Re: [BackupPC-users] 8.030.000, Too much files to backup ?

2011-12-19 Thread gagablubber
You could transfer to the backuppc host not into the pool but to a temp directory and unpackage the tars there. This all via pre backup script. Then backuppc steps in and creates a local backup of this temporary files so you get the pooling. In the post backup script you flush this temp files.

[BackupPC-users] URL to restore a particular file from the latest backup

2011-12-19 Thread Dmitry Katsubo
Dear BackupPC users! I wonder if it is possible to construct URL for file restore, that will always refer the latest backup (in particular by skipping num parameter or giving it a special value)? For example, currently the file invoice.pdf can be restored from backup 204 as follows:

Re: [BackupPC-users] URL to restore a particular file from the latest backup

2011-12-19 Thread Tim Fletcher
On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 12:13 +0100, Dmitry Katsubo wrote: Dear BackupPC users! I wonder if it is possible to construct URL for file restore, that will always refer the latest backup (in particular by skipping num parameter or giving it a special value)? For example, currently the file

[BackupPC-users] Problem with new backup

2011-12-19 Thread Carlos Albornoz
Hi, i try to configure an instance for backup but i get this error Backup failed on _machine_ (aborted by signal=PIPE) some tips - the backuppc installation is new, by default, without any modification. - the config of the instance machine is by default. - i use rsyncd method for backup over linux

Re: [BackupPC-users] 8.030.000, Too much files to backup ?

2011-12-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:27 AM, gagablub...@vollbio.de wrote: You could transfer to the backuppc host not into the pool but to a temp directory and unpackage the tars there. This all via pre backup script. Then backuppc steps in and creates a local backup of this temporary files so you get

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem with new backup

2011-12-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Carlos Albornoz caralborn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, i try to configure an instance for backup but i get this error Backup failed on _machine_ (aborted by signal=PIPE) That means the other end of the command exited unexpectedly. some tips - the backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] URL to restore a particular file from the latest backup

2011-12-19 Thread Dmitry Katsubo
On 19.12.2011 12:53, Tim Fletcher wrote: does -1 work as that is short hand for latest in some of the commandline tools Unfortunately it replies: Error: Can't restore bad file /invoice.pdf (-1, Documents) -- With best regards, Dmitry

[BackupPC-users] DNS problem Can someone explain

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Conner
I run backuppc on about 15 computers and one networked Buffalo drive in a small museum. I've had it working well for about a year on an old computer running Centos 5.6 despite not knowing a great deal about Linux and networking, just the IT guy by default. The clients are mostly Windows XP,

Re: [BackupPC-users] DNS problem Can someone explain

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Conner
On Dec 19, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Rob Sheldon wrote: Hi Michael, OpenDNS by default returns their own internal server addresses for any queries that don't resolve to a public IP. They do this so that they can serve up their own search page (with ads, of course) when someone mistypes a

Re: [BackupPC-users] DNS problem Can someone explain

2011-12-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Michael Conner mdc1...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the info. What I would also like to know is where DNS at the router level is even involved in the process. Why is DNS involved in backuppc making a connection with most windows clients, and why doesn't it

Re: [BackupPC-users] 8.030.000, Too much files to backup ?

2011-12-19 Thread Tim Fletcher
On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 12:32 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Jean Spirat jean.spi...@squirk.org wrote: I directly mount the nfs share on the backuppc server so no need for rsyncd here this is like local backup with the NFS overhead of course. The whole point

Re: [BackupPC-users] no ping response

2011-12-19 Thread Claude Gélinas
Le Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:08:27 -0600, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com a écrit : On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Claude Gélinas cla...@phyto.qc.ca wrote: How can I backup a client via rsync if I can't ping it. I actually managed to setup the ssh link where I can login as root without

Re: [BackupPC-users] 8.030.000, Too much files to backup ?

2011-12-19 Thread Pedro M. S. Oliveira
sorry to take long to reply. yes it saves me a lot of time, let me explain. although I have a fast san and servers the time for fetching lots of small files is high, the max bandwidth i could get was about 5MB/s, increasing concurrecy i can get about 20-40MB/s depending on what im backingup at