Re: [BackupPC-users] Why no files where transferred in this session?

2009-04-15 Thread Boniforti Flavio
> The NAT-table timeout should be tunable in the router. Set > it to more than a day if you do daily backups through the > connection. Or, enable TCP keepalives for ssh so the > connection will appear to have activity (ServerAliveInterval > on the client side or TCPKeepAlive in sshd config).

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup remote ftp server (internet site)

2009-04-15 Thread Paul Mantz
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Mirco Piccin wrote: > HI > >> The values in your config.pl script appear to be correct.  The >> "Invalid argument" error is a protocol-level error.  I'll need some >> more information to figure out what's going on. > > ok, let's go on! > >> What ftp server are you

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why not starting in command-line, but still in CGI interface?

2009-04-15 Thread Les Mikesell
Boniforti Flavio wrote: >> Right there it is. edit config.pl and change >> $Conf{BackupsDisable} = '1'; to $Conf{BackupsDisable} = '0'; > > But I'd like to have backups manually-driven, for now. That's why I put > it to '1', ain't that right? You would really save yourself a lot of trouble if yo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Archive to Tape

2009-04-15 Thread Les Mikesell
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: > Bharat Mistry wrote: > >> I have a spare LTO2 as a result of a Windows Server upgrade >> >> I'd like to install it on my BackupPC box and Archive to Tape once a >> week >> (BackupPC installed on SME Server) >> >> I use the following to backup to DAT tape on othe

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why no files where transferred in this session?

2009-04-15 Thread Les Mikesell
Boniforti Flavio wrote: >>> Nice, but what happens if the SSH goes down? It is also my concern! >>> :-/ >> Ssh is pretty robust, but if you have keys set up for >> passwordless connections you could wrap it in a shell loop >> that runs it again if it exits. > > Well, actually my main concern is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why not starting in command-line, but still in CGI interface?

2009-04-15 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 04/15 03:14 , Boniforti Flavio wrote: > > > Right there it is. edit config.pl and change > > $Conf{BackupsDisable} = '1'; to $Conf{BackupsDisable} = '0'; > > But I'd like to have backups manually-driven, for now. That's why I put > it to '1', ain't that right? I've never tried making backups

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why no files where transferred in this session?

2009-04-15 Thread Boniforti Flavio
> > Nice, but what happens if the SSH goes down? It is also my concern! > > :-/ > > Ssh is pretty robust, but if you have keys set up for > passwordless connections you could wrap it in a shell loop > that runs it again if it exits. Well, actually my main concern is about transfers getting dr

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why not starting in command-line, but still in CGI interface?

2009-04-15 Thread Boniforti Flavio
> Right there it is. edit config.pl and change > $Conf{BackupsDisable} = '1'; to $Conf{BackupsDisable} = '0'; But I'd like to have backups manually-driven, for now. That's why I put it to '1', ain't that right? -- This

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why no files where transferred in this session?

2009-04-15 Thread Les Mikesell
Boniforti Flavio wrote: > Hallo Matthias, > >> Whats happen after this sleep of 60 seconds? I would believe >> that ssh stop the tunnel. >> And than rsync read this EOF. > > Mmmhhh... Well, could it be that for some reason there has been a > timeout greater than 60 seconds and *thus* the ssh tun

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why not starting in command-line, but still in CGI interface?

2009-04-15 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 04/15 02:03 , Boniforti Flavio wrote: > You see, there's no $Conf{BackupsDisable} configured, which, instead, is > put like: > > backu...@storebox:~$ cat /etc/backuppc/config.pl | grep > $Conf{BackupsDisable} > # There are three values for $Conf{BackupsDisable}: > $Conf{BackupsDisable} = '1';

[BackupPC-users] Debugging big file transfer timeouts

2009-04-15 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello there. I've set up in my lab the same environment as I'm trying to use in real life: - Windows 2003 SBS SP2 with copSSH + cwRsync installed and configured; - Linux server with BackupPC running. The configuration is as follows: BackupPC opens an SSH tunnel (DumpPreShareCmd) and then using

[BackupPC-users] Why not starting in command-line, but still in CGI interface?

2009-04-15 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello list. When I start my backup from the CGI interface, it runs (manual, both incr. and full). When I start it from command-line, I get: backu...@storebox:~$ /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -v mail.omvsa.ch Exiting because backups are disabled with $Conf{BackupsDisable} = 1 nothing to do

Re: [BackupPC-users] Archive to Tape

2009-04-15 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Bharat Mistry wrote: > I have a spare LTO2 as a result of a Windows Server upgrade > > I'd like to install it on my BackupPC box and Archive to Tape once a > week > (BackupPC installed on SME Server) > > I use the following to backup to DAT tape on other SME servers: > > mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind >

[BackupPC-users] Archive to Tape

2009-04-15 Thread Bharat Mistry
I have a spare LTO2 as a result of a Windows Server upgrade I'd like to install it on my BackupPC box and Archive to Tape once a week (BackupPC installed on SME Server) I use the following to backup to DAT tape on other SME servers: mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind tar -cvf /dev/st0 /home > /home/e-smith/

[BackupPC-users] Many Sleeping processes

2009-04-15 Thread Simon Fishley
Hi All Has anyone experienced this before? I have dozens of BackupPC_dump and Nightly processes running and they are all in STATE = sleep. I have more that enought free disk space on my storage volume as you can see and the machine is barely breaking a sweat. iostat show almost no disc write acti