On Jan 31, 2012, at 4:25 PM, Kimball Larsen wrote:
> We are a small office (6 employees) with a mixture of windows and mac
> machines sitting on desks. I have set up a server (Ubuntu linux) that has
> been happily running backuppc for several years handling backups for all the
>
On Jan 31, 2012, at 5:47 PM, Steve wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Kimball Larsen wrote:
>>> Is there anything I can to to have the backups run in a more transparent
>>> manner? We are not all that concerned with speed of backup process - we're
>&
On Jan 31, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Kimball Larsen wrote:
>> We are a small office (6 employees) with a mixture of windows and mac
>> machines sitting on desks. I have set up a server (Ubuntu linux) that has
>> been happily
We are a small office (6 employees) with a mixture of windows and mac machines
sitting on desks. I have set up a server (Ubuntu linux) that has been happily
running backuppc for several years handling backups for all the machines in the
office with grace AND style. We love it.
However, in th
I am running BackupPC 3.0.0 on Ubuntu Hardy - installed from the apt
repository.
I have been using it for several months without issue - its backing up
all the machines in my office (6 or 7 of them) as well as 1 server
that was on a different subnet though located in the same room as the
b
This is to confirm that this patch works on 3.0.0 as well!
Thanks!
-- Kimball
On Feb 28, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Kimball Larsen wrote:
On Feb 28, 2008, at 10:37 AM, dan wrote:
please inform us if it works on 3.0! this is a great little add.
very nice
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:27 AM
On Feb 28, 2008, at 10:37 AM, dan wrote:
please inform us if it works on 3.0! this is a great little add.
very nice
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Nicholas Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Ludovic - freaking sweet man. I just applied that patch.
Kimball - I believe the images are ge
On Feb 28, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Ludovic Drolez wrote:
> dan gmail.com> writes:
>> this is interesting! what file does this diff apply to?
>
> You can 'cd' to the original source directory, or to your installation
> directory (maybe /usr/share/backuppc) and then run:
>
> patch -p1
> Oh yes, I've f
Thanks for all the help!
-- Kimball
On Feb 27, 2008, at 3:13 PM, Kimball Larsen wrote:
Ok, I freely admit that I'm in over my head here... I am NOT a perl
programmer. However, here is the method that is puking when trying
to create the links:
sub MakeFileLink
{
my($bpc,
sed to the link call
later.
Thanks!
-- Kimball
On Feb 27, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
Kimball Larsen wrote:
Pool is used if you don't have compression enabled, cpool if you
do. Whichever is used must be on the same filesystem as the pc
directory tree so that hardlinks
n /var/lib/backuppc/cpool, but my backups
are in /mnt/plump/backuppc.
How do I change that? I thought everything was based on the topdir,
which I've set to /mnt/plump/backuppc.
*confused*
-- Kimball
On Feb 27, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Kimball Larsen wrote:
>>>
On Feb 27, 2008, at 1:36 PM, Kimball Larsen wrote:
On Feb 27, 2008, at 1:33 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
Kimball Larsen wrote:
Actually, I may have answered my own question somewhat:
It appears (based on my reading of a message here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users
On Feb 27, 2008, at 1:33 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
Kimball Larsen wrote:
Actually, I may have answered my own question somewhat:
It appears (based on my reading of a message here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg09017.html
) that my pool is hosed.
Specifically
) to remove the
contents of cpool?
Thanks!
-- Kimball
On Feb 27, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Kimball Larsen wrote:
>>>> I notice that the cpool directory is owned by root. Should it
>>>> be owned by the backuppc user instead?
>>> Yes, it mu
On Feb 27, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Kimball Larsen wrote:
>>>> I notice that the cpool directory is owned by root. Should it
>>>> be owned by the backuppc user instead?
>>> Yes, it must be writable by the backuppc user. Your logs are
On Feb 27, 2008, at 11:49 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Kimball Larsen wrote:
>> I've recently had to move my backuppc filesystem from one machine
>> to another. My machines are all backing up just fine, I'm able to
>> see all my old backups and restore files
I've recently had to move my backuppc filesystem from one machine to
another. My machines are all backing up just fine, I'm able to see
all my old backups and restore files from them with no problem..
however, my pool size is reporting as 0MB. I checked the filesystem,
and the size of the
forwarded message:
From: Kimball Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: September 24, 2007 4:28:28 PM MDT
To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Unable to Browse Backups
So, I've recently gotten backuppc installed on OSX as the server,
backing up the local machine (my laptop) to
So, I've recently gotten backuppc installed on OSX as the server,
backing up the local machine (my laptop) to an external firewire
drive, and it works great. I've even developed a simple script that
prevents the backups from occurring when the drive is disconnected.
However, after today's f
On Sep 20, 2007, at 8:28 PM, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
> Hello,
>
Yes, I am aware of Time Machine, but I'm more worried about the
laptop drive failing or the entire machine being stolen - in
which case Time Machine is useless.
>>>
>>> I don't know if that's true. Do you k
Ambrose,
On Sep 20, 2007, at 8:43 PM, Ambrose Li wrote:
> On 20/09/2007, Stephen Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Use 'mount' instead of checking for directory existence to
>> determine if the
>> filesystem is mounted and return the corresponding exit status? (if
>> backuppc has created the
Craig,
On Sep 20, 2007, at 8:27 PM, Craig Barratt wrote:
> Kimball writes:
>
>> Hokay, I'm stuck. I give. I need help.
>>
>> The documentation for UserCmdCheckStatus says:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> But it still runs the backup (and writes over my mount point for
>> my external drive)
>>
>> I've veri
www.panic.unc.edu
>
> Some people make the world turn and others just watch it spin.
>-- Jimmy Buffet
>
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Kimball Larsen wrote:
>
>> Ok, I've done a bunch more research into this, and discovered the
>> problem:
>>
>> backuppc cre
the drive, it mounts as Honker-1, so my backups don't
get to the right file system.
Help!
-- Kimball
On Sep 20, 2007, at 1:24 PM, Kimball Larsen wrote:
(Sorry for the re-post - I realized I forgot to put on a subject
last time)
Hokay, I'm stuck. I give. I need hel
(Sorry for the re-post - I realized I forgot to put on a subject last
time)
Hokay, I'm stuck. I give. I need help.
The documentation for UserCmdCheckStatus says:
"Whether the exit status of each PreUserCmd and PostUserCmd is
checked.
"If set and the Dump/Restore/Archive Pre/Post
Hokay, I'm stuck. I give. I need help.
The documentation for UserCmdCheckStatus says:
"Whether the exit status of each PreUserCmd and PostUserCmd is
checked.
"If set and the Dump/Restore/Archive Pre/Post UserCmd returns a
non-zero exit status then the dump/restore/archive is abor
So, I've been trying for a few hours now to get BackupPC working
correctly on a mac - (not as a client, but as a *server*). The end
goal here is to get backuppc to make backups of localhost to an
external firewire drive. However, I'm having a dickens of a time
getting the CGI interface to
So, I've been using backuppc at my office to backup the PC's there
(actually, they are all macs) to a linux server with a dedicated
large backup drive. However, this is not taking a backup of the
ENTIRE hard drive, but just a few selected important files. For my
own laptop, I'd like to ba
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