Re: [BackupPC-users] Move BackupPC TopDir To New Larger Hard Drive

2013-07-23 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-07-23 00:54, rblake3 wrote: What am I missing? What can I do to efficiently get the data copied from olddrive to newdrive without this problem? The fastest way to do this is to do a blockwise copy of the old drive/partition to the new, then expand the filesystem with resize2fs or

Re: [BackupPC-users] Move BackupPC TopDir To New Larger Hard Drive

2013-07-23 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-07-23 10:02, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1M For those not familiar with dd, it doesn't display progress when working. And dd'ing a 2 TB drive can take a long time. If you want progress, use this: dd dd if=/dev/sdb1 bs=1M | pv | dd of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1M pv is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Move BackupPC TopDir To New Larger Hard Drive

2013-07-23 Thread Aaron Cossey
Sorry but all those pipes are going to slow the transfer needlessly. To see the progress of a running dd process, just send it SIGINFO : dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1M ddpid=$! kill -USR1 $ddpid Aaron Cossey aaron.cos...@gmail.com On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Tyler J. Wagner

Re: [BackupPC-users] Move BackupPC TopDir To New Larger Hard Drive

2013-07-23 Thread backuppc
Tyler J. Wagner wrote at about 10:07:51 +0100 on Tuesday, July 23, 2013: On 2013-07-23 10:02, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1M For those not familiar with dd, it doesn't display progress when working. And dd'ing a 2 TB drive can take a long time. If you want

Re: [BackupPC-users] Move BackupPC TopDir To New Larger Hard Drive

2013-07-23 Thread backuppc
Aaron Cossey wrote at about 14:13:26 +0200 on Tuesday, July 23, 2013: Sorry but all those pipes are going to slow the transfer needlessly. While I too use SIGINFO, I doubt the extra pv pipe will slow anything down given that disk read/write is by FAR the rate limiting step... To see the

[BackupPC-users] Issue with specific ping command

2013-07-23 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
Hi, I have installed version BackupPC-3.3.0 and have been having issues with ping commands other than the standard ping. for instance, I want to use ssh -l root $host true for a certain host which doesn't respond to icmp I found the following issue : in lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm, line 1383 we have

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issue with specific ping command

2013-07-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Raphaël Jacquot sxp...@sxpert.org wrote: Hi, I have installed version BackupPC-3.3.0 and have been having issues with ping commands other than the standard ping. for instance, I want to use ssh -l root $host true for a certain host which doesn't respond to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issue with specific ping command

2013-07-23 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
On 23.07.2013 16:55, Les Mikesell wrote: That's 'exec', not 'system': http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/exec.html exec (a) doesn't have a shell parse a string for the command for you and (b) doesn't return to execute the next line if it succeeds. hah, pardon my very low perl proficiency

Re: [BackupPC-users] Move BackupPC TopDir To New Larger Hard Drive

2013-07-23 Thread Arnold Krille
Am 2013-07-23 11:02, schrieb Tyler J. Wagner: On 2013-07-23 00:54, rblake3 wrote: What am I missing? What can I do to efficiently get the data copied from olddrive to newdrive without this problem? The fastest way to do this is to do a blockwise copy of the old drive/partition to the new,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Move BackupPC TopDir To New Larger Hard Drive

2013-07-23 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote on 2013-07-23 09:01:09 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Move BackupPC TopDir To New Larger Hard Drive]: Aaron Cossey wrote at about 14:13:26 +0200 on Tuesday, July 23, 2013: Sorry but all those pipes are going to slow the transfer needlessly. While I too use

Re: [BackupPC-users] Move BackupPC TopDir To New Larger Hard Drive

2013-07-23 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Holger Parplies wb...@parplies.de wrote: Hi, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote on 2013-07-23 09:01:09 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Move BackupPC TopDir To New Larger Hard Drive]: Aaron Cossey wrote at about 14:13:26 +0200 on Tuesday, July 23, 2013: Sorry but

Re: [BackupPC-users] Move BackupPC TopDir To New Larger Hard Drive

2013-07-23 Thread backuppc
Holger Parplies wrote at about 20:16:49 +0200 on Tuesday, July 23, 2013: Hi, Richard Shaw wrote on 2013-07-23 12:43:19 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Move BackupPC TopDir To New Larger Hard Drive]: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Holger Parplies wb...@parplies.de wrote: Hi,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Move BackupPC TopDir To New Larger Hard Drive

2013-07-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:28 PM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: I also have lost an entire BackupPC partition when resize2fs failed at a critical juncture... that is part of the reason that I now run 2 parallel BackupPC systems with the primary one doing daily incrementals/weekly fulls, and

[BackupPC-users] Post questions for backuppc

2013-07-23 Thread Prem
Hi,   I would like to post questions for BackupPC, kindly grant me the access and advise how it is done? Thank you.   Regards, John.-- See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end

Re: [BackupPC-users] Post questions for backuppc

2013-07-23 Thread Craig Barratt
John, I would like to post questions for BackupPC, kindly grant me the access and advise how it is done? You just did ask a question of the entire user list. Nothing more is needed. Send your question to this list, as you just did. Craig