in QueueAllPCs.
-Robin
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 08:52:38AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
So, I haven't figured out why yet, but this keeps happening on my
hosts *even though* I'm not running BackupPC_serverMesg
BackupPC_nightly run.
As far as I know, other than BackupPC_serverMesg server reload
.
This is really bad for my systems, and really frustrating. -_-
-Robin
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 06:11:20PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
Figured it out. The problem was that I have BackupPC set to run 8
nightlies at once (which usually takes 12 or more hours), but it was
ending up in a state
start a backup, even a bgQueue backup, when a link for
that host is pending.
2. Don't put a backup for a host on the bgQueue when a backup (or
link job) for that host is currently running, even in QueueAllPCs.
-Robin
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 08:52:38AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
So, I haven't
We use dumpPreUserCmd to run database dumps, then backup the
resulting files. Some of these dumps take a *really* long time.
The annoying part is that the logs don't show the *actual* start
time of the backups (that is, the time when the dumpPreUserCmd is
started), they only show the start of
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 possible that I
need to completely
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:47:27PM +0200, Matthias Meyer wrote:
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
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 04:09:51AM +0200, Holger Parplies wrote:
config.pl commented on 2010-07-31 19:52 [BackupPC 3.2.0]:
# Note that $Conf{FullAgeMax} will be increased to $Conf{FullKeepCnt}
# times $Conf{FullPeriod} if $Conf{FullKeepCnt} specifies enough
# full backups to exceed
That was *not* sent to the right mailing list. Sorry.
-Robin
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 06:34:58AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
I have a central server, that happens to be the puppetmaster, that
has various users on it. I would like to copy out their information
(name, uid, password, .bashrc
I have a central server, that happens to be the puppetmaster, that
has various users on it. I would like to copy out their information
(name, uid, password, .bashrc, etc) to all my other hosts, but I
want to let the users change their stuff on that host, so I don't
want to just stick it in
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 10:29:12PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
On 2/12/11 9:46 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
Would be Soo handy.
But what would it mean? And what if one or more of the targets is
unavailable and you never stop the retries and thus never finish?
I mean finish all
Would be Soo handy.
-Robin
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On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 05:25:48PM +0100, Holger Parplies wrote:
Hi,
Robin Lee Powell wrote on 2011-02-02 08:12:47 -0800
[[BackupPC-users] General questions about the background queue and
link commands.]:
Let me ask some more general questions: What does the
background queue actually
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 09:22:00AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
OK, so the question becomes, how do I monitor for general backup
queue problems? I've had situations where something gets stuck,
like a nightly job, and the queue gets backed up, and I want to
detect that.
I guess if I could
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 04:07:41PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
Hello,
I have a BackupPC configured with FullPeriod at 7.97 and daily
incremental backups, no blackout periods, hourly wakeup, and
2 consecutive backups permitted.
One of the hosts' last full backup is now 8.2 days old,
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 04:54:57PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Robin Lee Powell rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org [2011.02.02.1628
+0100]:
What could be the reason for this?
Most likely the disk is too full.
Nope. The disk is at 67%. And if it were too full, I would have
Let me ask some more general questions: What does the background queue
actually *mean*?
What does a green background in the Host Summary mean?
All but one host (!), 226 out of 227, is in the background queue,
which seems rather excessive since about half my hosts have recent
backups.
All the
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 05:11:50PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Robin Lee Powell rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org [2011.02.02.1704
+0100]:
What does the host log say?
Nothing, really:
2011-02-02 15:00:00 Next wakeup is 2011-02-02 16:00:00
2011-02-02 16:00:00 Next wakeup
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 05:53:33PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Robin Lee Powell rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org [2011.02.02.1720
+0100]:
2011-02-02 15:00:00 Next wakeup is 2011-02-02 16:00:00
2011-02-02 16:00:00 Next wakeup is 2011-02-02 17:00:00
2011-02-02 17:00:00
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 06:20:15PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Robin Lee Powell rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org
[2011.02.02.1757 +0100]:
There's a log for each client, which you can see by accessing
the client in the GUI (it'll be the top-most LOG File link)
and a log
I have one server where the background queue is *huge* (hundreds of
hosts, small segment below with actual host names trimmed, sorry)
backupType = auto,reqTime = 1296592200,user = BackupPC,host =
nik[snip]
backupType = auto,reqTime = 1296592200,user = BackupPC,host =
med[snip]
backupType =
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:34:01AM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
If BackupPC is *not* running, is there any danger to removing pool
entries with just one hard link?
