Re: [BackupPC-users] Update to 3.0

2007-02-20 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Les Mikesell wrote: You are probably short on RAM when you add in the nightly run. Tuning down the number of concurrent backups might help. That probably shouldn't be higher than the number of processors in the server anyway unless you have some low-bandwidth connections to handle.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Update to 3.0

2007-02-20 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 02/20 12:39 , Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: All my clients are servers with fast connections. I'll take MaxBackups down to 1 then. I haven't done any thorough empirical testing on this, but I suspect that MaxBackups=2 would give you higher throughput overall (tho not individually). the

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd problem

2007-02-20 Thread Jim McNamara
Craig, Thanks for your personal attention on this. The XferLOG is now available in the images directory: http://mail.stephanco.com/backuppc/images/ The log from the email you replied to has since been overwritten since it was only considered a partial backup. The emails yesterday between the

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc 3.0.0 + BackupPCd for Windows

2007-02-20 Thread vicent roca daniel
Hi list, I would like your opinion about using backupPCd with backuppc v3. Are any of you using backupPDd with windows XP? thaks a lot :D - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay

[BackupPC-users] Data Directory

2007-02-20 Thread Ludovic Gele
Hi, I'm a french user, so sorry for my bad english ;-) I've frshly installed backuppc on debian stable server and I want to change the data directory. It is on /var/lib/backuppc by default, and I want to put it on /srv/backuppc. I've look the doc, the configuration file, and I think I'd

[BackupPC-users] How to remove directory or complete backup

2007-02-20 Thread Steffen Heil
Hi I do have a backuppc server, that works really well, having backups with a total size of about 600GB using only 130GB storage. However, the partition is only 200GB. I realised, that I do have backups of a lot things that I should have excluded from backups. So I would like to: - remove

[BackupPC-users] running BackupPC on Mac OS X?

2007-02-20 Thread Martin Sundmacher
Hi, did anyone install BackupPC on Mac OS X? I am looking for a step by step Howto or some hints at least to avoid pitfalls. I am a newbie when it comes to Mac OS X. Btw. we are using BackupPC for 2 years with Debian Linux now. Great Software! Regards, Martin

[BackupPC-users] backup more than one share per host

2007-02-20 Thread Boris Synak
this is hopefully a simple one: how do i configure backuppc to backup the c$ and d$ share of the same win-machine ?? thanksalot b Boris Synak Kleingedankstrasse 1 50677 Köln [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49 221 9653971 +49 172 2407496

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc 3.0.0 + BackupPCd for Windows

2007-02-20 Thread Jean-Michel Beuken
Hello, I have made some experiments but without succes then I intended to ask of the assistance… I have compiled BackupPCd under cygwin, registred as a service but when I started, it stops immediately without comment under backupPCd.log peharps a problem with backupPCd.conf but no

Re: [BackupPC-users] Data Directory

2007-02-20 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Ludovic Gele wrote: I've frshly installed backuppc on debian stable server and I want to change the data directory. It is on /var/lib/backuppc by default, and I want to put it on /srv/backuppc. I've look the doc, the configuration file, and I think I'd understood that this question

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup more than one share per host

2007-02-20 Thread John Sivak
Boris Synak wrote: this is hopefully a simple one: how do i configure backuppc to backup the c$ and d$ share of the same win-machine ?? thanksalot b From the config.pl file: # # Name of the host share that is backed up when using SMB. This can be a # string or an array of strings if

[BackupPC-users] Backing up large directories times out with signal=ALRM or PIPE

2007-02-20 Thread Jason B
Hi all, Apologies for the relatively long email, but I figure it's better to give too much information than not enough. I've run into a bit of difficulty backing up a large directory tree that has me not being able to do a successful backup in over a month now. I'm attempting to back up about

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up large directories times out with signal=ALRM or PIPE

2007-02-20 Thread Jason Hughes
Jason B wrote: However, the transfer always times out with signal=ALRM. [...] Somewhat unrelated, but of all these attempts, it hasn't ever kept a partial - so it transfers the files, fails, and removes them. I have one partial from 3 weeks ago that was miraculously kept, so it keeps

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up large directories times out with signal=ALRM or PIPE

2007-02-20 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Jason B wrote on 20.02.2007 at 21:28:43 [[BackupPC-users] Backing up large directories times out with signal=ALRM or PIPE]: I've run into a bit of difficulty backing up a large directory tree that has me not being able to do a successful backup in over a month now. I'm attempting to back