace output)

2007-10-26 Thread John Rouillard
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 03:28:28PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: John Rouillard wrote: open(/usr/local/src/fastforward-0.51/warn-auto.sh, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=64, ...}) = 0 read(3, #!/bin/sh\n# WARNING: This file w..., 64) = 64 close(3)

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hanging rsync backup on /usr/local (w/ strace output)

2007-10-26 Thread Les Mikesell
John Rouillard wrote: Do you mean this select? select(2, NULL, [1], NULL, {60, 0}) = 1 (out [1], left (line 2799) {60, 0}) My C is rusty, but I think that means: look at no fd's for reading and fd 1 for writing and no fd's for errors. Time out in 60.000 seconds. What I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work

2007-10-26 Thread Travis Fraser
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 16:53 +0200, Toni Van Remortel wrote: Arch Willingham wrote: Even though the slashes go the other way in Windows Yes. It's a Unix system that is taking the backups, so you need to use the Unix way to address directories. So / is the separator, \ is just an escape

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hanging rsync backup on /usr/local (w/ strace output)

2007-10-26 Thread John Rouillard
Sent this via personal email. Here is the copy for the list. On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 06:01:16PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: John Rouillard wrote: again indicates that fd 1 is available for writing. an 8 byte write is done then fd 0 is checked to see if there is anything to read write(1,

Re: [BackupPC-users] tar over ssh error

2007-10-26 Thread Lai Chen Kang
Installing GNU Tar fixed it. Thank you On 10/27/07, Craig Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lai writes: I am using CentOS as the backup server try to backup a Solaris 5.8server. Below is the output from the logs Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l root 10.250.2.200http://10.250.2.200