Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC administrative attention needed email incorrect?

Hi, Jamie Burchell wrote on 2018-10-30 09:31:13 - [[BackupPC-users] BackupPC administrative attention needed email incorrect?]: > [...] > Yesterday, I received the following email from the BackupPC process: > [...] > > Yesterday 156 hosts were skipped because the file system containing > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Weird backup commands

Hi, Jaime Fenton wrote on 2018-10-24 16:17:24 + [Re: [BackupPC-users] Weird backup commands]: > Also, my apologies if my tone came across as snippy or rude [...] I???m just > frustrated with the issues I???m having [...] well ... > [...] > If I thought samba was not going to work, then I

Re: [BackupPC-users] fatal error during xfer (tar:632)

Hi, Paul Littlefield wrote on 2018-10-12 12:22:48 + [Re: [BackupPC-users] fatal error during xfer (tar:632)]: > On 11/10/2018 23:44, Craig Barratt wrote: > >[...] > >What version of tar are you using?  Can you run gnu tar instead (that's the > >default under cygwin)? > >[...] > > $

Re: [BackupPC-users] 4.2.1 Rsync and BackupFilesOnly

Hi, Kris Lou via BackupPC-users wrote on 2018-09-27 15:22:20 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] 4.2.1 Rsync and BackupFilesOnly]: > [...] > Need More Eyes! 8-) > $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = { > '*' => [ > '/SysData' > ] > }; This is translated by BackupPC to what you see below - --include=/SysData

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc | Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE)

Hi, jerome winmedia wrote on 2018-08-06 15:29:45 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] Backuppc | Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE)]: > I am running backuppc version 3.3.1 on an Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS, I try to > backup several Linux servers, almost Debian, ubuntu or proxmox hosts. > > My

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

Hi, Carl W. Soderstrom wrote on 2018-06-14 16:03:24 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup]: > On 06/14 03:38 , Bowie Bailey wrote: > > On 6/14/2018 3:27 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: > > > Why are you using rsyncd over the loopback instead of ??? rsync? > > > > Mainly because that's the way

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

Hi, Bowie Bailey wrote on 2018-06-14 15:38:44 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup]: > On 6/14/2018 3:27 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: > > On 2018-06-14 10:05, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > > > I just installed BackupPC v4 on a CentOS 7 server with 4G ram.  I > > am trying to back up a

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 4.2.1 perl issue

Hi, mlm wrote on 2018-06-12 17:20:06 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] backuppc 4.2.1 perl issue]: > [...] > New system running Scientific Linux 7.5, installed 4.2.1 from tar file > > Global symbol "%In" requires explicit package name at > /usr/share/BackupPC/sbin/BackupPC_Admin line 90. > [...] >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Out of inodes, how to recover?

Hi, Tapio Lehtonen wrote on 2018-05-15 14:14:36 +0300 [[BackupPC-users] Out of inodes, how to recover?]: > Backing up a single desktop computer, BackupPC host ran out of > inodes at 15 million inodes used. Reading old messages from this > list I was surprised to learn BackupPC uses only one (or

Re: [BackupPC-users] Out of inodes, how to recover?

Hi, Carl W. Soderstrom wrote on 2018-05-15 09:56:13 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Out of inodes, how to recover?]: > [...] > It is possible to run BackupPC_nightly by hand. unfortunately true. You should never do that under any circumstances. > [...] > and here's an example usage (from memory,

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.2.0 released

Hi, Steve Palm wrote on 2018-05-03 09:55:38 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.2.0 released]: > I think that would cover it here, as you said, if you give someone Admin > rights, then they can alter any other settings. Only a > compile-build-install-time option to totally remove it would

Re: [BackupPC-users] Serious error: last backup ... directory doesn't exist!!! - reason found

Hi, f...@igh.de wrote on 2018-03-08 16:59:37 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Serious error: last backup ... directory doesn't exist!!! - reason found]: > [...] > Meanwhile I found the reason: the partition ran out of inodes. As you > wrote under "How much disk space do I need?" one has to have

