Les Mikesell wrote on 09/02/2011 11:05:22 PM:
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 5:03 PM, wrote:
> > I've now tried to uninstall/re-install twice times without success.
> > Apparently the failure of the hardlink test during the postinstall
also
> > prevented the creation of the default config.pl and hos
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 5:03 PM, wrote:
>
>>>In the past I was running the init start/stop via sudo - would that have
>>> messed things up?
>
> Should I run the start/stop with su backuppc instead?
I don't use debian/ubuntu that much. On a RedHat/Centos system you
run the init scripts as root (u
Quick reply (on iPad):
I have used symlink for most of a decade now with zero issues on a dozen severs.
Timothy J. Massey
Out of the Box Solutions Inc.
Sent from my iPad
On Sep 2, 2011, at 5:09 PM, hans...@gmail.com wrote:
> Sorry, editing mangled the referents of my pronouns:
>
> I've heard
On Saturday 03 September 2011 00:57:48 Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Can one sensibly back up / with BackupPC?
As linux allows reading of "locked" files / has no concept of locking files
exclusively, the answer is yes. The result you get is the same as if you would
hard power-off your machine and rest
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Can one sensibly back up / with BackupPC?
Sure, but if you don't use --one-file-system in the options, be sure
to exclude the pseudo mounts like /proc, /sys (and maybe /dev,
depending on the version).
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Can one sensibly back up / with BackupPC?
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>
> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 5:03 AM, wrote:
>
>>
>> This time I'm planning to delete the backuppc user
>>
>
> Is anything more than removing the line from /etc/passwd required for this?
>
>
>> as well as:
>>
>> /var/lib/backuppc
>> /etc/backuppc
>> /var/log/backuppc
>> /usr/share/backuppc
>>
>>
>>
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 5:03 AM, wrote:
>
> This time I'm planning to delete the backuppc user
>
Is anything more than removing the line from /etc/passwd required for this?
> as well as:
>
> /var/lib/backuppc
> /etc/backuppc
> /var/log/backuppc
> /usr/share/backuppc
>
>
> I'm not going to do an
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:38 PM, wrote:
> >
> > Or is the message "link host-name" in my log when running "_dump
> > -v" manually indicate a hardlinkng problem kicking in **after** the pc
> > filesystem's already been created?
>
> I think the
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 4:38 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> In general, backuppc needs rw permission on everything, and apache
> (www-data on debian/ubuntu) needs read access to some of it.
>
Sorry to need such hand-holding, but if I'm above my TOPDIR and execute
chown -R backuppc TOPDIR
chgrp -R www
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:38 PM, wrote:
>
> Or is the message "link host-name" in my log when running "_dump
> -v" manually indicate a hardlinkng problem kicking in **after** the pc
> filesystem's already been created?
I think the fact that the link step isn't completing is your real
problem, but
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> I mean try to create a hardlink between a file under the pc directory
> to under the cpool directory.
>
> Backuppc does approximately the same test at startup but in perl and
> you may not see the real error message.
>
> Does the drive in qu
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:24 PM, wrote:
>
> OK, I wiped and re-installed again.
>
> The four empty folders under TOPDIR are all "root root", I chown'd to
> backuppc and chgrp'd to www-data and the init start worked fine.
>
> Now I'm just guessing that if I need to reset permissions in the future I
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:10 PM, wrote:
>> The ubuntu package should create a backuppc user and that should be
>> the owner of everything under TOPDIR. I think you need to diagnose
>> why the link fails but trying the same operation from the shell (su -s
>> /bin/bash backuppc if it doesn't have
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> The ubuntu package should create a backuppc user and that should be
> the owner of everything under TOPDIR. I think you need to diagnose
> why the link fails but trying the same operation from the shell (su -s
> /bin/bash backuppc if it doesn
Sorry, editing mangled the referents of my pronouns:
I've heard of some software/systems being unable to traverse them [SYMLINKS]
- in fact I've read they're [BIND MOUNTS] pretty much transparent right down
to the kernel level.
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"Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" wrote on 09/02/2011 02:37:31
PM:
> Timothy J Massey wrote at about 10:43:37 -0400 on Friday, September 2,
2011:
>
> > Your old backups should be 100% fine. They will remain in the pool
just
> > fine, etc. I do not believe that files transferred by rsync will
pool
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
> The ubuntu package should create a backuppc user and that should be
> the owner of everything under TOPDIR. I think you need to diagnose
> why the link fails but trying the same operation from the shell (su -s
> /bin/bash backuppc if it doe
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> It turns out that a linux raid1 mirror looks just like the non-raid
> filesystem it contains - or enough that you can mount the single drive
> as if it were a normal partition. So you can treat the rotated member
> just the same as your sing
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 3:32 PM, wrote:
>
> Re-installed, this time without anything extra in the fstab, just letting
> the package go where it wants, but in the end of the post-install script,
> get a message that the hard-link test failed.
