Re: [BackupPC-users] Best practice/s for backing up a VM??

2014-10-28 Thread John Rouillard
list for windows, VSS and smb/samba you should find a few threads. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Dyn Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell

Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression Experiences?

2014-10-13 Thread John Rouillard
already compressed). -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Dyn Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) -- Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer

Re: [BackupPC-users] Queue Order / Queue Pools

2014-08-28 Thread John Rouillard
/backuppc-users/thread/20090319212300.gc20...@renesys.com/ -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Dyn Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- Slashdot TV

Re: [BackupPC-users] possible to re-run BackupPC_link after failures?

2014-02-28 Thread John Rouillard
basically gradually go down when future backups occur (assuming future linking works)? Yes, as your old backups with unlinked files expire, you will reclaim that space. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084

Re: [BackupPC-users] V4 for production?

2014-01-28 Thread John Rouillard
compare the data (rather than pruning by looking at data metadata) on a regular basis I claim is a best practice. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommended CYGWIN SSH Rsync guide

2013-12-03 Thread John Rouillard
certain folders with a Permission Denied message. Perhaps: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html may be of use? -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issues with a restore

2013-09-09 Thread John Rouillard
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Issues with a restore

2013-09-09 Thread John Rouillard
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 02:21:27PM -0400, David Williams wrote: On 9/9/2013 1:53 PM, John Rouillard wrote: On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 12:07:03PM -0400, David Williams wrote: The single file was just a test...I will want to restore a whole bunch of files. Does the backuppc documentation explain

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving lots of data on a client

2013-08-20 Thread John Rouillard
this should be safe since no data is harmed by the copy/link 8-). Standard disclaimers apply. Let us know how/if it works. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111

Re: [BackupPC-users] New backup server

2013-05-24 Thread John Rouillard
. The iso's may depending on what's on them. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- Try New Relic Now We'll

Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes

2013-03-07 Thread John Rouillard
with all native windows versions of tools at one point. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- Symantec Endpoint

Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes

2013-03-07 Thread John Rouillard
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 10:10:27AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:00 AM, John Rouillard rouilj-backu...@renesys.com wrote: I use cygwin for the sshd/rsync binaries now but I did get it working with all native windows versions of tools at one point. Really

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Pool synchronization?

2013-03-01 Thread John Rouillard
could share it. I think this fills a useful use case, so yeah I would say send it to the mailing list. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Pool synchronization?

2013-03-01 Thread John Rouillard
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore only file attributes

2013-01-24 Thread John Rouillard
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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync never starts transferring files (but does something)

2012-11-20 Thread John Rouillard
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 09:46:33AM -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 11/19/2012 4:35 PM, John Rouillard wrote: What may also work is to use excludes to do your sharding. I have 4 hosts now with different excludes. All of them back up the same share: That seems a bit overly complex. Wouldn't

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync never starts transferring files (but does something)

2012-11-20 Thread John Rouillard
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 03:34:02PM -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 11/20/2012 3:13 PM, John Rouillard wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 09:46:33AM -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 11/19/2012 4:35 PM, John Rouillard wrote: What may also work is to use excludes to do your sharding. I have 4 hosts

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync never starts transferring files (but does something)

2012-11-19 Thread John Rouillard
. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get

Re: [BackupPC-users] Per host host.pl not found on new CentOS 6.3 install

2012-09-21 Thread John Rouillard
the same as the parent dir). Then put the file there and see if it works. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-21 Thread John Rouillard
://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.backuppc.general/18179 but always when doing a backup not while doing a restore. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-19 Thread John Rouillard
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:07:18AM -0400, Timothy J Massey wrote: John Rouillard rouilj-backu...@renesys.com wrote on 09/17/2012 02:33:34 PM: I have another system that is lower power: 2632652.8 MB at 662.5 minutes or 66MB/s That's 2.6TB in 11 hours. That is perfectly acceptable

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-19 Thread John Rouillard
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:53:52AM -0400, Timothy J Massey wrote: John Rouillard rouilj-backu...@renesys.com wrote on 09/17/2012 02:05:28 PM: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:54:35PM -0400, Timothy J Massey wrote: My backup drive is a 1U linux box exporting its disks as an isci system running

