Re: [BackupPC-users] Patch for V3.3.2-1: partial and yearly backups

2019-04-08 Thread Matthias Meyer
I've recognized today my firewall issue with ftp://www.backup4u.at. It is solved now and you can access it again. Maybe someone can put the patches into a standard place for backuppc patches? br Matthias Am Samstag 16 Februar 2019, 14:13:40 schrieb Matthias Meyer: > I've developed

Re: [BackupPC-users] FEATURE REQUEST - "lock" designated backups from being deleted...

2019-04-08 Thread Matthias Meyer
Am Sonntag 07 April 2019, 17:11:47 schrieb backu...@kosowsky.org: > Sometimes you want to save a special backup that for example > corresponds to a specific change (pre/post) on your system. The > trouble is that with exponential deleting there is no way to > guarantee that your specific

[BackupPC-users] Patch for V3.3.2-1: partial and yearly backups

2019-02-16 Thread Matthias Meyer
I've developed two enhancements to BackupPC 3.1.0 and use it since 2010. In June 2013 I've done the upgrade to BackupPC V3.2.1 (debian wheezy) and I implemented my patch in this release. In Februar 2019 I've done it again to BackupPC V3.3.2-2 (debian buster/testing) As requested by Jeffrey

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_fixLinks.pl - Where to download?

2015-09-02 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi all, I have a lot of files in my pc-tree which are not correct linked into my pool. I'll like to verify and linked them correctly into my pool (not cpool). I've found some mailings regarding BackupPC_fixLinks.pl as well as hints to the location

Re: [BackupPC-users] Name server problems in hosts or config.pl

2012-12-14 Thread Matthias Meyer
Bruce Thayre wrote: Hi Matthias, Ah I see, I guess I shouldn't mix bash notation when asking about a command I run in a shell. So what you recommend is exactly what I've been doing. Assume my router is MyRouter.domain, and the client behind the router is MyClient. In MyClient's

Re: [BackupPC-users] Name server problems in hosts or config.pl

2012-12-10 Thread Matthias Meyer
there, but if it were registered would be on our subnet. For some reason or another, backuppc won't try to ping what I specify as ClientNameAlias, and instead tries to lookup the host netbios name. Any ideas? Thanks so much for the help! Bruce On 12/8/2012 1:33 AM, Matthias Meyer wrote: Bruce Thayre

Re: [BackupPC-users] Name server problems in hosts or config.pl

2012-12-08 Thread Matthias Meyer
Bruce Thayre wrote: Hello Everyone, I've been a maintainer of an old install of backuppc until our server recently died. I've reinstalled and brought all other services back except for backuppc. Many of our backup clients are behind routers and I had been using the ClientNameAlias

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more bakup after last partial backup?

2012-12-08 Thread Matthias Meyer
arcticeye wrote: Hi John, Thanks for your answer. I have copied the script but sh and bash (either) don't recognize the declare command. Is there a way to do it manually? Should I try to remove the last partial backup manually from /lib/var/backuppc/pc/server/ ?? or should I have to remove

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_verifyPool mismatchs found - what to do?

2012-12-06 Thread Matthias Meyer
backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Matthias Meyer wrote at about 08:41:34 +0100 on Monday, December 3, 2012: Wow - thank you for details :) Most of the files found are realy top level attrib files. But BackupPC_verifyPool.pl some files found like [1459587] fXLC_LOCALE

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_verifyPool mismatchs found - what to do?

2012-12-02 Thread Matthias Meyer
Wow - thank you for details :) Most of the files found are realy top level attrib files. But BackupPC_verifyPool.pl some files found like [1459587] fXLC_LOCALE ( 979) != c5e2162bfb3286475d4b71503593ffcd [1459783] attrib (73)

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_verifyPool mismatchs found - what to do?

2012-12-01 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi, I've tried the BackupPC_verifyPool.pl from Holger Parplies. Unfortunately some MD5 errors found and print out. e.g.: [28878] 083212b41c2482783128c9212f1f8a26 (78) != 70f6bdb839eed7efdfe8f8b01f4dcbc7 Did I have a problem? What should/can I do? How to find out which file it is?

