So I've been successfully backing up Windows XP, Vista 7 machines to my
BackupPC instance using Cygwin1.dll, Cygrunsrv.exe, rsync.exe as a windows
service. Then came a Windows 8 laptop to my work. I tried to install rsync
on it like I've done with all of the other Windows flavors, but
Has anyone ever used Backuppc to store data off site? By offsite I mean ether
to the cloud or to a server at another site.
I use a removeable drive cartridge (CRU Dataport 25). Once a week I create a
file system snapshot of /var/lib/backuppc, rsync that to an encrypted volume on
the
Hi,
I currently use BackuPC in a number of ways.
One of my more recent requirements is to be able to sync the most recent
backup to an offsite location
eg.
I have a backuppc server which backs up itself and a number of clients.
The most recent of each of these backups must be rsync'd
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 13:15 +, member horvath wrote:
Hi,
I have a requirement where I need to deploy a backuppc installation on
a site that will connect to several servers and backup their required
files.
I need to keep a daily incremental of 30 daily and 6 monthly backups.
If they don't change between runs, backuppc will pool the new instance
with the previous, although a full backup may still take a long time as
the block checksum verification is done over the whole file. If they do
change and you use rsync, only the differences will be transferred (to
If the file name path is unchanged then BackupPC/rsync knows to
compare it with the existing pooled file. The file has to be read and
checksum'd on both ends (and possibly decompressed on the server side
if using the cpool) and if there are *any* changes then a new version is
constructed and
I'm about to set up a remote backup server to backup images of virtual
machines.
What would the data transfer be (after the intial sneakernet transfer)
when a remote image gets updated/changed? Filename would not change, but
contents and maybe size would.
An entire new copy of that day's
Hello there... thanks for all your thoughts and feedbacks...
Indeed, the splitting would be OK, but still: I'm in need
of backing
up a *big file* which may change in some bytes...
Also you have to make sure that that file doesn't change
while you are backing/splitting it up
My spare machines are connected by dedicated gigabit fiber in buildings
3 km apart. Once a week, I take an LVM snapshot, then use dd+ssh to copy
the entire 1-TB filesystem image to the spare. This takes 14 hours. It's
still faster than using rsync.
I use a similar approach, but backed up to
Hello Chris.
We backup to an eSATA drive enclosure. It holds two eSATA
drives of 1 TB each. We swap two enclosures offsite about
twice a month.
I may be going OT, but I'm curious about your eSATA backups: why do you
backup to eSATA drives and why do you swap them?
To get redundant,
Does anyone have any good or bad experiences with any particular eSATA drive
enclosure or drives? What ones would anyone here recommend or avoid?
I've had good success with my Dataport removable enclosure:
http://www.cru-dataport.com/products/DataPort-25-Line.php
Holds two drives.
A.
Hi. BackupPC 3.1.0-9ubuntu1 on Ubuntu Lucid, x86_64.
Lately my log files have been full of lines like this one:
2010-10-06 09:40:05 ERROR: opendir
(/var/lib/backuppc/pc/helium/364/f%2fhome/fandrex/fSligo Creek/freports)
failed
Today I have a couple of dozen of these. I don't remember seeing
Recently the size of my backup pool has suddenly started growing, by about 1G
per day. I can't sustain that for too long, so I'm trying to figure out where
the differences are coming from. It's hard. I'm using find -size to look for
large files in the cpool, and then find -samefile to map them
On 5/11/2010 5:42 AM, Dmitry Katsubo wrote:
Maybe you have some tricky alias for ssh? For example I have:
$ type ssh
ssh is aliased to `ssh -C'
Thank you for taking the time to reply.
If you mean on the BackupPC server:
[backu...@backuppc~]$ type ssh
ssh is /usr/bin/ssh
I just logged in
to do my Sysadmin checks and found 3 bloody disks have failed totally
ruining my BackupPC filesystem.
The odds against that are overwhelming. Power surge? Are all three disks of
the same age and lot?
Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera... its all the same...
/var/log/httpd/error_log shows no errors
/var/log/BackupPC/LOG shows no errors
/etc/hosts is normal
/etc/BackupPC/hosts is normal
Attached to this message is a screenshot of what my web interface looks
like now.
I also have this
So the web interface works well after getting the config options set
properly.
Indeed... thanks for the reminder.
Looking back through my config.pl again as you suggested, I found the options
CgiAdminUserGroup and CgiAdminUsers, helpfully commented that these are the
users who can see the
Le mardi 20 octobre 2009 à 19:23 -0400, giorgio p a écrit :
I'm trying to get backuppc configured.
I thought I had done the required setup...
In the /etc/backuppc/config.pl file I have:
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync';
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['/home/storage','/home/george'];
In
Here are the permissions on the /etc/backuppc directory:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 414 2007-02-07 07:46 apache.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 2009-10-19 23:26 config.pl
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2238 2007-02-07 07:46 hosts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-10-19 22:19 htgroup
-rw-r--r-- 1
I'd like to add a section or page to the wiki, about usage of
BackupPC_serverMesg. How do I go about getting edit rights? My SF user
name is schulman. Thanks, Andrew.
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Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=ServerMesg_commands
Ah, okay. I didn't see that before. I think it's not linked into the
table of contents anywhere?
I've added you to the editors group.
Good, thanks.
Andrew.
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