Hi,
Les Mikesell wrote on 2009-05-21 16:30:35 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob
Question Time... backup up localhost]:
Skip Guenter wrote:
[...]
I do have user backuppc set up to be able to run rsync w/o a password
via: sudo visudo
which shows:
# User privilege specification
root
Hi,
Rob Terhaar wrote on 2009-05-21 13:01:58 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] backup the
backuppc pool with bacula]:
[...]
Try Rsync v3, it has much lower memory requirements since it builds
the file list incrementally.
by all means, try it. But it's not the file list that is the specific problem
Hi,
Les Mikesell wrote on 2009-05-20 08:36:49 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] A problem
really hard to handle : BackupPc Crashing]:
SebClight wrote:
As this being my first post, I'll maybe do it wrong :P
well, since you're asking, Backup Central seems to have managed to mess up your
log file
Hi,
Boniforti Flavio wrote on 2009-05-19 08:53:31 +0200 [RE: [BackupPC-users]
[SUGGESTION] Duration/mins not in decimal format]:
Depending on whether you want to entertain bored users, bill
your clients for bandwidth, or conduct scientific
measurements, the answers are likely to be
Hi,
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote on 2009-05-19 11:54:16 -0500 [Re:
[BackupPC-users] backup the backuppc pool with bacula]:
On 05/19 11:35 , Les Mikesell wrote:
Have you ever restored one of these tapes, and if so, how long did it
take? As a wild guess, I'd expect a couple of days where
Hi,
Les Mikesell wrote on 2009-05-19 11:12:25 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] backup
the backuppc pool with bacula]:
[...] the newest version of rsync is supposed to handle the hardlinks more
efficiently.
reason suggests that this is an urban myth. The newest version of rsync
handles *large file
Hi,
David Nalley wrote on 2009-05-19 14:08:15 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Empty hosts
status page after server move]:
I recently 'puppetized' my BackupPC config and moved from hosting it on
physical hardware to hosting it on a vm and also moved from CentOS 5.x
to Fedora, both are on BackupPC
Hi,
Boniforti Flavio wrote on 2009-05-18 22:14:50 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
[SUGGESTION] Duration/mins not in decimal format]:
Il 18.05.09 17:34, Adam Goryachev mailingli...@websitemanagers.com.au ha
scritto:
[...]
the question I believe should have been asked long ago is: What problem are
Hi [Arrow] MhagnumDw,
mhagnumdw wrote on 2009-05-16 12:58:45 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Backup restored
missing + FileSys::SmbClient + File Size]:
Hi all.
Anyone know anything?
yes, I know some things. For instance, I should be updating the wiki page
Hi,
Matthias Meyer wrote on 2009-05-15 08:48:00 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync]:
Tim Cole wrote:
First: please do not use html messages
Yep.
I have a similar question.nbsp; I'm using rsync for transfer and need to
exclude a few windows directories
Hi,
Tim Cole wrote on 2009-05-15 11:46:52 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Behavior of
BackupFilesExclude for rsync]:
[...]
Here's a snip from the log and my config file so you can see what I'm
talking about:
ah, that pretty much clears up everything. Which is not to say there may not
be other
Hi,
Bharat Mistry wrote on 2009-05-15 15:57:57 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
[SUGGESTION] Duration/mins not in decimal format]:
and 31.21 GB instead of 31214312331231 bytes!!
(. instead of !!, too? :)
Ability to email a list of files backed up per host wood me kool
Hi,
Skip Guenter wrote on 2009-05-12 10:31:27 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] Pre-Install
Question on pooling]:
[...]
will pooling be in effect for the multitude of duplicates across these
directories all on the same machine (from that servers perspective)?
yes. Same content, same pool file,
Hi,
Adam Goryachev wrote on 2009-05-11 22:55:34 +1000 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
BackupPC 3.0.0 - 3.2.0 - Major increase in backup?time consumption.]:
Oblivian wrote:
We've had a BackupPC 3.0.0 installation running smoothly on Ubuntu 8.04
for quite some time now. However, April 15th, we upgraded
Hi,
Les Mikesell wrote on 2009-05-08 19:58:12 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] invalid
mail option]:
Tim Cole wrote:
I'm having trouble getting backuppc configured to send status emails.
