Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems

2012-06-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Timothy J Massey wrote: > > > I think the problem is that your rsync module name doesn't match the > > > mountpoint.  I don't know if that is even possible for '/'.  But the > > error message still does not make sense to me. > > > > > > I can not use /  as rsyncd m

Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems

2012-06-19 Thread Timothy J Massey
Steve Kieu wrote on 06/19/2012 01:14:46 AM: > I think the problem is that your rsync module name doesn't match the > mountpoint. I don't know if that is even possible for '/'. But the > error message still does not make sense to me. > > > I can not use / as rsyncd module name. So I must use

Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems

2012-06-18 Thread Steve Kieu
I think the problem is that your rsync module name doesn't match the > mountpoint. I don't know if that is even possible for '/'. But the > error message still does not make sense to me. > > I can not use / as rsyncd module name. So I must use something else. I would like to emphasize that usin

Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems

2012-06-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Steve Kieu wrote: > > Directory name  (rootfs) is generated by backuppc - It think It is based on > the rsynd module name (if I named it differently then the foldername is > changed as well). > > When doing restore and select download as Tar archive, all is fine, t

Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems

2012-06-18 Thread Steve Kieu
> III days, but really, what else does your CPU have to do during the > backup time? You are mostly disk bound anyway - unless maybe you are > using IDE or USB drives that need CPU for the I/O work. > > We have a server (nagios) that constantly having load around 15 to 20 - only two cores. Before

Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems

2012-06-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Shawn Carroll wrote: > >> Because I do not want to spend cpu time on ssh - And why not rsyncd >> for local LAN. It should be done that way when encryption is not >> needed. > > Does anyone choose to deal with this by simply specifying no encryption as an > ssh opt

Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems

2012-06-18 Thread Steve Kieu
> Does anyone choose to deal with this by simply specifying no encryption as > an ssh option? > I have heard that ssh no longer support option cipher=none but I will recheck - last time I did not work for me > > Shawn > > > --

Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems

2012-06-18 Thread Shawn Carroll
> > When the target is a linux system, why not just use rsync over ssh? > > > > > Because I do not want to spend cpu time on ssh - And why not rsyncd > for local LAN. It should be done that way when encryption is not > needed. Does anyone choose to deal with this by simply specifying no encry

Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems

2012-06-18 Thread Steve Kieu
> under frootfs folder. > > When the target is a linux system, why not just use rsync over ssh? > > Because I do not want to spend cpu time on ssh - And why not rsyncd for local LAN. It should be done that way when encryption is not needed. Backuppc hardlinks all identical files for its own s

Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems

2012-06-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Steve Kieu wrote: > >> What is the ./rootfs/ directory, and why is that not the place it is >> trying to write?   Do you actually have a hardlinked structure like >> that on the backup target? >> > > I use the rsyncd and modules name for path = / is rootfs . Then b

Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems

2012-06-16 Thread Steve Kieu
> What is the ./rootfs/ directory, and why is that not the place it is > trying to write? Do you actually have a hardlinked structure like > that on the backup target? > > I use the rsyncd and modules name for path = / is rootfs . Then backup the whole root (with some exclude of course) using bac

Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems

2012-06-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Steve Kieu wrote: > > tar: ./rootfs/sbin/tune2fs: Cannot hard link to `sbin/e2label': No such file > or directory > > > Obvoulsy it is reproducable here. What is the ./rootfs/ directory, and why is that not the place it is trying to write? Do you actually have a

Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems

2012-06-14 Thread Steve Kieu
Hello That has always been filled for me. > > > For now I have to use the restore options and download as tar archive, > which > > works. > > I think both approaches should do the same thing. And the same for > running Backuppc_tarCreate from the command line. Not sure where to > start to debug

Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems

2012-06-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Steve Kieu wrote: > >> I don't think I've ever seen that.  Is there some simple way to reproduce >> it? >> > > > Yes just choose archive host and select a host and archive it, choose tar gz > as format, and type the path to the file. Then move the file to some othe

Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems

2012-06-14 Thread Steve Kieu
> I don't think I've ever seen that. Is there some simple way to reproduce > it? > > Yes just choose archive host and select a host and archive it, choose tar gz as format, and type the path to the file. Then move the file to some other boxes probably different OS than the archived host like in

Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems

2012-06-12 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Steve Kieu wrote: > > I used the archive host and archive one host to a file. When extracting the > file I saw many error like: > > tar: ./rootfs/usr/lib/locale/fr_FR/LC_TELEPHONE: Cannot hard link to > `usr/lib/locale/br_FR/LC_TELEPHONE': No such file or director