Hi,
I agree with Les:
Les Mikesell wrote on 2011-07-11 17:18:07 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Different
UID numbers for backuppc on 2 computers]:
On 7/11/2011 4:55 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I want to archive backuppc on machine A to machine B.
(Both are running CentOS-5.6 .)
The problem is
Hi,
Christian Völker wrote on 2011-07-12 00:17:57 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] My
Solution for Off-Site]:
On 11/07/2011 21:58, Les Mikesell wrote:
The way my 'take a disk off RAID1' works is that there are 3 spare
disks, with at least one always offsite in the rotation [...]
I'm aware of
Hi,
first of all, I'm disappointed that Sourceforge's Spamassassin failed to sum
up our opinion regarding the original post with the concise description
UNWANTED_LANGUAGE_BODY.
Secondly, sending an automatic translation of your reply is a great idea :-).
Michael Stowe wrote on 2011-07-08
think of right now would be to test the configuration, and
even that doesn't seem to be that much different from running a manual backup.
Perhaps you should just run a manual backup?
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 21:15, Holger Parplies wb...@parplies.de wrote:
[...]
BackupPC_serverMesg backup all
Hi,
C. Ronoz wrote on 2011-06-30 12:54:44 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another
filesystem thread]:
[...]
- How stable is XFS?
unless I missed something, I'd say XFS is perfectly stable - more stable than
reiserfs in any case. The only thing that makes me hesitate with that statement
is
Hi,
Kelly Sauke wrote on 2011-07-01 09:21:28 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] Recompressing
individual files in pool]:
I have a need to modify certain files from backups that I have in
BackupPC. My pool is compressed and I've found I can decompress single
files using BackupPC_zcat. I can then
Hi,
Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote on Fri, 1 Jul 2011 11:56:42 -0700:
I just noticed one of my servers has not had a successful full backup
for over 60 days. Incremental backups still succeed.
have you only got a single full backup for that host, or did full backups work
up to some point in time,
Hi,
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2011-07-03 20:18:07 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Yet another filesystem thread]:
Holger Parplies wrote at about 19:31:14 +0200 on Sunday, July 3, 2011:
While the comments in config.pl state
# This can be set to a string, an array of strings
Hi,
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2011-07-03 20:29:48 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Recompressing individual files in pool]:
Holger Parplies wrote at about 20:10:20 +0200 on Sunday, July 3, 2011:
Kelly Sauke wrote on 2011-07-01 09:21:28 -0500 [[BackupPC-users]
Recompressing individual files
Hi,
Les Mikesell wrote on 2011-06-23 14:20:57 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup to
distant FTP Server]:
On 6/23/2011 6:41 AM, Arnaud Forster wrote:
I need to use backuppc with a distant FTP server as destination. So, I
used curftpfs to mount my FTP connection to a local folder and
Hi,
Les Mikesell wrote on 2011-06-23 16:19:52 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] wakeup
command?]:
On 6/23/2011 3:59 PM, gregrwm wrote:
is there a command that triggers the equivalent of a wakeup? normally i
only want 1 wakeup per day, yet for special circumstances i often find
myself editing
Hi,
Daniel Spannbauer wrote on 2011-06-20 17:27:54 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Problems rsyncing WinXP]:
[775KB deleted]
775KB to a mailing list? Congratulations.
Regards,
Holger
--
EditLive Enterprise is the world's
Hi,
Max León wrote on 2011-06-17 15:23:10 -0600 [[BackupPC-users] Problem with the
CGI interface]:
Hello,
I have BackupPC-3.2.1 running under Centos 5.6, it has been working like a
charm for the last couple of months.
However we had a server crash yesterday, it came back and everything is
Hi,
Boris HUISGEN wrote on 2011-03-02 15:53:10 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] 18 hour
incremental backups?]:
The compression is disabled (level 0 = no compression)
just for the archives: that's complete nonsense. What *should* be disabled
is top-posting. Level 0 means full backup, not compression
Hi,
Tom Brown wrote on 2011-06-08 12:25:55 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and
Win7]:
The $Conf{RsyncdPasswd} below is an example. Use the password you assign to
your backuppc user on the client PC. The password should be the same as in
the c:\your_path\rsync.secrets file.
the stupid
Hi,
Boniforti Flavio wrote on 2011-06-07 11:00:24 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Backup of VM images]:
[...]
