Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems cropping up with backups

I am still beating my head against this issue. I first, migrated all of the jails off of the jail server (i5-7500, 32GB RAM, 2GB swap), except the jail running backuppc. It still ran the system out of memory *and* out of swap, to the point that I had to physically power off and back on. So this

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems cropping up with backups

On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 8:30 AM G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > > On Mon, 15 Apr 2024, Brad Alexander wrote: > > > I am having a bit of a problem with my backuppc install that just cropped > > up recently. > > > > Most of my network runs the la

[BackupPC-users] Problems cropping up with backups

I am having a bit of a problem with my backuppc install that just cropped up recently. Most of my network runs the latest version of FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE, and it has been running on FreeBSD for years. So my backuppc server is in a FreeBSD jail on dedicated jails server (i-5 7500, 32 GB RAM), with

[BackupPC-users] Help freeing up space

Happy Friday! I am having an issue with my backuppc install. I have a backuppc install on a FreeBSD jail on my TrueNAS machine. The jail then uses a dataset on the NAS for it's backend storage. Well, I have another jail as my plex server, with a similar setup, as it is connecting to the media

Re: [BackupPC-users] are 2 backuppc hosts safe from each other's activity?

Yes, this is correct. I did this about a year ago. I had a backuppc3 installation from forever-ago that was still running. I stood up backuppc4 in a FeeBSD jail on my TrueNAS box. Both were running simultaneously until I got backuppc4 dialed in, then retired the backuppc3 installation and

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to disable to backup a client PC

Mine live in $BACKUPPC/PC, where $BACKUPPC is whatever the config file path is. In your case, /etc/BackupPC. In my case /usr/local/etc/backuppc (I'm on FreeBSD). --b On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 4:08 PM Chris Wu wrote: > Hi, > > As per the doc of BackupPC, it says below > > "To disable

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving to 4.4.0, sudo on FreeBSD

ath $argList+'; > > > On 7/24/21 6:27 AM, Brad Alexander wrote: > > > I ran across what appears to be the reason for the issue that I am having. > I found the following issue in my console: > > /var/log/console.log:Jul 23 23:52:11 danube kernel: Jul 23 23:52:11 danube >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups not backing up everything

ings like /proc), or add the list of mount points > in the list of things to backup. > > Craig > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 7:26 PM Brad Alexander wrote: > >> I've made quite a bit of headway on my issues deploying a BackupPC 4 >> server. I was having issues with

[BackupPC-users] Backups not backing up everything

I've made quite a bit of headway on my issues deploying a BackupPC 4 server. I was having issues with the $Conf{RsyncClientPath} because the client path on FreeBSD is /usr/local/bin/rsync, whereas on Linux, the path os /usr/bin/rsync, and specifying it in the per-host config files did not override

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving to 4.4.0, sudo on FreeBSD

> > Regards, > Adam > On 24/7/21 14:27, Brad Alexander wrote: > > > I ran across what appears to be the reason for the issue that I am having. > I found the following issue in my console: > > /var/log/console.log:Jul 23 23:52:11 danube kernel: Jul 23 23:52:11

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving to 4.4.0, sudo on FreeBSD

? Is there another way to specify the path for the rsync command on a per-host or per-OS basis? Thanks, --b On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 4:28 PM Brad Alexander wrote: > I have been running BackupPC 3.x for many years on a Debian Linux box. I > just expanded my TrueNAS box with larger drives, g

[BackupPC-users] Moving to 4.4.0, sudo on FreeBSD

I have been running BackupPC 3.x for many years on a Debian Linux box. I just expanded my TrueNAS box with larger drives, grew my pool, and am in the process of converting from BackupPC 3.3.1 on the dedicated server (that has gotten a bit snug on the drive space) to a 4.4.0 install in a FreeBSD

[BackupPC-users] Backup speeds

Have a quick question. After I had the issues a couple of weeks ago with my backuppc and started over again from scratch, I have seen relatively slow backups, especially on my larger hosts. My laptop's full backup size is 26.53GB, and the backup speed was 8.76 MB/s. I did an rsync of my home

Re: [BackupPC-users] cruft buildup on a 3.x installation

this in case someone else searches the list with a similar problem. On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 2:38 PM Brad Alexander wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been running backuppc 3.x for many years (I think I have been > running backuppc itself since about 2003 or 2004, but this particular > ins

[BackupPC-users] cruft buildup on a 3.x installation

Hi all, I have been running backuppc 3.x for many years (I think I have been running backuppc itself since about 2003 or 2004, but this particular installation seems to be from late 2006 or early 2007). I am currently running 3.3.1-4 on a Debian sid box. I know some helpful soul will suggest

Re: [BackupPC-users] What to do with a restore that's going on far too long?

