[BackupPC-users] BlackoutPeriods seemingly ignored

2011-05-19 Thread martin f krafft
Hello, I have a few hosts that should only be backed up between 23:00 and 7:00, i.e. when the network is not used much. Hence, I set BlackoutPeriod for them to $Conf{BlackoutPeriods} = [ { 'hourEnd' = '23', 'weekDays' = [ '1', '2', '3', '4',

Re: [BackupPC-users] ping failures: dhcp clients and different subnets

2011-05-19 Thread Tobias Mayer
On 17.05.2011 20:17, Tobias Mayer wrote: Hi, I'm running into problems by using backuppc with dhcp clients which are using a different subnet then the backuppc server. (It's not possible to use backuppc server and clients in the same subnet in this case. DNS Server doesn't accept DynamicDNS

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best NAS device to run BackupPC ?

2011-05-19 Thread Peter Lavender
On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 13:02 -0400, Phil K. wrote: I've been happily running backuppc on a dlink dns-321 with only minor issues (RRDtool wants the nolock option for some reason). NFS has been quite stable and tweakable for oue use. I'm running a Thecus, N4200 as my Home NAS and it's NFS

Re: [BackupPC-users] Not able to use the backuppc account in freebsd

2011-05-19 Thread Alexander Moisseev
From: Michael Stowemst...@chicago.us.mensa.org The FreeBSD equivalent would be su -m backuppc -c /bin/sh From: Jeffrey J. Kosowskybacku...@kosowsky.org Personally, I use 'sudo' -- as in: sudo -u backuppc Not sure though if sudo is a standard package with freebsd... su -m

[BackupPC-users] Schedule Example Request

2011-05-19 Thread Vitello
Hi, I would ask if you can help me to make a good schedule . The principles are: - A monthly full backup - 12 month of stored full backup - A daily incremental backup - 30 daily of stored incremental bkp I'm able to set that parameter myself but what

[BackupPC-users] Backup windows xp/wind7/vista

2011-05-19 Thread Rob Morin
For the life of me I cannot figure out how to backup only one dir on a Windows box. I followed many instructions, which were pretty much the same and have not accomplished anything. I simply choose smb as xfer method and then made the smbsharename c$ and added under backupfilesony \temp as a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup windows xp/wind7/vista

2011-05-19 Thread Marcelino Mata
I use the setting below for about 25 Windows XP computers...it probably has extra entries which are not required. $Conf{SmbShareName} = [ 'C$' ]; $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '*' = [ '\\TEMP\\*', '\\temp\\*', '\\WINDOWS\\*', '\\Program Files\\*', '\\pagefile.sys',