Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and opensuse 10.2 clients
Cristian writes: Craig, maybe a good idea to add --specials to the default list of options? (or, even better, ignore sockets altogether somehow). It's fixed in BackupPC 3.0.0beta and is also fixed if you upgrade to File::RsyncP 0.68. Craig - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] BlackoutPeriod not respected?
Hi,
I'm running version 2.1.1 and have the following config file for one
machine, but the BlackoutPeriod doesn't seem to be respected. Is there
anything wrong with this?
Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/charles/config.pl, modified
2007-01-04 12:29:12
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude}
http://aberdeen/backuppc/index.cgi?action=viewtype=docs#item_%24conf%7bbackupfilesexclude%7d
= ['/Volumes', '/Network', '/automount'];
$Conf{RsyncClientCmd}
http://aberdeen/backuppc/index.cgi?action=viewtype=docs#item_%24conf%7brsyncclientcmd%7d
= '$sshPath -q -x -l backups $host nice -n 19 sudo /Users/backups/rsyncSend
$argList+';
$Conf{BlackoutPeriods}
http://aberdeen/backuppc/index.cgi?action=viewtype=docs#item_%24conf%7bblackoutperiods%7d
= [
{
hourBegin = 7.0,
hourEnd = 19.5,
weekDays = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
},
];
Thanks in advance,
James
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[BackupPC-users] Transferred data lost
Hi, we are experimenting with backuppc et we are backuping a 30 GB share over Internet with rsyncd. This morning, after more than 30 hours of transfer, the remote host was accidentely rebooted so the connection was lost for a few minutes. Backuppc restarted the backup very nicely but, the content of the new folder seems to be lost and all the files are transfert again. Is it the normal behavior of backuppc? We use 3.0.0beta3. Yves -- Yves Trudeau, Ph. D., MCSE, OCP Analyste Senior Révolution Linux 819-780-8955 poste *104 Toutes les opinions et les prises de position exprimées dans ce courriel sont celles de son auteur et ne répresentent pas nécessairement celles de Révolution Linux Any views and opinions expressed in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Revolution Linux - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Transferred data lost
Unfortunately, yes. What you might want to do is put some of the larger directories in the BackupFilesExclude folder for that client. Then, do a full backup. After that backup succeeds, remove one of the excluded folders and trigger another backup. Rinse, repeat. This way you will populate the set of files that BackupPC knows about, and subsequent backups will skip them quickly and move on to the 'new' files, transferring only those. Once the whole machine has had all its files backed up once, even a slow connection is pretty dependable for backups. In my experience, having a single very long backup over a slow connection is doomed to fail repeatedly for various reasons (loss of connection, reboot, network hiccup, etc). Hope that helps, JH Yves Trudeau wrote: Hi, we are experimenting with backuppc et we are backuping a 30 GB share over Internet with rsyncd. This morning, after more than 30 hours of transfer, the remote host was accidentely rebooted so the connection was lost for a few minutes. Backuppc restarted the backup very nicely but, the content of the new folder seems to be lost and all the files are transfert again. Is it the normal behavior of backuppc? We use 3.0.0beta3. Yves - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup a host 1 time and 1 time only.
From the documentation:
Other installation topics
*Removing a client*
If there is a machine that no longer needs to be backed up (eg: a
retired machine) you have two choices. First, you can keep the
backups accessible and browsable, but disable all new backups.
Alternatively, you can completely remove the client and all its backups.
To disable backups for a client there are two special values for
$Conf{FullPeriod}
http://backup.flaredev.com/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?action=viewtype=docs#item_%24conf%7bfullperiod%7d
in that client's per-PC config.pl file:
*-1*
Don't do any regular backups on this machine. Manually requested
backups (via the CGI interface) will still occur.
*-2*
Don't do any backups on this machine. Manually requested backups
(via the CGI interface) will be ignored.
Ryan Turnbull wrote:
Is there a way to have backuppc backup a system once and keep the backup
indefinately? I have backed up a crashed PC and restored some data from
the backup, however I DON'T want to have BackupPC backup that host
again. The PC host is at the same IP address as previous. As well I
need to be able to view the backup within the CGI.
Please let me know if there is a way.
Thanks
Ryan
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup a host 1 time and 1 time only.
On 01/10 02:50 , Ryan Turnbull wrote:
Is there a way to have backuppc backup a system once and keep the backup
indefinately?
put this in your per-pc config file (uncommented, obviously).
# use this if you want to stop backing the box up.
#$Conf{FullPeriod} = -1;
#$Conf{EMailNotifyMinDays} = 365;
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[BackupPC-users] webapp hinted incrementals w/ tar -T or rsync --files-from=
We have a CMS that basically stores user data in a fs structure such as
/users/a/b/abraham/. Whenever a user edits one of their own files, the
webapp will touch a file in a specific location such as
/activeUsers/abraham. We use a predump script that quickly generates a
list of recently active user's paths such as:
./users/a/b/abraham
./users/b/r/brien
With tar, the full backup is straightforward (and time-consuming).
The incrementals, however, are fed the -T option for the filelist
(very fast). We quickly realized that our incrementals are not
filled, presumably because tar is not creating the empty directory
tree for the rest of the filesystem (backupc thinks those directories
were deleted). We've really thrown a monkey wrench into the backup
semantics since not only are the incrementals based off the last full
(--newer), but the list (-T) will only include paths that had updates
since the last incremental (which could be hours).
