Re: [BackupPC-users] never-ending backups (when backup host has lots of GBs of data)

2006-11-13 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: (...) > The log file looks like that - it shows that there was indeed backup > made for sDrive, tDrive, uDrive - why were they wiped out then, and > started from scratch? I think it was about $Conf{PartialAgeMax} being too low. I set this to 30, hope it helps :) #

Re: [BackupPC-users] File-RsyncP-0.66 released on CPAN and SF

2006-11-13 Thread Rodrigo Real
Hi guys > I just released File-RsyncP-0.66 on CPAN and SF. > This is a bug fix release. Here are the changes: > > - Support turning off --perms option, reported by Cameron Dale. > > - Applied patches from Mark Weaver to handle skipping duplicate > file names. > > - Added FileList/snpri

[BackupPC-users] it failed

2006-11-13 Thread William McInnis
ok it always shows failed even though all the files are there and there is nothen in the logs here is a copy of the error log and xfer log Contents of file /backup//pc/mysql/XferLOG.0, modified 2006-11-13 06:05:59 (Extracting only Errors) Running: /usr/bin/smbclient mysql\\mysql -U root -E

Re: [BackupPC-users] never-ending backups (when backup host has lots of GBs of data)

2006-11-13 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:23:42 +0100 Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > > (...) > > > The log file looks like that - it shows that there was indeed > > backup made for sDrive, tDrive, uDrive - why were they wip

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude files issue...

2006-11-13 Thread Rob Morin
Thanks for the bit of info, i did not know that i will modify and let you know if it works out ok, if so i can keep an extra day or 2 of incrementals! :) Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Les Stott wrote: > Rob Morin wrote: > >> So i have th

Re: [BackupPC-users] tar versus rsync on internal network

2006-11-13 Thread David Rees
On 11/10/06, James Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have ~160 servers connected on a high speed internal network which > I use to do backups. Additionally I have ~50 remote servers which I > back up over the external network. It's taking about a week to make > the rounds of all the systems.

Re: [BackupPC-users] never-ending backups (when backup host has lots of GBs of data)

2006-11-13 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 11/13 10:40 , Jacob S wrote: > If I understand backuppc correctly, a backup can not take longer than > 24 hours or it will end the job. (At least, that's the way it seems to > work on my backup servers.) no, there's a value set in config.pl: $Conf{ClientTimeout} = 7200; (at least this is the de

Re: [BackupPC-users] never-ending backups (when backup host has lots of GBs of data)

2006-11-13 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:11:30 -0600 Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/13 10:40 , Jacob S wrote: > > If I understand backuppc correctly, a backup can not take longer > > than 24 hours or it will end the job. (At least, that's th

[BackupPC-users] prebackup commands

2006-11-13 Thread VanBennekom, Christopher
I am trying to mount and windows pc on the backup server so I can use tar to back it up.  If I mount the windows pc using the following command it everything works fine.   smbmount //10.89.0.6/c /mnt/rjpark -o username=rjpark,uid=backuppc,sid=users,password=douglas1  

Re: [BackupPC-users] never-ending backups (when backup host has lots of GBs of data)

2006-11-13 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 11/13 01:41 , Jacob S wrote: > Reading about ClientTimeout in config.pl, it seems it only affects how > long backuppc waits to get data, not the overall time the job takes. that's the theory. in practice it doesn't always work that way, tho Craig's been trying to fix it. :) what version are y

Re: [BackupPC-users] prebackup commands

2006-11-13 Thread Craig Barratt
Chris writes: > $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} = 'sudo smbmount //10.89.0.6/c /mnt/rjpark -o > username=rjpark,uid=backuppc,sid=users,password=douglas1'; > > $Conf{DumpPostUserCmd} = 'sudo umount /mnt/rjpark'; To improve security BackupPC doesn't use a shell to execute commands, so you need to include th

[BackupPC-users] Archive function and tape

2006-11-13 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hello, i use backuppc on my privat network now for a long time - great! Last i got a DAT-Streamer with DDS-120 (4/8GB) cartrigdes which i want to use for offside backups. I use it with an archive host and /dev/tape as Archive-Device. My question: If BackupPC_tarCreate needs a tape change, what h

[BackupPC-users] Deleting files from a backup set?

