Re: [BackupPC-users] Encryption

Hi On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 11:50:46 +0200, Kbtest Testar wrote: > We must encrypt according > to GDPR and the ISO we are follwing, Is this OK or is their any best > practise we should follow for ecrypting the backed up data? I wanted to store the backup encrypted, so i used this:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup to Cloud

didn't notice this release, but looks good for of-site storage! If you do implement this, consider sharing how you have done it, so other (like me) can use it also :) Thanks higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the

Re: [BackupPC-users] BPC4: shared files from pool and compression

on (zfs) or a less flexible but more efficient compression (backuppc zlib). Also notice that you can create several zpools, one with compressions and other without good luck higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy

Re: [BackupPC-users] Consequence of "always incremental" after first full backup

ssible in v3, but V4 already brings that out of the box for all rsync backups as last backup always have all files already, next one backup will always only copy what changed. good luck higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who det

[BackupPC-users] get host by script

disable the reverse netbios lookup? Thanks Higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parlia

Re: [BackupPC-users] [BackupPC-devel] Troubleshoot full pool for 4.0 worth it?

> du -csh /backuppc/cpool/?/?/? I do recommend ncdu, it uses ncurses to show and navigate the disk so basically it is a improved du that helps a lot finding space allocation problems higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a coun

Re: [BackupPC-users] [BackupPC-devel] Troubleshoot full pool for 4.0 worth it?

Hi On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 23:04:44 -0700, Bill Broadley wrote: > root@node1:/backuppc# ls -al cpool/0/0/0 | head -10 > total 384 > drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 114688 Mar 28 21:58 . > drwxr-x--- 18 backuppc backuppc 4096 Aug 24 2011 .. > -rw-r- 3 backuppc backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc performance

tal backups are much faster. You may need to tune a little the blackout hours so you do not have many parallel backups on the same machine. good luck Higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always

Re: [BackupPC-users] FullKeepCnt

, but then on the copy of the config we can read the value 2 :) best regards higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best to Move a Large Pool to Different FS?

e old backup tool where almost all corner cases were taken care, so it should work. You can pipe to a ssh host "cd /mnt ;tar xf -" if you want to transfer the files to other server Good luck higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the le

[BackupPC-users] Feature request: remote pools (was: Is it possible to split a large pool?)

would use the ssh and request the same info on the remote backuppc node. So does this sound good and simple solution for a flexible pool management Thanks higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows VSS Snapshot and cygwin-rsyncd

to install a ssh in windows and use it with backuppc... but you might need to fine tune the scripts to add the shadow copy scripts to it. Either ways you will only open one port with a safer service (don't forget to keep it updated) good luck higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war

Re: [BackupPC-users] [BackupPC-devel] Feature request: exec type backup

) Either way, the only required thing is the restore script and one option for the backup number and/or date of the selected backup. More elaborated backups and restores require the admin to proper configure the scripts Thanks higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_Link takes ages

Hi But on this topic, my new server seems slow, with only a 3-4 MB/s speed rating on a GB network (Windows backup over SMB). Is this normal? What kind of speeds should I be expecting? smb can be VERY slow with many small files, totally killing its average speed. Try

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync: incremental vs. full backups

the number of disks and their connection (sata/esata vs usb or network/iscsi) you may have too much parallel backups. Use the vmstat and iostat to monitor your server and check where you might have a bottleneck. good luck higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after

Re: [BackupPC-users] Update on BackupPC Development / Is backuppc dead?

want, backup via rsyncd (started only when the backup is needed via windows rpc calls) and with VSS support http://www.goodjobsucking.com/?p=62 that gave 2 packages to help the admin to setup things: http://caravela.homelinux.net/~higuita/backuppc/ (mine) http://www.michaelstowe.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] On/off again Internal Server Error 500

Good luck higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist

Re: [BackupPC-users] *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: On/off again Internal Server Error 500

and dont see swap usage... it is still useful! higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship

Re: [BackupPC-users] Root disk grows linearly 1GB between 07h-09 and then drops back - each morning

, a result from a compression or a backup Good luck higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and Win7

not have the c$ share enabled by default (or restricted by the firewall and network settings). good luck higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows backups with vss/rsync?