You could try zless or zmore, e.g. zless RestoreLOG.z --b On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 2:19 PM Adam Hardy wrote: > Hi > > I'm using 3.3.0 on Linux Mint, to restore to a linux laptop. > > I'm trying to access the restore log for a restore that is now running > for about 12 hours and surely should be

Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem Recommendation for 100 TB

I use ZFS for all of my FreeBSD boxes, and it is stable and robust. I am in the process of preparing to convert my current backuppc 3.3.1 installation to a backuppc 4 in a jail on my FreeNAS with the backuppc pool living on a FreeNAS ZFS pool. On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 12:32 PM Robert Trevellyan <

Re: [BackupPC-users] Freenas - HELP NEEDED

I haven't followed any of these, but: https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/quickstart-guide-for-backuppc-4-in-a-jail-on-freenas.74080/ I haven't yet set it up, but it is on the todo list. I am currently running 3.3. On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 9:32 AM Robert Kiss wrote: > Hi, > > > > I

Re: [BackupPC-users] What's the latest on migrating V3 to V4To:

eenas/iocage-ix-plugins/pull/65 > > Regards Christian > > Brad Alexander schrieb am Do. 14. Feb. 2019 um 04:33: > >> My plan is just to dump the final backup from v3 to tarballs, and overlap >> starting with v4 on my FreeNAS box, since that is now a plugin on >> 11

Re: [BackupPC-users] What's the latest on migrating V3 to V4To:

My plan is just to dump the final backup from v3 to tarballs, and overlap starting with v4 on my FreeNAS box, since that is now a plugin on 11.2...Just make a clean break of it. On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 7:25 PM wrote: > That would be great but I had seen some email traffic suggesting that >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Encryption

And even over the local LAN, my setup is to use rsync over ssh. I also have a separate user set up on each machine, so I don't hav to give my backup machine root access to everything on the network. On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 2:48 PM, Kbtest Testar wrote: > Hi... > > During the transport the data

Re: [BackupPC-users] Encryption

I have been using luks encryption on my backuppc server for years. Not sure about 4.x, I have not yet upgraded, and am still running 3.3.1. On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 3:08 PM, Kbtest Testar wrote: > Hi... > > Any thoughts regarding my question about encryption? > > > Den mån 25 juni 2018

Re: [BackupPC-users] Working on keeping this list on-topic

Hello Holger, I tried to send this to you off-list, but it bounced. On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 3:06 PM, Holger Parplies wrote: > Robert Katz wrote on 2017-05-13 11:33:57 -0300 [[BackupPC-users] Working > on install of backuppc in fedora 26]: > > running on Fedora 26

Re: [BackupPC-users] localhost Can't cd to /root: Permission denied

ot; and "Can't cd to /root: > Permission denied". > > Scratching my head! What is it? > --- > > ___ > > Bob Wooden of Donelson Trophy > > 615.885.2846www.donelsontrophy.com > "Everyone deserves an award!!" > > > > On 2016-07-19 07:22, Brad Alexander wrot

Re: [BackupPC-users] localhost Can't cd to /root: Permission denied

I am running backuppc-3.3.1-2 on a Debian/sid box, I am ssh-ing into the box and have a limited set of sudo commands that backuppc can execute. This is as opposed to ssh-ing in as root. I have the following in my /etc/sudoers.d/backuppc account: Cmnd_AliasBACKUP=/bin/tar, /usr/bin/rsync,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rebuilding a backuppc installation

kes...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Brad Alexander <stor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm getting kinda frustrated with the entire systemd thing on linux,. So > > what I'm wondering is what the procedure is (if it is possible) to > convert > > the OS f

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rebuilding a backuppc installation

list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > Brad Alexander <stor...@gmail.com> > March 13, 2016 at 9:11 PM > I'm get

[BackupPC-users] Rebuilding a backuppc installation

I'm getting kinda frustrated with the entire systemd thing on linux,. So what I'm wondering is what the procedure is (if it is possible) to convert the OS from Linux to FreeBSD, and converting the base filesystem to ZFS, preferably without losing my pool. The hardware in question is a Dell PE1850.