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_deleteBackup.sh not working

2012-01-18 Thread Matthias Meyer
Estanislao López Morgan wrote: Hi backupers, I am projecting a migration in my backup server file system, to a LVM structure in order to enlarge my actual and future disk capacity. For that pourpose, I have to delete some backups but I am having problems with script /BackupPC_deleteBackup.sh.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Mail error - how to solve

2012-01-16 Thread Matthias Meyer
MaryG wrote: Hi experts. I hope you can help me with this problem: I have installed BackupPC 3.2.1 on a DNS-323 embedded ARM NAS, (running GNU BSD Net). I'm using it to back up 4 SOHO PCs. Things seem to be working fine, but I'm getting the following error in the log: 01:04:02 admin :

Re: [BackupPC-users] Suggestions for the new version

2012-01-16 Thread Matthias Meyer
Brad Alexander wrote: Hi gang, Hope everyone had a great Christmas, Hanukkah, or whatever you celebrate, and look forward to a good and prosperous new year. One of my Christmas presents this year was an upgrade for my desktop. Since it had been 4 or 5 years, and I had accumulated a kind

Re: [BackupPC-users] Disk was too full !!!

2011-12-28 Thread Matthias Meyer
Luis Calvo wrote: Hi, I receive this message from my BackupPC server: --- The following hosts had an error that is probably caused by a misconfiguration. Please fix these hosts: -

Re: [BackupPC-users] starting backup-PC

2011-11-28 Thread Matthias Meyer
Try sh -x /etc/init.d/backuppc start and post the output br Matthias Greer, Jacob - District Tech wrote: I am new to both Liniux and Backup-PC I am trying to install on OpenSUSE when I try to enable the service that I copied I get the following error: /etc/init.d/backuppc start returned 126

Re: [BackupPC-users] Different settings for restore possible?

2011-11-25 Thread Matthias Meyer
I use the $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} to run a script on my windows client which will start the rsync daemon if it is not running. It is nearly the same as you do before dump during your preusercmd.sh e.g. pre-restore.cmd: /bin/rsync --daemon --detach --config=/etc/rsyncd.conf br Matthias Falko

Re: [BackupPC-users] Small issue with trash

2011-11-25 Thread Matthias Meyer
Today I've the same problem. In my case the owner of the trash-directory was wrong (root). br Matthias Dan Johansson wrote: I have a small issue with the trash, or more precisely the trash-cleaner. Sometimes a directory will get stuck in the trash-directories and will not be cleaned away by

Re: [BackupPC-users] Deleted manually

2011-10-26 Thread Matthias Meyer
Estanislao López Morgan wrote: Hi fallows from Backup Pc... I have a problem with my backups. I had to delete a wrong backup, so I tried to run the famous script to do that, but it did not work. Probably the script is BackupPC_deleteBackup. Did you get any error-message? So I deleted

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issue with status page

2011-10-04 Thread Matthias Meyer
Urs Forster wrote: Hi all On the status-page I would expect two graphs in the lower part. However the do not show - there are only two placeholders. Trying to explicitly view the grapgs reveals the following: The Graphics http://birch/backuppc/index.cgi?image=4; contains errors and

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to run BackupPC_copyPCPool.pl without a BackupPC installation

2011-10-04 Thread Matthias Meyer
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Matthias Meyer wrote at about 00:04:50 +0200 on Saturday, October 1, 2011: Hi (Jeff ;-) I would like to try your BackupPC_copyPCPool.pl to backup my BackupPC storage to another server. Unfortunately this other server have no BackupPC installed

[BackupPC-users] How to run BackupPC_copyPCPool.pl without a BackupPC installation

2011-09-30 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi (Jeff ;-) I would like to try your BackupPC_copyPCPool.pl to backup my BackupPC storage to another server. Unfortunately this other server have no BackupPC installed. I've copied FileZIO.pm, Lib.pm, jLib.pm, Attrib.pm and Storage.pm from /usr/share/backuppc/lib/BackupPC as well as Text.pm

Re: [BackupPC-users] md4 doesn't match even though VSS is used

2011-09-13 Thread Matthias Meyer
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Matthias Meyer wrote at about 15:29:09 +0200 on Sunday, September 11, 2011: Dear all, I've a problem by backing up a large file (9GB) because the internet connection of the client interrupts every 24 hours. BackupPC (V3.1.0) can rsync this file

[BackupPC-users] md4 doesn't match even though VSS is used

2011-09-11 Thread Matthias Meyer
Dear all, I've a problem by backing up a large file (9GB) because the internet connection of the client interrupts every 24 hours. BackupPC (V3.1.0) can rsync this file once with status: md4 doesn't match: will retry in phase 1; file removed With lsof /var/lib/backuppc I can see this phase 1

Re: [BackupPC-users] bakuppc is not running.

