Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude list being ignored?

2008-02-19 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
mark k wrote: Here is how I have mine setup, note the /' = at the top, backing up 30 + systems this way with nor errors. $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '/' = [ '/proc/*', '/sys/*', '/var/run/*', '/dev/*', If you use '/' as the key, then these excludes only apply to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude list being ignored?

2008-02-19 Thread mark k
Here is how I have mine setup, note the /' = at the top, backing up 30 + systems this way with nor errors. $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '/' = [ '/proc/*', '/sys/*', '/var/run/*', '/dev/*', - This

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude list being ignored?

2008-02-19 Thread Steven Whaley
Craig Barratt wrote: Steven writes: Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l netbackup freedom.rapidxdev.com /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group --links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive -D --bwlimit=200 --ignore-times . / Yes, you can

Re: [BackupPC-users] Network error on smb backup

2008-02-19 Thread dan
Networking issue most likely. Sometimes hardware fails for no good reason. If you have an extra ethernet card lying around I suggest you try that. Alternatively, has anyone moved the computer recently? did the cable get crunched? Is it near a microwave or do the cables run by a microwave? did

[BackupPC-users] backppc error

2008-02-19 Thread Joshua Fuente
Hi can someone please help!.. Backuppc 3.1.0 Suse 10.3 2.6.22.16-0.2-default rsync 2.6.9 on server and clients I removed all the arguments from the command inorder to better troubleshoot the issue. (i can just copy them back from the restore settings later) but this is killing... any ideas?

[BackupPC-users] Web request faileds!

2008-02-19 Thread Robert Syms
Hi Can someone help me please, I have just downloading Backuppc from the syncatic for Ubuntu 7.10 and told it to load apache2. When I put in the url for it, it gives me the following: http://www.backuppc.com/ This domain is missing from the Web server configuration The domain name is correctly

[BackupPC-users] WORKAROUND: Hang when using rsync over ssh to backup Windows 2003 files

2008-02-19 Thread hot java
PROBLEM: Backup Hangs when using BackupPC / rsync over ssh to a Windows 2003 server. WORKAROUND SUMMARY: Backup a Windows 2003 server using by using BackupPC's Pre and Post commands to establish a forwarding ssh tunnel and a locally bound Windows rsyncd service. I know what you are thinking - I

Re: [BackupPC-users] WORKAROUND: Hang when using rsync over ssh to backup Windows 2003 files

2008-02-19 Thread dan
This is a great piece of knowledge, I encourage you to put this on the wiki. also note that this can be done in reverse to have the remote machine create the tunnel and issue a command over ssh 'BackupPC_servermsg or BackupPC_dump' allowing remote clients to backup on their own schedule without

Re: [BackupPC-users] Download file directly from browse fails...

2008-02-19 Thread dan
Joe, what filesystem are you running on the downloading machine? is it FAT32? When I read this I immediately thought FAT32 filesystem, FAT32 can't handle 4GB+ files. On Feb 19, 2008 10:54 AM, Joe Krahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mirco Piccin wrote: Hi and thanks for reply. I'm trying to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Download file directly from browse fails...

2008-02-19 Thread Joe Krahn
Mirco Piccin wrote: Hi and thanks for reply. I'm trying to get a backup of a file. It's size is about 12 GB. I try to download it directly from Browse Backup, but the first time download freeze at about 3,99 GB, and the second time at about 2,76 GB. Maybe there's a timeout for the

[BackupPC-users] Excluding special files and folders

2008-02-19 Thread kurzi
Hi, I'm using BackupPC version 3.0.0 and samba for backing up several Windows and Linux clients.. and have spent lots of time (without working solution) trying to figure out if there is some way to exclude following files: A) directories which name starts with dot. ( ex. /dir/.obj/ ) B)

Re: [BackupPC-users] Network error on smb backup

2008-02-19 Thread Alex Schaft
On 2008/02/19 17:04, dan wrote: Networking issue most likely. Sometimes hardware fails for no good reason. If you have an extra ethernet card lying around I suggest you try that. Alternatively, has anyone moved the computer recently? did the cable get crunched? Is it near a microwave

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2008-02-19 Thread Nick Webb
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: On 11/28 09:39 , Tim Hall wrote: Are there any known backuppc tweaks/settings that are proven to increase transfer performance over wan links? Specifically with using rsyncd or rsync as the transfer method. . . . . If you're running =v3 the following

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2008-02-19 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
If you're running =v3 the following option will make all the incrementals sync against the previous incremental, instead of the last full. This keeps them from growing quite as quickly. (It's the behavior you expect from rsync). $Conf{IncrLevels} = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]; I was under

Re: [BackupPC-users] Network error on smb backup

2008-02-19 Thread dan
do you use a headset with your phone? like a plantronics? i have plantronics cs50 and cs55 headsets that have to be about 6 away from an ethernet cable or they distrupt the signal. typically this just causes the network to fall back to 10Mbps but can cause all kinds of funky errors. On Feb 19,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2008-02-19 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 02/19 05:53 , Raman Gupta wrote: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: If you're running =v3 the following option will make all the incrementals sync against the previous incremental, instead of the last full. This keeps them from growing quite as quickly. (It's the behavior you expect from

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2008-02-19 Thread dan
i looked at my archive history hear and i have a number of hosts than do incrementals take like 6 minutes and fulls like 46 minutes On Feb 19, 2008 4:07 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/19 05:53 , Raman Gupta wrote: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: If you're

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2008-02-19 Thread dan
no, incrementals are more efficient on bandwidth. they do a less strenuous test to determine if a file has changed. at the expense of CPU power on both sides, you can compress the rsync traffic either with rsync -z or if you are using ssh then with ssh's compression. if you REALLY wanted to go

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC on AR7 Platform?

2008-02-19 Thread Hendrik Friedel
Hello, It would be quite interesting to install BackupPC on a Linux WLAN Router. For me it would be the AVM Fritz Box. It has a Ti-AR7 Processor with 32MB Ram. Now, someone successfully installed a Debian system on it, so I wonder, if it would be useful to install BackupPC on it. What would be

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2008-02-19 Thread Rich Rauenzahn
dan wrote: no, incrementals are more efficient on bandwidth. they do a less strenuous test to determine if a file has changed. at the expense of CPU power on both sides, you can compress the rsync traffic either with rsync -z Have you tried rsync -z? Last I heard, BackupPC's rsync

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2008-02-19 Thread Nick Webb
Rich Rauenzahn wrote: dan wrote: no, incrementals are more efficient on bandwidth. they do a less strenuous test to determine if a file has changed. at the expense of CPU power on both sides, you can compress the rsync traffic either with rsync -z Have you tried rsync -z? Last I

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC on AR7 Platform?

2008-02-19 Thread dan
rsync alone makes this box pretty much incapable of running backuppc. 32MB of ram minus running system will give you at most 20MB usable under BEST CASE scenario, which is about 150,000 files on a client MAXIMUM, which is just not enough for many many clients. also, that CPU is just not

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude list being ignored?

2008-02-19 Thread Craig Barratt
Steven writes: Yes, I know that seems like the likely answer, but unfortunately it isn't. This happens on all of the hosts, regardless of whether or not there are per host configuration files. Well, if you are confident the likely explanation is wrong, I'd recommend adding some debug