On Wed, 9 Aug 2017, Hannes Elvemyr wrote:
Hi!
I'm using BackupPC for all my machines and it's great! I would now like to
protect my BackupPC pool somehow (if my BackupPC server crashes, gets stolen
or burns up I don't want to loose the data). As I see it, I have at least
two options:
1. Run a
I'm glad to see the recent energy going into the discussion and planning
for BackupPC's future. It's great that there's an interest in making sure
the project stays alive.
It sounds like there are lots of opinions about how to proceed long-term,
including who the core players will be who have
Hi,
Thanks to Lars and Mauro. It's great that you've taken this on.
FWIW, I contacted Craig directly last week and received a reply over the
weekend. It sounds like he's quite busy, and does not regularly read these
lists, but he still hopes to be able to contribute more in the future (ie,
I think you've eliminated the remote and local filesystems and said you
have no problem backing up via smb or backing up local files.
I find it interesting that the client file path is being cut off ~= 100
characters.
echo
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.comwrote:
But the experience here says that
changing complex code requires extensive testing before trusting it.
It isn't a matter of not imagining this use case - it is going beyond
and imagining if something goes wrong, or if
-ridden on a per PC basis as
many other configuration settings may be.
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Stephen Joyce sjb...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you for your input, but I've already considered your other
I'm in a situation where I find myself desiring per-pc pools.[1]
It's been a while since I've dipped my toes into the BackupPC's code, but
I've done a bit of preliminary research into this, and think I've
identified the places where changes would need to be made to allow the pool
or cpool to be
posed was Has anyone
gone down this path before me? If so, did you succeed or fail? I'd like to
compare notes either way. If you haven't, then please don't feel compelled
to send an abrasive reply.
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:11 AM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
Stephen Joyce wrote at about 07:52:11
; the existing ones
simply need to be made aware of the additional locations on which to
operate.
~Stephen
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Holger Parplies wb...@parplies.de wrote:
Hi,
backu...@kosowsky.org wrote on 2013-03-13 10:11:17 -0400 [Re:
[BackupPC-users] Per-PC pools]:
Stephen Joyce wrote
Wouldn't it be easier to eliminate the problem? BackupPC is comparing the
files to determine if they're identical (normally using lots of CPU to
uncompress the pooled file, but since you're not using compression, that's
not your issue).
Why not simply name your database dump differently each
Hi Martin,
Sure. Take a look at
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Distribute_Full_Backups
Cheers,
Stephen
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, martin f krafft wrote:
Hello,
After a longer downtime, my backuppc daemon came back online and
started a full backup of all hosts,
You mentioned you're using Debian official repo for perl modules, so what
about trying
aptitude purge libfile-rsyncp-perl aptitude install libfile-rsyncp-perl
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Farmol SPA wrote:
Original Message
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] File::RsyncP module
+';
This should be:
$Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -l backuppc $host nice -n 19 sudo
/path/to/rsyncSend $argList+';
This is dependent on how your clients are set up (what user exists there).
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It's not as nice as having a file attached to just click and download, but
why not just include the script(s) on the page as long as they're just 1 or
2 files?
See
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Distribute_Full_Backups
for an example.
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, but as far as I know it's never been fixed.
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In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox
couldn't budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox. We
shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of
computers. --Rear Admiral
Have you tried ssh -c blowfish?
3des is the default cipher for most ssh implementations and blowfish is
much faster than 3des.
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, but
remember the recent advisories concerning AES keys = 128-bits.
Disclaimer: I am *not* a cryptographic expert; I just know how to use
google. :-)
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
Stephen Joyce wrote at about 10:31:44 -0400 on Thursday, September 3, 2009:
Have you tried ssh -c
of BPC and
feature wishlists to the -devel list instead?
[My opinions are mine, not my employers. They are worth what you paid for
them.]