2011-09-11 Thread Matthias Meyer
Adi Spivak wrote: hi. backuppc has stopped working 5 days ago. it was due to lack of storage space. i used this script:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Remote Site Backup though Backuppc

2011-06-03 Thread Matthias Meyer
Pravakar Kumar wrote: Hi, We are using BackupPC to backup Local Site desktops. It is working gr8. Now we want to backup desktop of remote sites connected via Internet VPN. What is the best procedure to backup desktops files (user's folders) of remote site though BackupPC. Regards,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Question about the Server Status cgi page

2011-05-13 Thread Matthias Meyer
Peter Lavender wrote: Hi Everyone, I've been running backuppc for a while now, and have been wondering about the backuppc Server Status web page. It's always shows the same values: The servers PID is 15721, on host rabbit, version 3.1.0, started at 4/4 13:49. * This status

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup retention and deletion.

2011-05-13 Thread Matthias Meyer
Robin Lee Powell wrote: So, I had FullKeepCntMin set really high, and I lowered it, and it's been several days, and yet I still have a ton of old fulls lying around. My questions: 1. When and how do deletions of the excess occur? 2. Why aren't they occuring? (in particular, is it

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup backuppc pool with rsync offsite

2011-04-25 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi Jeffrey, Thanks for sending your perl script. Unfortunately I can't answer you because: - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - j...@kosowsky.org - Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to smtp.secureserver.net.: 550 5.7.1 SPF unauthorized

[BackupPC-users] How to disable mailings from BackupPC

2011-04-06 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi, I've run a copy of my production BackupPC within my development environment. Is it possible to disable mailing from BackupPC within my development environment? As an workaround I've set $Conf{SendmailPath} = /usr/sbin/sendmail-no Thanks Matthias -- Don't Panic

Re: [BackupPC-users] bare metal restore?

2011-04-04 Thread Matthias Meyer
Neal Becker wrote: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: On 04/04 07:40 , Neal Becker wrote: Are there instructions for using backuppc for bare metal restore? Probably somewhere. It's fairly straightforward tho. Boot the bare-metal machine with Knoppix (or your choice of rescue disks).

Re: [BackupPC-users] Viewing detail of a backup in progress?

2011-04-04 Thread Matthias Meyer
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: On 04/04 07:14 , Holger Parplies wrote: in particular, they are compressed, so the end of the file is in my experience usually a considerable amount behind the file currently copying. This is also the reason you can't simply switch off buffering for the log

Re: [BackupPC-users] Keeping 1 golden backup for a year

2011-03-25 Thread Matthias Meyer
Brad Alexander wrote: Okay, this kind of confuses me. I would like to have the following backup strategy: 6 incrementals (*2) 1 weekly (*2) 1 yearly (*1) Currently, $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = [ 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1 ]; I know this isn't right, but it's not what I would anticipate seeing. For

Re: [BackupPC-users] host resolution problem

2011-03-20 Thread Matthias Meyer
Gabriel Rossetti wrote: On 03/19/2011 09:49 PM, Papp Tamas wrote: On 03/19/2011 09:02 PM, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Hello everyone, I read up on how BackupPC finds hosts, in my case nmblookup works. The problem is that when it tries to run the ssh command, it uses the host's name and not the

[BackupPC-users] Weekly full with no incremental configuration leads to daily full backups

2011-03-15 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi, I try to configure a client to make only weekly full backups but no incrementals: $Conf{FullAgeMax} = '732'; $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = [ '4', '0', '13' ]; $Conf{FullKeepCntMin} = '15'; $Conf{IncrAgeMax} = '0'; $Conf{IncrKeepCnt} = '0'; $Conf{IncrLevels} = [ '0' ]; But the above

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup backuppc pool with rsync offsite

2011-03-15 Thread Matthias Meyer
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: I think there is a 3rd camp: 3. Scripts that understand the special structure of the pool and pc trees and efficiently create lists of all hard links in pc directory. a] BackupPC_tarPCCOPY Included in standard BackupPC installations. It uses a perl

Re: [BackupPC-users] unexpected response rsync version 3.0.7 protocol version 30

2010-12-20 Thread Matthias Meyer
Saturn2888 wrote: Anyone know anything about this? r...@name:~# rsync r...@localhost:: rsync: server sent rsync version 3.0.7 protocol version 30 rather than greeting rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1524) [Receiver=3.0.7] I've been getting this