If there are no new/ directories, that should be fine.
-Robin
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On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 04:50:47PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 09:52:30 -0800 on Thursday, January 20, 2011:
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:34:01AM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
If BackupPC is *not* running, is there any danger to removing pool
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 01:11:50PM +0330, mohammad tayebi wrote:
*Hi Backuppc Users*
i have problem ?
my backupc server has Raid 5 And mounted /var/lib/backuppc
ofcource my quesition is : This Log
* 2011-01-09 20:00:03 Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE)*
backuppc
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:43:50AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
On 1/10/2011 10:26 AM, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 01:11:50PM +0330, mohammad tayebi wrote:
*Hi Backuppc Users*
i have problem ? my backupc server has Raid 5 And mounted
/var/lib/backuppc
ofcource my
Am I correct in my belief that:
find /backups/cpool/ -links 1 -ls
should always return nothing, and that I can freely delete anything
it *does* find?
-Robin
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On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:06:53AM -0500, barry wrote:
Looking for a good way to do a seed copy import into backuppc. I
want to be able to get the bulk of backup data on a usb disk then
import it into backuppc from said disk and resume rsyncs without
copying all the data in over the wire. Is
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 04:26:07PM +0100, d.davo...@mastertraining.it wrote:
OK, I know that it's an old topic :)
I checked the mailing list and wiki but still I can't find the right
direction.
I just need migrate to a new Backupc server. I don't need to move the
pool because my data are
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 09:53:25AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org [2010.11.17.0059
+0100]:
I wrote two programs that might be helpful here:
1. BackupPC_digestVerify.pl
If you use rsync with checksum caching then this program checks
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 03:03:37PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 11:20:26 -0800 on Thursday, December 9, 2010:
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 09:53:25AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org [2010.11.17.0059
+0100
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 03:15:41PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 12:06:24 -0800 on Thursday,
December 9, 2010:
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 03:03:37PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
wrote:
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 11:20:26 -0800 on Thursday
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 12:05:01AM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
Anyway here is the diff. I have not had time to check it much
beyond verifying that it seems to run -- SO I WOULD TRULY
APPRECIATE IT IF YOU CONTINUE TO TEST IT AND GIVE ME FEEDBACK.
Also, it would be great if you would let
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 02:27:46PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 11:05:46 -0800 on Tuesday, December 7, 2010:
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 01:58:28PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 15:40:04 -0800 on Monday, December 6
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 12:35:46AM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 13:58:28 -0500 on Tuesday, December 7,
2010:
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 15:40:04 -0800 on Monday, December 6, 2010:
This is *fascinating*.
From the actually-fixing
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 06:41:22PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 15:24:30 -0800 on Thursday, December 9, 2010:
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 12:05:01AM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
Anyway here is the diff. I have not had time to check it much
beyond
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 05:14:51PM +, Keith Edmunds wrote:
I need to be able to stop backups running during the working day.
I'm aware of BlackoutPeriods and, mostly, that manages to achieve
what I need. However, there are times when, for whatever reason,
backups overrun. What I want to do
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 01:07:50PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
2. More importantly, there is no fast way
No, there really isn't.
that I know of checking whether a pc entry with more than one link
is in the pool. You first need to read in the 1st MB of each file,
calculate the partial
So, I've made BackupPC_fixLinks do what I want in terms of fixing
the problems that caused it to emit hundreds of:
Can't find
redbubble--tm50-e00145--tm50-s00339---shared/40/f%2f/fshared/fredbubble/fpurchase_order_assets/fbatch_7749/faddresses_dom
estic_20101026T01.csv in pool, will copy file
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 01:16:32PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
Robin, can you just clarify the context. Did this apparent pool
corruption only occur after running BackupPC_tarPCCopy or did it
occur in the course of normal backuppc running.