Re: [BackupPC-users] New backup

hat backuppc is trying > to use. I see /usr/bin/rsync in the command below, but I'm not sure > offhand if that is referring to the local path or the remote path. > > Bowie > > > On 12/2/2015 5:08 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: > > Hi Carl, > > My /usr/local/etc/sudoers.d

Re: [BackupPC-users] New backup

eal-time.com> wrote: > On 12/02 04:10 , Brad Alexander wrote: > > Okay, this is probably blindingly obvious, but I just changed my wife's > > machine over from linux to pc-bsd. I am seeing the following when I try > to > > run the backup: > > > > backuppc@farra

[BackupPC-users] New backup

Okay, this is probably blindingly obvious, but I just changed my wife's machine over from linux to pc-bsd. I am seeing the following when I try to run the backup: backuppc@farragut:~/tmp$ /usr/bin/ssh -q -x valiant sudo /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D

Re: [BackupPC-users] Forbidden You don't have permission to access /BackupPC on this server.

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Bob of Donelson Trophy < b...@donelsontrophy.net> wrote: > And you may be correct. I remember reading somewhere that one of the > issues Apache 2.4 handles differently than Apache 2.2 is external access. > And I searched for that information again and could not

Re: [BackupPC-users] Forbidden You don't have permission to access /BackupPC on this server.

Not familiar with running backuppc on centos. Is there a backuppc group that your user has to be a member of? On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Bob of Donelson Trophy < b...@donelsontrophy.net> wrote: > Yes, yes, and yes to all three questions. > > > --- > > ___ > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] destination directory and encrytion

You might be able to use something like stenc ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/stenc/). We use it at work to encrypt the stream to LTO tapes. That said, I don't know if it will work with backuppcand if you trust sourceforge... --b On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Dr. Boris Neubert

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

Angus, Great write up. Mine is set up in a similar manner, though I need to find time to switch out my dsa keys for rsa. However, have the following stub for my /etc/sudoers.d: Cmnd_AliasBACKUP=/bin/tar, /usr/bin/rsync, /usr/bin/mysqldump, /usr/local/sbin/dbdump backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] FreeBSD backups?

Thank you both, gentelmen, for your recommendations. I did that under debian, but wasn't sure how to proceed with pcbsd. For instance, I would never have thought about /usr/ports or /var/db/portsnap. --b On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 2:17 AM, Alexander Moisseev mois...@mezonplus.ru wrote: On

[BackupPC-users] FreeBSD backups?

Hey, Looking for best practice here. I have converted my workstation from Debian to PCBSD. So I'm looking for ideas on what to back up. Since the system and the userspace are separate, would it be prudent to back up /home and /usr/local (plus the usual suspects like /etc)? Any suggestions?

[BackupPC-users] One more old backup question

I have been archiving and deleting old backups (using a combination of BackupPC_deleteBackup and BackupPC_nightly. Things have gond pretty well, except that one host now only has backup 0 from yesterday, and none of the archived ones are listed in the wui. That's fine, since the machine does not

Re: [BackupPC-users] Archiving older backups

Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote: I have a number of backups that are on my backuppc machine, and now that I have a NAS in place, I figured I would archive off the oldest backups, since the /var/lib/backuppc partition

[BackupPC-users] Archiving older backups

I have a number of backups that are on my backuppc machine, and now that I have a NAS in place, I figured I would archive off the oldest backups, since the /var/lib/backuppc partition filled up on the backup machine. Is there a way to archive a specific backup so that I can back up some of the

Re: [BackupPC-users] web GUI downloading BIN file Ubuntu 14.04

I'm not sure what exactly is the problem, but I thought I would throw this out there. It's been a while, but I remember a while back having a problem where it was downloading files instead of executing them. As I recall, it was a cgi problem. So having said that, I have the following installed on

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using external USB disk for BackupPC Data directory

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.comwrote: I think the top level directory has to exist (or the target of the symlink if you use one) for that to happen. I'm not sure if that's the case for devices that udev mounts by label names or not. That is, if the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem?

My original backuppc server, back in the day, used reiserfs3. The latest incarnation uses ext4. Both have been reliable, though reiser3 is long in the tooth...And doesn't play well with multicore machines. :) On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Hans Kraus h...@hanswkraus.com wrote: Am 02.12.2013

[BackupPC-users] Viable .vhd files?