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't call method getStats on an undefined value

2010-12-20 Thread Matthias Meyer
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Whenever DumpPreShareCmd fails, I get the following errors in my log: DumpPreShareCmd returned error status 32256... exiting Can't call method getStats on an undefined value at /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump line 1160. I understand the first line, but

Re: [BackupPC-users] rrdtool patch didn't display actual graphics

2010-12-19 Thread Matthias Meyer
Tyler J. Wagner wrote: On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 04:02 +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote: Hi, After a system crash and restore the famous rrdtool graphic (a patch in the debian package of BackupPC 3.1.0) didn't be shown in an actual version. It seems that the graphic from before the crash

Re: [BackupPC-users] Different Backup schedule issue (hourly and daily)

2010-12-19 Thread Matthias Meyer
mailing.lists.wam mailing.lists.wam wrote: Hi, I'm having strange issues with BackupPC 3.1.0 on ubuntu 10.04. 1) I would like to configure backup schedule for a specified host this way, but couldn't find suitable config: Backup every hour and keep 72 backups ( 3 days) == IncrPeriod

[BackupPC-users] rrdtool patch didn't display actual graphics

2010-12-13 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi, After a system crash and restore the famous rrdtool graphic (a patch in the debian package of BackupPC 3.1.0) didn't be shown in an actual version. It seems that the graphic from before the crash will be shown. The /var/lib/backuppc/log/pool.rrd as well as /var/log/backuppc/pool.rrd seems to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Generating folders to backup from script

2010-11-30 Thread Matthias Meyer
Cyril Lavier wrote: Matthias Meyer wrote: Cyril Lavier wrote: Hi. I need to backup some folders on a server, which are not static, and I usually generate the folder list using a command (find). On the documentation, I can't find anything on using a command to generate the folder

Re: [BackupPC-users] Generating folders to backup from script

2010-11-28 Thread Matthias Meyer
Cyril Lavier wrote: Hi. I need to backup some folders on a server, which are not static, and I usually generate the folder list using a command (find). On the documentation, I can't find anything on using a command to generate the folder list. I tried some things, like putting a

Re: [BackupPC-users] New release of BackupPC_deleteBackup - who can put it into the wiki?

2010-10-31 Thread Matthias Meyer
Matthias Meyer wrote: Where is the problem? More than a year ago I asked for an update of the mediawiki entry. The entry is realy outdated! Maybee someone can add me to the editor group so that I can update the entry. Send me a mail and ask me for the necessary account informations

Re: [BackupPC-users] New release of BackupPC_deleteBackup - who can put it into the wiki?

2010-10-30 Thread Matthias Meyer
Matthias Meyer wrote: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Matthias Meyer wrote at about 22:04:42 +0200 on Sunday, October 10, 2010: Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 01:13:57AM +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote: Hi, I have a new release of the BackupPC_deleteBackup

Re: [BackupPC-users] Freeing up disk space (maybe with IncrFill)

2010-10-19 Thread Matthias Meyer
Jason A. Spiro wrote: Hi all, To all developers and other contributors on this list: Thank you for contributing to BackupPC. My client's BackupPC server's 1TB backup-storage RAID array is almost out of space (96% full). He's running BackupPC 3.1.0 on Ubuntu. The server backs up

Re: [BackupPC-users] New release of BackupPC_deleteBackup - who can put it into the wiki?

2010-10-18 Thread Matthias Meyer
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Matthias Meyer wrote at about 22:04:42 +0200 on Sunday, October 10, 2010: Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 01:13:57AM +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote: Hi, I have a new release of the BackupPC_deleteBackup script. Unfortunately I

Re: [BackupPC-users] New release of BackupPC_deleteBackup - who can put it into the wiki?