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best way to copy backuppc data

Hi, Adam Pribyl wrote on 2018-02-02 08:09:47 +0100 [[BackupPC-users] Best way to copy backuppc data]: > What is to best way to copy the BackupPC data? > [...] > Still its taking somewhat too long... should I use a different method? BackupPC_copyPool ... I'll send it to you on Monday. Sorry, in

Re: [BackupPC-users] Trouble with restore

Hi, let's start over. Jens Potthast wrote on 2017-12-13 14:01:46 +0100 [[BackupPC-users] Trouble with restore]: > [...] > I needed to restore a couple of files > recently. The last time, I had to restore some files was years ago. At that > time it was no problem. Right now, restore fails: > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Host Priority Option

Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2017-12-12 09:39:41 -0600 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Host Priority Option]: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 8:19 AM, Gurvinder wrote: > > > > I have been using BackupPc from past few months however I could not find > > any option where I can prioritize

Re: [BackupPC-users] Error: Wrong user: my userid is 48, instead of 955(backuppc)

Hi, fujisan wrote on 2017-12-12 13:08:08 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Error: Wrong user: my userid is 48, instead of 955(backuppc)]: > [...] > I have the following: > -r 1 backuppc apache29 Sep 11 2015 /etc/httpd/conf/password.conf that would seem to be a problem (unrelated),

Re: [BackupPC-users] Documentation version discrepancies

Hi, Jamie Burchell wrote on 2017-11-18 16:23:41 + [[BackupPC-users] Documentation version discrepancies]: > As I've been learning backuppc and studying the documentation I noticed > that the documentation supplied in the Web UI is different to what's > currently online. This has undoubtedly

Re: [BackupPC-users] error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) (Restoring)

B wrote on 2017-11-16 00:50:52 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) (Restoring)]: > [...] > In short: being root and (especially) removing directories is bad, on > the other hand, using root as part of a controlled process doesn't mean > that you'll be

Re: [BackupPC-users] Execute bash script after each share on backup server

Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2017-11-10 11:13:23 -0600 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Execute bash script after each share on backup server]: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Julian Zielke > wrote: > > I???ve written a script which should be run after each processed

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to solve an error exteracting error

Hi, Michael Stowe wrote on 2017-11-09 05:47:01 + [Re: [BackupPC-users] how to solve an error exteracting error]: > On 2017-11-08 13:40, Mohammad Goodarzi wrote: > >hi, > > > >I get this error when I do ssh -l root myservice service ssh reload > > > >ssh: unrecognized service > > ssh is

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to solve an error exteracting error

Mohammad Goodarzi wrote on 2017-11-08 14:54:41 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] how to solve an error exteracting error]: > [...] > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root myservername /usr/bin/rsync > --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links > --hard-links --times --block-size=2048

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up Windows using rsync

Hi, just for the record, Jeffrey West via BackupPC-users wrote on 2017-09-19 12:10:56 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up Windows using rsync]: > [...] > > $Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsyncd'; > $conf{RsyncShareName} = 'c-drive'; you need to assign to the correct variable - it's %Conf ... %conf

Re: [BackupPC-users] Question about transient inodes

Hi, Ray Frush wrote on 2017-05-30 16:53:18 -0600 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Question about transient inodes]: > Holger- > > Thanks for the followup. That's not exactly the answer I was expecting > based on the behavior we experienced. Once all of the initial 'full' > backups of our systems were

Re: [BackupPC-users] Question about transient inodes

Hi, Ray Frush wrote on 2017-05-23 15:37:36 -0600 [[BackupPC-users] Question about transient inodes]: > [...] > Can a developer comment on under what conditions BackupPC might be > temporarily allocating a lot of extra inodes, and then quickly releasing > them? none. Regards, Holger