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-19 Thread John Rouillard
it. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-17 Thread John Rouillard
having corruption in putting the current bits on disks that trashes the curent backup copy. Which frankly there is very little short of zfs/btrfs type filesystem that can provide some measure of protection/detection.) -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-17 Thread John Rouillard
the WAN) are connected over Gig-E. When you see high cpu can you use strace to see what you have for i/o reads/writes? Also have you tried setting this up with a non-compressed pool as an experiment to see if compression is what is killing you. -- -- rouilj John

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-17 Thread John Rouillard
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 06:05:28PM +, John Rouillard wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:54:35PM -0400, Timothy J Massey wrote: No matter the size of the system, I seem to top out at about 50GB/hour for full backups. Here is a perfectly typical example: Full Backup: 769.3 minutes

Re: [BackupPC-users] backupPC and backup via VPN connection.

2012-08-07 Thread John Rouillard
change the PingMaxMsec either globally or in per host settings. See the manual for more info. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Errors log

2012-07-09 Thread John Rouillard
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Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_dump syntax

2012-07-09 Thread John Rouillard
as it starts backing up something you don't want. Not quite as good as just getting a listing but it may reduce your cycle time a little. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Errors log

2012-07-06 Thread John Rouillard
(they are debug output) but that aren't filtered in the error view. It's been a while since I noted this issue so I don't remeber the details but it may explain the discrepency. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell

Re: [BackupPC-users] Let me get to the real point

2011-11-17 Thread John Rouillard
the files can run out of memory on the client. Are you dumping the entire system (say /) or just a small part of it (e.g. /etc). -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111

Re: [BackupPC-users] Let me get to the real point

2011-11-15 Thread John Rouillard
against the rsync on the client side show as open files? If you run strace against rsync on the client side is it sitting in a select loop? Is the server side perl process accumulating any time? -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC to NFS then to tape via DPM

2011-10-19 Thread John Rouillard
a PITR backup? If you aren't doing one of these three things your postgres backups are pretty much worthless and won't be able to be restored. Given this is your first foray into backups I thought these may be important things to check. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard

Re: [BackupPC-users] restore from a read only file system possible?

2011-10-11 Thread John Rouillard
' in the config.pl file to prevent backups from running. I am not sure how to disable the nightly housekeeping routines and trash clean operations. Have you tried running BackupPC_tarCreate without the daemon running to see if you can extract data? -- -- rouilj John Rouillard

Re: [BackupPC-users] restore from a read only file system possible?

2011-10-11 Thread John Rouillard
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 09:14:33PM +0100, Tim Fletcher wrote: On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 19:57 +, John Rouillard wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 01:10:30PM +0200, Frank Wolkwitz wrote: After raid controller failure the pool file system is running in read only mode. Making a file system

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bad md5sums due to zero size (uncompressed) cpool files - WEIRD BUG

2011-10-06 Thread John Rouillard
to change the 'use lib' statement in line 64 to match your distribution. I ran this with -r 0 and got as a summary: 39000 files in 16 directories checked, 4 had wrong digests, of these 0 zero-length. running it with -r 1,2 now. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard

Re: [BackupPC-users] serial or parallel backups

2011-06-26 Thread John Rouillard
one or two still running in the morning when we have a heavy data churn ( 1/2 TB). My pool reports: 1258 full backups of total size 61013.99GB. So I have a pretty small average full backup size. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup of VM images

2011-06-03 Thread John Rouillard
try to make sure you aren't backing up the system while it's doing a lot of disk activity on the file you are trying to back up. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111

Re: [BackupPC-users] BlackoutPeriods seemingly ignored

2011-06-02 Thread John Rouillard
-archive.com/backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg13698.html So only 1 backup runs at a time for a site. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111

Re: [BackupPC-users] No luck with Fedora F15 client

2011-05-13 Thread John Rouillard
: sudo /usr/sbin/sshd -d -e -p and then use: backuuser% ssh -v -p remotehost to connect. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111

Re: [BackupPC-users] The usual questions looking for better ansers

2011-04-29 Thread John Rouillard
didn't seem to get me what I needed. And I found no instances of that in the basic documentation. Les almost got it right it's ClientNameAlias http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#_conf_clientnamealias_ Enjoy. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard

Re: [BackupPC-users] hosts disappearing from host list

2011-04-29 Thread John Rouillard
what OS were you running? -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network

Re: [BackupPC-users] Renaming files causes retransfer?

