Re: [BackupPC-users] Process for Overriding hosts configuration
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 09:12:54AM -0500, Michael Stowe wrote: The Windows 7 Junctions (which fail) are important directories in Windows XP, and I've made an effort to exclude all the junctions from Windows 7. Huh. XP doesn't have any junction points by default (although it supports them) so I guess you mean you're excluding 7 junctions like Documents and Settings instead of backing them up. We just back them up here, because it's simpler and hey, who wants to recreate 50 junction points manually? How are you backing the junction points up. AFAIK backuppc treats those as actual directories and not junction points (i.e. the concept of a junction point doesn't exist in backuppc's universe like a symbolic link does.) Pooling will make sure that the files under the junction point and the real location of those files are pooled How BackupPC views them is dependent on the backup method; for rsync backups, they look like symbolic links (which they are) and get backed up as such. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ 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] Process for Overriding hosts configuration
Michael Stowe mst...@chicago.us.mensa.org wrote on 07/10/2012 11:14:34 AM: How are you backing the junction points up. AFAIK backuppc treats those as actual directories and not junction points (i.e. the concept of a junction point doesn't exist in backuppc's universe like a symbolic link does.) Pooling will make sure that the files under the junction point and the real location of those files are pooled How BackupPC views them is dependent on the backup method; for rsync backups, they look like symbolic links (which they are) and get backed up as such. I do not see this in practice on my server. In my case, the junctions create infinite loops (well, until the path gets too long, anyway), and give me tens of *thousands* of errors. I used the list of exclusions on the BackupPC wiki to get this down to a manageable number (400, instead of 80,000 or so). Have you added a parameter somewhere to handle this? Tim Massey Out of the Box Solutions, Inc. Creative IT Solutions Made Simple! http://www.OutOfTheBoxSolutions.com tmas...@obscorp.com 22108 Harper Ave. St. Clair Shores, MI 48080 Office: (800)750-4OBS (4627) Cell: (586)945-8796 -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ 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] Process for Overriding hosts configuration
Michael Stowe mst...@chicago.us.mensa.org wrote on 07/10/2012 11:14:34 AM: How are you backing the junction points up. AFAIK backuppc treats those as actual directories and not junction points (i.e. the concept of a junction point doesn't exist in backuppc's universe like a symbolic link does.) Pooling will make sure that the files under the junction point and the real location of those files are pooled How BackupPC views them is dependent on the backup method; for rsync backups, they look like symbolic links (which they are) and get backed up as such. I do not see this in practice on my server. In my case, the junctions create infinite loops (well, until the path gets too long, anyway), and give me tens of *thousands* of errors. I used the list of exclusions on the BackupPC wiki to get this down to a manageable number (400, instead of 80,000 or so). Have you added a parameter somewhere to handle this? Here's a sample from my BackupPC logs: pool l 777 4294967295/4294967295 6 Documents and Settings - /Users That's typical of all the links across Windows boxen, including servers. I don't recall doing anything specific to make it work; it may be a function of rsync version on the client. You're welcome to the exact version (and client, and scripts) I use, here: http://www.michaelstowe.com/backuppc/ -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ 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] BackupPC *ClientCmd $fileList
When the backup command is executed (e.g. SmbClientFullCmd) how is the $fileList variable generated - what process it retrieving the Exclusions list for the named share? I thought that by having a BackupFilesExclude key of ' * ' was additive to the defined SmbShareName. That is, I could create a * key of all common files to exclude, and a key name of C$ that would define exclusions for the SmbShareName C$, and the resulting $fileList would be the combination of * exclusions *AND* C$ exclusions. I discovered that is not the case - instead the * exclusions would be applied if the defined SmbShareName isn't otherwise defined as a BackupFilesExclude key. I was hoping I could do something that would generate the $fileList to combine both. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ 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] BackupPC data volume
It's recommended to mount the BackupPC data volume with noatime: /dev/vg_backuppc_data/backuppc_data /var/lib/BackupPC ext4 rw,*noatime *0 0 However, since my data volume is an iSCSI volume, I needed this entry to have the iSCSI mount properly mount at boot using _netdev: /dev/vg_backuppc_data/backuppc_data /var/lib/BackupPC ext4 _netdev 0 0 so do I still need *noatime* and if so, how/where do I include it on that line? -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ 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] BackupPC data volume
On 10/07/12 22:44, Bryan Keadle (.net) wrote: It's recommended to mount the BackupPC data volume with noatime: /dev/vg_backuppc_data/backuppc_data /var/lib/BackupPC ext4 rw,*noatime *0 0 However, since my data volume is an iSCSI volume, I needed this entry to have the iSCSI mount properly mount at boot using _netdev: /dev/vg_backuppc_data/backuppc_data /var/lib/BackupPC ext4 _netdev 0 0 so do I still need *noatime* and if so, how/where do I include it on that line? in fstab add ,noatime,nodiratime in the same place as you had _netdev so you end up with: noatime,nodiratime,_netdev -- Tim Fletcher t...@night-shade.org.uk -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ 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] Process for Overriding hosts configuration
On 11/07/12 00:12, Michael Stowe wrote: The Windows 7 Junctions (which fail) are important directories in Windows XP, and I've made an effort to exclude all the junctions from Windows 7. Huh. XP doesn't have any junction points by default (although it supports them) so I guess you mean you're excluding 7 junctions like Documents and Settings instead of backing them up. We just back them up here, because it's simpler and hey, who wants to recreate 50 junction points manually? Then again, we also back up the registries and open files, since those are important to us. We only exclude cache and temp directories, as I recall, and have had the horrifying occasion to perform full restores. Could I ask what is your process for a full restore on a windows PC? I recently considered to do a complete restore from backuppc for a windows 2003 server which had been backed up using your method, but ended up resolving the issue without the restore. However, I wasn't very confident that I would get a working system from a restore. In the past, I've had some success with taking a snapshot using dd or similar, just after doing the OS install (before the first reboot) and then doing a full restore from backuppc (taken with shadow support), and this did produce a working system, but it isn't always easy to have an image of a machine, so would be great to be able to just use the backuppc to do a full restore. Regards, Adam -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ 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/
