Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC working for a year, all of a sudden nothing works

Thank you all for your suggestions.. This is easily the most friendly and helpful email list I have ever participated in.  I took the voltages on my power supply and while my +ive ones were good, my -12 was at -20, my -5 was at -10, and my -3.3 was at -6.   Not good!  I'm going to get a new

Re: [BackupPC-users] automated backup of specific dirs to local hdd

Don't spose I could get any advice/pointers from anyone here? see below... 31/12 jed wrote: Hi All, Is this app. purely for backup across networks to servers, or is it also perfectly fine for local backups of stipulated dirs? For starters I'm just wanting to regularly backup my Tbird/FF

Re: [BackupPC-users] Client Updated- how tell BackupPC?

Christian writes: 2009-01-02 19:56:54 User admin requested backup of ip (ip) 2009-01-02 19:56:55 Started full backup on ip (pid=26716, share=/) 2009-01-02 19:56:56 Backup failed on ip (fileListReceive failed) The most common cause is extraneous output from the client-side ssh or shell before

[BackupPC-users] Starting Out Questions for Debian and Windows backups

I just setup backuppc 3.1.0 on a Debian system I am using it to backup several Debian machines and one Windows XP (using rsyncd and cygwin from the Backuppc Sourceforge site). I ran into a few issues that prompted some questions: 1. Windows XP SP2 backup using cygwin-rsyncd-2.6.8_0 I had to set

Re: [BackupPC-users] automated backup of specific dirs to local hdd

jed wrote: Don't spose I could get any advice/pointers from anyone here? see below... If you don't already have a webserver running, I wouldn't go with BackupPC for this scenario myself. I guess you're not running OS X 10.5? I like Time Machine for my OS X laptop backups myself. If you

Re: [BackupPC-users] Starting Out Questions for Debian and Windows backups

2. What files should NOT be backed up on a Debian Linux machine? I originally set BackupFilesExclude = /proc, /mnt, /dev, /cdrom, /floppy, /lost+found, /media, /var/lib/backuppc, and then started a full backup. I got lots of errors (~10,000), and the log file shows most of them (all - too

Re: [BackupPC-users] Client Updated- how tell BackupPC?

Hi, 2009-01-02 19:56:56 Backup failed on ip (fileListReceive failed) The most common cause is extraneous output from the client-side ssh or shell before rsync starts. Can you send the first few lines of the XferLOG.bad file? Here you are. But shame on me.I forgot to install rsyncno

Re: [BackupPC-users] Starting Out Questions for Debian and Windows backups

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Phillips wrote: I just setup backuppc 3.1.0 on a Debian system I am using it to backup several Debian machines and one Windows XP (using rsyncd and cygwin from the Backuppc Sourceforge site). I ran into a few issues that prompted some

[BackupPC-users] backing up an ubuntu machine

i am currently running backuppc on a fedora machine. it backs up several systems and has been running like a champ for years.. what i would like to do is start backing up a new ubuntu machine into that pool.. the only problem i have is that i can't access my ubuntu machine via rsync with root

Re: [BackupPC-users] Reduce BackupPC_nightly to weekly?

Hi, dan wrote on 2008-12-28 20:10:20 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Reduce BackupPC_nightly to weekly?]: [...] I wonder how long a weekly cleanup job would take verses a daily? insignificantly longer. The difficult part is traversing the pool, not deleting files and renumbering chains. Sure,

Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up an ubuntu machine

Edit the host config, select the Xfer tab and change RsyncClientCmd and RsyncClientRestoreCmd from -l root to an existing username. Perhaps create a backuppc user with the appropriate permissions. On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 17:45, sergio_101 sergiol...@village-buzz.comwrote: i am currently