I honestly don't know; I've done so much on
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 01:34:19PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
OK I was confused for a second there since usually the convention
is to use '---' as the original code and '+++' as the new code...
Sorry, musta put the diff in the wrong order.
Well actually, I had found and fixed that bug
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 01:58:28PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 15:40:04 -0800 on Monday, December 6, 2010:
This is *fascinating*.
From the actually-fixing-stuff part of the run, I get:
ERROR:
tm50-s00292__nfs/68/f%2f/fshared/fthepoint
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 02:18:51PM -0500, Dan Pritts wrote:
umount /var/lib/backuppc
dd if=/dev/onedisk of=/dev/someotherdisk bs=1M
Only works if you have identical disks, which is hard when you've
got a few TiB on a SAN.
In practice, rsync -H is the reasonable way to do what you're
after,
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 11:44:38AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 02:18:51PM -0500, Dan Pritts wrote:
In practice, rsync -H is the reasonable way to do what you're
after, EXCEPT that there are just too many hard links on a
backuppc data store for this to work
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 06:19:45PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
On 12/7/10 5:19 PM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 14:18 -0500, Dan Pritts wrote:
Not exactly an answer to your question, but i would do this:
umount /var/lib/backuppc dd if=/dev/onedisk
of=/dev/someotherdisk
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 12:06:40AM -0500, Dan Pritts wrote:
If I had that big a pool, I think I'd not be using a single
backuppc instance, but that's just me. I'm guessing it works well
for you, I'm glad it does.
We aren't; we have 6.
The *smallest* is about 4 TiB if disk, most of it in use.
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 01:27:17PM +0100, Oliver Freyd wrote:
Hello,
I'm a happy user of BackupPC since a few years,
running an old installation of backuppc that was created
on some version of SuSE linux, then ported over to debian lenny.
The pool is a reiserfs3 on LVM, about 300GB size,
It would be really nice to be able to tell the backuppc server to
finish all current backups without queuing any others, and then
stop/exit completely.
I know I can sort-of do this by disabling backups for each host, but
that's a really big pain, and from the reading of the queuing system
I did
I've locally modified BackupPC_fixLinks to check files even if they
have more than one link. I'm getting a lot of errors like this:
Can't read size of
/backups/pc/foo--tm50-e00145--tm50-s00339---shared/47/f%2f/fshared/flogs/fapplication.log-20100830.gz
from attrib file so calculating
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 10:37:52AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
So I'm writing a script to transfer a client from one host to
another, using tarPCCopy, and I'm getting messages like this:
Can't find
foo--tm50-e00145--tm50-s00339---shared/47/f%2f/fshared/ffoo/fpurchase_order_assets
substr outside of string at /usr/local/lib64/BackupPC/jLib.pm line 162.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
/usr/local/lib64/BackupPC/jLib.pm line 162.
The line(s) in question:
$datalast = substr($data[($i-1)%2], $rsize, _128KB-$rsize)
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 03:33:52PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 11:28:56 -0800 on Monday, December 6, 2010:
I've locally modified BackupPC_fixLinks to check files even if
they have more than one link.
I'm not sure what you mean... the program
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 03:48:04PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 10:37:52 -0800 on Monday, December 6, 2010:
So I'm writing a script to transfer a client from one host to
another, using tarPCCopy, and I'm getting messages like this:
Can't
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 03:48:04PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 10:37:52 -0800 on Monday, December 6, 2010:
So I'm writing a script to transfer a client from one host to
another, using tarPCCopy, and I'm getting messages like this:
Can't
This is *fascinating*.
From the actually-fixing-stuff part of the run, I get:
ERROR:
tm50-s00292__nfs/68/f%2f/fshared/fthepoint/fsite_images/f0042/f4097/fMULTI_medium.jpg
- Too many links if added to 59c43b51dbdd9031ba54971e359cdcec
to which I say lolwut? and investigate.
