[BackupPC-users] BackupPC not deleting Backups according to FullKeepCnt
Hi, I am new to an existing BackupPC server. It was set up a long time ago and worked fine but the machine died. So the config Files were moved to a new server where BackupPC was installed via RPM on ubuntu. Backups are working fine, but old Backups won't get removed, so the HDD is running out of space very quickly. I found a script to remove single backups by hand, but I want it to be done automatically. I know that I didn't provide a lot info so far, but if you know where to srart searching for the problem, I'd be greatful if you pointed me there and/or ask for additional info Thank you in advance Christian Bock -- ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] backup restore via command line
Thanks for your help. I have tried tar with parameter p as root user and it works. :D -p, --same-permissions, --preserve-permissions ignore umask when extracting files (the default for root) +-- |This was sent by svenbroe...@web.de via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] ftp error: xfer start failed: Can't open connection to : Invalid argument
Hi,
I am struggling to get ftp transfer working in 3.2.0 beta0. And I keep
ketting the error message: xfer start failed: Can't open connection to :
Invalid argument
about the Invalid argument issue, i attach here a Holger Parplies:
Sorry, that is a bug in Xfer::Ftp, line 190, which references $args-{host},
which, it seems, should read $args-{Host} instead (at least that's what
getFTPArgs() returns). There are two more occurrences of the same typo and
several usages of $t-{host} instead of $args-{Host}, though that is probably
intentional (logging the host name as defined in BackupPC rather than the
actual DNS name or IP used). I'd attach a patch, but it's really only
:%s/\$args-{host}/$args-{Host}/gc
At the moment also i can't do backup using ftp still.
Regards
M
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[BackupPC-users] Wrong user: my userid is 502, instead of (backuppc4afs), Please su backuppc4afs first
Hello, After installed Backuppc4afs on Mac 10.5 server, I could start backup from CGI interface, but it could not automatically start scheduled backup. The error in LOG is: /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_nightly: Wrong user: my userid is 502, instead of (backuppc4afs) Please su backuppc4afs first The problem is that userid 502 is backuppc4afs, I don't understand why it thinks they are different. Anyone had this problem before? Thank you. Wenping -- ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Advice on offsite strategy using external drives
This may be a little long-winded, but I need some input. In the past I've used external drives to keep a rotation of offsite backups. One drive would be offsite while the other was receiving dumps of data. I used an archive host to dump tar_gzip files of all my data. This system worked great with the exception that dumping massive tgz files was a long process and the process in general required plenty of human interaction. Someone recommended that I try putting the root backuppc folder (including the conf, pool, cpool and pc etc. folders) on the external drive and let the nightly backups dump right onto the external. Then the second external driver (also configured with the coreect backuppc root) could be mounted in the same location on the filesystem, requireing less human interaction. I love the notion of this system. I can simply replace the drives from time to time and the data will be dumped right onto the drives. I just have to make sure that the configs, etc. are kept consistent. What concerns me is the format of the folders and files int he backuppc system In the cpool the file names are all hashes. When there are rwgular files, there's the prefix added by backuppc. In short, my data is munged; recovery requires a working backuppc install. The nice thing about tgz dumps was that my data was dumped in a format that was easily used. Does anyone else do it this way? Should I not be terribly concerned about the munging? -- ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Wrong user: my userid is 502, instead of (backuppc4afs), Please su backuppc4afs first
How did you determine that userid 502 is backuppc4afs? Do id backuppc4afs and id 502 return the same results? What about su backuppc4afs -c id? Have you configured the Mac to be aware of either an ldap server or AD domain in Directory Services? It's easy to accidentally configure duplicate uids or uidnumbers if so. [Remember each Mac has its own directory service and only uses bsd flatfiles in single-user mode, so don't be distracted by them.] If you find you do have a duplicate, file ownership may be an issue after correcting it. Cheers, Stephen (who has discovered there are generally more reasons to dislike Macs than to like them) -- Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Wenping Yang wrote: Hello, After installed Backuppc4afs on Mac 10.5 server, I could start backup from CGI interface, but it could not automatically start scheduled backup. The error in LOG is: /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_nightly: Wrong user: my userid is 502, instead of (backuppc4afs) Please su backuppc4afs first The problem is that userid 502 is backuppc4afs, I don't understand why it thinks they are different. Anyone had this problem before? Thank you. Wenping -- ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Advice on offsite strategy using external drives