In the log I noticed it's trying to use the -t option which doesn't
work. I tried changing the mail
Hi,
Madcha wrote on 2009-05-07 03:32:10 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] trashClean won't
clean]:
Sorry to erply so late,
obviously this *does* reference something (though the subject suggests it
doesn't). I could probably look through the archives to find out what. Or
visit Backup Central.
I'dont
Hi,
Laruin d'Volts wrote on 2009-05-05 17:58:43 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] Putting
pool / backing up to DVD]:
[...]
Does this mean the pool is streaming to the DVD?
you can't really stream to DVD, and the pool doesn't stream well in any case.
Well, in my case, I simply want everything to
Hi,
Les Mikesell wrote on 2009-04-30 07:55:02 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc]:
soume86 wrote:
I installed rsync on the customer and I also have chooses rsync as the
configuration of backuppc. When I make again the saving, he says to me
that the saving failed (No. rows dumped for
Hi,
Boniforti Flavio wrote on 2009-04-29 09:00:46 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How
BackupPC finds host when using SSH tunnel?]:
[...]
that is the only logical thing to do. You're saying the
client machine to be backed up is actually named localhost
If you mean client machine name =
Hi,
for the archives ...
Boniforti Flavio wrote on 2009-04-29 16:06:23 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Defining data retention periods]:
close, but not quite. In order for the incremental to be done
against the last incremental, you need to set
$Conf{IncrLevels} = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6];
Hi list,
on the topic of importing files from a local source to speed up the first
remote backup (eg. by sending a HDD with the current contents),
I wrote on 2009-04-09 01:19:17 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How do the files
look like when transferred?]:
[...]
there should be a really
simple
Hi,
Peter Bloomfield wrote on 2009-05-01 16:56:45 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Rsyncd
and WinXP]:
[...] backing up a WinXP machine over rync.
I take it that is actually missing a d as well as the s? ;-)
[...]
Got fatal error during xfer (chdir failed)
Backup aborted (chdir failed)
Hi,
Christopher Derr wrote on 2009-04-30 09:51:05 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] Ubuntu
Stability]:
[...]
the system [...] crashes often.
[...]
Thoughts about Ubuntu or my upgrade in general?
I agree with the other opinions that it is a hardware problem. I would like to
add the power supply as a
Hi,
Boniforti Flavio wrote on 2009-04-29 14:22:36 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Defining data retention periods]:
OK, now the main question of my post: data retention.
[...]
In my actual setup when the oldest FULL gets deleted (because it is now
older than 4 weeks), do I loose also all
Hi,
Matthias Meyer wrote on 2009-04-28 20:52:55 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
backuppc]:
[...]
actually, you're right. There are some things evident from the log file
extract even without understanding the question.
soume86 wrote:
[...]
Running: /usr/bin/smbclient 192.168.1.100\\C\$ -U
Hi,
Boniforti Flavio wrote on 2009-04-28 22:55:49 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How
BackupPC finds host when using SSH tunnel?]:
[...]
I *didn't* change
the default PingCmd and it still works on my client hosts! I read that pings
are successful... Thus my question was about how it comes that
Hi,
Boniforti Flavio wrote on 2009-04-28 23:03:05 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] Defining
data retention periods]:
Am I right if I understand that leaving INCR Backups with IncrLevel=1, means
in fact that every incremental backup is done in relation to the most recent
FULL backup?
yes.
Thus, if
Hi,
kyeto wrote on 2009-04-21 15:57:48 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] External backup
with rsyncd]:
I use backuppc for my severals clients, it's good.
you use Backup Central for posting to this mailing list. That's bad.