>
> Did I miss something in uninstalling that may have i
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:32 AM, wrote:
> If you do this before the install, everything should land in the right
>> place and get the right permissions. The critical things are that
>> the pool/cpool/pc directories must all be in the same filesystem so
>> hardlinks can work
>>
>>
>
Just to confi
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 3:17 PM, wrote:
> Obviously my proclivity for simplicity is overriding the advantages of the
> other methods. For my situation, one key consideration is for a non-geek
> staffer to be able to get the data back if there's a fire/explosion whatever
> while I'm away on holida
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> I don't see any other message yet, but the way to get it right is to
> just mount the partition you want to use for storage in the place
> where backuppc wants it (should be /var/lib/backuppc with the deb
> package). Or put a symlink there po
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 2:59 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> There has been a vast amount of discussion on this list covering this
> topic so you should probably wade through the archives.
> My approach is a 3-member software RAID1 where 2 drives are always in
> the server and the 3rd is a set rotated o
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:47 PM, wrote:
>>
>> The ubuntu package should have set everything up correctly. You
>> didn't change TOPDIR or mount something underneath it after the
>> install, did you?
>>
>
> Of course I did Les, precisely as outlined in the post crossed in the mail
> just now.
I
Was this post in response to mine just now asking for feedback on pretty
much the same topic? If not, pretty amazing example of synchronicity (in
Jung's sense, not regarding data mirroring 8-)
I considered using RAID mirroring or other partition-cloning methods, but at
this point I'm thinking I pre
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:36 PM, wrote:
> Here's an idea I have completely unrelated to my problem posting, looking
> for feedback.
>
> Goal: using single large HDDs as backup media rotating them offsite, in as
> simple and bullet-proof as possible a way.
>
> Strategy:
>
> two hard drives
>
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> The ubuntu package should have set everything up correctly. You
> didn't change TOPDIR or mount something underneath it after the
> install, did you?
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> lesmikes...@gmail.com
>
8-)
Of course I did Les, precisely as
Hi,
Since the $SUBJ topic appears in this mailing list on a regular basis, I
wrote a short description of the solution we have been using for a few
years, incl. the scripts. It is by no means a comprehensive writeup, nor
is it a rocket science. Yet it may provide inspiration.
http://blog.ivite
Here's an idea I have completely unrelated to my problem posting, looking
for feedback.
Goal: using single large HDDs as backup media rotating them offsite, in as
simple and bullet-proof as possible a way.
Strategy:
two hard drives
one with the base server OS installed, install BackupPC 3.
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:10 PM, wrote:
> I just ran the _dump script manually again, this time fully deleting
> everything under TOPDIR except the pool directories and with the -v verbose
> option.
>
> The ending of the process was the same, except for a "link host_name" just
> before the end abo
On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 00:34 -0700, egrimisu wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> backuppc won't wol client pc
>
> NmbLookupFindHostCmd = /etc/backuppc/wakeup.sh 00:1a:4d:8c:0a:78 1 $host
>
> wakeup.sh has 777 rights and contains:
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
> wakeonlan $1
> sleep ${2}m
> /usr/bin/nmblookup $3
>
> usi
I just ran the _dump script manually again, this time fully deleting
everything under TOPDIR except the pool directories and with the -v verbose
option.
The ending of the process was the same, except for a "link host_name" just
before the end aborted message.
I'm thinking maybe a permissions issu
Timothy J Massey wrote at about 10:43:37 -0400 on Friday, September 2, 2011:
> Your old backups should be 100% fine. They will remain in the pool just
> fine, etc. I do not believe that files transferred by rsync will pool
> with files transferred by tar (due to the attribute issue you men
Running 3.1.0, installed via synaptic on Ubuntu 11.04.
After spending a lot of time refining my excludes, thinking windows open
files were preventing a successful full backup completing, I tried making
the whole target one very small and static directory tree with the same
result.
There isn't any
Tyler J. Wagner wrote at about 17:40:16 +0100 on Friday, September 2, 2011:
> Hi all (well, Jeff, really),
>
> I'm trying to copy a very large pool (1 TB, 70 hosts, about 20 backups
> each) to another server with a bigger disk array. I'm using
> BackupPC_copyPcPool. However, on running it I g
Hi all (well, Jeff, really),
I'm trying to copy a very large pool (1 TB, 70 hosts, about 20 backups
each) to another server with a bigger disk array. I'm using
BackupPC_copyPcPool. However, on running it I get a lot of errors.
cd /var/local/backuppc
su - backuppc -c "/usr/local/bin/BackupPC_copyP
Dag wrote on 08/31/2011 09:03:42 AM:
> I apologise if my question is answered before (I didn’t find it)
>
> I have a problem when BackupPC (3.2.1) tries to backup a large file,
> about 12GB in size.
> I use a CentOS BackupPC server backing up an CentOS client with
> rsync over ssh.
> I first sa
charlesboyo wrote on 08/31/2011
05:53:43 AM:
> I'm using BackupPC to take daily backups of a maildir totaling 250
> GB with average file sizes of 500 MB (text mailboxes, these files
> change everyday).
> Currently, my setup take full backups once a week and incremental
> backups every day bet
Hi guys,
backuppc won't wol client pc
NmbLookupFindHostCmd = /etc/backuppc/wakeup.sh 00:1a:4d:8c:0a:78 1 $host
wakeup.sh has 777 rights and contains:
#!/bin/bash
wakeonlan $1
sleep ${2}m
/usr/bin/nmblookup $3
using the dos command wolcmd.exe 001a4d8c0a78 192.168.2.74 255.255.255.0 wakes
the
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