So I'm right when thinking that rsync *does* transfer only the bits of a
file (no matter how big) which have changed, and *not* the whole file?
usually that's correct. Presuming rsync
Hi,
Gene Cooper wrote on 2011-06-07 16:28:01 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] Restore Files
Newer Than Date]:
[...]
I had a server fail today, but there was a full backup done last night.
It's many gigabytes over a WAN connection.
I had a separate local-disk backup system, which I refer to as
Hi,
higuita wrote on 2011-06-05 22:10:28 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and
Win7]:
On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 13:15:16 -0700, ow...@netptc.net wrote:
all other machines on the LAN) and pings work fine. Backuppc fires off
the error Get fatal error during xfer (no files dumped for share C$).
Hi,
sorry for the delay, I just found your mail in the depths of my mailbox.
Tobias Mayer wrote on 2011-05-19 10:50:49 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] ping
failures: dhcp clients and different subnets]:
[...]
Can anyone with knowledge of the code please have a look at this?
You don't really need
Hi,
Tyler J. Wagner wrote on 2011-06-01 16:29:47 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How to
Cancel a Restore]:
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 11:20 -0400, Long V wrote:
I would make it even more explicit by renaming it to Stop/Dequeue
Backup/Restore.
I personally prefer Whatever you are doing, just
Hi,
martin f krafft wrote on 2011-05-30 14:28:23 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
BlackoutPeriods seemingly ignored]:
also sprach martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net [2011.05.19.0925 +0200]:
[...]
It seems almost like BackupPC is just ignoring BlackoutPeriods, [...]
To answer my own question:
Hi,
Philippe Rousselot wrote on 2011-06-01 19:47:44 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] moving
temporarily PC and pool to an external drive]:
[...]
My hard drives are full and need to add one to have a new and bigger
/var partition.
In the mean time I would like to continue backing up things using
Hi,
Tyler J. Wagner wrote on 2011-06-01 17:44:47 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How to
Cancel a Restore]:
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 18:09 +0200, Holger Parplies wrote:
[...]
What do you do if you concurrently have a backup *and* a
restore running? Stop both? Only the wrong one? ;-)
It stops
Hi,
Pavel Hofman wrote on 2011-05-31 15:24:56 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] Rsynv vs.
tar, full vs. incremental]:
Incremental backup of a linux machine using tar (i.e. only files newer
than...) is several times faster than using rsync.
that could be because it is missing files that rsync catches.
Hi,
Scott wrote on 2011-05-31 19:57:11 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] hard links
again]:
I noticed the backup data appears to be stored in the pc directory. Does
that mean the hardlinks are in the pool directory and not in the pc
directory?
ah, you don't understand what hardlinks are.
Hi,
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote on 2011-05-26 06:05:48 -0500 [Re:
[BackupPC-users] Best FS for BackupPC]:
On 05/26 12:20 , Adam Goryachev wrote:
BTW, specifically related to backuppc, many years ago, reiserfsck was
perfect as it doesn't have any concept or limit on 'inodes'... Same for
Hi,
first of all, my personal experience with reiserfs is also that it lost a
complete pool FS (apparently, the cpool directory disappeared and was
re-created by BackupPC *several times* before I noticed the problem).
Rebuilding the tree obviously gave me a state that is next to impossible
to fix
Hi,
Nick Bright wrote on 2011-05-22 23:27:58 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How to
delete specific files from backups? (with BackupPC_deleteFile.pl)]:
On 5/22/2011 7:14 PM, Nick Bright wrote:
Sounds to me like the BackupPC_deleteFile script is the way to go:
[...]