My server will download the file of the client thanks to Internet. I think
to
Hi,
David Lasker wrote on 2009-04-22 10:10:20 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] best way
to upgrade to and downgrade from 3.2 beta?]:
Can you point me to a reference on how to build the package for Ubuntu or
Debian? My Google foo is not strong enough to figure this out for myself.
well, as Carl
Hi,
Rob Owens wrote on 2009-04-22 21:23:08 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Harmless
button when trying to start?backups using links browser]:
[...]
If you have an ssh server running on the BackupPC machine, you can use
port forwarding as somebody else suggested:
ssh -L 8080:localhost:80
Hi,
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote on 2009-04-13 11:48:40 -0500 [Re:
[BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?]:
In any case, you really do want compression in most cases.
the only exception that I use, is when you're backing up the local machine.
This way you can still recover
Hi,
Tim Hall wrote on 2009-04-13 10:30:19 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] RSYNC xfer
failing backuppc version?3.2.0beta0]:
Hi Thanks for the Reply. The xfer method ftp in the error
confused me as well, from the CGI interface it is set to
rsync When I check the hosts config file there is NO line
Hi,
Adam Goryachev wrote on 2009-04-13 13:15:40 +1000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Not
backing up more that first?module/directory (rsyncd)]:
Holger Parplies wrote:
Boniforti Flavio wrote on 2009-04-12 10:20:12 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] Not
backing up more that first module/directory (rsyncd
Hi,
Boniforti Flavio wrote on 2009-04-12 10:20:12 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] Not
backing up more that first module/directory (rsyncd)]:
I¹ve succesfully set up BackupPC to get data from remote Windows hosts with
ssh tunnel and rsyncd.
What I¹m now experiencing is that after having correctly
Hi,
Craig Barratt wrote on 2009-04-12 12:10:06 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] RSYNC
xfer failing backuppc version 3.2.0beta0]:
Tim writes:
Hi I just installed the latest backuppc
version 3.2.0beta0. When I try to do
a full backup of a test host I'm seeing
this error in the log
Hi,
Boniforti Flavio wrote on 2009-04-10 11:53:05 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] How to
simply sync and not do full/incremental backups?]:
As I'm reading further the docs, some questions arise.
I want to use BackupPC to simply sync remote hosts, which store from 5GB
to 30GB of data. As I'm using
Hi,
Bharat Mistry wrote on 2009-04-10 08:28:32 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] silly
question - is there a Forum for BackupPC]:
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Joe Bordes j...@tsolucio.com wrote:
I'm willing to set this up if there is need.
I personally like the forum a lot.
Space and
Hi,
Boniforti Flavio wrote on 2009-04-10 14:30:56 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How
to simply sync and not do full/incremental backups?]:
You need regular full backups as a means to *cut down* the
traffic. Search the archives for countless explanations of
why this is so. There's also an
Hi,
first of all, could we perhaps agree on one thread? They're all about the same
issue, and it's getting confusing.
Adam Goryachev wrote on 2009-04-11 00:34:38 +1000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How do
the files look like when transferred?]:
Boniforti Flavio wrote:
I'm about to import data from
Hi,
Bharat Mistry wrote on 2009-04-10 18:05:31 +0100 [Re: [OT] Re: [BackupPC-users]
silly question - is there a Forum for BackupPC]:
all I said is I prefer Forum
fair enough.
For me and I suspect most others like any good application this will be
INSTALL FORGET excercise. Yes, Lists and
Hi,
Laurin d'Volts wrote on 2009-04-08 23:10:37 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] I don't get
how to do a local backup with tar]:
I'm playing with the CGI, and I can't grasp the logic of backuppc.
I won't comment on that.
What I want to do is tar only certain folders.
xfermethod = tar
TarShareName
Hi,
Simon Fishley wrote on 2009-03-30 12:42:36 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] BackupPC on
OpenSolaris]:
I have been trying to get this added to the Wiki on SourceForge but it
refuses to save my changes. Here then is a guide to installing
BackupPC on OpenSolaris10. Please will someone try and get it
Hi,
Koen Linders wrote on 2009-04-09 13:24:29 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup
remote ftp server (internet site)]:
You can't directly backup an ftp host.
not true. Read the changelog for 3.2.0.