2011-04-17 Thread John Rouillard
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Viewing detail of a backup in progress?

2011-04-17 Thread John Rouillard
see I/O activity on the file pool path, which may or may not be of use to you. Also lsof -p rsync pid can show you which files are open. Similarly for the server on the backuppc system. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up little by little or throttling the backup?

2011-04-13 Thread John Rouillard
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Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_dump hangs with: .: size doesn't match (12288 vs 17592185913344)

2011-04-06 Thread John Rouillard
to gather more info for the next time this happens. On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 06:59:00PM +0200, Holger Parplies wrote: 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

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_dump hangs with: .: size doesn't match (12288 vs 17592185913344)

2011-04-06 Thread John Rouillard
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 09:49:55PM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Holger Parplies wrote at about 18:59:00 +0200 on Monday, April 4, 2011: Hi, John Rouillard wrote on 2011-03-31 15:20:23 + [[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_dump hangs with: .: size doesn't match (12288 vs

Re: [BackupPC-users] High Repeated Data Transfer Volumes During Incremental Backup

2011-04-01 Thread John Rouillard
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 10:59:17AM -0400, nhoel...@sinet.ca wrote: On 2011-03-31 15:47 John Rouillard wrote: The only way the March 30'th backup wouldn't have transferred the files was if the march 29th backup was a level 1 incremental and the march 30'th was a level 2 incremental

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_dump hangs with: .: size doesn't match (12288 vs 17592185913344)

2011-03-31 Thread John Rouillard
12:50:31 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- Create

Re: [BackupPC-users] High Repeated Data Transfer Volumes During Incremental Backup

2011-03-31 Thread John Rouillard
. In that casse the march 30'th incrmentals reference tree would have been from the march 29 backup which already had the files in the new (moved) location and it would have been able to determine that the files were identical. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System

[BackupPC-users] Does anybody have a live CD with backuppc installed?

2011-02-11 Thread John Rouillard
they would be willing to share, or could provide tips on how you did it if you can't share. aTdHvAaNnKcSe -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC and Windows junction points

2011-02-07 Thread John Rouillard
Also your backups don't have a record of the junction point that rsync traversed. When you restore the files you get two copies of the grafted tree. One at each location. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC and Windows junction points

2011-02-07 Thread John Rouillard
if it handles loops properly or not. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- The ultimate all-in-one

Re: [BackupPC-users] Seed Copy

2010-12-20 Thread John Rouillard
be used like: tar -cf /path/to/usb/. | BackupPC_importTar -H newhost -d 0 -s /disk1 \ -r /path/to/usb to build a proper tree under pc/newhost/0/f%2fdisk1. Maybe someday. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why does executing a system command inside a config.pl cause backuppc to fail?

2010-12-13 Thread John Rouillard
. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Learn learn about native support for PL/SQL, new data types, scalar

Re: [BackupPC-users] Ubuntu 10.10 Backuppc 3.2.0

2010-12-08 Thread John Rouillard
repeated share name skipped 2010-12-08 14:36:59 Backup aborted () Does: http://www.adsm.org/lists/html/BackupPC-users/2010-02/msg00099.html help? (just googled for the error message unexpected repeated ... -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System

Re: [BackupPC-users] tar on localhost (and shell escaping)

2010-11-12 Thread John Rouillard
and you can't just make a blanket statement. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- Centralized Desktop Delivery

Re: [BackupPC-users] pre-load backup

2010-11-12 Thread John Rouillard
easily to do this. Just need to find the time to try it. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- Centralized

Re: [BackupPC-users] tar on localhost (and shell escaping)

2010-11-11 Thread John Rouillard
the script in the documentation: #!/bin/sh -f exec /bin/tar -c $* Hmm, on first glance I would have expected the $* to be $@ Try: exec /bin/tar -c $@ -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111

Re: [BackupPC-users] Failing incrementals and fulls resolved by moving aside prior full?

2010-09-21 Thread John Rouillard
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 02:02:10PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: On 9/17/2010 1:10 PM, John Rouillard wrote: I mention this since there seem to have been a few other mentions of hangs over the years and this may get somebody past the problem. Also I am hoping that somebody can figure out

[BackupPC-users] Failing incrementals and fulls resolved by moving aside prior full?