2010-10-10 Thread Matthias Meyer
Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 01:13:57AM +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote: Hi, I have a new release of the BackupPC_deleteBackup script. Unfortunately I can't put it into the wiki (http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=How_to_delete_backups). Jeffrey

Re: [BackupPC-users] recurrent backup failed' messages

2010-07-30 Thread Matthias Meyer
Jack M. Nilles wrote: *Re: [BackupPC-users] recurrent backup failed' messages* From: Matthias Meyer matthias.me...@gm... - 2010-07-29 20:12 Jack M. Nilles wrote: I'm moving BackupPC to a new machine, running SUSE 11.2. After installation I get nothing but the dreaded pink background

Re: [BackupPC-users] recurrent backup failed' messages

2010-07-29 Thread Matthias Meyer
Jack M. Nilles wrote: I'm moving BackupPC to a new machine, running SUSE 11.2. After installation I get nothing but the dreaded pink background and: 'backup failed (Unable to read 4 bytes)' messages for each host being backed up. Yet, if I start a backup via: sudo -u backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Trying to work around Windows filename too long problem

2010-07-27 Thread Matthias Meyer
James Ward wrote: full backup started for directory cDrive; updating partial #305 Connected to tartarus:873, remote version 29 Negotiated protocol version 28 Connected to module cDrive Sending args: --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times

Re: [BackupPC-users] Trying to work around Windows filename too long problem

2010-07-26 Thread Matthias Meyer
James Ward wrote: Hi, Last week, Symantec Antivirus server software was upgraded on a couple of servers. BackupPC has been faling to back them up since with filename too long errors. I'm trying to exclude the directory containing these problem files, but now I'm getting: full backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc restore

2010-07-24 Thread Matthias Meyer
Huba Zsolt wrote: Hi I'm trying to configure a simple backup solution for a development server, backuppc runs on the server. I use Ubuntu 8.04, backuppc 3.0.0. It seems that creating backups working fine (0 errors on summary page) but restore doesn't work. I tried to restore more files

Re: [BackupPC-users] generate first backup

2010-07-04 Thread Matthias Meyer
Bob Wooden wrote: I have been using BackupPC for six months or more now to backup one computer here at my home. This gave myself a little time to learn long term ramifications of various settings I tried. (My BackupPC server runs on a Ubuntu 10.04LTS (lucid) server, if that is important to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude a day

2010-06-27 Thread Matthias Meyer
Gerald Brandt wrote: Hi, I'd like to exclude a day in the backup cycle. Currently, backups occur on every day of the week. However, on Saturdays, the BackupPC server is doing automated archives and I'm copying VM snapshots to it as well. That makes the system quite busy and backups slow

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup never completes

2010-06-26 Thread Matthias Meyer
Child is aborting Got exit from child indicates a problem on client side. Try to increase log verbosity on client side (look at man rsync) br Matthias -- Don't Panic -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup never completes

2010-06-17 Thread Matthias Meyer
B. Alexander wrote: Hey, I have a single virtual host (OpenVZ) that never completes a backup. Neither incrementals nor fulls complete. I don't see any errors in the logs: 2010-06-15 18:14:19 incr backup started back to 2010-06-12 07:00:02 (backup #624) for directory /lib/modules

Re: [BackupPC-users] Retrieve the proper incremental level

2010-06-17 Thread Matthias Meyer
Inno wrote: Hello, I use incremental level (1,2,3,4 correspond to Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday). But Wednesday and Thursday have bugged last week.It stopped at level 2. Am I required to reactivate two incremental to retrieve the proper level? Thanks. The incremental level

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd, Parent read EOF from child

2010-06-17 Thread Matthias Meyer
Alexander Moisseev wrote: I have BackupPC configured to backup several directories on the same server as different BackupPC hosts. It works without a problem more than 2 years. But now backup of one directory interrupts during transfer when it still works normally for other ones. There are

Re: [BackupPC-users] Host groups

2010-06-09 Thread Matthias Meyer
Tóth Andor wrote: Hello, I?d like to make host groups, and set configuration according to group membership (e.g.: webservers, databases). I have made a workaround by creating symlinks for host configurations, but does BackupPC have some built in solutions for this? Regards, Andor

Re: [BackupPC-users] Complex include/excludes with rsync?

2010-06-06 Thread Matthias Meyer
Brian Mathis wrote: I am running backups using the rsync transport method. The docs on BackupFilesOnly indicate if this is used at all, then only the files listed there are backed up. To me this implies that excludes are then ignored. The docs on BackupFilesExclude warn that one can only

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync restore to Vista - chown fail

2010-05-16 Thread Matthias Meyer
I switched succesfully to cygwin V1.7.5 and it seems to work great :-) 4 things are to be emphasized: 1) usernames in v1.5 are case insensitive but not in v1.7.5. e.g. ssh me...@cygwinhost is not the same as ssh me...@cygwinhost http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2010-03/msg7.html 2)

