2009/10/20 Michael Stowe mst...@chicago.us.mensa.org:
If you're going to keep all those incrementals, I wouldn't recommend doing
full backups any less frequently than every two weeks or so, which is
often the point at which they become as slow or slower than full backups.
I'm not sure if I can
2009/9/2 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com:
Where might I find some readable documentation on how windows permissions
actually work? I was under the impression that the Backup Operators group
always had access while an Administrator might have to change ownership to get
it - but I have a
2009/1/3 Juergen Harms juergen.ha...@unige.ch:
It looks like the educated guesses do not help in this case. Something
breaks without leaving an evident trace at the level of backuppc and of
Linux - you need more evidence (I agree, after having eliminated the
most likely explanations for such a
2008/10/28 Pedro M. S. Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
RsyncClientCmd
$sshPath -q -x -l root $host $rsyncPath $argList+
changed to
$sshPath -e none -q -x -l root $host $rsyncPath $argList+
RsyncClientRestoreCmd
$sshPath -q -x -l root $host $rsyncPath $argList+
changed to
$sshPath -e none -q
Yes, you'll need to get backuppc to reread the configuration file.
Two observations though:
First, I think the 'link' line could be rewritten thus (bypassing the
customization step):
'link' = eval { my $a = CGI::url(); $a =~ s{:/+}{://nouser:[EMAIL PROTECTED];
$a },
Second, I tried it on my
On 07/05/2008, Stephen Joyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 7 May 2008, Ambrose Li wrote:
Second, I tried it on my backuppc. If I use the back button I find that
I'm still logged in. It seems that what that link does it just to redirect
you to a [EMAIL PROTECTED] address which has
On 08/04/2008, Pedro Cambra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
/bin/tar -c -v -f - -C /home/pcambra --totals
I get this error:
/bin/tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
How can make a tar more brave? ;P
There should be a space and a . after --totals (i.e., --totals .).
The arguments
On 12/03/2008, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- It allows you to easily know when a security patch is available, by using
one of the managers like apt, up2date, yum, etc.
Unless the package has been abandoned by the packager, and you found
out that there should have been a
On 03/03/2008, dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
monthly fulls:
00 02 * * * backuppc if [ `/usr/local/bin/date +%d -d tomorrow` = 02 ] ;
then /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup
host.domain.tld host.domain.tld backuppc 1
this will say 'if tomorrow is the second, run this' BUT
On 03/03/2008, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dan wrote:
-x is one filesystem, not forward X11. -X is forward X11
On OS X -x is 'disable X11 forwarding' and -X is 'enable X11
forwarding'. I was checking on OS X...
For ssh, -x means disable X11 forwarding
For rsync
On 07/02/2008, Jon Forrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) The first is that the XferLOG somehow seems to contain the
actual data being backed up! I'm showing a fragment from the
beginning below (does the problem with ls matter?):
[...]
Got remote protocol 1702057263
Fatal error (bad
Hi
On 25/02/2008, daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fatal error (bad version): stdin: is not a tty
[...]
I added in the client's /root/.cshrc
if ( ! $?USER || $prompt == || ! $?term ) then
exit
endif
I ran the same command and i get the same error:
Fatal error (bad
On 25/02/2008, daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The /etc/csh.cshrc looks like:
[stuff deleted]
foreach i ( /etc/profile.d/*.csh )
if ( -r $i ) then
source $i
endif
end
unset i nonomatch
endif
Then you'll need
On 10/02/2008, Pete Geenhuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With that said I do have a small problem which has so far eluded my
attempts at a solution, it has to do with the BlackoutPeriods.
If I understand it correctly this parameter sets the window in which no
backups are supposed to happen, and
Maybe it's just me. But I still find it philosophically wrong for a
piece of open-source software to RELY on Javascript for functionality
(i.e., I don't object to the use of Javascript, as long as core
functionality is still accessible without it). Open-source web
software ought to be usable in
On 11/10/2007, Craig Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ambrose writes:
This has been reported back when 3.0 was first released; it has to do
with the way the nightly job is scheduled, so you certainly are not seeing
something not seen before. I don't have the info offhand, though; but you
I second that. Forums are exceedingly slow, and they require you to remember
to visit them.
They only look good because MS Outlook is so *bad* as a mail client,
anything else looks good by comparison. I suspect this accounts for 90% of
their popularity.