Van: Mirco Piccin [mailto:pic...@gmail.com]
Verzonden: donderdag 9 april 2009 12:48
Aan:
Hi,
Boniforti Flavio wrote on 2009-04-09 15:50:45 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Sending csums, cnt = 0, phase = 1 - Backups stuck!]:
Therefore we should pray to get File::RsyncP which supports protocol
version 30 asap, right?
well, that's what Jeffrey's doing :-).
Remind me, please, which
Hi,
Boniforti Flavio wrote on 2009-04-09 17:47:56 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Sending csums, cnt = 0, phase = 1 - Backups stuck!]:
[...]
Following is the BackupPC command, I don't see *relevant* differences...
Sending args: --server --sender -rtvz --delete --ignore-errors
--numeric-ids
Hi,
Mirco Piccin wrote on 2009-04-09 17:36:17 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup
remote ftp server (internet site)]:
There are two more occurrences of the same typo and
several usages of $t-{host} instead of $args-{Host}, though that is
probably
intentional (logging the host name as
Hi,
Enrique Jiménez Campos wrote on 2009-03-30 15:35:48 +0200 [[BackupPC-users]
backups schedule]:
Hi List ! i already read all official documentation about Backuppc schedule
but i dont understand very much... i try to make auto full backup one day to
week (02:00 am in all mondays for
Hi,
Simone Marzona wrote on 2009-03-15 07:13:31 +0100 [[BackupPC-users] logging..]:
is there a wey to make backuppc log through syslog and not to his
regular file(s)?
not without patching the source.
Regards,
Holger
Hi,
Boniforti Flavio wrote on 2009-04-08 10:13:41 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Here
my log]:
Executing DumpPreUserCmd: /root/tunnel.sh -f administra...@mail...
-L 8874:127.0.0.1:873 sleep 20
^
[...]
Exactly. You need to check my HOWTO again, as the rsyncd port
Hi,
Johan Ehnberg wrote on 2009-04-08 10:28:53 +0300 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
BackupPC, rsync and ssh]:
[...]
2) what's the meaning of + sign at the end of $argList?
[...]
2) Maybe something with variables... someone else may know better.
quoting the default config file (explaining the
Hi,
o...@jltechinc.com wrote on 2009-04-07 23:48:59 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Backuppc CGI Interface not working for me]:
Adam, thanks for pointing Laurin in the right direction.
to me it does not appear as though he has acted on *any* of the advice given
to him on the list. Adam did not
Hi,
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2009-04-08 17:58:04 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
How do the files look like when transferred?]:
John Rouillard wrote at about 20:55:14 + on Wednesday, April 8, 2009:
[...]
For extra credit a:
BackupPC_import -H hostname -s share directory
Hi,
o...@jltechinc.com wrote on 2009-04-08 19:16:43 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Include only specified folders - how]:
I've got the same issue Bharat,
that's a rather wild guess. Bharat has not really said anything about his
configuration, making it hard to guess what his issue actually is.
Hi,
Johan Ehnberg wrote on 2009-04-08 15:49:30 +0300 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Here my
log]:
[...]
SSH is backgrounded with the -f switch.
ah, didn't know that one, but it's just what is needed here, obviously.
[...]
- The script which starts ssh (or, equivalently, the
ssh echo sequence)?
Hi,
Matthias Meyer wrote on 2009-04-01 20:58:55 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] initial
backup seems to loop again and again]:
I've a problem with the initial backup of a vista client, called myclient.
This client ist connected over internet with an 1Mbit/s upload bandwidth and
have
100GB of
Hi,
Tino Schwarze wrote on 2009-03-26 18:21:53 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Incremental Backup]:
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:56:36PM -0400, kyeto wrote:
Ah ok,
I have copied the files from an another folder.
