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

2007-01-24 Thread Craig Barratt
Dan writes: 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). Right - no changes in this area. Every 3 days or so, I woudl receive an email from backuppc complaining

[BackupPC-users] how to include certain files

2007-01-24 Thread Klaas Vantournhout
Hi, I'm posting a lot these days to the list. It is just that I am finetuning my backup server, and want to do it in a nice way. I was wondering about the following. In my general conf.pl file I have stated that no hidden files should be backuped, hence I have $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {

[BackupPC-users] rsync troubles

2007-01-24 Thread Glenn English
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I started using backuppc about 2 weeks ago (on Debian Linux with rsync xfers), and about 1 week ago it started moving the entire contents of the files every time. An incremental of my main server used to take 30 seconds; now it's taking 110 minutes.

[BackupPC-users] Archive Backup Error

2007-01-24 Thread Byron Trimble
I'm receiving this error when trying to archive my backups: Error: /opt/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate, compress or split failed Please advise!! Thanks, Byron J. Trimble Technical Specialist/Systems Administrator 407-409-5207 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype ID: btrimble

[BackupPC-users] Exclude not working

2007-01-24 Thread James Kyle
I figure I'm doing something wrong here, but I wish to backup /usr/ local, but not /usr/local/var/backups _TOPDIR_/pc/localhost/config.pl: $Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['/usr/local']; $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/usr/local/var/backups']; $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/sudo $rsyncPath

Re: [BackupPC-users] Archive Backup Error

2007-01-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Byron Trimble wrote: I'm receiving this error when trying to archive my backups: Error: /opt/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate, compress or split failed Please advise!! If your archive didn't specify compression or splitting, it means that the backuppc user can't open the output device

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude not working

2007-01-24 Thread Jason Hughes
All of my excludes look like this: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/proc', '/var/named/chroot/proc', '/mnt', '/sys', '/media']; $Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsyncd'; $Conf{RsyncShareName} = 'wholedrive'; They seem to work fine. I'm using 3.0.0beta3. Is your rsync share name correct? Shouldn't your

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude not working

2007-01-24 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Jason Hughes wrote on 24.01.2007 at 15:45:16 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude not working]: James Kyle wrote: I figure I'm doing something wrong here, but I wish to backup /usr/local, but not /usr/local/var/backups _TOPDIR_/pc/localhost/config.pl: $Conf{RsyncShareName} =

[BackupPC-users] DLT-V4 Tape drive wit S-ATA

2007-01-24 Thread Bastian Schern
Hello everybody, does anybody already get some experience with a DLT-V4 Streamer with S-ATA interface e.g. Tandberg DLT-V4 (http://www.tandbergdata.com/support/dlt-v4) and Linux? Cheers Bastian Virus checked by G DATA AntiVirusKit Version: AVK 17.1806 from 04.01.2007

Re: [BackupPC-users] Avoiding long backup times

2007-01-24 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Krsnendu dasa wrote on 21.01.2007 at 13:45:55 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Avoiding long backup times]: On 20/01/07, Holger Parplies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read, that backuppc stores every identical file only one time. Basically true, but BackupPC needs to determine that the file is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Avoiding long backup times

2007-01-24 Thread Timothy J. Massey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/24/2007 09:28:51 PM: I like the idea of taking *any* identical file from the pool as reference though. I don't know if it is possible (i.e. whether the remote rsync will transfer one checksum covering the whole file before the local part needs to commit to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pooling Incrementals -- I'm confused

2007-01-24 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Joe Casadonte wrote on 22.01.2007 at 10:02:59 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Pooling Incrementals -- I'm confused]: I was thinking more about this, and I guess the functional difference [between full and incremental backups] is in the time it takes to do the backup: the time it takes to do a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Avoiding long backup times

2007-01-24 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Timothy J. Massey wrote on 24.01.2007 at 23:21:28 (04. Woche) [Re: [BackupPC-users] Avoiding long backup times]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/24/2007 09:28:51 PM: I like the idea of taking *any* identical file from the pool as reference though. I don't know if it is possible (i.e.