Re: [BackupPC-users] PingCmd no longer having effect

2024-04-05 Thread Ian via BackupPC-users
On 4/5/24 17:40, Les Mikesell wrote: You can use $Conf{ClientNameAlias} to point multiple hosts to the same IP (or a resolvable name). Yes, this works so long as I override the RsyncSshArgs in the host config to include the correct port. Thanks___

Re: [BackupPC-users] PingCmd no longer having effect

2024-04-05 Thread Ian via BackupPC-users
ay off base and there's a better way of configuring all of this. Ian On 4/5/24 16:14, Robert Trevellyan wrote: Unless I'm missing something, this seems to be important: 2024-04-05 15:28:10 Can't find host myhost.com <http://myhost.com/> via NS and netbios Have you tried

Re: [BackupPC-users] PingCmd no longer having effect

2024-04-05 Thread Ian via BackupPC-users
On 4/5/24 15:25, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 02:27:55PM -0400, Ian via BackupPC-users wrote: Hi, I've been using BackupPC for many years now, and have used /usr/bin/true as the ping command [...] Are you sure it's supposed to be /usr/bin/true and not just

Re: [BackupPC-users] PingCmd no longer having effect

2024-04-05 Thread Ian via BackupPC-users
ed backing up that host.  No output in the text file. However using sudo to execute the file as backuppc user works as expected. Ian ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/li

[BackupPC-users] PingCmd no longer having effect

2024-04-05 Thread Ian via BackupPC-users
Hi, I've been using BackupPC for many years now, and have used /usr/bin/true as the ping command for hosts that can't respond to ping.  However after a reboot on January 31st, my server stopped obeying pingcmd and stopped backing up those hosts due to lack of ping response.  I am using Backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude list being ignored?

2012-10-11 Thread Ian P. Christian
On 11 October 2012 18:00, Les Mikesell wrote: > That looked normal to me - are they not being excluded in the backup > results? > During the effort to get this working, I changed a few things before posting, and it does appear to work. I just assumed it wasn't after not seeing it excluded from

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude list being ignored?

2012-10-11 Thread Ian P. Christian
On 10 October 2012 23:10, Ian P. Christian wrote: > > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root my.hostname.com /usr/bin/rsync > --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links > --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --checksum-seed=32761 > --ignore-times

[BackupPC-users] Commenting out hosts

2010-06-21 Thread Ian
browsable if i remove the commented out line)? I have changed each of the hosts im commenting outs $Conf{FullPeriod} to -1 so they wont try and do nay more backups. Thanks Ian -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up fo

[BackupPC-users] Archiving old backup information

2010-06-15 Thread Ian
a relative newbie to backuppc, so please excuse any stupid questions :) Many thanks Ian -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the luck

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC and DRBD - My experience so far

2009-09-17 Thread Ian Levesque
On Sep 15, 2009, at 7:12 PM, Chris Robertson wrote: > ...even though they have more than a mile of physical separation. I > don't currently have good data as to the bandwidth utilization during > backups (the DRBD config is set to limit it to 10M, which is about > 110Mbit/sec with TCP overhead),

Re: [BackupPC-users] Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync

2009-05-19 Thread Ian Levesque
On May 12, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Ian Levesque wrote: > I've got a client I'm backing up via rsync (BackupPC v3.1). I recently > added a very large directory to the filesystem I'm backing up, which > has many hundred thousand files inside it. I don't need to backup this

[BackupPC-users] Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync

2009-05-12 Thread Ian Levesque
So my guess is that the rsync is evaluating all of the directory's contents rather than excluding en masse. When I run a manual rsync command with --exclude=/home/username/ directory, the file list takes a relatively short time. I figure that the rsync module isn't as smart? Any insight

[BackupPC-users] Issue backup up XP system.

2007-07-22 Thread Ian
I assume this is a success. If it is a failure, then how do I troubleshoot this? If it is a success, then why am I getting the backuppc error? Note: I'm using version 2.1.2pl1 from the ubuntu repos. I would be glad to update if this would help. Tha