Re: [BackupPC-users] Vista client backup problem

2010-05-14 Thread Matthias Meyer
Guillaume JAOUEN wrote: Child is aborting means that your vista client abort the connection. Do you have the rsync logfile from your vista client? br Matthias -- Don't Panic --

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync restore to Vista - chown fail

2010-05-10 Thread Matthias Meyer
ALSto wrote: Matthias Meyer wrote: Hello, I backup some Vista clients with backuppc 3.1.0 and rsyncd. The backup works perfect but the restore not. I get an error: 2010/05/02 23:44:46 [2756] receiving file list 2010/05/02 23:44:46 [2756] rsync: chown /Users/matthias/Desktop

[BackupPC-users] rsync restore to Vista - chown fail

2010-05-02 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hello, I backup some Vista clients with backuppc 3.1.0 and rsyncd. The backup works perfect but the restore not. I get an error: 2010/05/02 23:44:46 [2756] receiving file list 2010/05/02 23:44:46 [2756] rsync: chown /Users/matthias/Desktop/.logfile.lnk.Ud0Zgp (in C) failed: Permission denied (13)

Re: [BackupPC-users] NFS mount filled backuppc partition, need help recovering

2010-04-18 Thread Matthias Meyer
B. Alexander wrote: Hi all, I shot myself in the foot, and need to pick your brains about how to recover. My backup machine has a 500GB drive using LVM for my backup partition. I managed to fill it up. Currently, backups are not running (which makes me nervous), and the backuppc partition

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backup: What files changed?

2010-04-05 Thread Matthias Meyer
Luis Paulo wrote: I was trying to get a way to find what files have changed in an incremental backup. Does any one has a solution for it already? I've look at /var/lib/backuppc/pc/host/backups and to the XferLOG, but i'm getting nowhere. I did a manual incremental a few minutes after

Re: [BackupPC-users] Check-if-alive-pings alternatives

2010-02-18 Thread Matthias Meyer
Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: Matthias Meyer [mailto:matthias.me...@gmx.li] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:35 PM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Check-if-alive-pings alternatives Sorin Srbu wrote: Short of making the router

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC not cleaning out cpool.

2010-02-14 Thread Matthias Meyer
Joseph Holland wrote: # du -xsmh /var/data/backuppc/ 544G/var/data/backuppc/ Joe. On 11/02/2010 22:45, Matthias Meyer wrote: Joseph Holland wrote: We are having a problem with many of our BackupPC servers in our company at the moment. We are running Debian Lenny

Re: [BackupPC-users] Check-if-alive-pings alternatives

2010-02-11 Thread Matthias Meyer
Sorin Srbu wrote: Hi all, I have a server that sits behind a router (server is NAT:ed) and allows ssh connections in. That is to say, the *only* thing it allows in is ssh connections. Now, BackupPC uses pings to check if the machine to be backed up is alive. Since the router in question

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC not cleaning out cpool.

2010-02-11 Thread Matthias Meyer
Joseph Holland wrote: We are having a problem with many of our BackupPC servers in our company at the moment. We are running Debian Lenny and BackupPC 3.1.0. The data volumes since we upgraded to this version have seemed to just be filling up at a constant rate. The web interface is

[BackupPC-users] rsyncd restore issue

2010-02-07 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hello, I have two files (both Access DB). One with 2MB and the other with 200MB. Both are backed up with BackupPC 3.1.0 using rsyncd from my Windows-PC. If I delete the 200MB file on my Windows-PC the restore need only some minutes. If I restore both, only the first one (2MB) will be restored.

Re: [BackupPC-users] where the files come from, for rsync comparison?

2010-02-03 Thread Matthias Meyer
Craig Barratt wrote: Matthias writes: I believe that RsyncFileIO.pm decompress a file into share/RStmp and than compare it (rsync) with the file from the client. Yes, but only if the file is bigger than 16MB (otherwise it just does it in memory) and delays doing it until it knows there

[BackupPC-users] where the files come from, for rsync comparison?

2010-02-01 Thread Matthias Meyer
I believe that RsyncFileIO.pm decompress a file into share/RStmp and than compare it (rsync) with the file from the client. But I don't understand why lsof sometimes list a file from cpool and sometimes a file from an already stored backup: BackupPC_ 21822 backuppc6r REG 254,1 16968527

Re: [BackupPC-users] md4 doesn't match - how to solve?

