Re: [BackupPC-users] [SUGGESTION] Duration/mins not in decimal format

2009-05-19 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Depending on whether you want to entertain bored users, bill your clients for bandwidth, or conduct scientific measurements, the answers are likely to be vastly different. I need to give my customers statistics about how much data has been transferred each month, which means summing up

Re: [BackupPC-users] [SUGGESTION] Duration/mins not in decimal format

2009-05-19 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Boniforti Flavio wrote on 2009-05-19 08:53:31 +0200 [RE: [BackupPC-users] [SUGGESTION] Duration/mins not in decimal format]: Depending on whether you want to entertain bored users, bill your clients for bandwidth, or conduct scientific measurements, the answers are likely to be

Re: [BackupPC-users] [SUGGESTION] Duration/mins not in decimal format

2009-05-19 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hallo Holger, I need to give my customers statistics about how much data has been transferred each month, which means summing up day-by-day the transferred amount of data. so it's the entertain bored users case :-). Your definition leaves room for interpretation. For instance, if

[BackupPC-users] backup the backuppc pool with bacula

2009-05-19 Thread Ralf Gross
Hi, there is a regular discussion on how to backup/move/copy the backuppc pool. Did anyone try to backup the pool with bacula? I need to expand the raid volume where the pool is stored (Arecac RAID controller). Doing this without backup is a bit frightening (I didn't use LVM for the filesystem).

Re: [BackupPC-users] [SUGGESTION] Duration/mins not in decimal format

2009-05-19 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boniforti Flavio wrote: Hallo Holger, I need to give my customers statistics about how much data has been transferred each month, which means summing up day-by-day the transferred amount of data. so it's the entertain bored users case :-).

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup the backuppc pool with bacula

2009-05-19 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hi, there is a regular discussion on how to backup/move/copy the backuppc pool. Did anyone try to backup the pool with bacula? Hello there... I don't know about bacula, but would like myself also to get a backup of the BackupPC server: anybody got some suggestions and practical examples?

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup the backuppc pool with bacula

2009-05-19 Thread Tim Cole
Boniforti Flavio wrote: Hi, there is a regular discussion on how to backup/move/copy the backuppc pool. Did anyone try to backup the pool with bacula? Hello there... I don't know about bacula, but would like myself also to get a backup of the BackupPC server: anybody got some

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup the backuppc pool with bacula

2009-05-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Boniforti Flavio wrote: Hi, there is a regular discussion on how to backup/move/copy the backuppc pool. Did anyone try to backup the pool with bacula? Hello there... I don't know about bacula, but would like myself also to get a backup of the BackupPC server: anybody got some

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup the backuppc pool with bacula

2009-05-19 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 05/19 05:51 , Boniforti Flavio wrote: I don't know about bacula, but would like myself also to get a backup of the BackupPC server: anybody got some suggestions and practical examples? I have one system where I do backups of backuppc to tape for disaster recover. Here's the system I use: -

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup the backuppc pool with bacula

2009-05-19 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 05/19 12:04 , Tim Cole wrote: How often do you want to backup the server? What about using rsync to backup the pool? I want to mirror my primary backup server to another system daily so I can switch to my backup server quickly. I was going to use rsync for this. Rsync memory

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup the backuppc pool with bacula

2009-05-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: On 05/19 05:51 , Boniforti Flavio wrote: I don't know about bacula, but would like myself also to get a backup of the BackupPC server: anybody got some suggestions and practical examples? I have one system where I do backups of backuppc to tape for disaster

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup the backuppc pool with bacula

2009-05-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: On 05/19 12:04 , Tim Cole wrote: How often do you want to backup the server? What about using rsync to backup the pool? I want to mirror my primary backup server to another system daily so I can switch to my backup server quickly. I was going to use rsync

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup the backuppc pool with bacula

2009-05-19 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 05/19 11:35 , Les Mikesell wrote: Have you ever restored one of these tapes, and if so, how long did it take? As a wild guess, I'd expect a couple of days where an image copy would be an hour or two. I think it's about 8 hours to create the tape (whereas when using LVM snapshots it took

Re: [BackupPC-users] Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync

2009-05-19 Thread Ian Levesque
On May 12, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Ian Levesque wrote: I've got a client I'm backing up via rsync (BackupPC v3.1). I recently added a very large directory to the filesystem I'm backing up, which has many hundred thousand files inside it. I don't need to backup this directory, so I've added a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync

2009-05-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Ian Levesque wrote: On May 12, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Ian Levesque wrote: I've got a client I'm backing up via rsync (BackupPC v3.1). I recently added a very large directory to the filesystem I'm backing up, which has many hundred thousand files inside it. I don't need to backup this directory,

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup the backuppc pool with bacula

2009-05-19 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote on 2009-05-19 11:54:16 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] backup the backuppc pool with bacula]: On 05/19 11:35 , Les Mikesell wrote: Have you ever restored one of these tapes, and if so, how long did it take? As a wild guess, I'd expect a couple of days where

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup the backuppc pool with bacula

2009-05-19 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2009-05-19 11:12:25 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] backup the backuppc pool with bacula]: [...] the newest version of rsync is supposed to handle the hardlinks more efficiently. reason suggests that this is an urban myth. The newest version of rsync handles *large file

[BackupPC-users] Empty hosts status page after server move

2009-05-19 Thread David Nalley
Hi All: I recently 'puppetized' my BackupPC config and moved from hosting it on physical hardware to hosting it on a vm and also moved from CentOS 5.x to Fedora, both are on BackupPC 3.1.0 and I have backup storage available via a SAN, so I merely remounted that on the new box. Everything seems

Re: [BackupPC-users] Total amount of traffic data per session

2009-05-19 Thread Chris Robertson
Boniforti Flavio wrote: You will find it in $HOME/pc/host/backups See backuppc online documentation for a description of this file Hy Matthias, the only thing I got in the docs is: The file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/$host/backups is read to decide whether a full or incremental backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty hosts status page after server move

2009-05-19 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, David Nalley wrote on 2009-05-19 14:08:15 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Empty hosts status page after server move]: I recently 'puppetized' my BackupPC config and moved from hosting it on physical hardware to hosting it on a vm and also moved from CentOS 5.x to Fedora, both are on BackupPC

Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty hosts status page after server move

2009-05-19 Thread David Nalley
-Original Message- From: Holger Parplies [mailto:wb...@parplies.de] Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 3:57 PM To: David Nalley Cc: General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty hosts status page after server move Hi, David Nalley wrote

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc

2009-05-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 07:21:21AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Richard de Rivaz wrote: Hi Les You suggest connecting as the backuppc user on the server to the root on the target and I am slightly baffled as to how to do this on Ubuntu 9.04. 'backuppc' does not appear on the list of