Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3.3.0 released

2013-05-15 Thread Jonathan Schaeffer
Le 18/04/2013 23:41, backu...@kosowsky.org a écrit : > Craig Barratt wrote at about 11:16:31 -0700 on Thursday, April 18, 2013: > > Adam, > > > > Let me look at the email archives to understand this issue better. > > > > I'm happy for other capable developers to contribute to BackupPC, >

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC-Visualize - visual plot of host backup durations

2013-02-06 Thread Jonathan Schaeffer
Le 28/01/2013 18:46, Carl Cravens a écrit : > I've written a little tool to help analyze BackupPC "scheduling" that I > thought others might find useful. It is meant to generate plots that can be > viewed from the web, but it's just as easily used from the command line. > > https://github.com/ra

[BackupPC-users] Some usefull features for the future

2013-01-16 Thread Jonathan Schaeffer
Hi list, I was recently asked by some coworkers during a backuppc presentation for some usefull functionalities missing in the current stable release. Those requests are : - managing roles for the users connected to the web UI and assigning clients to a group so that users belonging to a role a

[BackupPC-users] Windows7 vshadow error

2011-08-12 Thread Jonathan Schaeffer
Hello, this is not direcly connected to backuppc itself, but I thought I would find people here with a good experience of my problem. I am backing up windows clients to a central server using the shadow copy system. It's alright for windows XP machines. But I have an error on Windows 7. To sum u

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't browse bad directory name

2011-03-03 Thread Jonathan Schaeffer
Le 09/02/2011 11:55, Jonathan Schaeffer a écrit : > does anybody have an explanation about this error ? > > For the records, I managed to find out the problem. I added some times ago the option "--one-file-system" int the RSyncArgs As, for some machines, /home is on a s

[BackupPC-users] Can't browse bad directory name

2011-02-09 Thread Jonathan Schaeffer
Hi all, does anybody have an explanation about this error ? The context : One full backup per month, incrmental backups daily on 6 levels, so each week, the invermental level cycles. So the backups are like that : Backup# | Type | Filled | Level 15 | full | yes | 0 16 | inc

[BackupPC-users] Clustering Backuppc

2011-01-17 Thread Jonathan Schaeffer
Hi list, We are about to deploy a backup system for a large number of clients (~400), The backupPC server will be a good machine (4 CPUs, loads of RAM) but I'm still concerned about the time the full backup are taking and the number of imultaneous backups. To adress this, I'm considering a setup

Re: [BackupPC-users] FSArchiver?

2010-12-09 Thread Jonathan Schaeffer
Le 09/12/2010 06:55, hans...@gmail.com a écrit : > I've been investigating how to backup BackupPC's filesystem, > specifically the tree with all the hard links (BTW what's the right > name for it, the one that's not the pool?) > > The goal is to be able to bring a verified-good copy of the whole >

[BackupPC-users] Windows client : Easy deployment

2010-10-04 Thread Jonathan Schaeffer
Hi all. I'm in the process of bulding a large scale backup system in my institute based on backuppc. So far, things are going according to plan. We built up a backupPC server and a mechanism for seamlessly "install" the client on the machines to backup with to objectives in mind : - doing as sec

Re: [BackupPC-users] File restore integrity

2010-06-21 Thread Jonathan Schaeffer
On 18/06/2010 20:59, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Again, keep in mind that anything on the system can be subverted by a > good hacker, including these tools and their databases. > Agreed with that. The replication of the backup is also a good idea. Thanks for the help. Jonathan

Re: [BackupPC-users] File restore integrity

2010-06-18 Thread Jonathan Schaeffer
On 17/06/2010 17:26, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Jonathan Schaeffer wrote at about 16:29:19 +0200 on Thursday, June 17, 2010: > > Is there a checking mechanism to ensure the integrity of the restored > files ? > > i.e. the server can check that the files he is about

Re: [BackupPC-users] File restore integrity

2010-06-18 Thread Jonathan Schaeffer
Hi, thanks for your quick answers. On 17/06/2010 17:55, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 6/17/2010 9:29 AM, Jonathan Schaeffer wrote: >> >> I'm administrating a BackupPC server and I'm concerned about the security of >> the >> whole system. > > It is based on

[BackupPC-users] File restore integrity

2010-06-17 Thread Jonathan Schaeffer
Hi all, I'm administrating a BackupPC server and I'm concerned about the security of the whole system. I configured the linux clients as unpriviledged users doing sudos for rsyncs to limit the risk of intrusion from the backupPC server to the clients as described in the FAQ : http://backupp