How can i tell to backuppc to check the create date of the file and not the
Hi,
Juergen Harms wrote on 2009-01-29 10:41:22 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Arguments for --filter don't get proper escaping]:
Thomas Karcher wrote on 2009-01-29 09:59:51 +0100 [[BackupPC-users] Arguments
for --filter don't get proper escaping]:
I'm thrilled of this just discovered
Hi,
Matthias Meyer wrote on 2009-01-28 08:30:54 +0100 [[BackupPC-users] against
which basis rsync do compare files before transmit the changed part?]:
I do not fully understand how rsync works within backuppc.
In the documentation for BackupPC_dump I found:
As BackupPC_tarExtract extracts
Hi,
Tino Schwarze wrote on 2009-01-21 10:48:50 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Designing a BackupPC install over a WAN -?minimising Full backups]:
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 02:08:31PM +0900, Peter Wright wrote:
[
Adam Goryachev, Wed, Jan 21 2009, 14:01:19 +1100:
David Crisp, Wed, Jan 21 2009,
Hi,
Jean-Michel Beuken hijacked a thread and wrote on 2009-01-15 13:56:19 +0100
[[BackupPC-users] rsync exclude syntax]:
[...]
here is the used setting :
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = [
'/Users/garant/Library/Preferences/ByHost/*00224126372e.plist' ];
notice the wildcard '*' in the
Hi,
Juergen Harms wrote on 2009-01-07 17:39:25 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Change
target directory]:
$Conf{TopDir} appears to be a hardly coded variable.
is that supposed to be a pun?
[...]
I had found clear instructions on what to do in the wiki, but can't find
them any more - the wiki
Hi,
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky top-posted (please don't do that) on 2009-01-08 13:11:17
-0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] vista backup question]:
[...]
Similar but not the same by any means.
Junction points are more powerful and hence more dangerous than
hardlinks.
- Junction points can be on
Hi,
Cody Dunne wrote on 2009-01-08 13:32:00 +0800 [Re: [BackupPC-users] vista
backup question]:
[...]
See http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/projs/backuppc_guide.html#Xfer
you keep quoting your guide. How about contributing the information (or at
least the pointer, but better the information) to
Hi,
Thomas Birnthaler wrote on 2009-01-09 00:00:53 +0100 [[BackupPC-users] How to
delete backups? + Benefit of incremental backups?]:
[...]
1. We wonder why neither the GUI nor the commands offer a possibility to
delete backups (full and incremental). If e.g. the backup partition is filled
Hi,
Craig Barratt wrote on 2009-01-07 22:46:09 -0800 [Re: [BackupPC-users] I
received the error No files dumped for share]:
Omar writes:
$Conf{TarClientCmd} = ' env LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/sudo $tarPath -c -v -f -
-C $shareName+'
. ' --totals';
Hi,
Dejan Batic wrote on 2009-01-08 10:05:33 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Latest backup
removed?]:
[...]
I'm using Bakcuppc for around 30 machines running XP. The backup method used
is rsyncd.
[...]
So why the latest backup gets removed immediately after it's done?
I can spot one typo - not
Hi mailing list,
hi Backup Central forum user,
tagore wrote on 2009-01-08 09:21:05 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_link got
error -4 when calling MakeFileLink]:
Hi!
Is there a result? We have similar problem.
Thanks
from the complete details you are giving (no in-reply-to or
: Holger Parplies, 09.01.09, GPL, uncommented, -*-quick-hack-*-
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use Getopt::Std;
$Data::Dumper::Terse = 1;
my %opts = (
f = undef, # file name of config file to manipulate
);
if (not getopts ('f:', \%opts) or @ARGV == 0 or not defined $opts {f}) {
die
Hi,
Cody Dunne wrote on 2009-01-09 10:58:27 +0800 [Re: [BackupPC-users] vista
backup question]:
Holger Parplies wrote:
you keep quoting your guide. How about contributing the information (or at
least the pointer, but better the information) to the wiki?
I copied the excludes a while back
Hi Margret,
Kenneth L. Owen wrote on 2009-01-09 00:20:41 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] It's
me again, Margret! - ssh-keygen]:
[...]