No matter what options I give
Hallo,
samuel_w...@t-online.de wrote on 2011-05-23 11:44:33 +0200 [[BackupPC-users]
Archive without tarball - directly to the file system]:
htmlheadtitle/titlemeta http-equiv=Content-Type [...]
ungefaehr bis dahin bin ich gekommen, bevor ich den Rest der Mail ignoriert
habe. Bitte HTML-Mails
I erraneously wrote to the list
Holger Parplies wrote on 2011-05-23 16:30:57 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Archive without tarball - directly to the file system]:
Hallo,
[...]
sorry, that was meant to be off-list. *kick my MUA*
Regards,
Holger
Hi,
Doug Lytle wrote on 2011-05-21 15:49:57 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC on
XFS getting lots of error -4 when calling...]:
Holger Parplies wrote:
Where do you get the impression there's anything wrong with the file system?
2011-05-20 14:39:37 BackupPC_link got error -4 when
Hi,
Mike wrote on 2011-05-20 09:05:11 -0300 [Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC and
MooseFS?]:
[...]
being able to say I want to have 2 copies of anything in this directory
and 3 copies of anything in this directory is very nice. [...]
Les Mikesell wrote on 2011-05-23 11:12:18 -0500 [Re:
Hi,
Brycie wrote on 2011-05-23 07:24:50 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] No ping respons on
localhost after ubuntu upgrade]:
I had exactly the same problem,
I suppose you're referring to something?
+--
|This was sent by
Hi,
djsmiley2k wrote on 2011-05-20 07:13:51 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] BackupPC on XFS
getting lots of error -4 when calling...]:
Not sure exactly how to post logs correctly so I'm gonna go ahead with
the straight paste.
generally, it's a good idea to mention what your problem is first. Nobody
Hi,
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2011-05-18 02:41:15 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Best NAS device to run BackupPC ?]:
[...]
let's end this thread...
great idea, I second that!
Timothy's point, as I understand it, was that if you *do* have buggy NFS
implementations, you have the choice of
Hi,
Audi Narayana Reddy wrote on 2011-05-18 18:49:54 +0530 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
How to know backups stored or not]:
Thanks for replay
is this a replay attack?
but I have some problem like while i am going to this path
bash: cd: /var/lib/backuppc/: Permission denied
Please note: not all
Hi,
Bowie Bailey wrote on 2011-05-17 12:05:15 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Smarter
CGI]:
On 5/17/2011 9:11 AM, Steven Johnson wrote:
Greetings,
I would like to add some automation to the CGI interface. Firstly, in
the Xfer config screen for Rsyncd or SMB hosts, I would like to make the
Hi,
Magnus Larsson wrote on 2011-05-17 23:08:58 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] No ping
respons on localhost after ubuntu?upgrade]:
[context dropped as I have not yet implemented un-toppost.pl]
localhost 0 backuppc
Then there is a localhost.pl.
regardless of why it doesn't work
Hi,
Steven Johnson wrote on 2011-05-14 04:57:18 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Exclude
files from share and its subfolders]:
Greetings,
I've excluded a few files and folders from being backed up but i would
like to exclude certain files (e.g. *.bak files and /.AppleDB folders
from all subfolders
Hi,
Robin Lee Powell wrote on 2011-05-13 14:36:14 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Backup retention and deletion.]:
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:47:27PM +0200, Matthias Meyer wrote:
Robin Lee Powell wrote:
[...]
My questions:
1. When and how do deletions of the excess occur?
read the
Hi,
first of all, please avoid HTML mail to mailing lists at all costs. Thank you.
The OP wrote:
thanks for the reply, seems to be the latter as I can easily connect
to the smb host with other windows and mac machines.
Yes, but you don't say as which user, which is the whole point.
Hi,
Tyler J. Wagner wrote on 2011-05-12 16:35:31 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
backuppc sauvegarde automatique comment on fait ?]:
On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 02:31 -0700, driss wrote:
j'ai installe un serveur debian avec un serveur de sauvegarde backuppc pour
sauvegarder un client windows xp et
Hi,
RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN wrote on 2011-05-04 01:47:51 -0600 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
FreeBSD port Broken?]:
[...]
