[BackupPC-users] Recovering data

2008-12-05 Thread cpreston
lleeaaffss wrote: > > > I downloaded a program called Recover My Files, but in order to save the > files, I need a serial key, is there any way to get this without purhcasing > the software? If not, are there any other programs or alternative solutions? > > Thanks in advance! You have post

[BackupPC-users] Recovering data

2008-12-05 Thread lleeaaffss
Hi everyone, I'm new to this and I'm not sure if I'm posting in the right area, if I'm not, sorry about that! I recently had a problem with my laptop, the screen turned black after start up and wouldn't do anything after that. I took it in to get it fixed and the technician said he would back

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is the state of BackupPC development? Plus some wish-list/roadmap thoughts

2008-12-05 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > This may be a naive question, but I was wondering what is the state of > BackupPC development? (I couldn't find answers on the sourceforge > site) This is the users mailinglist. The development mailinglist may have more info for you: https://lists.sourceforge.net/li

Re: [BackupPC-users] help with BackupFilesExclude

2008-12-05 Thread Nick Smith
> Within the Key you can add the directories relativ to the RsyncShareName in > Linux syntax. > e.g.: > $Conf{RsyncShareName} = [ > 'D', > 'C' > ]; > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { > 'C' => [ >'/WINDOWS/Downloaded Program Files', >'/WINDOWS/Offline Web Pages', >'/WINDOWS/Temp', >'

Re: [BackupPC-users] help with BackupFilesExclude

2008-12-05 Thread Matthias Meyer
Nick Smith wrote: >> >> I declare the exclude list within the GUI of backuppc. >> >> Declare the "RsyncShareName" in the same manner as they are declared in >> your rsyncd.conf in your windows client. >> Define BackupFilesExclude: >> NewKey = "*" if it should applicable to all RsyncShareName or th

Re: [BackupPC-users] NT-Authority/System will be file owner after rsync restore

2008-12-05 Thread Matthias Meyer
Matthias Meyer wrote: Hi, Don't know why but today it have another point of viw ;-) I try to backup WindowsXP as well as Vista to an Linux server. I use backuppc 3.1.0 as backup-server (Debian, ext3), cygwin as client environment and rsyncd for the transport. The backup seems to work well but t

Re: [BackupPC-users] help with BackupFilesExclude

2008-12-05 Thread Nick Smith
> > I declare the exclude list within the GUI of backuppc. > > Declare the "RsyncShareName" in the same manner as they are declared in your > rsyncd.conf in your windows client. > Define BackupFilesExclude: > NewKey = "*" if it should applicable to all RsyncShareName or the > RsyncShareName to whic

Re: [BackupPC-users] Child Exited Prematurely

2008-12-05 Thread David Rees
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Bowie Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Rees wrote: >> I've got one server that all it does is back itself up that gives this >> error. It started out only occasionally failing, but now I can't >> complete a full backup without it bailing out with >> >> I've

Re: [BackupPC-users] help with BackupFilesExclude

2008-12-05 Thread Matthias Meyer
Nick Smith wrote: > I currently have several windows server backup clients that i use > volume shadow to backup the data, i use a pre script that lauches the > shadow and maps it to drive B on the windows box and then backuppc > backups B over rsync then a post script to kill the volume shadow. >

[BackupPC-users] Causes of stalled backups with "fileListReceive failed" error

2008-12-05 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
I have been finding the following intermittent problem when backing up some of my WinXP machines. The backup seems to stall for 12+ hours with nothing being written to disk (i.e. no 'new' folder). When I dequeue the backup, I get a "fileListReceive failed" error. (I imagine it would hang there unt

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is the state of BackupPC development? Plus some wish-list/roadmap thoughts

2008-12-05 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Martin Sarsale wrote at about 14:06:37 -0300 on Friday, December 5, 2008: > > - sshfs to allow you to mount and browse any backup as if it were > > still a live filesystem. (This would make all the pooling, > > compression, and database backend transparent to the user). This > > would be ver

[BackupPC-users] help with BackupFilesExclude

2008-12-05 Thread Nick Smith
I currently have several windows server backup clients that i use volume shadow to backup the data, i use a pre script that lauches the shadow and maps it to drive B on the windows box and then backuppc backups B over rsync then a post script to kill the volume shadow. What i would like to do is cr

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is the state of BackupPC development? Plus some wish-list/roadmap thoughts

2008-12-05 Thread Martin Sarsale
> - sshfs to allow you to mount and browse any backup as if it were > still a live filesystem. (This would make all the pooling, > compression, and database backend transparent to the user). This > would be very powerful. this could be easily implemented using FUSE to mount the backup locally a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Child Exited Prematurely

2008-12-05 Thread Bowie Bailey
David Rees wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Did you ever get this resolved? Im having the same problem, now all > > of my backups are failing with the same errors you are getting. Im > > using 2.6.9 protocol version 29. Ubuntu doesnt seem

[BackupPC-users] Best way to recover from disk full?

2008-12-05 Thread James Ward
Hi, My largest BackupPC server's disk filled. I had some systems that needed to be archived and removed, which I did, but I only have 2.9G free out of 5T. One of the systems I'm no longer backing up was quite large. What's the right way to clean the pool? Can I run the nightly cleanup

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is the state of BackupPC development? Plus some wish-list/roadmap thoughts [correction]

2008-12-05 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 11:19:42 -0500 on Friday, December 5, 2008: > - sshfs to allow you to mount and browse any backup as if it were > still a live filesystem. (This would make all the pooling, > compression, and database backend transparent to the user). This > would be ver

Re: [BackupPC-users] Need for better 'timeout' logic

2008-12-05 Thread dan
> > Specifically, it seems to me that we should distinguish (at least) > among the following situations for long dump/restore times > 1. Large backups/slow links - here... > 2. Disconnected PC or newly degraded link speed - here it would be > nice to have a separate "timeout"... > > 3. Rebooted

[BackupPC-users] What is the state of BackupPC development? Plus some wish-list/roadmap thoughts

2008-12-05 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
This may be a naive question, but I was wondering what is the state of BackupPC development? (I couldn't find answers on the sourceforge site) - Are major new features/extensions/improvements being implemented or only bugfixes and limited changes? - Is their a roadmap and/or wishlist? - Is their

Re: [BackupPC-users] Child Exited Prematurely

2008-12-05 Thread Rich Rauenzahn
David Rees wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Did you ever get this resolved? Im having the same problem, now all of >> my backups are failing with the same errors you are getting. Im using >> 2.6.9 protocol version 29. Ubuntu doesnt seem to h

[BackupPC-users] Need for better 'timeout' logic

2008-12-05 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Based on my personal experience and what I see from others, it seems that the current ClientTimeout parameter is too generic to be all that useful with some people at times finding it too short and at other times too long. Given the vagaries of Windows/cygwin/rsync, I find that sometimes BackupPC