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In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox
couldn't budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox
How did you determine that userid 502 is backuppc4afs? Do id backuppc4afs
and id 502 return the same results? What about su backuppc4afs -c id?
Have you configured the Mac to be aware of either an ldap server or AD
domain in Directory Services? It's easy to accidentally configure duplicate
reports of success or failure (or what else you
had to change to make it work on a Mac).
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I'd like to see BackupPC adopt an asynchronous transactional replication
scheme for replicating servers. Given the way BPC uses the underlying
filesystem, it seems the most robust and flexible choice.
Cyrus Imapd (which can scale to at least hundreds of thousands of users and
millions of
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Holger Parplies wrote:
Simone Marzona wrote on 2009-03-15 07:13:31 +0100 [[BackupPC-users]
logging..]:
is there a wey to make backuppc log through syslog and not to his
regular file(s)?
not without patching the source.
Probably the simplest, but not most correct
Not to be simplistic, but have you checked the server's logs?
PS. It's best to compose a new message rather than just change the subject
in an existing thread.
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Chris Baker wrote:
Almost every morning, I come into the server room and find that my BackupPC
server has been
I assume you're most worried about your server going tango uniform (in a
fire, simultaneous disk failure, etc), and not rm -rf *. Correct?
Has anyone successfully used BackupPC on a DRBD (http://www.drbd.org)
active/passive, or even active/active, cluster? If so, what can you report?
Cheers,
Well, personally I find the Backup Central forum traffic to be annoying.
The email list existed long before the BC forum (for BackupPC) did and got
along fine without it. Further it's an untenable practice; if every
centralized resource wannabe created a web forum - email listserv
gateway, it
I suspect that you didn't restore BackupPC's status.pl file when you
restored your RAID. On my hosts it's in /var/log/BackupPC/.
Or I may be off base and you might have deeper problems. :-)
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Peter Doherty wrote:
Hello
My BackupPC server is sending out emails that claims
I have added this to the wiki under the Tips and Tricks and User
scripts headings: Distribute Full backups of your clients over multiple
days.
I've released the code under the GPL, so it may be included in future
versions of BackupPC if Craig desires.
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finds).
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Stephen Joyce wrote:
Due to a hardware failure on my old server, I recently set up a new
backuppc server and it backs up about 85 hosts with a 60-day FullPeriod.
Because I started fresh, right now all of the hosts' schedules are in
lock-step (all got a full
Due to a hardware failure on my old server, I recently set up a new
backuppc server and it backs up about 85 hosts with a 60-day FullPeriod.
Because I started fresh, right now all of the hosts' schedules are in
lock-step (all got a full the first day, an incr level 1 the next, ...) On
my old
On Tue, 27 May 2008, Jonathan Dill wrote:
I can think of other cases where push might work better than pull
either for security or network topology. I suppose if you have a fast
enough WAN connection, you could even use something like FileZilla and
SFTP (ftp over ssh) to push a backup to a
with your own and change https to http if you're
not using SSL (though you should be). This edit can also be done via the
CGI: Edit Config - CGI - CgiNavBarLinks - Add.
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, e-sata. Your
performance will thank you.
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take care to follow the vendors
instructions (for instance, with vmware server you must make sure that the
vm is off or suspended when you copy the files).
HTH.
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(3.1.0 is the current stable version).
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(that is managing a very large chunk of file system).
AFS doesn't support hard links between directories, which BackupPC
requires.
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, test your setup by making sure you know how to
import the dump files back into mysql.
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. backups.)
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the server to
handle much more than one client per CPU core; your mileage may vary
depending on what your CPU core(s) and transfer method are though.
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understand how the hardlinks are used (and it works pretty well) but I
can't help but think that a database of file references would work as well
(possibly better) than the hardlinks...
Just my two cents.
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of several options will work.
I'm still using the process at
http://www.physics.unc.edu/~stephen/on-demand-backuppc/ with good results.
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? :-)
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set, there
is no need to set nodiratime.
