Re: [BackupPC-users] Why does executing a system command inside a config.pl cause backuppc to fail?

2010-12-11 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 22:46:20 -0500 on Saturday, December 11, 2010: > As some of you may know, I have been successfully adding perl script > to the machine config files. > > However, I just noticed that if I add a system command using > backquotes, then I get an error of form:

[BackupPC-users] Why does executing a system command inside a config.pl cause backuppc to fail?

2010-12-11 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
As some of you may know, I have been successfully adding perl script to the machine config files. However, I just noticed that if I add a system command using backquotes, then I get an error of form: dump failed: Can't read PC's config file: Couldn't open /etc/BackupPC/pc/mymacine.pl.pl:

[BackupPC-users] Can't call method "getStats" on an undefined value

2010-12-11 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Whenever DumpPreShareCmd fails, I get the following errors in my log: DumpPreShareCmd returned error status 32256... exiting Can't call method "getStats" on an undefined value at /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump line 1160. I understand the first line, but don't understand why

[BackupPC-users] Cloning the BackupPC filestore to a removable drive

2010-12-11 Thread hansbkk
> If you consider using ZFS as BackupPC's filesystem In relation to other projects, I've done a bit of research, and got interested in Nexenta, however even before the Oracle debacle I wasn't quite ready to invest the additional learning curve - much less likely now. . . And just a comment, but k