Having gotten accustomed to Fedora, I prefer working as root when required
instead of having to enter lines twice -- once without sudo, error, then
retype it with
Hi,
Adam Goryachev wrote on 2009-01-09 16:47:18 +1100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] It's me
again, Margret! - ssh-keygen]:
[...]
r...@winserver:~/.ssh# cat BackupPC_id_rsa.pub authorized_keys
[...]
BTW, what is ls -la /root/.ssh on winserver showing?
this *could be* the problem. Ideally,
Hi,
Koen Linders wrote on 2009-01-07 10:17:20 - [[BackupPC-users] Remote
backups of a win2003 server keeps failing after a certain amount of time.]:
Remote backups of a win2003 server keeps failing after a certain amount of
time (almost every time about 20h later / data 11 GB already
Hi,
dan wrote on 2008-12-28 20:10:20 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Reduce
BackupPC_nightly to weekly?]:
[...]
I wonder how long a weekly cleanup job would take verses a daily?
insignificantly longer. The difficult part is traversing the pool, not
deleting files and renumbering chains. Sure,
Hi,
Gene Horodecki wrote on 2009-01-03 15:01:54 -0600 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
BackupPC working for a year, all of a sudden nothing works]:
[Faulty RAM, bad PSU]
These are good theories, but I would tend to refute them in both cases.
First of all I now know that the system is behaving in
Hi,
Timothy Murphy wrote on 2008-12-27 12:19:48 + [Re: [BackupPC-users] sshd on
client?]:
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Sorry, /etc/BackupPC/config.pl is 2165 lines long.
I've no intention of reading that.
Life is too short.
so you'd rather spend your and our
Hi,
Les Mikesell wrote on 2008-12-27 17:05:07 -0600 [Re: [BackupPC-users] sshd on
client?]:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
This seems to me rather important.
Are you saying that my setup is wrong?
Yes, although it wouldn't work if you didn't also do it right. You can
have as many different
Hi,
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote on 2008-12-26 22:00:28 +0100 [Re:
[BackupPC-users] sshd on client?]:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
[...]
When you say you can SSH into the machines
I take that to mean that you can say
ssh remote
Hi,
Juergen Harms wrote on 2008-12-26 23:46:55 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
BackupPC_link got error -4 when calling?MakeFileLink]:
I fought these messages yesterday. In my case the reason is that topDir
- the directory where the backup data is stored - is a separate
file-system, and that
Hi,
Timothy Murphy wrote on 2008-12-22 16:11:30 + [[BackupPC-users] BackupPC
newbie: a couple more questions]:
1. I have been looking at various BackupPC HOWTOs and tutorials.
I see that the Falko tutorial at http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_backuppc
recommends (on page 3) that one should
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Hi,
Glassfox wrote on 22.12.2008 at 16:50:24 [[BackupPC-users] missing rdev on
device...]:
I tried a complete restore on my localhost (which also runs BackupPC) today
and got a lot of error messages like this:
2008-12-22 21:54:23 localhost: File::RsyncP::FileList::encode: missing rdev
Hi,
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2008-12-21 22:50:46 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Client initiated backups, input wanted]:
Johan Ehnberg wrote at about 22:35:19 +0200 on Sunday, December 21, 2008:
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
Johan Ehnberg wrote at about 16:54:48 +0200 on Friday, December
Hi,
Adam Goryachev wrote on 2008-12-20 00:55:45 +1100 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Permission denied during backup]:
[...]
BTW, not likely relevant in this specific case, but root can't access
all files... damn, in trying to prove this to myself, I noticed it
didn't work. However, I seem to recall
Hi,
Taskin/Osman wrote on 2008-12-19 11:35:57 +0100 [[BackupPC-users] backuppc
rsync problem on freebsd]:
dear backuppc community,
i have successfully installed backuppc on freebsd but since 24h i could
not fix following problem;
[...]
full backup started for directory /
Running:
Hi,
Adam Goryachev wrote on 2008-12-19 10:56:44 +1100 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
backuppc 3.0.0: another xfs problem?]:
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
I don't think that BackupPC_nightly checks for hard link dups between
the pc/ and pool/ directories.