SO, now we are installing backuppc 3.0beta for the multilevel
incrementals feature (very cool!!). We are hoping that we can use rsync
instead of tar so that the incrementals will be 'filled in and such
(not to mention deleted/renamed files are detected). One problem is
there is no RsyncFullArgs and RsyncIncArgs with which we can trick
backuppc the same way we trick tar. Are we being nuts here? If this
even possible with Rsync?
Our end goal is to be able to take a Monthly Full, and then
incrementals every 2 hours (360 incrementals). By using the hints it is
very fast. (~10 mins per backup). Our motivation is the fact that we
have 8 million+ files and regular tar/rsync fulls or incrementals
literally take 15+ hours (and growing) to complete simply due to the
traversal of all these trees and checking stats on these small files
(generates unacceptable iowait as well).
Here is our tar config that works besides the lack of filled incs.
$Conf{TarClientCmd} = '$tarPath -c -v -f - -C /mnt/nfs'
. ' --totals';
$Conf{TarClientRestoreCmd} = '$tarPath -x -v -f - -C /mnt/nfs' #change
dir to where nfs data is mounted
. ' --totals';
$Conf{TarFullArgs} = './users'; #backup entire users folder
$Conf{TarIncrArgs} = '--newer=$incrDate -T
/var/lib/backuppc-meta/backuplist.txt #backup only files newer than
last full, but ALSO only in the backuplist.txt (webapp generated)
';
$Conf{TarShareName} = '/';#this is arbitrary
$Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} =
'/usr/local/bin/predump.sh';#generates
backuplist.txt
$Conf{DumpPostUserCmd} = '/usr/local/bin/postdump.sh $xferOK';
#removes backuplist.txt if the xfer was OK
Thanks for any advice!!
brien
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[BackupPC-users] recovering status.pl
I made the mistake of deleting some archives manually and now my status.pl file is zero size and backuppc will not start unless I delete status.pl but none of my archives are visible in backuppc. How can I recover from this? Thank you, David Koski [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup a host 1 time and 1 time only.
Can I put a slightly different spin on this question? Is there a way to earmark
a backup not to be overwritten? In my situation, I just brought up the backuppc
server, and now I have a good backup of everything on each box. In the future,
I would like to only back up a subset of the directories (basically everything
needed to reconstitute a Debian or Ubuntu box, /home /root /etc /usr/local
/var/log /var/backups /var/cache/apt /var/cache/debconf /var/lib /boot
/lib/modules) on a regular basis. Maybe monthly, quarterly or even
semi-annually, I would get everything else (most of which would be binaries
included in packages)...
Is it possible to designate either more than two levels of backups (instead of
full and incrementals, maybe weekly/monthly/daily or something of that sort) or
be able to set a do-not-delete flag on a specific backup (possibly with a
comment)?
Thanks,
--b
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Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup a host 1 time and 1 time only.
On 01/10 02:50 , Ryan Turnbull wrote:
Is there a way to have backuppc backup a system once and keep the backup
indefinately?
put this in your per-pc config file (uncommented, obviously).
# use this if you want to stop backing the box up.
#$Conf{FullPeriod} = -1;
#$Conf{EMailNotifyMinDays} = 365;
--
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Transferred data lost
Yves writes: we are experimenting with backuppc et we are backuping a 30 GB share over Internet with rsyncd. This morning, after more than 30 hours of transfer, the remote host was accidentely rebooted so the connection was lost for a few minutes. Backuppc restarted the backup very nicely but, the content of the new folder seems to be lost and all the files are transfert again. Is it the normal behavior of backuppc? We use 3.0.0beta3. A partial backup is saved on failure. With rsync and rsyncd the next full backup essentially does an incremental (just checking the attributes) on the files already in the partial, and copies the other files that aren't in the partial. So while the new directory starts off empty, all the files in the partial that haven't changed are hardlinked without being transferred. Craig - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] [Fwd: [Fwd: your post re: Rsync backuppc]]
Tom writes: Is this it? To get File::RsyncP, I just did a apt-get on this: ii libfile-rsyncp 0.52-1 A perl based implementation of an Rsync clie That's pretty old ( 2.5 years). Please upgrade to 0.68. Craig - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] recovering status.pl
David writes: I made the mistake of deleting some archives manually and now my status.pl file is zero size and backuppc will not start unless I delete status.pl but none of my archives are visible in backuppc. How can I recover from this? It's ok to delete status.pl. Over time the status will get refreshed. It sounds like you deleted the archives file from the pc/HOST directories. There isn't a way to restore those. But they aren't used by BackupPC - they are only there for logging purposes. Craig - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup a host 1 time and 1 time only.
Bradley writes:
Can I put a slightly different spin on this question? Is there a
way to earmark a backup not to be overwritten? In my situation, I
just brought up the backuppc server, and now I have a good backup
of everything on each box. In the future, I would like to only back
up a subset of the directories (basically everything needed to
reconstitute a Debian or Ubuntu box, /home /root /etc /usr/local
/var/log /var/backups /var/cache/apt /var/cache/debconf /var/lib
/boot /lib/modules) on a regular basis. Maybe monthly, quarterly or
even semi-annually, I would get everything else (most of which
would be binaries included in packages)...
Is it possible to designate either more than two levels of backups
(instead of full and incrementals, maybe weekly/monthly/daily or
something of that sort) or be able to set a do-not-delete flag on
a specific backup (possibly with a comment)?
This isn't supported directly.
One approach is to create an additional virtual host in BackupPC,
so there are actually two BackupPC hosts per actual client. One
(eg: HOST_base) would keep the single backup. The second (eg: HOST)
would do the regular backups of a subset. You use $Conf{ClientNameAlias}
to point both hosts to the same client.
Craig
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