$ ls -li
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 03:40:04PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
This is *fascinating*.
From the actually-fixing-stuff part of the run, I get:
ERROR:
tm50-s00292__nfs/68/f%2f/fshared/fthepoint/fsite_images/f0042/f4097/fMULTI_medium.jpg
- Too many links if added
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 01:17:43PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
So, yeah. More than one link, matches something in the pool, but
not actually linked to it. Isn't that *awesome*? ;'(
I very much want BackupPC_fixLinks to deal with this, and I'm
trying to modify it to do that now
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 12:32:01PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
substr outside of string at /usr/local/lib64/BackupPC/jLib.pm line 162.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
/usr/local/lib64/BackupPC/jLib.pm line 162.
The line(s) in question
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 10:46:12PM -0800, Craig Barratt wrote:
Robin,
ls -li /backups/cpool/1/5/c/15c0e4b08058ef3704b8fc24887e2bcc
/backups/pc/foo--tm50-e00145--tm50-s00339---shared/47/f%2f/fshared/ffoo/fpurchase_order_assets/fbatch_7813/f7105620_done.txt
*BUT*. Not linked.
$ ls
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 11:33:15PM -0800, Craig Barratt wrote:
Robin,
Nope; I'm a big tab completion user, so I would have seen it. ;)
$ ls -li /backups/cpool/1/5/c/15c0e4b08058ef3704b8fc24887e2bcc*
255523133 -rw-r- 3 backuppc backuppc 27 Nov 22 19:33
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 03:18:46PM -0500, Timothy J Massey wrote:
Robin Lee Powell rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org wrote on 11/25/2010
01:12:50 PM:
The problem is that calling BackupPC_serverMesg
BackupPC_nightly run when the regular nightlies are already
running, or calling it twice
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:35:20PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 07:01:45PM -0800, Craig Barratt wrote:
Robin,
Thanks for the detailed analysis. I agree - it's pretty broken.
Preventing queuing a second nightly request when one is running
will at least
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 07:01:45PM -0800, Craig Barratt wrote:
Robin,
Thanks for the detailed analysis. I agree - it's pretty broken.
Preventing queuing a second nightly request when one is running
will at least avoid the problem. However, I don't recommend
killing the current running
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 09:29:34AM +, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
Robin,
Thank you for the awesome write-up.
On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 18:11 -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
1. Don't run a non-nightly job from the CmdQueue when there are
nightly job running, *EVER*.
Unfortunately, that's
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 09:29:34AM +, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
Robin,
Thank you for the awesome write-up.
On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 18:11 -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
1. Don't run a non-nightly job from the CmdQueue when there are
nightly job running, *EVER*.
Unfortunately, that's
Figured it out. The problem was that I have BackupPC set to run 8
nightlies at once (which usually takes 12 or more hours), but it was
ending up in a state where only one was running at a time.
This may be the longest, most detailed debugging writeup I've ever
done in 15 years of being a
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 04:11:15PM +0100, Boniforti Flavio wrote:
Hello Pavel.
for huge dirs with millions of files we got almost an order of
magnitude faster runs with the tar mode instead of rsync (which
eventually consumed all the memory anyways :) )
How would I be able to use tar
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 09:37:01AM -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Robin Lee Powell
rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org wrote:
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 04:11:15PM +0100, Boniforti Flavio
wrote:
Hello Pavel.
for huge dirs with millions of files we got almost an order
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 05:13:58PM +0100, Boniforti Flavio wrote:
Well, by hand you'd do:
ssh host 'tar -czvf - /dir' /backups/foo.tgz
But wouldn't this create *one huge tarball*??? That's not what I'd
like to get...