Adjust the command line to work with FreeBSD not sure how to go about this?
just like any time you're looking at a command prompt and wondering what to
type.
I presume editing the
Hi,
Les Mikesell wrote on 2011-05-03 15:14:08 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Not able
to use the backuppc account in freebsd]:
I'm surprised that sudo doesn't honor the user's shell.
really? It's really not surprising. The semantics of sudo is allow executing
/exact/path/to/some/command as user X
Hi,
Les Mikesell wrote on 2011-04-28 23:15:52 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] RAID and
offsite]:
On 4/28/11 9:50 PM, Holger Parplies wrote:
I'm sure that's a point where we'll all disagree with each other :-).
Personally, I wouldn't use a common set of disks for normal backup operation
Hi,
Michael Conner wrote on 2011-04-27 10:27:18 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] RAID
and offsite]:
On Apr 26, 2011, at 12:08 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On 4/26/2011 11:38 AM, Michael Conner wrote:
[...]
Someone used a RAID 1 setup but only put in the second disk periodically,
then removed it
Hi,
Les Mikesell wrote on 2011-04-27 20:36:13 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] RAID and
offsite]:
On 4/27/11 7:10 PM, Chris Parsons wrote:
On 28/04/2011 6:52 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
I've forgotten the original context, but if it is setting up a new
system you don't have much to lose in the
Hi,
Stephen Gelman wrote on 2011-04-20 22:57:38 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] Can't
Fork Crash on Nexenta (Solaris)]:
On Nexenta (which is essentially an OpenSolaris derivative), I seem to have
issues where BackupPC crashes every once and a while. When it crashes, the
log says:
Can't fork at
Hi,
jguillem wrote on 2011-04-26 05:54:56 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] incremental
smbclient directory empty]:
What commands you use to perform the incremental backup?
standard rsync over ssh. Why?
To full backup I try it and works:
smbclient //host/share -U user -E -d 1 -c tarmode\ inc -Tc
Hi,
martin f krafft wrote on 2011-04-17 16:43:07 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Renaming files causes retransfer?]:
also sprach John Rouillard rouilj-backu...@renesys.com [2011.04.17.1625
+0200]:
In terms of backuppc, this means that the files will have to be
transferred again, completely,
Hi,
Lee A. Connell wrote on 2011-04-20 16:58:15 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Downloading
copy of backup from zip file over 4GB]:
When I try to download tar or zip backup file over 4GB the download
fails. What can be causing this?
the same as in the thread a few days ago: quite a lot of things.
Hi,
Jake Wilson wrote on 2011-04-14 10:04:42 -0600 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How to
force full backups on weekends?]:
I did search Google and researched the topic in the wiki and documentation
and the only thing I could find remotely related was the cron scheduling
page in the wiki.
in my
Hi,
Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago wrote on 2011-04-14 12:31:08 +0200 [[BackupPC-users]
Re-read hostname config after DumpPreUserCmd]:
[...]
I have a bunch of virtual servers in our platform that I wish to backup.
The issue here is that sometimes they're turned on and sometimes they're
off. I
archive file?]:
From: Holger Parplies
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 12:38 AM
- Which user on the target host do you need to connect as? Perhaps root?
When the backuppc user connects to a host to do a backup, it uses a
passwordless login with ssh keys. The password entered the very first time I
Hi,
Saturn2888 wrote on 2011-04-12 19:40:50 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] Block-level
rsync-like hashing dd?]:
My goodness that's a lot of replies; although, almost all of them are from
a post I made a while back which I've elaborated on at least 3 times since.
that is probably due to the fact
Hi,
just to add an option for the archives ...
Sorin Srbu wrote on 2011-04-13 14:38:29 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] How to restore
an 8GB archive file?]:
[...]
Not initially knowing how big it actually was, using BPC I downloaded it in a
zipped and uncompressed format to my Windows machine, then
Hi,
Sorin Srbu wrote on 2011-04-06 16:11:55 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Making
errors in log stand out]:
[...]
