Re: [BackupPC-users] Copying in a file instead of backing up?

2009-01-13 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Les Mikesell wrote: > Johan Ehnberg wrote: >>> OK. I can see now why this is true. But it seems like one could >>> rewrite the backuppc rsync protocol to check the pool for a file with >>> same checksum before syncing. This could give some real speedup on >>> long files. This would be possible at

Re: [BackupPC-users] Copying in a file instead of backing up?

2009-01-13 Thread Les Mikesell
Johan Ehnberg wrote: >> OK. I can see now why this is true. But it seems like one could >> rewrite the backuppc rsync protocol to check the pool for a file with >> same checksum before syncing. This could give some real speedup on >> long files. This would be possible at least for the cpool where

Re: [BackupPC-users] Copying in a file instead of backing up?

2009-01-13 Thread Johan Ehnberg
> OK. I can see now why this is true. But it seems like one could > rewrite the backuppc rsync protocol to check the pool for a file with > same checksum before syncing. This could give some real speedup on > long files. This would be possible at least for the cpool where the > rsync checksums (an

Re: [BackupPC-users] Copying in a file instead of backing up?

2009-01-13 Thread Les Mikesell
Christian Völker wrote: > > Good point. > But for obvious reasons I want to have a backup which you can call a > backup and not only a partial one. Additionally I want to delete the > local file as it wastes space. Keep in mind that it will be as impossible to restore to the remote location as i

Re: [BackupPC-users] Copying in a file instead of backing up?

2009-01-13 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Adam Goryachev wrote at about 14:20:40 +1100 on Wednesday, January 14, 2009: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > Christian Völker wrote at about 22:13:24 +0100 on Tuesday, January 13, > 2009: > > > But now there is a 4GB file on the remote b

Re: [BackupPC-users] Copying in a file instead of backing up?

2009-01-13 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Christian Völker wrote at about 22:13:24 +0100 on Tuesday, January 13, 2009: > > But now there is a 4GB file on the remote box- and the broadband > > connection is dropped every 24h hours (f!ck Telekom), so any running >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Copying in a file instead of backing up?

2009-01-13 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Christian Völker wrote at about 22:13:24 +0100 on Tuesday, January 13, 2009: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Yohoo! > > I'm having an issue with my BackupPC. > > One of the machines to be backed up is a remote box. Unfortunately the > BackupPC box only has very lim

Re: [BackupPC-users] Please help- error while starting backup

2009-01-13 Thread anandiwp
The error looks like an auth issue only. Can you recheck the config for rsynd ? Probably dump the settings here so someone can help look at them and point the problem. -- Thanks and Regards, Anand -Original Message- From: smileheart21 Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:03:16 To: Subject:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Copying in a file instead of backing up?

2009-01-13 Thread Christian Völker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good point. But for obvious reasons I want to have a backup which you can call a backup and not only a partial one. Additionally I want to delete the local file as it wastes space. Nicolas Triantafillou schrieb: > If you have the same file locally, w

Re: [BackupPC-users] Copying in a file instead of backing up?

2009-01-13 Thread Nicolas Triantafillou
If you have the same file locally, why not just exclude it from the remote backup? You'll still have the local backup and wont waste the bandwidth. Nick. On 1/14/2009 8:13 AM, Christian Völker wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Yohoo! > > I'm having an issue with my Ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPc tape config

2009-01-13 Thread Stian Jordet
ma., 12.01.2009 kl. 13.46 +0100, skrev Sil: > Hi, > I need to configure a tape drive to archive my backups. > I found documentation here : > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#configuring_an_archive_host > But I must configure this size block option to tar (-b 10) in : I did it by

[BackupPC-users] Copying in a file instead of backing up?

2009-01-13 Thread Christian Völker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yohoo! I'm having an issue with my BackupPC. One of the machines to be backed up is a remote box. Unfortunately the BackupPC box only has very limited external download bandwith (384kb/s). Usually (and thanks to rsync!) this isn't an issue. But now

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPc tape config

2009-01-13 Thread sil
Craig Barratt a écrit : > Sil writes: > The idea is you can copy and edit BackupPC_archiveHost to add > or change any of the program arguments. Hi, I found this in the script : # Build the command we will run # $share = $bpc->shellEscape($share); $host = $bpc->shellEscape($host); my $cmd = "$t

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPc tape config

2009-01-13 Thread Craig Barratt
Sil writes: > $Conf{ArchiveClientCmd} = '$Installdir/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost' <= > add -b 10 >. ' $tarCreatePath $splitpath $parpath $host $backupnumber' >. ' $compression $compext $splitsize $archiveloc $parfile *'; > > I don't know how to write this, and where to place it ? >

[BackupPC-users] Please help- error while starting backup

2009-01-13 Thread smileheart21
Hi experts, I have an ubuntu server where i have configured backuppc and using web interface to configure it.I installed cygwin in windows 2003 server from where i have to backup the files. It was working fine in the beginning,, but after some time, when i try to backup the host, i am getting t