Re: [BackupPC-users] Updated BackupPC 4 Debian Packages

Hi, (shouldn't this really be on backuppc-devel?) Ludovic Drolez wrote on 2017-05-30 20:45:35 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Updated BackupPC 4 Debian Packages]: > > On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 10:34:11PM -0700, Craig Barratt wrote: > > >No, rsync-bpc isn't usable without BackupPC. stupid

Re: [BackupPC-users] Limit Disk Space for a Host

Hi, Oliver Lippert wrote on 2017-05-30 22:32:49 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] Limit Disk Space for a Host]: > [...] > is there any way to set an „limit“ to an Host? no. > I want to backup an Host but want to make sure that all his backup-files max > reach 200GB. Even the concept of the storage

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems Starting BackupPC

Hi, I really don't know where to start on this one, and my reply is off-topic, even if the original post wasn't, so sorry about that. For the archives: don't "kill -9". Period. "kill -9" means "I saw someone use this for a different problem, and I wanted to try it, too. I don't really know what

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to backup a laptop over internet

Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2017-05-30 14:38:46 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How to backup a laptop over internet]: > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Holger Parplies <wb...@parplies.de> wrote: > > > > You *can* use a VPN locally, too. That way, you'd be reachable via the sam

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unexplained Error Code 255 - BackupPC

Hi, Akibu Flash wrote on 2017-05-29 05:27:04 + [Re: [BackupPC-users] Unexplained Error Code 255 - BackupPC]: > [...] > I am running backuppc version 4.41 on a Debian computer. wow ... where did you get that version from? > When I start a backup, it appears to properly connect to my Windows

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to backup a laptop over internet

Hi, Xuo wrote on 2017-05-30 19:03:03 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How to backup a laptop over internet]: > I'm using BackupPC 3.3.0 (got from the Web gui). > Yes this feature would be really great (at least for me !!). sorry, really busy, two quick remarks: Can't be too difficult to backport

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up Windows 7 Pro, not enough permissions

Hi, Michael Stowe wrote on 2017-05-15 09:58:08 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up Windows 7 Pro, not enough permissions]: > On 2017-05-15 05:20, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: > > [...] > > The share C is shared to network and user backuppc has full rights. > > [...] > > There are a few important

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommend add to manual

Hi, Kenneth Porter wrote on 2017-05-14 18:37:53 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommend add to manual]: > [...] > What if you have TWO drives you want to mount to /var/lib/backuppc? With > BackupPC 4, it's not unreasonable to swap your backup media every week > to an offsite location. > > Just

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

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 Congratulate me :-) I'll congratulate you as soon as you realize that this list is not meant for *anything* concerning distribution packages, package

Re: [BackupPC-users] Nightly does not find some pool files, but they exist

Hi, Dieter Fauth wrote on 2017-05-04 10:20:10 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] Nightly does not find some pool files, but they exist]: > in the log I see many lines like these: > [...] > 2017-05-04 09:04:01 admin : BackupPC_refCountUpdate: missing pool file > 11d9a30eb21b173a1e073e7a86b83f2e count 16 >

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.1.1 and NFS shares

Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2017-04-21 18:39:59 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.1.1 and NFS shares]: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 5:09 PM, Bedynek, Matthew J. > wrote: > > With version 3 I am using Rsync instead of tar to backup a NFS share which > > the backupPC host has

Re: [BackupPC-users] Excluding folders from backup

Hi, Sorin Srbu wrote on 2017-04-10 06:14:07 + [Re: [BackupPC-users] Excluding folders from backup]: > > From: Holger Parplies [mailto:wb...@parplies.de] > > [...] > > > > Almost. In fact, an exclude for "*" is applied to all shares *which don't > > h

Re: [BackupPC-users] Excluding folders from backup

Hi, Bowie Bailey wrote on 2017-04-07 09:17:29 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Excluding folders from backup]: > On 4/7/2017 2:55 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: > >> From: Markus Koeberl [mailto:markus.koeb...@tugraz.at] > >> On Friday 07 April 2017 07:29:30 Sorin Srbu wrote: > >>> [...] > >>> The field

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC v4 for Fedora / EPEL Update