Thanks Bowie. Seemed to have done the trick, but I don't see anything red
in the logs. 8-/ Checked all logs, the machine specific as well as the
general summary log.
the log files
Hi,
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2011-04-13 17:33:05 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
How to force full backups on weekends?]:
[...]
Does anybody bother to do a Google search or read the archives before
WASTING our time asking the EXACT same question that was asked just a
couple of weeks ago?
Hi,
John Rouillard wrote on 2011-03-31 15:20:23 + [[BackupPC-users]
BackupPC_dump hangs with: .: size doesn't match (12288 vs 17592185913344)]:
[...]
I get a bunch of output (the share being backed up /etc on a centos
5.5. box) which ends with:
attribSet: dir=f%2fetc exists
Hi,
Tyler J. Wagner wrote on 2011-04-04 15:54:00 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Viewing detail of a backup in progress?]:
On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 09:41 -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat XferLOG.z |tail
Note that the the log files, like XferLOG.z, are
Hi,
Bowie Bailey wrote on 2011-04-04 11:36:18 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] excluding
files]:
On 4/3/2011 5:59 PM, Scott wrote:
[...]
In the web interface I added an entry for: *.MPG
[...]
You probably just put the entry in the wrong place.
[...]
[...] followed by your *.MPG
Hi,
Matthias Meyer wrote on 2011-04-03 20:06:31 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Keeping
1 month of files and number of full backups]:
Scott wrote:
I want to be able to restore a file for users up to one month in the past.
What is the difference / what is the best -
To do a full backup
Hi,
Tom Brown wrote on 2011-03-30 16:13:44 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Auth failed
on module cDrive]:
It appears I've solved the problem.
well, then this reply might be redundant or wrong.
I am surprised it took this long for someone to respond to my inquiry
Sorry, I used to read all mail
Hi,
Chris Baker wrote on 2011-03-28 13:44:21 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] moved server,
now stuck in chkdsk]:
I should have figured that I couldn't do this without some problem popping
up.
well, yes, they tend to do so when it suits you least.
I shut the server down properly. I moved it. Now
Hi,
Scott wrote on 2011-03-18 13:38:27 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] error -4 help]:
What do these errors mean? I have LOTS of them -
yes, we know. Basically, one for each file.
[...]
2011-03-18 11:04:21 BackupPC_link got error -4 when calling
MakeFileLink(/mnt/backuppc/pc/2510c
Hi,
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2011-03-09 17:43:41 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Still trying to understand reason for extremely slow backup speed...]:
[...] I actually used my program that I posted to copy
it over and I checked that all the links are ok.
I believe you have changed more than
Hi,
Robin Lee Powell wrote on 2011-02-02 08:12:47 -0800 [[BackupPC-users] General
questions about the background queue and link commands.]:
Let me ask some more general questions: What does the background queue
actually *mean*?
from the source (3.2.0beta0, but probably unchanged):
#-
Hi,
itismike wrote on 2011-01-18 09:51:05 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] backuppc ignores
value of BackupFilesOnly; archives entire /]:
[...]
I don't intend to sound terse toward those reaching out to help me; only
point out that any newcomer to this program is going to hit this same wall
every
Hi,
On 1/17/2011 12:18 AM, itismike wrote:
I'm running an Ubuntu client with ecryptFS enabled. Since my home
directory is encrypted, I'd like to perform the backup as myself rather
than root so the files are browsable by me and restore is possible.
while I don't really know what the
Hi,
Madcha wrote on 2011-01-07 08:56:45 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] Copy the log dir
from /var/lib/backuppc/log]:
I have created a new data store for my backupps
I have created symbolink links
from var/lib/backuppc/cpool to /media/backuppc/cpool
from var/lib/backuppc/pc to /media/backuppc/pc
Hi,
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2010-12-07 13:16:32 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Bizarre form of cpool corruption.]:
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 23:46:11 -0800 on Monday, December 6, 2010:
[...]