I don't like forums either.
But I
On 08/10/2007, Nicholas Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am seeing a very strange problem after transitioning to backuppc 3.0.
Backups are taking considerably longer, and i am frequently getting out of
memory kernel panics messages dumped to the syslog.
This has been reported back when 3.0
Hi,
On 24/09/2007, Kimball Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As you can see, the owner and group are set to unknown:unknown - the backup
process is definitely running as the backuppc user, so I'm not sure why the
ownership is being messed up like this.
How did you create the user group?
I
On 20/09/2007, Samuel Krieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I dreamt I could do something like this in the client config file:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = push ( $Conf{BackupFilesExclude},
'/home/excludeme' );
Yes, of course you can. But the syntax is more like this:
push
On 20/09/2007, Stephen Joyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Use 'mount' instead of checking for directory existence to determine if the
filesystem is mounted and return the corresponding exit status? (if
backuppc has created the directory structure on the main drive instead of
a mounted one, it's
Hi,
On 11/09/2007, Tobias Brunner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Starting stats...Done.
Successfully started Zimbra at 01:25:22
That looks ok, except that the script does not end...
Does anyone have an idea why that is?
Maybe try to pass the -n option to ssh? Sometimes that makes
On 16/08/07, Troester, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All Windows NT based OS (NT, 2000, XP Pro), are configured by default
to share the entire C drive as C$. This is a special share used for
various administration functions, one of which is to grant access to
backup operators. All you need
On 23/04/07, Alessandro Ferrari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that this problem is due by a particular filename extension
:Zone.Identifier:$DATA, it may be where the original file has downloaded
from internet.
The existence of the filename extension :Zone.Identifier:$DATA means
that the
On 24/02/07, Jason B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Incidentally, unrelated, but something that's been bugging me for a while:
subsequent full backups hardlink to older ones that have the true copy of the
file, correct? That means there is no meaningful way of deleting an older
backup, as the parent
On 15/02/07, Craig Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BackupPC doesn't use a shell for executing these commands,
so shell substitutions like `...` don't work.
You can set $Conf{TarClientCmd} to execute a shell script that
can do any argument processing you want.
Actually `` are valid Perl
On 16/02/07, Ambrose Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 15/02/07, Craig Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BackupPC doesn't use a shell for executing these commands,
so shell substitutions like `...` don't work.
You can set $Conf{TarClientCmd} to execute a shell script that
can do any
On 31/01/07, Craig Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A small snippet of javascript is used to set the action variable
when you click on the button. (In 2.x it wasn't done this way.)
Wouldn't this be a bad idea in any case? Javascript dependency would
mean that I can no longer control BackupPC
On 13/12/06, Eric J. Feldhusen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm running BackupPC 2.1.2pl2 under RHEL4 and I have a single server
with multiple directories that I don't want to backup, since the
directories are just linux distribution iso's or the iso's exploded. I
have a single
Hi,
On 13/08/06, Craig Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BackupPC_nightly didn't find any files in the pool.
Can you look in the pool and confirm that is the case?
If it isn't empty, then there is some permissions, path or
installation problem that prevents BackupPC_nightly from
seeing the
Hi,
I am using 3.0.0beta1 and I am seeing that in the Status screen, almost
everything is reported as zero (as copied below). I am wondering if others
are seeing this or if I have done something wrong (maybe a permission
problem?), or if this is just a case of something being not compatible with
On 05/06/06, Víctor A. Rodríguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- copy fadsutil.vbs to a new locatoin, try to bunzip2 it and if susccessfull
you'll have a fadsutil.vbs with the same length an content that the original
one
This method won't work. Backuppc seems to add a header of something to
the
On 01/06/06, Víctor A. Rodríguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Apache support is needed : no problem, Apache 2.0 is available for Windows
(although many Windows compatible admins prefer IIS)
For the record, Apache support is not really needed, but it's known to
work correctly on Apache and you
I think a reasonable feature request would be to change BackupPC_Admin
so that it will say somewhere on these empty screens (not really
empty, just lacking the wanted information) to the effect that the
information could not be displayed because the currently logged in
user (even though the
, and, if it is not
normal, any recommended steps to solve the problem. Thanks for any
insights into this.
Regards,
Ambrose Li
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