Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with slow backups

2005-11-21 Thread Tarjei Huse
Hi, thank you for your suggestions so far. I have now moved the files to new filesystems running reiser instead of XFS and tried tuning the ssh connection by adding the -C flag. Let me guess: ext3 filesystem? If yes, you've just been hit by the ext3 doesn't scale for large number of files

[BackupPC-users] removeing backups vom the list?

2005-11-21 Thread Jan Kellermann
Hi, i have installed backuppc and it work SOOO FINE for me. And now my question. Is there a way to remove my 20 testing backups from the backuplist, or is the only way to wait till they doesnt match fullkeepcnt an the nightly job will delete them? Jan _ NOD32

[BackupPC-users] Workstations at night.

2005-11-21 Thread Jan Kellermann
Hi, it me again, i set backuppc to backup two worstations. That works fine. But now it says The connection was 7 times good and the backup will run out of the workingtime but the worstations are turned off at night.. Does Backuppc run the backup when the clients turned on again in

Re: [BackupPC-users] Error when trying to archive a host

2005-11-21 Thread Alex Schaft
Nicolai Rasmussen wrote: I get this error when trying, via the cgi interface, to run an archive on one of my hosts: Error: Can't open/create ${EscHTML($TopDir/pc/$hostDest/$reqFileName)} The config file for the archive host looks like this: $Conf{XferMethod} = 'archive'; $Conf{XferLogLevel}

[BackupPC-users] Backup with rsyncd failed after 20mn

2005-11-21 Thread Sam Przyswa
Hi, I don't succeed to backup my /home directory I got the error message: 2005/11/20 17:14:06 [30114] rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4096 bytes: phase unknown [sender]: Connection reset by peer (104) 2005/11/20 17:14:06 [30114] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code

[BackupPC-users] How much time does it take to finish a backup?

2005-11-21 Thread Ambrose Li
Hi I notice the thread Backup of one server hangs. It sounds like my problem but I'm not sure if it's the same. Our primary file server is running WinNT4 and we are using the rsyncd method to back it up. I cannot use the smb method, as testing showed that it will cause the backup server to

Re: [BackupPC-users] cygwin-rsyncd vs. backuppc-rsyncd

2005-11-21 Thread Joe Hood
I am having problem with Cygwin's rsyncd (tunneled through ssh) and did not know of a Backuppc rsyncd. (I'm getting an rsync protocol mismatch, I'm thinking it has something to do with my Backuppc machine running on a AMD64 system). On 11/21/05, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [BackupPC-users] cygwin-rsyncd vs. backuppc-rsyncd

2005-11-21 Thread Lachlan Simpson
It took some fiddling, but I got the regular cygwin version to work ok : try this site http://www.gaztronics.net/rsync.php cheers L. From: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

Re: [BackupPC-users] cygwin-rsyncd vs. backuppc-rsyncd

2005-11-21 Thread Travis Fraser
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 12:41 -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: On 11/21 01:39 , Joe Hood wrote: I am having problem with Cygwin's rsyncd (tunneled through ssh) and did not know of a Backuppc rsyncd. last I knew, rsync+ssh didn't work properly on Windoze machines. Someone reported

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with slow backups

2005-11-21 Thread Tarjei Huse
Hi, thank you for your suggestions so far. I have now moved the files to new filesystems running reiser instead of XFS and tried tuning the ssh connection by adding the -C flag. Let me guess: ext3 filesystem? If yes, you've just been hit by the ext3 doesn't scale for large number of files

[BackupPC-users] Backing up only the latest backups for each pc

2005-11-21 Thread Eduardo TrĂ¡pani
Hello, The program works simply great. But I have a problem, the external disk, where I put all the information for around thirty PCs, is not big enough. I was copying the whole /var/lib/backuppc, but now I would like to backup only the latest backup for each PC, since that will save lots