[BackupPC-users] Call Timed Out

I'm using xfer method SMB to backup a server the whole job fails with this error Call timed out: server did not respond after 2 milliseconds opening remote file Is there anyway to adjust this or tell the job to skip files that are open etc ...? Thanks

Re: [BackupPC-users] Call Timed Out

This problem doesn't necessarily mean open files. It could simply mean that it is having trouble reading a directory listing. I get this error quite a bit on some two older laptops. And it's almost always on the same directory. Rsync did not solve the problem either. It ended up abandoning

Re: [BackupPC-users] Call Timed Out

Tim Hall wrote: I'm using xfer method SMB to backup a server the whole job fails with this error Call timed out: server did not respond after 2 milliseconds opening remote file This is probably a symptom of on-access virus scanning. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore issues

Hi Matthias, Sorry it took me so long to get back to you - I've had a lot of tight deadlines. I'm not backing up a windows client... It's a Linux server offering a samba share. To be fair, thinking about it, since I'm using rsync, it's just a Linux server, and the fact that I access it with

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore issues

Hi Jeffrey, Sounds doable, but as I say, I'm backing a Linux server, not a Win client, so I don't think I need to worry too much about the busy files... Thanks for the suggestion though... Cheers, Jx On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.orgwrote: Matthias Meyer

[BackupPC-users] HowTo backup __TOPDIR__?

If I want to have desaster resistent backups I need to have the backups at least on two locations. What is the best way to syncronize __TOPDIR__ to another location? As I found in many messages, rsync isn't possible because of expensive memory usage for the hardlinks. In my opinion dd or cp -a

Re: [BackupPC-users] HowTo backup __TOPDIR__?

Matthias Meyer wrote: If I want to have desaster resistent backups I need to have the backups at least on two locations. What is the best way to syncronize __TOPDIR__ to another location? As I found in many messages, rsync isn't possible because of expensive memory usage for the hardlinks.

Re: [BackupPC-users] backups don't complete - don't know why

Kanwar writes: full backup started for directory /home; updating partial #147 started full dump, share=/home Running: /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --checksum-seed=32761

Re: [BackupPC-users] HowTo backup __TOPDIR__?

What is the best way to syncronize __TOPDIR__ to another location? As I found in many messages, rsync isn't possible because of expensive memory usage for the hardlinks. Since version 3.0.0 (protocol 3 on both ends) rsync uses an incremental mode to generate and compare the file lists on both

Re: [BackupPC-users] Log says Pool is 0.00GB, but pool is big and growing

Christian writes: Hi, I'm experiencing some strange difficulties with BackupPC (3.1.0-3ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS). It appears that BackupPC is not recognizing that it put files into the pool already. The log shows nightly a message according to which the pool is 0 GB, consisting of 0

[BackupPC-users] Backups stopped working for Vista machine

I have BackupPC set up to backup my Fedora F10 box and my wife's Vista box to an external USB drive. I had everything working and then some time ago the backups stopped working for the Vista box and I'm just getting around to looking into it. The error log shows: Running: /usr/bin/smbclient