Hi, Richard Shaw wrote on 2017-03-30 07:19:11 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC v4 for Fedora / EPEL Update]: > [...] > > Error: Package: BackupPC-4.1.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64 (hobbes1069-BackupPC) > >Requires: perl(File::RsyncP) is this correct? Just wondering ... Regards, Holger

Re: [BackupPC-users] Error ' getaddrinfo is not a valid Socket macro' after upgrading to 4.1

Hi, John Barton wrote on 2017-03-29 00:30:30 + [Re: [BackupPC-users] Error ' getaddrinfo is not a valid Socket macro' after upgrading to 4.1]: > [...] > # perl -e 'use Socket; print $Socket::VERSION . "\n"' > 1.82 for reference, I get the following for different Debian releases: etch

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: After migration to V4, rsync backups not working

Hi, after downloading 4.0.0 from sourceforge (which has apparently been hacked and/or turned to the dark side), I need to correct myself: Holger Parplies wrote on 2017-03-16 17:09:53 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: After migration to V4, rsync backups not working]: > [...] > If I read C

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: After migration to V4, rsync backups not working

Hi, ads wrote on 2017-03-16 08:58:20 + [[BackupPC-users] Fwd: After migration to V4, rsync backups not working]: > [...] > I use Arch Linux, and installed (upgraded) backuppc using the provided > package in pacman format. I already suspected configure.pl hadn't been run, > because I had to

Re: [BackupPC-users] After migration to V4, rsync backups not working

Hi, ads wrote on 2017-03-15 11:46:39 + [[BackupPC-users] After migration to V4, rsync backups not working]: > I have migrated from V3 to V4, how did you do that? By running configure.pl? > and now my rsync backups are not working. [...] The 3 'Permission denied' > lines look as if they

Re: [BackupPC-users] ssh and Mac 10.12 Sierra

Hi, Adam Goryachev wrote on 2016-11-30 09:03:01 +1100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] ssh and Mac 10.12 Sierra]: > [...] > > After permitting root log in the sshd_config file, [...] I could do > > an ssh from the BPC server to the mac without password. that is correct - if you are using the root user,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Running Forever

Hi, Christian V?lker wrote on 2016-11-02 19:04:58 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Running Forever]: > [...] > > If you tail the transfer log: > > /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat ~backuppc/pc//XferLOG.z|tail > > what file does it stop on, and does it always stop there? > I will restart

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4 questions

Hi, Gerald Brandt wrote on 2016-10-25 11:43:22 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4 questions]: > Can I run BackupPC 4 on the same machine, and at the same time, as I'm > running BackupPC 4? obviously: yes :-). You probably meant to ask whether it is possible to run BackupPC 3 and 4

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC hangs

Hi, Markus Hirschmann wrote on 2016-10-10 17:54:45 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] BackupPC hangs]: > > I backup a huge QNAS Storage with rsync over ssh and it always hangs > with 100% load. I tried to find the problem with lsof: > > [...] > BackupPC_ 1842 backuppc6r REG 253,3

Re: [BackupPC-users] access backups created by different server

Hi, Michele Zarri wrote on 2016-09-08 22:20:32 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] access backups created by different server]: > > On 08/09/16 02:37, Michele Zarri wrote: > >> [...] > >> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate: bad backup number 224 for > >> host localhost > >> [...] > I found out

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

Hi, Colin wrote on 2016-09-05 17:46:34 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving /var/lib/BackupPC to a new disk fails with rsync and OOM]: > Thank you Les! > I'll have a go tomorrow after backups with something similar as: > dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/sdc1 bs=16M > [...] > On 5 September 2016 at 17:03,

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync exclusion list - apply to multiple shares

Hi, cardiganimpatience wrote on 2016-08-19 06:24:24 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] rsync exclusion list - apply to multiple shares]: > [...] > > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { > '*' => [ > '*access_log*', > '.apdisk', > '*/.apdisk', > '.cache' > ] }; (supplied free of charge). >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is this required?

