Re: [BackupPC-users] lost pc/*/backup file

2010-08-31 Thread Robert Strötgen
Solved, just found /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary Robert On 01.09.2010 00:19, Robert Strötgen wrote: > Hi, > > during a crash I lost the file pc//backup (and backup.old). Is > there a way to restore the file (automatically or manually from > pc///backupInfo)? > > Thanks and b

[BackupPC-users] lost pc/*/backup file

2010-08-31 Thread Robert Strötgen
Hi, during a crash I lost the file pc//backup (and backup.old). Is there a way to restore the file (automatically or manually from pc///backupInfo)? Thanks and best regards Robert -- This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponso

Re: [BackupPC-users] Anyone using r1soft hotcopy as a pre/post backup command?

2010-08-31 Thread Kameleon
Ok, I tested the following and it worked. Here is what I used for others future reference> DumpPreUserCmd: $sshPath -q -x -l root $host /usr/sbin/hcp /dev/sda1 (/dev/sda1 is my / partition so I run hcp against that) DumpPostUserCmd: $sshPath -q -x -l root $host /usr/sbin/hcp -r /dev/hcp1 (this sto

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup backuppc

2010-08-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On 8/31/2010 12:09 PM, Josh Malone wrote: > Farmol SPA wrote: >> Hi list. >> >> I would like to ask which is the simplest yet effective way to dump >> backuppc stuff (mainly __TOPDIR__) eg to a removable hard disk that will >> be used in a disaster recovery scenario where the plant were destroyed >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup backuppc

2010-08-31 Thread Josh Malone
Farmol SPA wrote: Hi list. I would like to ask which is the simplest yet effective way to dump backuppc stuff (mainly __TOPDIR__) eg to a removable hard disk that will be used in a disaster recovery scenario where the plant were destroyed and I need to restore data from this survivor device. Is

[BackupPC-users] Anyone using r1soft hotcopy as a pre/post backup command?

2010-08-31 Thread Kameleon
I am looking at using r1soft's hotcopy to enable a snapshot of the filesystem before backuppc does it's magic. Similar to how Microsoft Volume shadow copy works or LVM's snapshots. What I am wondering is this: Does anyone currently use this type of setup and if so, would you mind sharing your pre/p

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why does backuppc transfer files already in the pool

2010-08-31 Thread martin f krafft
Here is how I think an algorithm could work, which requires no changes on the remote side, so it should work with the plain rsync protocol, but likely will require some changes to rsyncp. Let: B be the BackupPC_dump process P be the peer (PC to be backed up) R b

[BackupPC-users] Host Summary page never loads

2010-08-31 Thread Mark Farmer
Hi I'm having a problem with the BackupPC web interface host summary page which with a full list of hosts configured (24 hosts) never loads when I click on the link. Reducing the list of hosts in /etc/Backuppc/hosts to a single host, the page loads after a long delay (about 30 seconds). The odd