It was an example for your benefit in future; it has nothing to do
On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 08:41:10AM -0800, auto316...@hushmail.com
wrote:
I am new to backuppc and would appreciate some pointers on how to
get started. I don't see an executable file in the distribution
-- just a zip file. And I would like to know what is the first
step that I need to do so
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 09:39:22AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Has anyone run across 'brackup'
(http://search.cpan.org/~bradfitz/Brackup-1.10/lib/Brackup.pm)? It is
just a command line tool, not much like backuppc, but it appears to have
some very interesting concepts for the backend
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:48:07PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
It happened again last night during the actual run:
2010-10-15 01:00:00 Running 8 BackupPC_nightly jobs from 0..15 (out of 0..15)
2010-10-15 01:00:01 Running BackupPC_nightly -m 0 31 (pid=30718)
2010-10-15 07:56:33
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 09:59:16PM -0400, southasia wrote:
Finally installed Backuppc successfully. I could access web
interface inside the office. If I would like to access from home
to office Backuppc from Internet, how should do configure it?
Please advice me or if there is a link for
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:04:27PM -0700, Craig Barratt wrote:
Robin writes:
I have four hosts with identical configuration, as far as I know.
All of them have:
$Conf{MaxBackupPCNightlyJobs} = 8;
On one, and only one as far as I can tell, running:
sudo -u backuppc
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 11:55:41AM -0400, Dan Pritts wrote:
I agree with your general praise, BackupPC works very well for us
in our environment, which is maybe half your size. Due to your
large size, I'll leave you with one thought:
One concern I've always had with backuppc is what would
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 08:57:52AM +0100, James Wells wrote:
I find that BackupPC is good for general data retention, but bad
for bare metal restores where you have to reinstall the OS first
and then get data back on there.
Fortunately, I have no need for that. :)
-Robin
--
It happened again last night during the actual run:
2010-10-15 01:00:00 Running 8 BackupPC_nightly jobs from 0..15 (out of 0..15)
2010-10-15 01:00:01 Running BackupPC_nightly -m 0 31 (pid=30718)
2010-10-15 07:56:33 BackupPC_nightly now running BackupPC_sendEmail
2010-10-15 08:00:58 Finished
I have four hosts with identical configuration, as far as I know.
All of them have:
$Conf{MaxBackupPCNightlyJobs} = 8;
On one, and only one as far as I can tell, running:
sudo -u backuppc BackupPC_serverMesg BackupPC_nightly run
results in:
$ ps -aef | grep -i nigh
backuppc 6375
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:06:40PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
I have four hosts with identical configuration, as far as I know.
All of them have:
$Conf{MaxBackupPCNightlyJobs} = 8;
On one, and only one as far as I can tell, running:
sudo -u backuppc BackupPC_serverMesg
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 03:19:31PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
On 10/14/2010 2:06 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
I have four hosts with identical configuration, as far as I know.
All of them have:
$Conf{MaxBackupPCNightlyJobs} = 8;
On one, and only one as far as I can tell, running
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 11:36:02AM -0400, Carl T. Miller wrote:
I found what looks like an excellent tool for managing
backuppc pools. It allows the deletion of files or
directories from archives.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=BackupPC_DeleteFile
The
Whoops. More testing, new script. :)
-Robin
#! /bin/bash
#this script contributed by Matthias Meyer
#note that if your $Topdir has been changed, the script will ask you
#the new location.
#
# Significant modifications by Robin Lee Powell, aka
# rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org, all of which
by Matthias Meyer
#note that if your $Topdir has been changed, the script will ask you
#the new location.
#
# Significant modifications by Robin Lee Powell, aka
# rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org, all of which are placed into the public domain.
#
usage=\
Usage: $0 -c client [-d backupnumber -b before data [-f
Is the format written up anywhere?
-Robin
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 11:36:08AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
I couldn't find anything on the wiki describing the fields of that
file, so:
If I want to know the total on-disk space used by a particular host,
do I want to add up the total
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 10:45:42AM -0700, Craig Barratt wrote:
Robin,
Is the format written up anywhere?
Yes, it's in the documentation:
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#storage_layout
Scroll down to backups.