Hi, Mark Neidorff wrote on 2016-08-26 12:21:03 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Is this required?]: > I'm setting up a backuppc server using OpenSuse Leap 42.1. I installed from > the OpenSuse repos, but in doing so, it found that: > perl_Net_FTP_AutoReconnect-0.3.tar.gz was missing. [...] > > Since

Re: [BackupPC-users] Difference between terms in logs backuppc

Hi, alex8276 wrote on 2016-07-07 01:20:44 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] Difference between terms in logs backuppc]: > Can you explain the difference between : pool, same in the backup's log ? yes. > pool 644 400/401 13372 vendor/PhpExcel/xx.php > same 644 400/4013415

Re: [BackupPC-users] BacupPC -How not to start backup when lock file is present ?

Hi, Johan Ehnberg wrote on 2016-06-27 16:03:42 +0300 [Re: [BackupPC-users] BacupPC -How not to start backup when lock file is present ?]: > Hi, > > You can do it the other way around: ... by top-posting? > run the database dump with > $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd}. > [...] > On 06/27/2016 03:54 PM,

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_trashClean (?) freezes system

Hi, Witold Arndt wrote on 2016-06-27 08:53:40 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_trashClean (?) freezes system]: > On Sonntag, 26. Juni 2016 22:21:45 CEST Adam Goryachev wrote: > > Can you login to the server after it has "hung"? I'm assuming yes since > > you can try to kill the process. > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full period

Hi, Adam Goryachev wrote on 2016-06-21 20:17:43 +1000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Full period]: > On 21/06/2016 17:28, absolutely_f...@libero.it wrote: > > [...] > > I noticed that I am unable to complete backups for each server in one > > day; probably it takes 3 days to finish. > > [...] > > > > Is

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC - take a day off?

Hi, bpb21 wrote on 2016-05-18 10:22:22 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] BackupPC - take a day off?]: > [someone else wrote:] > > Maybe it's possible to create a blackout period for that day? Not sure if > > one should specify saturday or sunday as weekdays. > > [...] > > Thanks! I think this is it.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Win 10 issue with NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME

Hi, Jeff Boyce wrote on 2016-05-31 13:40:20 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Win 10 issue with NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME]: > On 5/26/2016 1:51 PM, Jeff Boyce wrote: > [..] > Ok I solved all my backup issues, so this post will give a summary of > what worked for me and hopefully help others. >

Re: [BackupPC-users] error crontab

Hi, Bowie Bailey wrote on 2016-05-31 11:34:43 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] error crontab]: > On 5/31/2016 9:53 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > Put your entries in /etc/crontab. They will be easier to find there. > > > > [...] > > Alternately, you can use the per-user crontab correctly.

Re: [BackupPC-users] BPC 4 very slow

Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote on 2016-01-27 11:28:24 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] BPC 4 very slow]: > [basically the same thing over and over again] In case it's not obvious, adjust the settings so they specify to do what you want. Before that, preferably, understand the settings. Use the suitable

Re: [BackupPC-users] BPC 4 very slow

Hi, much has been said in this thread, but I believe this has not: You do realize that BackupPC 4.x is alpha software, right? You're lucky if it works at all, you should be surprised if it performs well, and you're not using it in a production environment anyway, right? Ok, the reality might not

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best to Move a Large Pool to Different FS?

Hi, Christian Völker wrote on 2015-11-11 21:10:56 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Best to Move a Large Pool to Different FS?]: > [...] > What does the BackupPC_tarPCCopy do in detail? Would it be faster? it computes the pool file names from file contents. If I'm not mistaken, this involves reading

Re: [BackupPC-users] Command line restore

Hi, absolutely_f...@libero.it wrote on 2015-11-09 16:24:29 +0100 [[BackupPC-users] Command line restore]: > Hi,I am using BackupPC 3.2.1-4 (official Debian package).Is there a way to > launch a restore process through command line? yes. > I mean, I don't want to create a tar / zip archive. I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fatal error (bad version): /sbin/nologin: invalid option

Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2015-10-28 12:56:16 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Fatal error (bad version): /sbin/nologin: invalid option]: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:04 PM, fujisan > wrote: > > [...] > > So this nologin erro message does not seem to come from user

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc and acls / xattrs

Hi, Nicola Ferrari (#554252) wrote on 2015-10-17 10:26:51 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc and acls / xattrs]: > [...] > Sorry but I cant understand. -A -X options are already activated in the > rsync command in my xfer configuration in backuppc. > Do I have to upgrade to BackupPC 4.0 ? as

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackuPC with Monit

Hi, madams9 wrote on 2015-10-11 15:28:21 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] BackuPC with Monit]: > [...] > At any rate, I have a BackupPC installation on a server in a closet. It is > connected to the network wirelessly. I understand the implications but > remember - this is my personal network in my home

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow transfer via rsync?

Hi, Christian Völker wrote on 2015-09-28 14:55:35 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow transfer via rsync?]: > [...] > Why is it still so slow? it's been mentioned before, though not explicitly. What is the RTT over the VPN (i.e. between BackupPC server and client host)? How many files are we

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow transfer via rsync?

Hi, Christian Völker wrote on 2015-09-28 22:02:26 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow transfer via rsync?]: > >> Why is it still so slow? > [...] > traceroute to 192.168.1.3 (192.168.1.3), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets > 1 10.12.0.1 (10.12.0.1) 344.955 ms 355.805 ms 355.818 ms > 2 infra2

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can`t Change {TopDir} Location . .

Hi, tdevoye wrote on 2015-09-16 05:16:34 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] Can`t Change {TopDir} Location . .]: > [...] > [root@]# /etc/init.d/backuppc restart you probably mean 'service backuppc restart' ... > Shutting down BackupPC:[ OK ] > Starting BackupPC:

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

Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2015-09-22 14:30:34 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Forbidden You don't have permission to access /BackupPC on this server.]: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: > > [...] > > I don't know that that is the case, since I have been

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

Hi, Stefan Peter wrote on 2015-09-21 20:20:44 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Forbidden You don't have permission to access /BackupPC on this server.]: > Dear Bob of Donelson Trophy > > Please find my comments interspersed below: > (this is the stanza I use for noobs) [this is worth resending] >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Digest::MD5 vs md5sum

Hi, gregrwm wrote on 2015-09-15 14:08:20 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] Digest::MD5 vs md5sum]: > the following commands demonstrate that either Digest::MD5 and gnu md5sum > are not compatible, or that i haven't got the backuppc md5 formula quite > right. can anyone set me straight? probably not,

Re: [BackupPC-users] add rsync -A -X and get 'Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed)'

Hi, Robert Wooden wrote on 2015-06-26 11:45:05 + [Re: [BackupPC-users] add rsync -A -X and get 'Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed)']: I also posted this on the rsync mailing list . . . more soon. and also here on the list. Sorry for not replying yet. This was: -

Re: [BackupPC-users] Make a Inc to Full

Hi, Christian Völker wrote on 2015-06-04 18:34:29 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] Make a Inc to Full]: [...] But now I created a VM where I took a lot of snapshots and the VM was backed up by my script and BackupPC. Fine so far- but all snapshots got removed after backup. Now I have my snapshot

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups Schedule

Hi, Demon wrote on 2015-06-04 01:29:46 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] Backups Schedule]: [a lot of things] is this a question or just random noise not applying to BackupPC? +-- |This was sent by demon_brads...@yahoo.com via Backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Archive Failing

Hi, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote on 2015-06-02 20:03:04 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Archive Failing]: Mark Campbell wrote at about 10:53:04 -0700 on Tuesday, June 2, 2015: [...] Firstly, what is the difference between running nightly manually vs it being run by the daemon? It

