Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware windows problem

2007-04-16 Thread Henrik Genssen
Hi, you may try drive snapshot (http://www.drivesnapshot.de/) Shareware 39,- EUR that does a backup of windows into one file (even non accessable files). Afterwards backup that file with backupPC. greetings Hinnack reply to message: date: 15.04.2007 19:49:22 from: Travis Fraser [EMAIL

Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware windows problem

2007-04-16 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Henrik Genssen wrote on 16.04.2007 at 08:59:33 [Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware windows problem]: you may try [...] that does a backup of windows into one file (even non accessable files). Afterwards backup that file with backupPC. ... thus totally defeating the advantages of pooling.

Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware windows problem

2007-04-16 Thread Adam Swift
you may try [...] that does a backup of windows into one file (even non accessable files). Afterwards backup that file with backupPC. ... thus totally defeating the advantages of pooling. For a similar solution on Windows XP platforms, that gets around the problem of destroying pooling,

[BackupPC-users] md4 doesn't match

2007-04-16 Thread Simon Köstlin
Hi all, I get the following error message ibdata1: md4 doesn't match: will retry in phase 1; file removed for this file in my Xfer Log. Its file size is about 50GB and it could be that the file is modified while the backup is running. My version of BackupPC is a Ubuntu package which says 3.0.0-2

[BackupPC-users] Using BackupPC with rsync but with conections initiated by the clients

2007-04-16 Thread Oriol de los Santos
I've been reading the documentation for BackupPC and it seems that the only way to use rsync is to have the BackupPC server initiate the conections with the clients (which from my point of view is a bit of a security issue). In my case I would be interested in having the client initiate the

Re: [BackupPC-users] parity on archive files

2007-04-16 Thread Josh Marshall
Krsnendu dasa wrote: 1. What is parity? What are the parity files for and How do you use them with the archives? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive. Basically if one of the archive files has some corruption, and it's not too much, then the parity files will allow you to recover from

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using BackupPC with rsync but with conections initiated by the clients

2007-04-16 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Oriol de los Santos wrote on 13.04.2007 at 18:45:51 [[BackupPC-users] Using BackupPC with rsync but with conections initiated by the clients]: I've been reading the documentation for BackupPC and it seems that the only way to use rsync is to have the BackupPC server initiate the

[BackupPC-users] Backup start time and subsequent backups

2007-04-16 Thread Vasan
Hi all, We have scheduled backups for every day to be at 8:00PM in the evening for one server host that has around 300GB in full to be backed up. However, because of the innovative pooling mechanisms, it is clear that the entire 300 GB is not getting backed up daily by backuppc as per our

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup start time and subsequent backups

2007-04-16 Thread Les Mikesell
Vasan wrote: We have scheduled backups for every day to be at 8:00PM in the evening for one server host that has around 300GB in full to be backed up. How did you schedule this? Normally you tell backuppc when *not* to do backups with the blackout period and let it decide when to start each

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using BackupPC with rsync but with conections initiated by the clients

2007-04-16 Thread Craig Barratt
Holger writes: I'm not sure whether rsyncd authentication is more than a plaintext password exchange though. It uses a random challenge/response with md4 digests. Like any system like this, weak passwords are vulnerable to dictionary attacks. But if you use a decent (high entropy) password

[BackupPC-users] Permission Denied in Rsyncd

2007-04-16 Thread Randy Barlow
Howdy ya'll. I'm using rsyncd as the transport mechanism for BackupPC 3.0.0, and the backup is finishing fine, but lots of files and folders are giving me errors such as: Remote[1]: rsync: opendir /lost+found (in root) failed: Permission denied (13) My rsyncd on the system that I am trying

Re: [BackupPC-users] PIPE Errors

2007-04-16 Thread Craig Barratt
Jamie writes: I have a fresh install of Backuppc 3 up and running on a centos box. We're mainly backing up Apple Xserves. It's backing 2 of them up sucessfully. But on one of them it will do the full backup no problem but when it runs incramentals it keeps giving me this error. Backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup start time and subsequent backups

2007-04-16 Thread Adam Goryachev
Vasan wrote: For the next backup, it always seems to check for any modifications during the last 24 hours. If for example, the next days nightly job takes only a minute to complete (8:01PM), then first it will check if any backup has been done for the last 24 hours at 8:01PM itself. In this

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup start time and subsequent backups

2007-04-16 Thread Craig Barratt
Vasan writes: For the next backup, it always seems to check for any modifications during the last 24 hours. If for example, the next days nightly job takes only a minute to complete (8:01PM), then first it will check if any backup has been done for the last 24 hours at 8:01PM itself. In this

Re: [BackupPC-users] md4 doesn't match

2007-04-16 Thread Craig Barratt
Simon writes: I get the following error message ibdata1: md4 doesn't match: will retry in phase 1; file removed for this file in my Xfer Log. Its file size is about 50GB and it could be that the file is modified while the backup is running. My version of BackupPC is a Ubuntu package which