So, yeah, that's really it. They're both really there, and that's
the right md5sum,
Hi,
Les Mikesell wrote on 2010-12-09 17:08:05 -0600 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Bizarre
form of cpool corruption.]:
On 12/9/2010 4:44 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
If I recall correctly, the first time you would do a
subsequent incremental then it should all get linked back to the pool
since
Hi,
Les Mikesell wrote on 2009-12-21 14:58:03 -0600 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
incremental backup question]:
Mester wrote:
My TarClientCmd is:
'$sshPath -q -x -l backup -o PreferredAuthentications=publickey $host
/usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C LANG=en_EN /usr/bin/sudo $tarPath -c -v -f - -C
Hi,
Mester wrote on 2009-12-19 21:49:58 +0100 [[BackupPC-users] incremental backup
question]:
I use backuppc on a Debian Linux 5.0 server for backing up another
Debian Linux 5.0 server over the internet with tar over ssh.
The first full backup is created succesfully but the incremental
Hi,
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2009-12-18 15:36:48 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Unexpected call?BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncFileIO-unlink(...)]:
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 13:11:37 -0500 on Monday, November 2, 2009:
Unexpected call
Hi,
Georg Schilling wrote on 2009-12-15 11:29:26 +0100 [[BackupPC-users] Problems
on Ubuntu 9.10-Client]:
[...]
after adding a Ubuntu-Client to our BackupPC-Server I'm struggeling in
some kind of rsync-problems. Apart from that. all other Ubuntu-Clients
(!=9.10)work like a charm. Our
Hi,
Tino Schwarze wrote on 2009-12-09 20:50:35 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] a
slightly different question about rsync for?offsite backups]:
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 10:57:13AM -0800, Omid wrote:
[...]
if the usb drive does not mount for whatever reason (either because it
hasn't been plugged
Hi,
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2009-12-09 02:33:35 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
convert from rsync to rsyncd]:
[...]
That being said, I don't think / will pose a problem since BackupPC
saves the rsync / share name as f%2f (mangled form) which is
equivalent to an unmangled %2f share name
Hi,
Pat Rice wrote on 2009-12-09 11:04:37 + [[BackupPC-users] making a mirror
image of the backup pc disk]:
[...]
What I would like to know, or if any on had any experience of:
Making a mirror or the backup disk:
well, yes, it is an FAQ, but in short:
Should I do a dd?
Yes, in your
Hi,
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2009-12-07 12:10:00 -0500 [[BackupPC-users]
localhost translated as 127.0.0.1 vs. ::1 messing up permissions]:
[post ignored due to senders request]
I think the fourth option is the easiest and most straightforward:
My /etc/hosts file has these (Fedora
Hi,
Matthieu Bollot wrote on 2009-11-18 14:25:44 +0100 [[BackupPC-users] cronjob if
needed]:
I want to send an email after 7 days since the last backup, so I could
setEMailNotifyOldBackupDays to 6.97.
But what I actually want is to send an e-mail at 12am. So I could make a
cron job :
00
Hi,
Nick Bright wrote on 2009-11-09 17:57:11 -0600 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup
fails after running 8-10 hours]:
Les Mikesell wrote:
Nick Bright wrote:
[...]
full backup started for directory /
Running:
Hi,
Bowie Bailey wrote on 2009-10-22 11:17:22 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Cant find
how to set what is backed up!]:
Holger Parplies wrote:
P.S.: You don't need to worry about write permissions unless you want to
modify these files through the web interface.
Which is highly
Hi,
Tyler J. Wagner wrote on 2009-10-21 15:35:20 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] how to
have 1 full backup + incrementals forever?]:
But you'd also want to adjust the IncrKeepCnt to 8*6 = 42,
to keep those dailies.
for the archives, 8*6 is 48, not 42. Remember: what do you get if you
multiply
Hi,
Andrew Schulman wrote on 2009-10-21 05:49:59 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Cant
find how to set what is backed up!]:
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
Hi,
giorgio p wrote on 2009-10-21 16:25:54 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Cant find how
to set what is backed up!]:
Thanks for the replies.
did you read them?
I'm wondering if I have missed something more basic...
Yes, you did. Let me rephrase my previous reply.
