[BackupPC-users] uncompressing log files

2008-05-19 Thread Leandro Tracchia
how to i uncompress the xfer log files.. i've never uncompressed a .z file before and i've tried gunzip and tar but no luck. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio

Re: [BackupPC-users] uncompressing log files

2008-05-19 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 09:28:50AM -0400, Leandro Tracchia wrote: how to i uncompress the xfer log files.. i've never uncompressed a .z file before and i've tried gunzip and tar but no luck. Use BackupPC_zcat Tino. -- What we resist, persists. (Zen saying) www.craniosacralzentrum.de

[BackupPC-users] Enhancement Request ..... template configuration for user settings

2008-05-19 Thread Les Stott
Hi, It would be great if the BackupPC Admin interface gave the ability to create a template and then when you create a new host, simply apply that template. Lets say you have 50+ pc's to backup, 20 Vista (heaven forbid! ;} )and 30 XP. lets say we are using rsyncd to backup and we want just

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancement Request ..... template configuration for user settings

2008-05-19 Thread Les Stott
Les Mikesell wrote: That's pretty much already there if you use an existing host as your template. When you 'edit hosts' with the cgi editor, you can add with the NEWHOST=COPYHOST syntax to pick up the per-pc configs from a similar one, then edit in any differences in the new host's 'Edit

Re: [BackupPC-users] uncompressing log files

2008-05-19 Thread Leandro Tracchia
thanks, that worked. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/___

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancement Request ..... template configuration for user settings

2008-05-19 Thread Craig Barratt
Les, It would be great if the BackupPC Admin interface gave the ability to create a template and then when you create a new host, simply apply that template. Part of this feature is already available. When you create a host you can first select the Add button. You then set the new host as

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancement Request ..... template configuration for user settings

2008-05-19 Thread Les Stott
Craig Barratt wrote: Les, It would be great if the BackupPC Admin interface gave the ability to create a template and then when you create a new host, simply apply that template. Part of this feature is already available. When you create a host you can first select the Add button.

Re: [BackupPC-users] [Samba] net rpc commands not working

2008-05-19 Thread Leandro Tracchia
problem solved. i had to add 127.0.0.1 to the interfaces list of smb.conf. this is because i had set bind interfaces only = yes. the manpage makes mention of smbpasswd not working properly if bind interfaces only is set and the network address 127.0.0.1 is not added to the interfaces parameter.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancement Request ..... template configuration for user settings

2008-05-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Craig Barratt wrote: It would be great if the BackupPC Admin interface gave the ability to create a template and then when you create a new host, simply apply that template. Part of this feature is already available. When you create a host you can first select the Add button. You then

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore Issues with larger files

2008-05-19 Thread Eduardo TrĂ¡pani
I get the error below with large files, this one is around 2GB, files around 500MB transfer and restore with no problem. What can be causing this? I am running rsync 2.6.8 on both client and server. You are restoring to Linux, Windows, MacOSX? 2G is, for example the size limit for FAT32,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore Issues with larger files

2008-05-19 Thread Chris Baker
You are restoring to Linux, Windows, MacOSX? 2G is, for example the size limit for FAT32, no way you can restore a bigger file to a, say WinXP with FAT32. Eduardo. I think you mean that 2 GB is the limit for FAT16. Windows 95a was the last FAT16 operating system released by Microsoft. The

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_dump turns into zombie process

2008-05-19 Thread Bruno Faria
Hi, I've been running backupPC on one server for about a month and half. Everything has been working great so far and I have 2396.72GB worth of full backups. But 3 days ago I noticed that the simultaneous backups for three servers were taking very long to complete. In the BackupPC status page it

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore Issues with larger files

2008-05-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Chris Baker wrote: You are restoring to Linux, Windows, MacOSX? 2G is, for example the size limit for FAT32, no way you can restore a bigger file to a, say WinXP with FAT32. Eduardo. I think you mean that 2 GB is the limit for FAT16. Windows 95a was the last FAT16 operating system

[BackupPC-users] /bin/tar: --totals: Cannot chdir: No such file or directory

2008-05-19 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hello, I've renamed my localhost to fileserver. Thats mean I renamed the directory backuppc/pc/localhost to backuppc/pc/fileserver and renamed the entry in /etc/backuppc/hosts too. Of course I import the new host key for fileserver for user backuppc. Unfortunately I get erros in every backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore Issues with larger files

2008-05-19 Thread Lee A. Connell
Sorr I missed information. I am restoring to RHEL4 box. I can transfer 500MB files no problem, but once I try 2GB or more it fails with a PIPE error. I have been able to transfer a 2GB file maybe twice out of the 20 times I've tried. Any ideas? Not directly related to the original post but

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore Issues with larger files

2008-05-19 Thread Eduardo TrĂ¡pani
You are restoring to Linux, Windows, MacOSX? 2G is, for example the size limit for FAT32, no way you can restore a bigger file to a, say WinXP with FAT32. I think you mean that 2 GB is the limit for FAT16. Windows 95a was the last FAT16 operating system released by Microsoft. No, I did

Re: [BackupPC-users] /bin/tar: --totals: Cannot chdir: No such file or directory

2008-05-19 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 09:57:03PM +0200, Matthias Meyer wrote: Hello, I've renamed my localhost to fileserver. Thats mean I renamed the directory backuppc/pc/localhost to backuppc/pc/fileserver and renamed the entry in /etc/backuppc/hosts too. Of course I import the new host key for

Re: [BackupPC-users] /bin/tar: --totals: Cannot chdir: No such file or directory

2008-05-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Matthias Meyer wrote: Hello, I've renamed my localhost to fileserver. Thats mean I renamed the directory backuppc/pc/localhost to backuppc/pc/fileserver and renamed the entry in /etc/backuppc/hosts too. Of course I import the new host key for fileserver for user backuppc.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Resume Backup

2008-05-19 Thread Hendrik Friedel
Hi Les, Thanks for your reply Bingo. That's it. I would have hoped for a more specific error-Message, though. Maybe it would be advisable to make Backuppc check, if the disc is full in case of a child exited prematurely error and let BackupPc display a message child exited