2010-09-17 Thread John Rouillard
) backup is causing the rsync protocol to stall. So anybody with a bright idea of what I can try looking at? -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate Problem

2010-08-11 Thread John Rouillard
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 01:44:19PM -0500, Stephen Gelman wrote: On 08/11/2010 12:33 PM, John Rouillard wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:23:59AM -0500, Stephen Gelman wrote: I am running BackupPC 3.1.0 on Nexenta. It seems to be working for the most part. I am having a problem

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate Problem

2010-08-11 Thread John Rouillard
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 05:03:47PM -0500, Stephen Gelman wrote: On 08/11/2010 03:35 PM, John Rouillard wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 01:44:19PM -0500, Stephen Gelman wrote: On 08/11/2010 12:33 PM, John Rouillard wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:23:59AM -0500, Stephen Gelman wrote: I am

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3.2.0 released

2010-08-09 Thread John Rouillard
/permissions, and with incrementals all filled out. True enough. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- This SF.net

Re: [BackupPC-users] My backup method across VPN

2010-07-06 Thread John Rouillard
it to be listed as an option in File-RsyncP. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- This SF.net email

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Data Volumes

2010-06-30 Thread John Rouillard
Barratt and also posted to the ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list. Hopefully this exploration will also fix some bug that may be impacting me as well with a real rsync and File::RsyncP. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603

Re: [BackupPC-users] Splitting up large directories.

2010-05-18 Thread John Rouillard
as the trailing . should cause rsync to dereference the symbolic link, and the resulting rsync will start in /A. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111

Re: [BackupPC-users] Woe is me

2010-05-01 Thread John Rouillard
any new raid box and swap out it's drives into existing units. Thus scrambling newer drives into every one of their raid units and taking the mix of older drives into the new unit. That's one way of cross pollinating the drives I guess. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore via rsync gets stuck

2010-04-22 Thread John Rouillard
thing. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- ___ BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] pre-backup encryption? user wants files to be inaccessible even to me :-)

2010-03-29 Thread John Rouillard
, preferring hard copies but the master password sheet could easily be encrypted and stored on thumb drives and distributed to the people who need it. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x

Re: [BackupPC-users] pre-backup encryption? user wants files to be inaccessible even to me :-)

2010-03-23 Thread John Rouillard
recovery keys/cd) are workable solutions. But a system that leaves the data unrecoverable if the person or the machine die isn't worth wasting the time on in the first place IMO. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084

[BackupPC-users] Looking for tools to manipulate attrib files

2010-02-24 Thread John Rouillard
attrib Does anybody have any of the utility programs (printattrib, createattrib BackupPC_compress) in their toolbox? -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using BackupPC to backup virtual hard discs

2010-02-19 Thread John Rouillard
be a cli somewhere. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new

Re: [BackupPC-users] Odd 'unexpected repeated share name error'

2010-02-18 Thread John Rouillard
rolled back the change. Any ideas? -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental Seems To Backup Whole System

2010-02-18 Thread John Rouillard
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 06:06:15PM -0700, Mike Bydalek wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:04 PM, John Rouillard rouilj-backu...@renesys.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 07:51:13AM -0700, Mike Bydalek wrote: My question is, why did backups 13 and 14 backup all that data?  Same with 2 and 7

[BackupPC-users] Odd 'unexpected repeated share name error'

2010-02-12 Thread John Rouillard
and expected. Does anybody have any idea what is happening with the / share? I don't see a repeated '/' share in my spec for $Conf{RsyncShareName}. Thanks. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111

Re: [BackupPC-users] Odd 'unexpected repeated share name error'

2010-02-12 Thread John Rouillard
for the beta3 or final release? Also on another topic, is the elimination of zombie processes on the todo list for the 3.2 release? Thanks for the workaround. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643

Re: [BackupPC-users] Large Linux backup Help

2010-02-09 Thread John Rouillard
. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing

Re: [BackupPC-users] disable wakeup / Read-only backuppc

2010-01-27 Thread John Rouillard
script will have nothing to do since the pc directory is already pruned for the $Conf{FullKeepCnt} and $Conf{IncrKeepCnt} counts). -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111

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

2009-09-17 Thread John Rouillard
. It works well for me and means I can use any random box I have easily since I can return to normal state just by booting the box without the live cd in the drive. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643

Re: [BackupPC-users] periodically e2fsck the device /var/lib/backuppc

2009-09-08 Thread John Rouillard
the filesystem structure is wonky, but it won't check the actual data in the files AFIAK (but that might be filesystem type specific). It just checks the metadata like directory structures, inodes, file continuation blocks etc. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System

Re: [BackupPC-users] Prevent concurrent backups to a host

2009-08-20 Thread John Rouillard
. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with hardlink-based backups...