2006-11-13 Thread Justin R. Pessa
Is it possible to delete files from a backup? For example, we had a group of devs who had updated their rsyncd.conf files to exclude some very large directories that were not needed and I’d like to reclaim that space.   Thanks,   - j   Justin R. Pessa Brontes Technologies Inc., a 3M

[BackupPC-users] umm what does this mean?

2006-11-13 Thread William McInnis
i get this error when i do rsync Contents of file /backup//pc/clients/XferLOG.bad, modified 2006-11-13 15:39:14 full backup started for directory www Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root clients /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --times --block-siz

Re: [BackupPC-users] never-ending backups (when backup host has lots of GBs of data)

2006-11-13 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:55:47 -0600 Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/13 01:41 , Jacob S wrote: > > Reading about ClientTimeout in config.pl, it seems it only affects > > how long backuppc waits to get data, not the overall tim

Re: [BackupPC-users] Cannot queue restores

2006-11-13 Thread Stephen Lock
Craig Barratt wrote: > Jacob writes: > >> I am running BackupPC 2.1.2pl2. I have a problem that I cannot queue >> multiple restores. >> >> How can I get the restores to be correctly scheduled ? I have 40 >> different files to restore after a disk failure. > > Sorry about the delay in replying.

Re: [BackupPC-users] umm what does this mean?

2006-11-13 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
William McInnis wrote: > i get this error when i do rsync > > Contents of file /backup//pc/clients/XferLOG.bad, modified > 2006-11-13 15:39:14 > > full backup started for directory www > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root > clients /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms -- > ow

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pooling/hardlinking not working

2006-11-13 Thread Craig Barratt
Garith Dugmore writes: > I'm running backuppc 3 beta but found some files aren't being pooled and > taking up huge amounts of disk space. > > For example if i check the inodes of the same file across a few random > backups of a single workstation i get: > > ls -li ./25/fbackup/f.wine/fdrive_c/fT

Re: [BackupPC-users] it failed

2006-11-13 Thread Craig Barratt
William McInnis writes: > ok it always shows failed even though all the files are there and there is > nothen in the logs here is a copy of the error log and xfer log > > Contents of file /backup//pc/mysql/XferLOG.0, modified 2006-11-13 06:05:59 > (Extracting only Errors) > > Running: /usr/bin

Re: [BackupPC-users] never-ending backups (when backup host has lots of GBs of data)

2006-11-13 Thread Craig Barratt
Tomasz writes: > I'm trying to backup several Windows hosts via rsyncd. The hosts have > multiple drives available via rsyncd (sDrive, tDrive, uDrive, vDrive), > and each of them contains several gigabytes of data (20-60 GB). > > The link between BackupPC and Windows servers is not very fast fo

Re: [BackupPC-users] never-ending backups (when backup host has lots of GBs of data)

2006-11-13 Thread Craig Barratt
Tomasz Chmielewski writes: > > The log file looks like that - it shows that there was indeed backup > > made for sDrive, tDrive, uDrive - why were they wiped out then, and > > started from scratch? > > I think it was about $Conf{PartialAgeMax} being too low. I set this to > 30, hope it helps :

Re: [BackupPC-users] Cannot queue restores

2006-11-13 Thread Craig Barratt
Stephen writes: > >> I am running BackupPC 2.1.2pl2. I have a problem that I cannot queue > >> multiple restores. > > >> > >> How can I get the restores to be correctly scheduled ? I have 40 > >> different files to restore after a disk failure. > > > > Sorry about the delay in replying. This bu

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pooling/hardlinking not working

2006-11-13 Thread Garith Dugmore
Hi Craig, Thnx for speedy reply.. I found the following in the error log file (through the cgi interface) : -- full backup started for directory backup (baseline backup #28) Connected to garith:873, remote version 29 Negotiated protocol version 28 Connected to module backup Sending a