-Dave
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On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Paul Fox wrote:
this is perfect wiki fodder, i'd say...
Yes and no. It's more correctly classified as a general system performance
tweak rather than something BackupPC specific. At best it belongs in the
off-topic area.
else is scheduled) the unsafe command is
BackupPC_nightly 0 255
Hope this helps.
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the first bit
of the file (more BackupPC_nightly). It will explain what the numbers
following the command mean.
Thanks a lot.
Romain
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this anyway) or
make sure the VM disk files are on a filesystem on the host OS that
supports snapshots or some other occult mechanism of insuring the disk
files are quiescent.
Hope this helps!
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. This would be useful for admins who want to
allow their users to check the status of backups and/or do restores, but
not schedule backups at random times.
PS. Please followup to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as it's more
appropriate for this type of discussion than backuppc-users is.
Cheers, Stephen
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yaakov
restart backuppc, and user yaakov should see both hosts.
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/BackupPC.html#step_4__setting_up_the_hosts_file
for more info.
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its new or changed files.
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what's happening; BackupPC closes the
socket. Depending on the script on the remote side it could continue or die
when it loses it's controlling tty.
I'm not sure there's a way to do what you want without using DumpPreUserCmd
and DumpPostUserCmd scripts.
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Full details with apps and scripts at
http://www.physics.unc.edu/~stephen/on-demand-backuppc/
I'll add this to the wiki when I have time.
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on my infrastructure
and I was trying to avoid the here's one more script to do a find/replace
in.
PS. You're on your own for step 7. :-)
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. If you think what I describe is too complicated for
you, don't do it. No one will twist your arm and force you to implement it.
(OK, *I* won't, I don't know who you work for. :-)
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and time to this, don't forget to backup the
website and sql db! It would be embarassing to have a wiki dedicated to a
backup project and forget to back it up. :-)
Nils Breunese.
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clean them up a bit, removing the site-specific
bits, and post them to the web.
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for the asynchronous operation to finish...)
(Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish...)
Snapshot creation done.
C:\
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for it there or you should move it to
where your apache expects to find cgi-bins.
Hope this helps.
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working your way up, NOT 'rm -rf' on the parent, if you're paranoid
or don't fully trust your script.)
Or am I misunderstanding the problem?
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to the pooling and linking.
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$ logout
...hang without exit.. until you close the xterm.
Something like the following should behave more like you expect:
pc1$ ssh pc2
pc2$ xterm /dev/null /dev/null
pc2$ logout
...ssh session terminates
pc1$
Hope this helps.
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be a good choice.
Unison operates similarly to rsync and only sends the changes when doing an
update. I'm unsure about SyncToy's algorithm since it's not open source.
Hope this helps!
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. Then you'll get a correct config:
# more /etc/BackupPC/pc/test1.pl
$Conf{SmbShareName} = [
'C$',
'D$',
'W$'
];
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb';
Don't forget, it's a good idea to reload the server config anytime you make
a config change.
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, Tony Schreiner wrote:
It is BackupPC 3.0 but recently upgraded from 2.1.2.
I have only $Conf{IncrLevels} = [1];
Are you suggesting I implement multi-levels?
Tony
On Jun 21, 2007, at 10:34 AM, Stephen Joyce wrote:
If you're using 2.1.x, then yes. All incrementals are based off of the full
. Anyone?
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, Stephen
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https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
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host.
Right?
If not, is this an idea worth investigating, Craig?
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backups. Does anyone know if there's
a way to use tar (or something speedier than rsync) for fulls but rsync
for incrementals on the same host? If not, is this a worthwhile idea,
Craig?
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been testing v. 3.0.0beta, lightly patched to backup OpenAFS, for the
past month without problems.
Overall I'm very pleased with it and eagerly await the final 3.0.0.
I'd fully recommend doing it
Regards,
Les
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this, before I re-invent the wheel?
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