2010-02-01 Thread Matthias Meyer
Michael Stowe wrote: Hello, I'm wondering about not finishing a backup from a windows client the last couple of days. The XferLOG stats: : create 770544/18 196608 microtech/Daten/NT/Mand.MESSE-2009/DTAHistory.MBD microtech/Daten/NT/Mand.MESSE-2009/Dokumente.MBD: md4 doesn't

Re: [BackupPC-users] autossh issues

2010-01-31 Thread Matthias Meyer
Trey Nolen wrote: We've been using Backuppc for years to backup machines over the WAN. It has worked nearly flawlessly for us in the past, but we are starting to see issues with new machines that we bring online. I think the trouble may have to do with the recent updates to Cygwin. When

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bakuppc shutdown clinets

2010-01-31 Thread Matthias Meyer
egrimisu wrote: hi and thanks for the repley, unfortunetly that does not work. i put the command there and after the pc's backup the pc does not shut down. http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/65/66670236.jpg DumpPostUserCmd will be executed on your BackupPC Server. Try /sbin/halt and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc - not backing up files, only folder structure

2010-01-26 Thread Matthias Meyer
stratisphere wrote: We've been using backup pc for quite some time, using the old version without issues. After about 6 months ago and some hardware issues, we decided to upgrade. Yesterday I built a box up running backuppc on debian and used apt-get to install the lot... nice and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Comments on this backup plan please

2010-01-26 Thread Matthias Meyer
PD Support wrote: We are going to be backing up around 30 MS-SQL server databases via ADSL to a number of regional servers running CentOS (about 6 databases per backup server). 10 sites are 'live' as of now and this is how we have started... The backups are between about 800MB and 5GB at

Re: [BackupPC-users] unable to restore via zip archives

2010-01-19 Thread Matthias Meyer
Johan Cwiklinski wrote: Hello, Le 02/10/2009 18:15, Boyko Yordanov - Exsisto Ltd. a écrit : Hello list! I've been playing w/ BackupPC version 3.2.0beta0 for a couple of days and I am facing the following issue: I am unable to restore files via zip archives with compression (1-9). The

[BackupPC-users] where does BackupPC_zipCreate write the file before transmission

2009-12-23 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi, I assume BackupPC_zipCreate read the files from the numbered dump and write them local into a .zip file. This local .zip file will be transfered to the destination. I can't find out where this local .zip file is located. Is my assumption wrong? Does BackupPC_zipCreate write the .zip to

Re: [BackupPC-users] ssh don't work to backup localhost

2009-12-23 Thread Matthias Meyer
Claude Gélinas wrote: I'm trying to setup the backup of the localhost with backuppc. I already backup several other linux machine via ssh. I've setuped all them via running the following command as backuppc user: ssh-keygen -t dsa cd .ssh ssh-copy-id -i id_dsa.pub

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd via ssh-redirected port

2009-12-21 Thread Matthias Meyer
Guido Schmidt wrote: Matthias Meyer wrote: Guido Schmidt wrote: What works? The opening and closing of the tunnel. What does not? The connection to it. Nothing in the rsyncd-logs on host.example.com. If I leave DumpPostUserCmd empty the tunnel stays open and I can use it with rsync

Re: [BackupPC-users] SMB Restore Issues - Trailing slashes reversed

2009-12-20 Thread Matthias Meyer
Craig Connoll wrote: Hi all. I have backuppc installed and working as I want it too but I have an issue when trying to restore a windows backup. All permissions are correct and no failures except when restoring to a window machines. I think the problem is the trailing slashes. They

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd via ssh-redirected port

2009-12-19 Thread Matthias Meyer
Guido Schmidt wrote: Dear backuppc-users, I'm happily using BackupPC 3.1.0 for quite a while. I'm now trying to backup a public host (host.example.com) via an ssh-redirected port. I don't allow any command execution on that host (and therefore cannot use the wait command), so I wrote a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Cannot start backuppc

2009-12-13 Thread Matthias Meyer
Robert J. Phillips wrote: My raid drive failed that stores all the data. I have fixed this problem (rebuilt the raid and had to re-install the xfs file system). All the data is lost that was on the array. I am running the Beta 3.2.0 version of backuppc and I ran sudo perl

Re: [BackupPC-users] convert from rsync to rsyncd

2009-12-08 Thread Matthias Meyer
Andy Thompson wrote: I want to convert a host from rsync to rsyncd in order to test speed differences between the two. My concern though is that currently with rsync my share name is /, which don't believe is valid using rsyncd. If I do this, will it duplicate all of the data for this

[BackupPC-users] New release of BackupPC_deleteBackup - who can put it into the wiki?

