Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrading is changing many thins in config.pl?!

2011-02-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hy Bowie > This is just Perl code. If the value is a number, Perl does > not care if there are quotes or not. If the value is a > string, then it has to be quoted in some form. *this* is what I wanted to know. Kind regards and thanks, F. -

Re: [BackupPC-users] R: Upgrading ischanging manythins inconfig.pl?!

2011-02-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Sorry for stressing... > in /etc/backuppc: >config.pl >and the directory pc do you refer to this "pc" directory: lrwxrwxrwx 1 backuppc www-data13 23 apr 2009 pc -> /etc/backuppc F. -- The ultimate all-in

Re: [BackupPC-users] Cross-platform bug/inconsistency in rsync digests (File::RsyncP::digest) - PROBLEM IS IN ADLER32!!!

2011-02-08 Thread Craig Barratt
Jeffrey writes: > OK - I just spent the evening taking apart the rsync checksum stuff. > The problem is in the Block Digests, not the File Digests. > And the problem is actually in the Adler32 sum part and *not* in the > md4sum. > > However, I'm not sure what is causing the problem there... > At

Re: [BackupPC-users] Cross-platform bug/inconsistency in rsync digests (File::RsyncP::digest) - PROBLEM IS IN ADLER32!!!

2011-02-08 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 00:50:45 -0500 on Wednesday, February 9, 2011: > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 20:33:15 -0500 on Tuesday, February 8, > 2011: > > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 20:15:04 -0500 on Tuesday, February 8, > 2011: > > > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Cross-platform bug/inconsistency in rsync digests (File::RsyncP::digest) - PROBLEM IS IN ADLER32!!!

2011-02-08 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 20:33:15 -0500 on Tuesday, February 8, 2011: > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 20:15:04 -0500 on Tuesday, February 8, > 2011: > > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 16:56:30 -0500 on Tuesday, February 8, > 2011: > > > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at abou

Re: [BackupPC-users] Cross-platform bug/inconsistency in rsync digests (File::RsyncP::digest)

2011-02-08 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 20:15:04 -0500 on Tuesday, February 8, 2011: > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 16:56:30 -0500 on Tuesday, February 8, > 2011: > > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 16:07:04 -0500 on Tuesday, February 8, > 2011: > > > When I backup files on an arm (ar

Re: [BackupPC-users] Cross-platform bug/inconsistency in rsync digests (File::RsyncP::digest)

2011-02-08 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 16:56:30 -0500 on Tuesday, February 8, 2011: > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 16:07:04 -0500 on Tuesday, February 8, > 2011: > > When I backup files on an arm (armel) architecture with rsync > > checksums and then transfer the pool over to an x86 archit

Re: [BackupPC-users] BlackoutPeriods syntax to black-out full day

2011-02-08 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote at about 15:58:11 -0600 on Tuesday, February 8, 2011: > On 02/08 01:33 , Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > I'm a little unsure on how you make the blackout period cover a full > > day (i.e. the boundary conditions of hourBegin/hourEnd) > > > > I want to for example

Re: [BackupPC-users] BlackoutPeriods syntax to black-out full day

2011-02-08 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 02/08 01:33 , Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > I'm a little unsure on how you make the blackout period cover a full > day (i.e. the boundary conditions of hourBegin/hourEnd) > > I want to for example black out the weekend -- all Saturday & Sunday. > i.e. from midnight Friday night to midnight Sunda

Re: [BackupPC-users] Cross-platform bug/inconsistency in rsync digests (File::RsyncP::digest)

2011-02-08 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 16:07:04 -0500 on Tuesday, February 8, 2011: > When I backup files on an arm (armel) architecture with rsync > checksums and then transfer the pool over to an x86 architecture, the > checksums no longer verify. > > In other words checksums that verify proper

[BackupPC-users] Cross-platform bug/inconsistency in rsync digests (File::RsyncP::digest)

2011-02-08 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
When I backup files on an arm (armel) architecture with rsync checksums and then transfer the pool over to an x86 architecture, the checksums no longer verify. In other words checksums that verify properly on the armel platform, don't verify when run on an x86 platform and vice-versa. This is qui

Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrading is changing many thins in config.pl?!

2011-02-08 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 2/7/2011 6:02 AM, Boniforti Flavio wrote: > Hello everybody. > > I'm in the middle of upgrading on my Debian Sid of BackupPC and get many > differences in the config.pl file. Besides the differences depending on > custom parameters (done by me), the main differences I see are like: > > -$Conf{Ba

[BackupPC-users] BlackoutPeriods syntax to black-out full day

2011-02-08 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
I'm a little unsure on how you make the blackout period cover a full day (i.e. the boundary conditions of hourBegin/hourEnd) I want to for example black out the weekend -- all Saturday & Sunday. i.e. from midnight Friday night to midnight Sunday night. Will the following do that? $Conf{Black

Re: [BackupPC-users] R: Upgrading is changing manythins inconfig.pl?!

2011-02-08 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
in /etc/backuppc: config.pl and the directory pc If you are paranoid, also rename TopDir though it shouldn't be hurt either way... Boniforti Flavio wrote at about 17:36:52 +0100 on Tuesday, February 8, 2011: > > > Well if you move the configs and relabel TopDir I'm not sure > > what ris

Re: [BackupPC-users] R: Upgrading is changing manythins inconfig.pl?!

2011-02-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
> Well if you move the configs and relabel TopDir I'm not sure > what risk there is... Are the configs the ones residing in /etc/backuppc? Is there *all* the stuff I need? I mean, both "main" (BackupPC general) config files and single host config files? If yes, I'd give it a try in the next day

Re: [BackupPC-users] R: Upgrading is changing many thins inconfig.pl?!

2011-02-08 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Well if you move the configs and relabel TopDir I'm not sure what risk there is... Boniforti Flavio wrote at about 09:57:17 +0100 on Tuesday, February 8, 2011: > [cut] > > > But it seems like potentially the install was only partial. > > I would use 'dpkg -r' to remove what is there now and t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why is the backup not being queued?

2011-02-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft [2011.02.02.1607 +0100]: > One of the hosts' last full backup is now 8.2 days old, while it's > incremental backup is 0.9 days old. > > BackupPC just woke up, but it did not schedule the host, A colleague suggests this is because backuppc only schedules a host once a

Re: [BackupPC-users] R: Upgrading is changing many thins inconfig.pl?!

2011-02-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
[cut] > But it seems like potentially the install was only partial. > I would use 'dpkg -r' to remove what is there now and then reinstall. > Maybe even do a purge if you are careful to copy over your > old config files. Isn't that too risky? I mean, I'm actually backing up a dozen hosts! F.