Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrading from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04

2017-09-12 Thread Benjamin Redling
Am 12. September 2017 17:29:34 MESZ, schrieb Gerald Brandt : > >Hi, > >Has anyone done an upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 on an active >BackupPC system? Normally, I'd clonezilla the system drive before I did >an upgrade, but it's not working right on my Linux raid 1 boot drives. > >Gerald > > >-

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backups

2016-11-01 Thread Benjamin Redling
On 11/01/2016 13:07, Adam Goryachev wrote: > On 1/11/16 21:59, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: >> 2016-11-01 11:35 GMT+01:00 Johan Ehnberg : >>> Changes in BackupPC 4 are especially geared towards allowing very high >>> full periods. The most recent backup being always filled (as opposed to >>> rsnaps

Re: [BackupPC-users] Version 4 vs 3

2016-10-30 Thread Benjamin Redling
Am 28.10.2016 um 18:45 schrieb Gandalf Corvotempesta: > 2016-10-28 17:36 GMT+02:00 Alain Mouette : >> Please, I went reading about rsnapshot and it also makes extensive use of >> hard-links, does it perform differently than BackupPC about this? > rsnapshot is much faster than BackupPC because it h

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving /var/lib/BackupPC to a new disk fails with rsync and OOM

2016-09-06 Thread Benjamin Redling
Am 05.09.2016 um 17:07 schrieb Colin: > # df -h /var/lib/BackupPC > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sdb1 493G 394G 74G 85% /var/lib/BackupPC > > # rsync -aH /var/lib/BackupPC/. /mnt/. > So far I've tried just rsync'ing individual directories under > /var/lib/Back

Re: [BackupPC-users] unable to use rsync with NOPASSWD

2016-06-05 Thread Benjamin Redling
Hi, have added the public key to the authorized Keys? Sounds like it is asking for the login pw. Not the sudo pw. B Am 5. Juni 2016 00:17:07 MESZ, schrieb Mike Bosschaert : >Hi, >I've been using backuppc for years now with no problems. Recently I've >had to reinstall my os (opensuse leap) on one

[BackupPC-users] [Solved] missed "override" (Re: rsyncd excludes problem (3.2.1))

2016-04-14 Thread Benjamin Redling
On 2016-04-13 17:32, Michael Stowe wrote: > On 2016-04-13 03:29, Benjamin Redling wrote: > Start with the basics: xferlog. You'll want to review your excludes in > two ways. First, you'll want to confirm that they show up here: > > Sent exclude: Users/*/AppData/Lo

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd excludes problem (3.2.1)

2016-04-13 Thread Benjamin Redling
Sadly coming back for the same reason: On 03/29/2016 19:57, Michael Stowe wrote: > On 2016-03-29 10:17, Benjamin Redling wrote: >> my exclude list seems to be defunct [...] XferMethod is rsyncd, >> shouldn't '*/tmp' avoid this? > No, [...] > If you want t

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd excludes problem (3.2.1)

2016-03-30 Thread Benjamin Redling
On 2016-03-29 19:57, Michael Stowe wrote: > On 2016-03-29 10:17, Benjamin Redling wrote: >> [...] /tmp subdirectories and absolute >> paths (/anonuser... see below) are filling up the discs. >> XferMethod is rsyncd, shouldn't '*/tmp' avoid this? > No, '

[BackupPC-users] rsyncd excludes problem (3.2.1)

2016-03-29 Thread Benjamin Redling
Hello everybody, my exclude list seems to be defunct since adding a few absolute paths via the web interface. Recently(?) /tmp subdirectories and absolute paths (/anonuser... see below) are filling up the discs. XferMethod is rsyncd, shouldn't '*/tmp' avoid this? Did a restart of backuppc after ev

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using Amazon AWS S3/Glacier with BackupPC

2016-03-19 Thread Benjamin Redling
On 03/18/2016 00:51, Jim Wilcoxson wrote: > Marcel Meckel foobar0815.de> writes: > >> >> Hi there, >> >> Amazon offers amongst other services one named S3* (Simple Storage >> Service, moderate >> price with low latency) and Glacier* (extremely cheap storage, retrieval >> can take hours, >> pe

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC usage as localhost

2015-10-29 Thread Benjamin Redling
On 2015-10-29 10:20, a.d...@accenture.com wrote: > - Is it possible that instead of sending the files to /home/backuppc/storage, > to tell to BackupPC to send the files to a remote computer via ssh scp for > example > > Does Backuppc has this feature or can implement it ? This would remove the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Setup of rsync via SSH with unprivileged user 'backuppc'

2015-03-15 Thread Benjamin Redling
On 2015-03-15 12:40, Adam Goryachev wrote: > On 14/03/2015 22:08, Angus Kerr wrote: [...] >> #Sudoers file for backuppc user to run rsync >> >> backuppc ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/rsync >> > > Note that this will give the user root access easily enough. The user > could

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC backup speed is about 60Mbps ... slow?

2014-11-17 Thread Benjamin Redling
Mbps is bandwidth. Most often IOPS are more interesting. I've seen RAID w/ 12 spindels degrade to kbps. /B Adam Goryachev schrieb: >On 16/11/14 21:19, yashiahru wrote: >> iostat -M >> 7.6 MBps (~60mbps) >> >> so it's normal because of the hdd speed limitation ... >> >> Except the upgrading the

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC backup speed is about 60Mbps ... slow?

2014-11-16 Thread Benjamin Redling
Your no. of spindles and the IOPS your setup is able to achieve? You are posting about your network setup first ... and after that you talk about the data on your disc and your backup speed. So why not check IO first? Apart from benchmarking your drive setup, have a look at iotop and iostat. Reg

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental Backup fail

2014-07-15 Thread Benjamin Redling
Holger was right (btw. I deleted all your postings upfront because of their format) Have a look at your mail at: http://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/message/32569459/ When not viewed as HTML it looks horrible. You can bet that the more experienced users won't display any HTML in their MUA.

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Server Backs Itself Up Instead Of The Client

2014-04-11 Thread Benjamin Redling
On 2014-04-11 07:58, inodeman wrote: > [...] apt-get update/upgrade on the Debian Jessie based server, [...] > (exactly when, I don't remember), [...] What about not remembering, but looking it up? /var/log/apt/ (term.log, history.log) /var/log/dpkg.log (/var/log/aptitude) ... and when time per