2009-12-05 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi, I have a new release of the BackupPC_deleteBackup script. Unfortunately I can't put it into the wiki (http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=How_to_delete_backups). Jeffrey would do that but I didn't reach him via email :-( Anybody else here would put it into the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bakuppc shutdown clinets

2009-11-28 Thread Matthias Meyer
egrimisu wrote: Thanks Matthias, I looked over it but i don't know how to call these commands, the only thing that i figured out is that the commands are: if called from windows shutdown /s /f /m \\clientcomputername and called from linux: net rpc shutdown -t 10 -f -C Shut Down

Re: [BackupPC-users] removing an old backup

2009-11-19 Thread Matthias Meyer
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: There is a bash script written by Matthias Meyer (and available by googling on the web). I think called BackupPC_deleteBackup (or maybe that's just what I called it ;) Hi Jeffrey, I can't answer your mail: - Transcript of session follows - ... while

[BackupPC-users] Suggestion for improvement of BackupPC_dump

2009-11-18 Thread Matthias Meyer
Problem: It isn't unusual that internet connections abort once a day. A lot of providers are doing that. Therefore it isn't unusual too that a full backup aborts and will be saved as an partial backup. If the next full backup aborts too, it will only be saved if it contains more files

Re: [BackupPC-users] Did backuppc/rsync end up finishing successfully?

2009-11-18 Thread Matthias Meyer
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: One of my recent backup logs had a single error as follows: ... create d 700 1005/513 0 spoolerlogs Remote[1]: rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at /home/lapo/packaging/rsync-3.0.6-1/src/rsync-3.0.6/io.c(200) [sender=3.0.6] Read EOF:

Re: [BackupPC-users] removing an old backup

2009-11-18 Thread Matthias Meyer
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: There is a bash script written by Matthias Meyer (and available by googling on the web). I think called BackupPC_deleteBackup (or maybe that's just what I called it ;) No, that was the name from me :-) I have an updated version of this script. Included your patch

Re: [BackupPC-users] Concrete proposal for feature extension for pooling

2009-11-15 Thread Matthias Meyer
If I understand right (sorry for my english ;-)) this proposal will support a backup of backuppc to another disk/machine. I believe today this is an important lack what should be solved. Unfortunately I am not a perl programmer. But I can support in testing. I have server as well as clients which

Re: [BackupPC-users] TextFileWrite: Failed to verify /etc/BackupPC/config.pl.new

2009-11-10 Thread Matthias Meyer
Michael Mansour wrote: Hi, Since updating to the latest BackupPC version, I've never really had to make a mod to the config via the web interface. Anyway, I just tried to and got the error in the subject: TextFileWrite: Failed to verify /etc/BackupPC/config.pl.new Checking the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression Issue

2009-11-10 Thread Matthias Meyer
Heath Yob wrote: It appears that I'm not getting any compression on my backups at least with my Windows clients. I think my mac clients are being compressed since it's actually stating a compression level in the host summary. I have the compression level set to 9. I have the

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies a

2009-11-10 Thread Matthias Meyer
Michael Stowe wrote: Michael Stowe wrote: Your scripts run within a normal user which is in admin group? My problem, what is inexplicable for me, is that the at command will work from a vista command box but not from a ssh-session. Even thought both use the same account. Did you have to

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to reenable/reactivate a host for backup

2009-11-09 Thread Matthias Meyer
ckandreou wrote: In the host summary I get the following: Host User #Full Full Age (days) Full Size (GB) Speed (MB/s) #Incr Incr Age (days) Last Backup (days) State Last attempt emsportal backuppc 1 529.9 14.14 3.38 1 30.9 30.9 auto disabled How do I reenable host to be backed up?

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies a

2009-11-09 Thread Matthias Meyer
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Matthias Meyer wrote at about 14:56:02 +0100 on Sunday, November 8, 2009: Hello Jeffrey, Did your script work in Vista too? I have not tried it under Vista, but I would like to get it to work there. One potential issue could be that shadow mounts

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies a

2009-11-09 Thread Matthias Meyer
Michael Stowe wrote: Matthias Meyer wrote at about 14:56:02 +0100 on Sunday, November 8, 2009: Hello Jeffrey, Did your script work in Vista too? I have not tried it under Vista, but I would like to get it to work there. One potential issue could be that shadow mounts (and vshadow.exe

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