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Archive Failing

Hi, Random wrote on 2015-05-20 05:55:49 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] BackupPC Archive Failing]: [...] an archive started failing. (I run it manually twice a month). I've tried to run it twice and it's failed each time with the same error. [...] Archive failed (Error:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issue with multiple restores

Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2015-05-22 11:53:10 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Issue with multiple restores]: On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Andy Taylor andy.tay...@sift.com wrote: Thank you for the advice Les. I compiled rsync 2.6.9 and tried a restore with it. It seems to hang now once it's

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate with only certain types of files

Hi, Timothy J Massey wrote on 2015-05-22 20:40:52 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate with only certain types of?files]: Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote on 05/22/2015 04:24:56 PM: What am I missing? How do I get BackupPC_tarCreate to create a tar file that contains

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate with only certain types of files

Hi, Timothy J Massey wrote on 2015-05-23 08:40:21 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate with only certain types of?files]: [...] In this instance, I was able to come up with enough free space to be able to do the complete restore and then grab the data I needed from that. for the

Re: [BackupPC-users] manual start backup on dhcp laptop

Hi, zdravko wrote on 2015-05-20 12:56:29 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] manual start backup on dhcp laptop]: Obviously it is both. what is it? Both of what? Network administration can be quite complicated and is beyond the scope of this *mailing list*. From what I remember from this poor imitation

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC fails to start in daemon mode on Ubuntu 14.04

Hi, (many people wrote many things at many times, but I won't quote them due to top posting - sorry) ... while this seems to be an Ubuntu packaging problem, strictly, so really the wrong list, I do wonder if the relevant log file contains anything ... Regards, Holger

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude by file size

Hi, Marios Zindilis wrote on 2015-05-11 19:02:36 +0300 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude by file size]: You can -most probably- do that with the --max-size option of rsync, I would tend to agree. Most probably means that the BackupPC side of the transfer uses the Perl module File::RsyncP rather

Re: [BackupPC-users] Manual delete script

Hi, Gerald Brandt wrote on 2015-05-07 12:54:51 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Manual delete script]: Sorry. I'm trying to delete specific backups. Some older fulls that I don't need anymore. If I recall, the script took the computer name and the backup number as arguments, and deleted the

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_fixLinks.pl

Hi, gregrwm wrote on 2015-04-22 11:48:16 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_fixLinks.pl]: i've used BackupPC_fixLinks.pl in the past with success, on RHEL. i'm trying to use it again, this time on ubuntu: # sudo -ubackuppc -H ./BackupPC_fixLinks.pl -f -q Use of qw(...) as parentheses is

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manage disk space?

Hi, Kris Lou wrote on 2015-04-15 12:57:54 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manage disk space?]: On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Dave Sill de5-backu...@sws5.ornl.gov wrote: A corollary would be: how do I know that the space BackupPC is using doesn't include a bunch of cruft like files

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manage disk space?

Hi, Mark Campbell wrote on 2015-04-15 14:37:53 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manage disk space?]: [...] The best way to remove ???orphaned??? files (i.e., files that do not have any other hard links), is to run: su ???s /bin/bash ???c ???/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manage disk space?

Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2015-04-14 09:34:35 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manage disk space?]: On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 4:57 PM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Dave Sill wrote at about 15:28:49 -0400 on Monday, April 13, 2015: We've been using BackupPC for a couple years and have

Re: [BackupPC-users] Different Blackout Periods

Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2015-04-01 13:25:56 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Different Blackout Periods]: On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:03 PM, alexander.rehb...@fmex.de wrote: I want to setup the following backup plan. Every week one full backup and every hour an incremental backup. This

Re: [BackupPC-users] Wake-on-LAN setup - no ping response

Hi, Russ Russ wrote on 2015-03-06 09:07:30 +0300 [[BackupPC-users] Wake-on-LAN setup - no ping response]: [...] I have backuppc server on Gentoo which works fine with regular client backups. Now I am configuring wake-on-lan to wake windows clients up before backup. [...] 3. Appropriate 777

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC-4.0.0alpha3 - Can't create a test hardlink between a file...

