[BackupPC-users] Jeff, script question (was Re: How to run night manually?)

2010-09-22 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 12:38:34 -0700 on Tuesday, September 21, 2010: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:08:17AM +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: Robin Lee Powell [mailto:rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org] Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 3:47 AM To:

[BackupPC-users] Mail problem with BPC

2010-09-22 Thread Sorin Srbu
Hi all, Getting the below error in my BPC logs, but am not quite sure where to start look for the errant t. The path to mail is correct, it's just that it seems an option t is added to the mail command. 2010-09-22 03:31:33 BackupPC_nightly now running BackupPC_sendEmail 2010-09-22 03:31:35

[BackupPC-users] Some directory are not in the backup

2010-09-22 Thread IvyAlice
Hello everybody, Using rsyncd method, I tried tu backup all the /etc directory On the client, in /etc/rsyncd.conf I got --- …include from = /etc/rsyncd.backupETC.include --- And in the /etc/rsyncd.backupETC.include I just have

Re: [BackupPC-users] Mail problem with BPC

2010-09-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/22/2010 2:12 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: Hi all, Getting the below error in my BPC logs, but am not quite sure where to start look for the errant t. The path to mail is correct, it's just that it seems an option t is added to the mail command. 2010-09-22 03:31:33 BackupPC_nightly now running

Re: [BackupPC-users] Some directory are not in the backup

2010-09-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/22/2010 4:34 AM, IvyAlice wrote: Hello everybody, Using rsyncd method, I tried tu backup all the /etc directory On the client, in /etc/rsyncd.conf I got --- …include from = /etc/rsyncd.backupETC.include --- And in the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore takes way too long and the fails

2010-09-22 Thread Robin Lee Powell
There is something *very* wrong with either the tar used to make the archive, or the tar used to restore. I wouldn't trust anything it outputs at all. What version of tar on both ends? Have you tried getting a zip archive from the GUI instead? Or using BackupPC_zipCreate on the CLI? -Robin

Re: [BackupPC-users] Jeff, script question (was Re: How to run night manually?)

2010-09-22 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 02:31:29AM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Honestly, I never really looked into whether it enforces the constraints you mention above. But looking at the code, it seems that these constraints are enforced only by the BackupPC main routine (i.e. daeomon) itself (which

[BackupPC-users] smbclient and -N option

2010-09-22 Thread Xuo
Hi, I want to backup a directory of a PC running XP from my Linux BackupPC server. The command I use is smbclient with the following arguments : /usr/bin/smbclient ordi_de_pauline\\Users -U admin -E -d 1 -c tarmode\ full -Tc - The important thing is that I had to remove the -N option (no

Re: [BackupPC-users] smbclient and -N option

2010-09-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/22/2010 1:53 PM, Xuo wrote: Hi, I want to backup a directory of a PC running XP from my Linux BackupPC server. The command I use is smbclient with the following arguments : /usr/bin/smbclient ordi_de_pauline\\Users -U admin -E -d 1 -c tarmode\ full -Tc - The important thing is

Re: [BackupPC-users] smbclient and -N option

2010-09-22 Thread Xuo
Le 22/09/2010 21:26, Les Mikesell a écrit : On 9/22/2010 1:53 PM, Xuo wrote: Hi, I want to backup a directory of a PC running XP from my Linux BackupPC server. The command I use is smbclient with the following arguments : /usr/bin/smbclient ordi_de_pauline\\Users -U admin -E -d 1 -c

[BackupPC-users] excludes for smb HOWTO

2010-09-22 Thread Chris Purves
I had a lot of trouble when trying to exclude certain files and directories for a backup using smb for the transfer method. I was unable to find solutions in this mailing list or the samba mailing list and so I did a bunch of testing with smbclient. I found that for smbclient to properly