Re: [BackupPC-users] Broken BackupPC due to missing Cwd.pm

2007-11-30 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Ed Burgstaler wrote: I'm using CentOS 4.5 but the results here are all greek to me ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -V perl missing /usr/bin/cpan missing /usr/bin/prove missing /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm missing /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN/FirstTime.pm missing

Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrade to 3.1, Hosts Summary disappeared

2007-11-30 Thread Craig Barratt
Chris writes: I have upgraded from backupppc 3.0 to 3.1 on Redhat (RHEL 4) and also lost my Hosts Summary...all of the other links appear to be working. Apache logs don't seem to show an error. Anyone else having this problem? I ran my upgrade using perl configure.pl and pointing to my

[BackupPC-users] Recommended partitioning for BackupPC on Ubuntu server?

2007-11-30 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
I'm trying to set up a BackupPC server with an eye to the future so that I can expand storage easily, so I want LVM with RAID (unfortunately it'll have to be RAID 1, as I can't see that LVM and software-RAID 5 work together, but that's another issue :-(). Anyway, I can't figure out from the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommended partitioning for BackupPC on Ubuntu server?

2007-11-30 Thread dan
the default $TopDIR on ubuntu and debian is /var/lib/backuppc but is also in /etc/backuppc/config.pl LVM works fine on top of RAID5. hard to suggest a partitioning scheme without knowing the # of drives and their sizes. i had a machine that i run backuppc on that had a 4Gb flash drive for

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommended partitioning for BackupPC on Ubuntu server?

2007-11-30 Thread Rich Rauenzahn
Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: I'm trying to set up a BackupPC server with an eye to the future so that I can expand storage easily, so I want LVM with RAID (unfortunately it'll have to be RAID 1, as I can't see that LVM and software-RAID 5 work together, but that's another issue :-().

Re: [BackupPC-users] ZFS anybody?

2007-11-30 Thread dan
In my readings i have read about lower compression than gzip and in practice i have noticed that it is not much lower. it is something like a single comrpession level lower so gzip -2 is more like it. I have run the beta package for ZFS with gzip compression and the performance is much worse

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommended partitioning for BackupPC on Ubuntu server?

2007-11-30 Thread Renke Brausse
Hi Angus, I can answer you only some of your points Where is __TOPDIR__ for BackupPC on Ubuntu/Debian? That's where the backups and logs are stored now. On Debian /var/lib/backuppc is used, should be similar in Ubuntu Is there a recommended partitioning schema for BackupPC? What are

[BackupPC-users] FreeBSD rc.d startup script

2007-11-30 Thread Alexander Moisseev
It seems to me that FreeBSD init.d file provided by Gabriel Rossetti (was added in Version 3.1.0) so complicated. I prefer to use modularity and code reuse provided by rc.d framework for startup scripts. File attachments: backuppc -- Alexander Moisseev. #!/bin/sh # # PROVIDE: BackupPC #

[BackupPC-users] Upgrade to 3.1, Hosts Summary disappeared

2007-11-30 Thread Chris Hale
I have upgraded from backupppc 3.0 to 3.1 on Redhat (RHEL 4) and also lost my Hosts Summary...all of the other links appear to be working. Apache logs don't seem to show an error. Anyone else having this problem? I ran my upgrade using perl configure.pl and pointing to my current working

[BackupPC-users] backuppc will not run backups

2007-11-30 Thread Ed Miller
I am backing up 3 clients, one of which is the backuppc server. After setting up the individual config files for each client, I go to the main page of any client and click on Start full backup and nothing happens. If I completely and manually uninstall backuppc and reinstall using synaptic it