2009-08-20 Thread John Rouillard
. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with hardlink-based backups...

2009-08-20 Thread John Rouillard
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 03:14:49PM -0500, Jim Leonard wrote: John Rouillard wrote: Well not quite. It's getting better with $Conf{RsyncArgsExtra} for example. I don't have to copy the whole $Conf{RsyncArgs} stanza into my pc/hostname.pl file. I haven't ever touched/created a hostname.pl

Re: [BackupPC-users] Making a different per host setting without a pc/hostname.pc file

2009-08-11 Thread John Rouillard
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 02:05:51AM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: John Rouillard wrote at about 15:54:36 + on Thursday, August 6, 2009: I run multiple backupc servers over wan's and I am trying to implement the following logic: If the host being backed up by the backuppc

[BackupPC-users] Making a different per host setting without a pc/hostname.pc file

2009-08-06 Thread John Rouillard
{CurrentHostName} value I am not seeing? Other ideas on how to do this programatically? Thanks. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111

Re: [BackupPC-users] DumpPreShareCmd returned error status 65280 if the command returned 0

2009-07-11 Thread John Rouillard
have to set to make backup-pc check the exit code of your scripts. Did you set it? -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111

Re: [BackupPC-users] Clusters of hosts

2009-06-10 Thread John Rouillard
/msg13698.html Create one queue/semaphore per physical machine and have the $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} command exit with an error if it can't get a slot/lock (also you will have to set $Conf{UserCmdCheckStatus} = 1;). -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator

Re: [BackupPC-users] Clusters of hosts

2009-06-10 Thread John Rouillard
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:38:30AM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Les Mikesell wrote at about 10:23:10 -0500 on Wednesday, June 10, 2009: John Rouillard wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:16:33PM +0200, Pieter Wuille wrote: I don't know how common this usage is, but in our setup

[BackupPC-users] Programatically identifying errors in the log file

2009-06-08 Thread John Rouillard
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Programatically identifying errors in the log file

2009-06-08 Thread John Rouillard
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 02:21:28AM +0200, Holger Parplies wrote: Hi, Hello Holger: John Rouillard wrote on 2009-06-08 21:27:11 + [[BackupPC-users] Programatically identifying errors in the log file]: I am modifying a plugin for nagios to scan the backup logs and verify

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-03 Thread John Rouillard
for prime time. If that is still the case, moving to anything FUSE based would basically mean that BackupPC is a linux server only based solution right? -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x

Re: [BackupPC-users] Harmless button when trying to start backups using links browser

2009-04-23 Thread John Rouillard
that's still a limitation. It's always been an annoying limitation. Agreed. Thanks for the response. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111

[BackupPC-users] Harmless button when trying to start backups using links browser

2009-04-22 Thread John Rouillard
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[BackupPC-users] Feature request for 3.2: wait for children to remove zombies

2009-04-09 Thread John Rouillard
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request for 3.2: wait for children to remove zombies

2009-04-09 Thread John Rouillard
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 01:57:18PM -0700, Craig Barratt wrote: John, It's still on my todo list - I didn't get around to it for 3.2.0beta0. I'll see if I can get it in before the final 3.2.0 release. Thanks. I would really appreciate it. -- -- rouilj John

Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware/virtuabox/etc.?

2009-04-08 Thread John Rouillard
/tested... That's the route I started down. Didn't get to the end yet though 8-). But having that cd would be a major win. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111

Re: [BackupPC-users] How do the files look like when transferred?

2009-04-08 Thread John Rouillard
to search for backuppc import should provide some ideas. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- This SF.net email

Re: [BackupPC-users] Next release

2009-03-30 Thread John Rouillard
will update File-RsyncP. Hmm, I would prefer an updated File-RsyncP as I have had stability issues with fuse in the past. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111

[BackupPC-users] Grouping by network connectivity (aka replacement queue mechanism)

2009-03-19 Thread John Rouillard
as the original magazine it was published in no longer has it available.) -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- Apps built

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