I am looking at backup solutions for my job. One of the things that the windows admins want is the ability to back up their HyperV machines and back up all of the virtual machines' VHD files, but the caveat is that the backup application would have to leverage VSS. We are currently backing up both

Re: [BackupPC-users] security web server questions

The method I use is that I use rsync+ssh. I then create a regular backuppc user and limit sudo access to the tools needed to perform the backup, plus anything needed to be done as root in the pre/post backup scripts, such as my dbdump script. Here is my /etc/sudoers.d/backuppc: # This file is

[BackupPC-users] Seeing files in backups

I know that the web interface backfills backups from previous ones. But I'm wondering...Is there a straightforward way to see which files were backed up in an incremental from the web? If not, might this be a feature of 4.0? I ran into a situation last week in which I needed to rebuild a machine

Re: [BackupPC-users] need Help..to upgrade to version 3.3.0 on Ubuntu 12.04.2

Zellerstr. 67 70180 Stuttgart www.neokey.de marco.w...@neokey.de fon: +49 176 101 70889 schrieb Brad Alexander: I built a deb on Debian/sid, which may or may not work on Ubuntu. I was able to upgrade from 3.2.1 on a test box (I haven't installed on my production backup box). Once I installed

[BackupPC-users] Forcing time distribution of backups?

Hey, I've been playing with this gant.pl script from the other thread, which showed visual evidence of something I already knew. Most of my backups fire within about a 30 minute period. I already knew this, as I've also seen load average complaints out of nagios because of all of the backups

Re: [BackupPC-users] Forcing time distribution of backups?

You make a good and very valid point. Having said that, MaxBackups is set to 3 and MaxUserBackups are 4. I will leave it where it is, and monitor. Thanks to all respondents, --b On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 6:02 PM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Focus on solving the issue (if any) not on the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Forcing time distribution of backups?

I have 15 or 16 machines, and my backup machine is a Dell PE2850 with 5 300GB drives and 4GB of RAM, so it is plenty beefy enough for my tiny network. :) --b On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom chr...@real-time.com wrote: On 03/13 04:20 , Brad Alexander wrote: I've

[BackupPC-users] Push vs. Pull backups

I am trying to set up backups to a DR site. Unfortunately, the way the connection is with the DR site, the main can get to DR, but DR cannot get back to the main site. Is there a way to make backuppc initiate from the main site and push the data through to the DR site (to fulfill the off-site

[BackupPC-users] Mysterious install of backuppc

I had something wierd happen tonight. I have a Debian/sid vm (openvz) that runs nagios and munin. I went to do a full-upgrade, and ine of the packages it wanted to install was backuppc. Is anyone running backuppc on Debian? Has anyone seen anything like this? Thanks, --b

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pool filesystem wierdness

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: On 2012-05-30 00:27, Brad Alexander wrote: I know it is bad form to respond to one's own post, but I was digging around in my Munin graphs, and noticed that the filesystem skyrocked from about 70% to 100% late on the 26th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pool filesystem wierdness

. --b On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Tim Fletcher t...@night-shade.org.uk wrote: On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 10:15 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: I think I just found it. Ironically enough, it was my workstation. I have an external drive that is normally plugged into my laptop for files I need

[BackupPC-users] Pool filesystem wierdness

I ran into an issue with backuppc (Debian/sid, last upgraded 4/27/12), and I'm trying to figure out what the problem is. Nagios alerted today that the /var/lib/backuppc (500GB) filesystem was critical. I logged in and found the following: /dev/mapper/vg00-backuppc ext4 523733076 496248972

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pool filesystem wierdness

at 7:16 PM, Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote: I ran into an issue with backuppc (Debian/sid, last upgraded 4/27/12), and I'm trying to figure out what the problem is. Nagios alerted today that the /var/lib/backuppc (500GB) filesystem was critical. I logged in and found the following: /dev

[BackupPC-users] Bare metal restores

Hey, I'm on the horns of a dilemma, as they say. I upgraded my workstation, and got this bright idea to downsize my hard drive, since I had to reinstall from scratch anyway...Well, it didn't work out so well, because I went from a (silent) Samsung to a (noisy) Maxtor. In any case, I can no longer

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bare metal restores

Grub uses them too...But I changed them in grub.cfg and fstab (and /etc/cryptab), and grub was still having issues...I tried both update-grub /dev/sda and dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64 (to rebuild the initramfs) and both gave me disk not found. --b On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:09 PM,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bare metal restores

Fletcher On 27 Apr 2012, at 17:16, Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote: Grub uses them too...But I changed them in grub.cfg and fstab (and /etc/cryptab), and grub was still having issues...I tried both update-grub /dev/sda and dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64 (to rebuild

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backuppc (yes, that again...:)

, Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote: The problem with this approach is that the old backup server is still running reiser3 (built before it got long in the tooth) and the new one is running ext4...So I have to do it the hard way... The even easier approach is to disable backups on the old