On 07/22 08:17 , tog benson wrote: In the past I've used external drives to keep a rotation of offsite backups. One drive would be offsite while the other was receiving dumps of data. I used an archive host to dump tar_gzip files of all my data. This is the way I do it at one location. I have a directory called /var/lib/backuppc/dump, and tgz archives of all the hosts get dumped there by virtue of a custom script. The script also handles the mounting and unmounting of an external drive. So someone (an unskilled office worker) swaps the drive once a week after they get an e-mail of a successful backup. They then take the drive with the new data and remove it offsite. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com -- ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Wrong user: my userid is 502, instead of (backuppc4afs), Please su backuppc4afs first
I used command id to determine userid. Actually id backuppc4afs, id 502 and su backuppc4afs -c id gave the same results: RArwjms04:bin root# id backuppc4afs uid=502(backuppc4afs) gid=1025(backuppc4afs) groups=1025(backuppc4afs) RArwjms04:bin root# id 502 uid=502(backuppc4afs) gid=1025(backuppc4afs) groups=1025(backuppc4afs) RArwjms04:bin root# su backuppc4afs -c id uid=502(backuppc4afs) gid=1025(backuppc4afs) groups=1025(backuppc4afs) My Mac machine is not using LDAP or AD, it is a standalone machine. Account backuppc4afs is a local account. When I read the source code, I found that script BackupPC is using getpwnam() to check uid. And it seems that output of getpwnam() from Linux and Mac are different: Linux: usernamex56780Fname Lname/afs/rwjresearch.umdnj.edu/home/username/bin/bash (account name: username, uid: 5678) Mac: backuppc4afs50210250backuppc4afs/Users/backuppc4afs/bin/bash0 (account name: backuppc4afs, uid:502) I think those might have caused the problem. Wenping Stephen Joyce wrote: How did you determine that userid 502 is backuppc4afs? Do id backuppc4afs and id 502 return the same results? What about su backuppc4afs -c id? Have you configured the Mac to be aware of either an ldap server or AD domain in Directory Services? It's easy to accidentally configure duplicate uids or uidnumbers if so. [Remember each Mac has its own directory service and only uses bsd flatfiles in single-user mode, so don't be distracted by them.] If you find you do have a duplicate, file ownership may be an issue after correcting it. Cheers, Stephen (who has discovered there are generally more reasons to dislike Macs than to like them) -- Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Wenping Yang wrote: Hello, After installed Backuppc4afs on Mac 10.5 server, I could start backup from CGI interface, but it could not automatically start scheduled backup. The error in LOG is: /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_nightly: Wrong user: my userid is 502, instead of (backuppc4afs) Please su backuppc4afs first The problem is that userid 502 is backuppc4afs, I don't understand why it thinks they are different. Anyone had this problem before? Thank you. Wenping -- ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Advice on offsite strategy using external drives
So someone (an unskilled office worker) swaps the drive once a week after they get an e-mail of a successful backup. They then take the drive with the new data and remove it offsite. Part of the reason I don't want to do this is that three drives are required in order to have on offsite at any given time. I backup nightly to one, dump to another and have another offsite. I am short on cash right now... Two drives acting as the backuppc root dir's seemed simpler. Less human interaction... -- ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Status not updating
I move to another drive the backuppc root dir that contains these folders: conf cpool log passwd pc perl_module pool trash and now my status on the front page isn't updating: * Pool file system was recently at 70% (7/13 02:07), today's max is 70% (7/13 02:03) and yesterday's max was 70%. The Max for yesterday and today is 12%. Is this perhaps an issue with the status.pl? -- ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Rsync not working on MAC
Hi, I have backuppc running fine backing-up windows and mac machines, except one mac. It fails in the first few minutes of the backup. If I run the backup from the command line then it hangs - if I remove the --server and the --sender switches and run the command it works fine. Please can you advise me on what to do? Kind Regards Tony Ferguson Mobile 082-464-6018 Office 011-476-3904 Fax 011-678-3291 Life is a coin. You can spend it anyway you wish, but you can only spend it once. -- ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
