Re: [BackupPC-users] more efficient: dump archives over the internet or copy the whole pool?

2010-11-04 Thread Craig Barratt
Frank, > Aha! I'm not insane! Definitely not. This appears to be a bug, and I'd like to get to the bottom of it. I suspect there is some meta data, most likely a file size, that isn't encoded correctly. Let's take this off list. No doubt the tar file is very large. You should try to find the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Web Display weirdness

2010-11-04 Thread Craig Barratt
Gerald, > Just bumping this up a bit. Any ideas? Have you tried rebuilding the backups file with bin/BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary? Craig -- The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G.

Re: [BackupPC-users] more efficient: dump archives over the internet or copy the whole pool?

2010-11-04 Thread Frank J . Gómez
For the record, it appears to be the case that the corruption is specific to the one client. I tested a tar for another Windows 7 machine that's backed up via smb, and it was fine. Any thoughts? 2010/11/4 Frank J. Gómez > Aha! I'm not insane! > > The original tar has the problem. To test it,

Re: [BackupPC-users] more efficient: dump archives over the internet or copy the whole pool?

2010-11-04 Thread Frank J . Gómez
Aha! I'm not insane! The original tar has the problem. To test it, I became the backuppc user and ran: > /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -t -h 62z62l1 -n -1 -s \* . > > /tmp/test.tar I then moved the tar over to my laptop (didn't want to expand the tar on the server) and checked th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Web Display weirdness

2010-11-04 Thread Gerald Brandt
Just bumping this up a bit. Any ideas? Gerald From: "Gerald Brandt" To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 10:06:34 AM Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Web Display weirdness Restoring the backups file didn't help, so I don't know w

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow backup

2010-11-04 Thread Andrea Visinoni
I tried IncrLevels setting but this didn't affect the weekly full backup that still takes 1859 minutes! Any hints? Andrea Il 14/10/2010 18.24, Tyler J. Wagner ha scritto: > What is your IncrLevels setting? I bet you a donut that it is "1", which > means each incremental references the last full.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem corruption: consistency of the pool

2010-11-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Les Mikesell [2010.11.03.2156 +0100]: > Yes, anything that is not linked by a current backup will be removed in > the nightly runs. I might thus want to disable that cronjob for now. > The more subtle problem is that the corruption may > have overwritten the contents of existing fi