Re: [BackupPC-users] Can BackupPC email me a summary of system status?

2011-09-22 Thread P. Mazart
Hi, On Wed, 21.09.2011 08:01:58, Richard Shaw wrote: I think that by design, No news is good news. So true! ;-) One way I can think of to get something would be to pull the host summary with something like wget, do some cleanup or even remove all the HTML and then use sendmail to create an

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can BackupPC email me a summary of system status?

2011-09-22 Thread Brad Alexander
Another option would be, if you have to have that positive affirmation, and if you are running Nagios on your network, there is a plugin/check called check_backuppc, which will issue an alert in Nagios if any monitored host does not get backed up. From the help file: $ check_backuppc -h

Re: [BackupPC-users] archiving request backuppc process always fails

2011-09-22 Thread Les Mikesell
2011/9/22 Markus Fröhlich markus.froehl...@xidras.com: Writing tar archive for host hosting1, backup #24, split to output files /SATA/BackupPC/archive/hosting1.24.tar.gz.* exiting after signal ALRM Archive failed: aborted by signal=ALRM the strange thing is, that the duration shows ~1200

Re: [BackupPC-users] archiving request backuppc process always fails

2011-09-22 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Markus Fröhlich wrote at about 18:43:01 +0200 on Thursday, September 22, 2011: backupPC processes run as user wwwrun - this is the apache user - because of the permissions making the configuration over the webinterface. the archive request get startet over a cronjob and a small skript once

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can BackupPC email me a summary of system status?

2011-09-22 Thread Timothy J Massey
I was going to say exactly that. Using e-mail as a monitoring system is a very poor substitute. Nagios is a great start in true network monitoring. Timothy J. Massey Out of the Box Solutions Inc. Sent from my iPad On Sep 22, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote: Another

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can BackupPC email me a summary of system status?

2011-09-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.com wrote: I was going to say exactly that.  Using e-mail as a monitoring system is a very poor substitute.  Nagios is a great start in true network monitoring. On the other hand, all you really have to do is look at the host

[BackupPC-users] VMware ESXi performance?

2011-09-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Does anyone have a good estimate of the performance hit from running backuppc in a VM under VMware ESXi with nothing else sharing the physical disks for the archive? And are there any tuning tricks to optimize the partition alignment, etc.? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] VMware ESXi performance?

2011-09-22 Thread Trey Dockendorf
On Sep 22, 2011 6:04 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have a good estimate of the performance hit from running backuppc in a VM under VMware ESXi with nothing else sharing the physical disks for the archive? And are there any tuning tricks to optimize the partition

Re: [BackupPC-users] VMware ESXi performance?

2011-09-22 Thread Dan Pritts
Trey Dockendorf wrote: On Sep 22, 2011 6:04 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have a good estimate of the performance hit from running backuppc in a VM under VMware ESXi with nothing else sharing the physical disks for the