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backuppc (yes, that again...:)

It was. I executed a /etc/init.d/backuppc stop prior to doing so. It has been stopped since Thursday. --b On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote: Well, in spite of the advice here (which

[BackupPC-users] Migrating backuppc (yes, that again...:)

Hey all, I'm running into a problem migrating my /var/lib/backuppc pc directory. I got cpool, log, pool, tmp, and trash migrated via rsync, and I am attempting to migrate the pc directory. When I tried it using sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarPCCopy /var/lib/backuppc/pc/

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backuppc (yes, that again...:)

: On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 14:57 -0500, Brad Alexander wrote: Hey all, I'm running into a problem migrating my /var/lib/backuppc pc directory. I got cpool, log, pool, tmp, and trash migrated via rsync, and I am attempting to migrate the pc directory. It's seriously much easier to copy the raw

[BackupPC-users] Archiving older backups

Is there a way to archive an older backup? I upgraded my machine for Christmas, and decided to nuke and pave and install Debian amd64. Prior to doing so, I did a full backup, and have restored piecemeal...However, I have been finding one-off files over the last day or so (like various corner case

[BackupPC-users] Suggestions for the new version

Hi gang, Hope everyone had a great Christmas, Hanukkah, or whatever you celebrate, and look forward to a good and prosperous new year. One of my Christmas presents this year was an upgrade for my desktop. Since it had been 4 or 5 years, and I had accumulated a kind of frankenbox, I decided to do

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can BackupPC email me a summary of system status?

Another option would be, if you have to have that positive affirmation, and if you are running Nagios on your network, there is a plugin/check called check_backuppc, which will issue an alert in Nagios if any monitored host does not get backed up. From the help file: $ check_backuppc -h

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom chr...@real-time.com wrote: The suggestion of not using a sharename for restores starting from the root; perhaps could be restated as something like '/' characters shall be converted to '_' characters except for the leftmost one,

Re: [BackupPC-users] DumpPreUserCmd commands only on full backups?

Actually, at work we are. I was just curious if this was available in backuppc. On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Michael Stowe mst...@chicago.us.mensa.orgwrote: As the subject posits, is it possible to issue a dump pre- or post-command only on certain types of backups? For instance, we run

[BackupPC-users] DumpPreUserCmd commands only on full backups?

As the subject posits, is it possible to issue a dump pre- or post-command only on certain types of backups? For instance, we run bacula at work, and apparently the director states what kind of backup is running, either Full or Incr. So in your scripts, you can do something like if [ $1 != Full ]

Re: [BackupPC-users] Remote Site Backup though Backuppc

I regularly back up my daughter's netbook from across the US. I use rsync, and the only change to the configuration file was that I had to adjust the $Conf{PingMaxMsec} --b On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Pravakar Kumar pravakar.ku...@rjcorp.inwrote: Hi, We are using BackupPC to backup

[BackupPC-users] Keeping 1 golden backup for a year

Okay, this kind of confuses me. I would like to have the following backup strategy: 6 incrementals (*2) 1 weekly (*2) 1 yearly (*1) Currently, $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = [ 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1 ]; I know this isn't right, but it's not what I would anticipate seeing. For instance, one of my backup targets

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and empty directories!

wrote: On 3/4/11 3:56 AM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 21:35 -0500, Brad Alexander wrote: I had noticed this a while back, because of a misconfiguration on my part. However, that brings a thought to mind, a feature request. I guess the best way to describe it would

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and empty directories!

I had noticed this a while back, because of a misconfiguration on my part. However, that brings a thought to mind, a feature request. I guess the best way to describe it would be a dry run restore mode. Something where I could run a full or partial restore and exercise the mechanism on the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Wierd backup problem

Okay, here we go, Tyler. I'm going to basically start converting hosts over to your full-machine backup. Wish me luck...:) Obviously there are a few boxes (like my Nokia devices) that I'll still either not change or wait till the end. --b On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Tyler J. Wagner

[BackupPC-users] blackout periods

Can you set the blackout periods on a per-host basis? Since I have my N900 with me all day, by the time I get home, the battery is, while not drained, not full either. The first full backup drained the remaining juice from the battery, so I had the backup set so that it would kick off sometime

Re: [BackupPC-users] Wierd backup problem

I finally got this working... I wound up clearing out the backup list and starting one directory at a time. Everything worked but /root. I ended up getting rid of some really ancient and innocuous-looking files from there, and now it all seems to work. I got rid of a dump.log from 2008, some df