Re: [BackupPC-users] Email question

2007-01-23 Thread Klaas Vantournhout
Okay I found the test program, but I get the following output ./BackupPC_sendEmail -u backuppc Sending test email using /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f BackupAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `newline' sh: -c: line 0: `/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f BackupAdmin

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_serverMesg

2007-01-23 Thread Klaas Vantournhout
Hi, I don't know if I overlooked or something, but I was wondering what the options for BackupPC_serverMesg are? I know you can do backup all, status and much more ... but I don't know what more. I can't find documentation on this. From time to time you can read in this list an other

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup of backup machine

2007-01-23 Thread Klaas Vantournhout
The command you use for copying the pool from A to B, does not preserve hardlinks. That is the reason why the pool gets larger and larger. You should use rsync -avz -H, but this will go tremendously slow and eats a lot of memory. But it works! You should also know that, when working on an

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup of backup machine

2007-01-23 Thread krystian
I use -a -v -H. May I change later on -a -v -z -H? I read that -z in compression for transfer. Do you know if it is compression only for transfer or for storage too? Thanks , K Klaas Vantournhout wrote: The command you use for copying the pool from A to B, does not preserve hardlinks. That

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc host discovery for linux computers

2007-01-23 Thread Ted To
Hi, Reading the documenation on host discovery, it's not clear to me how to set up my network so that backuppc knows what dhcp assigned IP address to associate with a linux box. Can someone offer some help or point me in the right direction? Thanks, Ted To

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC ignores blackouts on reboot?

2007-01-23 Thread Timothy J. Massey
Craig Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/23/2007 12:00:21 AM: Tim writes: As you can see, it says that the backup is in process, which is its own doing, as well as the fact that it should be part of the blackout window. From what I can tell, the scheduler is not respecting the

Re: [BackupPC-users] trashClean start time seems wrong

2007-01-23 Thread tmassey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/20/2007 02:27:32 PM: I agree the display is a little confusing. One change I will consider is to change the start time to reflect when it last woke up. Then it is no longer technically correct, but less confusing. How about changing the label to wake time:

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup of backup machine

2007-01-23 Thread Les Mikesell
krystian wrote: I use -a -v -H. May I change later on -a -v -z -H? I read that -z in compression for transfer. Do you know if it is compression only for transfer or for storage too? Rsync's -z is for compression during transfer only. If backuppc is using compression for storage it

[BackupPC-users] bug regarding error notifications $Conf{EmailNotifyMinDays}

2007-01-23 Thread Dan Pritts
Hi all, I recently had a problem with backuppc's EMailNotifyMinDays parameter. running 2.1.2p1 (will upgrade to 2.1.3, but from skimming changelogs this has not been addressed). I have a hosts file that looks something like this: foo 0 root bar 0 root arf 0 root

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC Archive to Tape

2007-01-23 Thread Byron Trimble
All I'm trying to setup archiving of my ups to tape from the BackupPC server. What are the steps to do this? Thanks, Byron J. Trimble Technical Specialist/Systems Administrator 407-409-5207 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype ID: btrimble

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Archive to Tape

2007-01-23 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/23 05:51 , Byron Trimble wrote: I'm trying to setup archiving of my ups to tape from the BackupPC server. What are the steps to do this? this site has a decent overview. http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/backuppc.htm it seems like a strange thing when you're trying to set it up... the archving

[BackupPC-users] Rsyncd and backuppc - too many data transfer

2007-01-23 Thread Nikita Tatarinov
Hello, I set up backuppc for creating backups of hosting files. On the client i set up rsyncd and use settings: path = / read only = yes use chroot = no list = no auth users = backup secrets file = /etc/backup.rsyncd.secrets refuse options = delete log file = /var/log/backup.rsyncd.log max

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd and backuppc - too many data transfer

2007-01-23 Thread Nikita Tatarinov
Hello Nikita, Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 4:03:29 AM, you wrote: NT I set up backuppc for creating backups of hosting files. Backuppc: version 2.1.2 without patches, rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29 on the client and on the server. -- Best regards, Nikita Tatarinov