Here are the permissions on
Hi,
s...@pm7.ch wrote on 2009-10-16 02:05:07 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Discrepant
file size reports of backups]:
[...]
Both directories are in the same filesystem and the path was most likely
changed right after the installation.
/var/lib/backuppc and /usr/share/backuppc/data ? That would
Hi,
Adam Goryachev wrote on 2009-10-15 21:02:24 +1100 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Discrepant file size reports of backups]:
Stefan Dürrenberger wrote:
$Conf{TopDir} = '/usr/share/backuppc/data';
r...@server:/var/lib/backuppc# du -h --max-depth=1
r...@server:/usr/share/backuppc# du -h
Hi,
Andrew Schulman wrote on 2009-10-14 14:37:36 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] editing
the wiki]:
I'd like to add a section or page to the wiki, about usage of
BackupPC_serverMesg.
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=ServerMesg_commands
How do I go about getting edit
Hi,
Patric Hafner wrote on 2009-10-08 16:29:54 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] Pooling
doesn't work]:
i'm running BackupPC 3.1.0 with Debian Lenny. BackupPC is responsible
for about 5 Clients which are backupped over rsync/ssh.
My problem is, that during an incremental backup nearly every file is
Hi again,
I was just going to add that your subject is incorrect, but I see that you
seem to be having a second issue. Sorry for replying a bit hastily, but your
wording does make it rather easy to draw incorrect conclusions (or rather miss
essential points).
Patric Hafner wrote on 2009-10-08
Hi,
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2009-10-07 09:33:51 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] What
happened to the part of the Wiki with user-contributed utilities?]:
I was trying to add updated versions of my routines (e.g.,
BackupPC_deleteFile, BackupPC_fixLinks) to the user contribution
portion of the Wiki
Hi,
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2009-10-07 16:30:54 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
What happened to the part of the Wiki with?user-contributed utilities?]:
Michael Stowe wrote at about 14:11:36 -0500 on Wednesday, October 7, 2009:
[...]
I'm not sure if the toolbox appears if you're logged
Hi,
Laura_marpplet wrote on 2009-10-05 13:33:31 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Backup,
Lighttp and my mess]:
[...]
But when I try to run the CGI script I got a 500 - Internal Server Error.
Reading the lighttpd error file it just says Can't access() script. I
checked the permissions and they look
Hi,
Anand Gupta wrote on 2009-10-07 01:49:41 +0530 [[BackupPC-users] Need help on
scheduling, full backups and excluding directories]:
[...]
2. I have excluded the following directories in backup
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'*' = [
'WUTemp',
'UsrClass.dat',
'NTUSER.DAT',
Hi,
Boyko Yordanov - Exsisto Ltd. wrote on 2009-10-02 19:15:40 +0300
[[BackupPC-users] unable to restore via zip archives]:
[...] BackupPC version 3.2.0beta0 [...]
I am unable to restore files via zip archives with compression (1-9).
The web interface prompts me to save the file, but then
Hi,
Valarie Moore wrote on 2009-10-01 16:11:16 + [[BackupPC-users] Variable in
Host Configuration File]:
I have a host configuration file like this:
$Conf{ClientNameAlias} = 'localhost';
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync';
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = '/home/jeixav';
$Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = 'sudo
Hi,
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2009-09-29 02:49:11 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Switching backup methods]:
Holger Parplies wrote at about 15:54:25 +0200 on Saturday, September 26, 2009:
[...]
3. I believe I recall reading that *restoring* a backup *made with rsync*
with the tar
Hi,
backu...@omidia.com wrote on 2009-09-28 08:48:44 -0700 [[BackupPC-users]
problem purging files with pool size]:
i'm having a problem purging files and with the size of my pool.
i'm running version 2.1.2pl0.
in the past, i've modified the $Conf{FullKeepCnt} so that it's more
Hi,
Christian Neumann wrote on 2009-09-28 15:57:24 +0100 [[BackupPC-users]
Exponential expiring incremental backups with IncrKeepCnt?]:
[...]
The documentation mentions exponential expiring incremental backups
(http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#backup_basics): BackupPC
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