Hi all I've found that vshadow (Using this method) doesn't work under Windows 7/Vista. Been there... its a pain, but i already have all the shadow executable for XP, vista and 7, 32bit and 64bit (i ignore XP 64bit, no one uses it) in this link: http://caravela.homelinux.net/~higuita

[BackupPC-users] pre-load backup

to generate the support files? are they even required? will this even work at all!? Does any one tried to pre-fill a backup with existent data that could give me some tip how to do it? Thanks in advance! best regards higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Graph at status page

) good luck higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Graph at status page

More info about patchs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff good luck higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist

Re: [BackupPC-users] Add NAS to LWM

BIG files, setup then as raw devices with losetup and create the LVM on top of that... you get a little less performance, as you have to use yet another layer of software/filesystem and possible a not optimal network transport protocol for reaching the real HDs... but should work Good luck higuita

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC for Windows and ESXi best practices

system you can use the backuppc deduplication, where in the VM backup it will be useless (the backuppc deduplication is file bases, for deduplicate VMs you need block level deduplication)... on the other hand, restores are plain easy with backup of the VMs have fun! higuita -- Naturally

Re: [BackupPC-users] Automatized configuration

Hi all On Sat, 22 May 2010 03:01:40 +0100, Lluis lluis.r...@gmail.com wrote: Any idea about this. The objective is to achive an almost automatic configuration for my backup system. there is no silver bullet, as each setup might be different, but i use a couple of scripts: script to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Error: Unable to connect to BackupPC server

, at least in a functional way... i will try to fix this bad habit, there is really no reason for me to keep doing it. Thanks! higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag

Re: [BackupPC-users] Error: Unable to connect to BackupPC server

) For the apache side, you can start it in single thread mode with the -X option... with it, you can gdb or strace the apache and requests. here is a good apache debugging resource: http://httpd.apache.org/dev/debugging.html Boa sorte :) higuita -- Naturally the common people

Re: [BackupPC-users] Anecdote about backup of changing zip files

last week +%a\\%Y-%m-%d this outputs today : Qui\2009-09-03 You can do whatever you want with it and always work fine Gnu date is a must in almost all mine DOS scrips :) higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country

Re: [BackupPC-users] periodically e2fsck the device /var/lib/backuppc

distros already including support for it for about 3 months your opinion may vary, of course :) cya higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tuning for disk contention

the only metric, iostat gives the rest of the info needed. filesystem choice and io scheduler do make a difference but faster disks is the only real cure. faster HD or more disk to spread the load for more HDs... for most people, this is true cya higuita -- Naturally

Re: [BackupPC-users] periodically e2fsck the device /var/lib/backuppc

better and dont have inode limit as ext3 have. cya higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship

Re: [BackupPC-users] problem : No files dumped for share C $

IP, if its have the file sharing enabled and if isnt running some firewall? good luck higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether

[BackupPC-users] just one email

. is there any limit to the number of emails one user can receive? thanks higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which FS? (was: Keeping servers in sync)

in the recommended backuppc filesystems) and so is very fast you can check with iostat, the number of reads is a lot less than the writes (unless of course, your clients didnt changed any file) cya higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tuning for disk contention

a controlled shutdown in case of powerloss good luck higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship

Re: [BackupPC-users] Failing incr backup marking all files deleted

probably can confirm it in the client backup list cya higuita - -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows Excludes

... some keep older virus definitions around and its a waste of space and IO good luck higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which FS?

and script after a powerlost and the ZFS didnt come online no matter what i did... after 2 days of unsuccessful tries, i installed backuppc. cya higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which FS?

, all HDs/OS/filesystems will take a HUGE performance hit cya higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which FS?

or just one file will take almost the same time, even if there are many files on that dir cya higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is there a speed setting?

also be gained by the normal rsync-rsyncd... backuppc rsync cant because doesnt support compression, so the main question might be how much the data compress Cya higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who

Re: [BackupPC-users] Excludes not working

html quote is useless, the mailling list removes the html part and even if it didnt, there are still many clients without html support (usually by choice). Thanks and sorry about the noise :) higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all

Re: [BackupPC-users] Solved! (Was: Sub directories of modules impossible?)

, no need to direct edit the config.pl good luck higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is there a speed setting?

), i would say rsyncd is faster, as doesnt have the ssh overhead... in windows i still didnt test... Higuita: How many of these are windows clients and how many non-windows? all are MacOSX or Linux, i will try to configure some windows machines during the next

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is there a speed setting?

,cast128-cbc BatchMode yes Compression no i have several HDs for backuppc to sustain this transfers rates. maybe you are using bad ssh settings if using rsync? good luck higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who