Hi, for the sake of completeness (though Adam has already made the point: it helps to understand what you are asked to do rather than blindly doing it - people make mistakes when giving advice, as the OP has proven ;-): Akibu Flash wrote on 2015-02-19 13:32:14 -0800 [Re: [BackupPC-users]

Re: [BackupPC-users] tdb_transaction_recover: attempt to recover read only database

Hi, G.W. Haywood wrote on 2015-01-08 11:33:40 + [[BackupPC-users] tdb_transaction_recover: attempt to recover read only database]: When attempting to back up Samba shares on a Linux host using BackupPC version 3.2.0 (yes I know that's quite old:) and the 'smb' method, you mean odd, right?

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem with Full Backups and Exclussions

Hi, Michelle Dupont wrote on 2015-01-05 17:22:35 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem with Full Backups and Exclussions]: On Mon, 5 Jan 2015, Francisco Suarez wrote: Thanks Michelle, I'm not sure I understand well how the exclusions work still. Only need to all content exclude these

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude all cache folders in Unix

Hi, Jose Miranda wrote on 2015-01-04 21:55:01 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Exclude all cache folders in Unix]: I'm trying to exclude all cache folders in the whole server. I'm backing up root and I want to exclude anything containing cache, such as: /home/admin/.../.../cache/.../...

Re: [BackupPC-users] Execute script before backup

Hi, Colin Shorts wrote on 2014-12-17 09:17:58 + [Re: [BackupPC-users] Execute script before backup]: On 17/12/14 07:50, Ibon Castilla wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi again, I have tested the workaround proposed by Colin, and I have a comment and a

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to delete backups

Hi, Colin Shorts wrote on 2014-12-10 11:45:41 + [Re: [BackupPC-users] How to delete backups]: You might want to press Enter before typing `/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 255', otherwise it will get deleted too. right, press Enter *before* the command, *not after*.

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to delete backups

Hi, Colin Shorts wrote on 2014-12-10 16:30:40 + [Re: [BackupPC-users] How to delete backups]: On 10/12/14 15:59, Holger Parplies wrote: Colin Shorts wrote on 2014-12-10 11:45:41 + [Re: [BackupPC-users] How to delete backups]: You might want to press Enter before typing `/usr

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to delete backups

Hi, Timothy J Massey wrote on 2014-12-10 11:53:38 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How to delete backups]: Holger Parplies wb...@parplies.de wrote on 12/10/2014 10:59:17 AM: [...] ***Never*** run BackupPC_nightly from the command line. ***Never*** advise other to do so. Really quite simple

Re: [BackupPC-users] Retrying failed files from a full backup in subsequent incremental backups

Hi, Adam Goryachev wrote on 2014-12-01 10:34:18 +1100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Retrying failed files from a full backup in subsequent incremental backups]: On 30/11/14 23:28, Bodo Eggert wrote: On 28/11/14 12:59, Bodo Eggert wrote: If a file from a full backup failed to transfer, what is the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Turning an incremental backup into a full backup

Hi, Adam Goryachev wrote on 2014-11-28 13:24:41 +1100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Turning an incremental backup into a full backup]: On 28/11/14 13:11, Bodo Eggert wrote: Is there a way to create a full backup by joining an incremental backuop and it's full backup? short answer: no, and for a

Re: [BackupPC-users] PIPE error

Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2014-11-20 12:26:39 -0600 [Re: [BackupPC-users] PIPE error]: On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:08 PM, tschmid4 tschm...@utk.edu wrote: Correct, It's a question, here's another: You are correct, the configuration was backing up a dir that was not there. However, after

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync out of memory

Hi, Christian Völker wrote on 2014-11-20 21:07:59 +0100 [[BackupPC-users] rsync out of memory]: [...] Unfortunately, I'm getting errors when backing up one host. My debugging gave the following results: bash-4.1$ ./BackupPC_dump -v -f pdc.evs-nb.de cmdSystemOrEval: about to system

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