I fully agree on that point.
I would advise
Hi,
Les Mikesell wrote on 2008-12-16 19:39:54 -0600 [Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS
4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC]:
Which brings up the question - why would anyone install a 4.x now if you
don't already have something old that you need to keep working on it?
he does - an old project
Hi,
Andrew Libby wrote on 2008-12-15 12:16:49 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
scheduling question]:
Rob Owens wrote:
Nick Smith wrote:
I have some clients that take 3 days or better to do a full backup, i
would like to do 1 full backup a month, and 1 incr backup every day,
and keep 1 week
Hi,
Andreas Micklei wrote on 2008-12-15 10:13:38 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Backing up the backup to an external USB drive]:
Am Freitag, 12. Dezember 2008 schrieb Rich Rauenzahn:
Some of you running dd might want to consider dump
[...]
I have been doing that for about two years now.
Hi,
Trey Nolen wrote on 2008-12-09 10:20:00 -0600 [[BackupPC-users] upgrading from
2.1.x and swapping servers]:
[...]
We are running a 2.1.x server that is getting pretty full (and old).
It is using the Debian packages for BackupPC. We are about to upgrade to a
new, Ubuntu server
Hi,
Adam Goryachev wrote on 2008-12-12 11:09:14 +1100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing
up the backup to an external USB drive]:
Rodrigo Real wrote:
[...]
Adam Goryachev wrote:
The only problem I see is that I don't have disk space to make a
snapshot and after it to dd the file to the usb
Hi,
Mark Adams wrote on 2008-12-10 12:18:04 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] Incremental
backups aren't.]:
The issue is my desktop is spending hours creating huge backups on the
server. The current incremental backup started at 7:00 this morning
and is still running now at 12:15, and is running
Hi,
James Ward wrote on 2008-12-10 14:27:24 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] Exclude
complexity in version 2.1.2pl1]:
I have the following config line:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/proc', '/mnt', '/sys', '/home/
users', ... , '+ /vz/dump', '/vz/*'];
But there is no /vz/dump in the backups.
Hi,
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote on 2008-12-08 12:23:40 +0100 [Re:
[BackupPC-users] Advice on creating duplicate backup server]:
Stuart Luscombe wrote:
I?ve got the OS (CentOS) installed on the new server and have
installed BackupPC v3.1.0, but I?m having problems working out how
Hi,
Mark Adams wrote on 2008-12-08 14:37:54 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
BackupFilesExcludes for Linux]:
I think I spotted a mistake in my own speculative config. See below.
right, and there's a second one along the same line ...
[...]
$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {
'/mnt/share' = [
Hi,
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2008-12-08 09:37:16 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Advice on creating duplicate backup server]:
It just hit me that given the known architecture of the pool and cpool
directories shouldn't it be possible to come up with a scheme that
works better than either
Hi,
the problem at hand:
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Hi,
Kenneth L. Owen wrote on 2008-12-03 13:19:30 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] I
broke perfection ...]:
[...]
1.Before I started setting up pass-phraseless keys for BackupPC, I had
already created ssh keys that would allow me to log in remotely between the
two Linux workstations as normal
Hi,
Mark Adams wrote on 2008-12-03 16:39:35 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] Configure
TopDir per pc]:
I need to backup each client machine to a different hard drive on the
server.
as everyone is saying: you can't and you don't want to.
I have one client configured and it tries to backup my 16 GB
Hi,
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2008-12-03 12:03:16 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Using perl code within config files]:
[...]
OK. I am stumped by something here.
The trick works fine when running processes such as dump or restore.
But it seems to fail when the pc config file is read when
Hi,
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2008-10-30 23:16:05 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] 2
cpool files with same checksum, different (compressed content) but same
zcatt'ed content?]:
[...]
I found 2 files in my cpool that have the same checksum (one is _0)
but 'cmp' to different values. However,
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