*blink*
I *swear* I looked. -_-
Unfortunately, it
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 03:32:23PM -0400, Timothy J Massey wrote:
Robin Lee Powell rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org wrote on 10/04/2010
03:28:23 PM:
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 03:25:03PM -0400, Timothy J Massey
wrote:
Robin Lee Powell rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org wrote on
10/04/2010 03:15:29
I couldn't find anything on the wiki describing the fields of that
file, so:
If I want to know the total on-disk space used by a particular host,
do I want to add up the total column in the backups file (i.e.
field 6, counting from 1) or the total column minus the existing
column (column 8), or
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 08:56:49AM -0400, Chris Purves wrote:
I recently copied the pool to a new hard disk following the
Copying the pool instructions from the main documentation. The
documentation says to copy the 'cpool', 'log', and 'conf'
directories using any technique and the 'pc'
OK, so, BackupPC says it's using 5590.63GB. This number is rapidly
growing. (it's all wrong; we're actually using 5848.6GB, but that's
not what this mail is about).
How do I find out which backups are using a lot of disk? We'd like
to see if there's a problem with our retention policy,
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 03:25:03PM -0400, Timothy J Massey wrote:
Robin Lee Powell rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org wrote on 10/04/2010
03:15:29 PM:
How do I find out which backups are using a lot of disk? We'd
like to see if there's a problem with our retention policy,
especially
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 03:32:23PM -0400, Timothy J Massey wrote:
Robin Lee Powell rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org wrote on 10/04/2010
03:28:23 PM:
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 03:25:03PM -0400, Timothy J Massey
wrote:
Robin Lee Powell rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org wrote on
10/04/2010 03:15:29
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 would do that but I didn't
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 11:52:18AM +0200, Boniforti Flavio wrote:
Hello list.
I tried to put back on a remote server, via SSH tunnel and rsync, some
files. What I got was this:
Can we get the complete config for this host? And any global rsync
or ssh options? And the contents of the tunnel
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 06:55:18PM +0200, Leif Gunnar Einmo wrote:
I have seeked the forum for a solution, but couldn't find it :(
I have a running BackupPc that have around 400 Gb of data 90 %
loaded. Now i'm in need to axpand the the storage with a NAS as
the server is full. I have mounted
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:16:51PM -0700, Craig Barratt wrote:
Robin writes:
We add a lot of stuff automatically to our backuppc configs, and
manually going into the UI and doing the config reload is easy
to forgot. Can it be done on the command line without breaking
any backups (i.e.
rsync --fuzzy seems to break BackupPC; fileListReceived breaks.
Could that be fixed easily?
-Robin
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On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 03:47:25PM -0700, Craig Barratt wrote:
Robin writes:
rsync --fuzzy seems to break BackupPC; fileListReceived
breaks. Could that be fixed easily?
Sorry, but no. In 4.x I hope to implement solution that will be
better than even --fuzzy, although it might not be
We add a lot of stuff automatically to our backuppc configs, and
manually going into the UI and doing the config reload is easy to
forgot. Can it be done on the command line without breaking any
backups (i.e. without restarting)?
-Robin
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 05:52:26PM +0200, Marcus Hardt wrote:
[..]
I think it does the basic permissions that map to unix
equivalents. It doesn't preserve acls, nor does it have any way
to work around the existing ones - so you may have files that
you can read in the backups but can't
Another question: The script, running with -c, failed eventually
at this line:
my $err = $bpc-ServerConnect($Conf{ServerHost}, $Conf{ServerPort});
My serverport is set to -1; does it need to be set for this to work?
Could you not just call BackupPC_ServerMesg instead? Perhaps I
should
There is something *very* wrong with either the tar used to make the
archive, or the tar used to restore. I wouldn't trust anything it
outputs at all.
What version of tar on both ends?
Have you tried getting a zip archive from the GUI instead? Or using
BackupPC_zipCreate on the CLI?
-Robin
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 02:31:29AM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
Honestly, I never really looked into whether it enforces the
constraints you mention above. But looking at the code, it seems
that these constraints are enforced only by the BackupPC main
routine (i.e. daeomon) itself (which
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