[BackupPC-users] BackupPC not cleaning out cpool.

2010-02-11 Thread Joseph Holland
We are having a problem with many of our BackupPC servers in our company at the moment. We are running Debian Lenny and BackupPC 3.1.0. The data volumes since we upgraded to this version have seemed to just be filling up at a constant rate. The web interface is saying that the pool is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Offsite storage media- feasible for backup?

2010-02-11 Thread Chris Baker
My first question is how much data are you backing up? You can use external hard drives for this nowadays and just switch out the drives. In our setup, I have /home mapped to the external drive. We switch out the drives weekly or so. When I do the switch, I do power off and power on again. The

[BackupPC-users] Missing files

2010-02-11 Thread Vytas
Hi, I am using BackupPC to backup Windows computers (Win 2000, Win XP) I have been noticing that some of the directories are not being archived. When I browse the Backups for the missing directories I get the following message The directory Pent24-C (C)/rastran is empty. Backups are being

Re: [BackupPC-users] Missing files

2010-02-11 Thread Michael Stowe
Hi, I am using BackupPC to backup Windows computers (Win 2000, Win XP) I have been noticing that some of the directories are not being archived. When I browse the Backups for the missing directories I get the following message The directory Pent24-C (C)/rastran is empty. Backups are being

Re: [BackupPC-users] Check-if-alive-pings alternatives

2010-02-11 Thread Matthias Meyer
Sorin Srbu wrote: Hi all, I have a server that sits behind a router (server is NAT:ed) and allows ssh connections in. That is to say, the *only* thing it allows in is ssh connections. Now, BackupPC uses pings to check if the machine to be backed up is alive. Since the router in question

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC not cleaning out cpool.

2010-02-11 Thread Matthias Meyer
Joseph Holland wrote: We are having a problem with many of our BackupPC servers in our company at the moment. We are running Debian Lenny and BackupPC 3.1.0. The data volumes since we upgraded to this version have seemed to just be filling up at a constant rate. The web interface is

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC not cleaning out cpool.

2010-02-11 Thread Joseph Holland
# du -xsmh /var/data/backuppc/ 544G/var/data/backuppc/ Joe. On 11/02/2010 22:45, Matthias Meyer wrote: Joseph Holland wrote: We are having a problem with many of our BackupPC servers in our company at the moment. We are running Debian Lenny and BackupPC 3.1.0. The data volumes