Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the server computer

2017-07-14 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 15/7/17 13:00, Paul Fox wrote: B wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 18:56:19 -0400 > Paul Fox wrote: > > > i confess i haven't been following this thread in all its gory detail, > > The BackupPC god absolves you (although, it is the BPC v.3x god, so > you'll need to upgrade the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the server computer

2017-07-14 Thread Paul Fox
B wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 18:56:19 -0400 > Paul Fox wrote: > > > i confess i haven't been following this thread in all its gory detail, > > The BackupPC god absolves you (although, it is the BPC v.3x god, so > you'll need to upgrade the confessionnal if you want to also be absolv

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the server computer

2017-07-14 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 18:56:19 -0400 Paul Fox wrote: Just a precision for B.Katz: I also have a script that creates an _INSTALLED_PKGS.txt file from the usual command (debian), launched as a pre-backup command to be able to easily reconstruct the full exact working system from a minimal install. J

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the server computer

2017-07-14 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 18:56:19 -0400 Paul Fox wrote: > i confess i haven't been following this thread in all its gory detail, The BackupPC god absolves you (although, it is the BPC v.3x god, so you'll need to upgrade the confessionnal if you want to also be absolved by the v.4.x one.) > but i sus

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the server computer

2017-07-14 Thread Paul Fox
B wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 18:22:54 -0400 > Bob Katz wrote: > > > Oh boy I get it!!! I can't believe how stupid I was about that. > > Me too ;-p) > > > Well, doesn't this mean I have to establish a whole bunch of modules > > with a different path for each module, in orde

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the server computer

2017-07-14 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 18:22:54 -0400 Bob Katz wrote: > Oh boy I get it!!! I can't believe how stupid I was about that. Me too ;-p) > Well, doesn't this mean I have to establish a whole bunch of modules > with a different path for each module, in order to back up everything > EXCEPT the ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the server computer

2017-07-14 Thread Bob Katz
Dear Stefan, you are so kind! This helps a lot. Yes, I'm plodding my way through. You wrote: [Backup-Data-Folder] ## Next, set the path you want backed up. Be sure to use a trailing slash path= / Please don't do that: o a Linux system has virtual file systems mounted

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the server computer

2017-07-14 Thread Stefan Peter
Hi Bob On 14.07.2017 21:32, Bob Katz wrote: ... snip ... > > > 2017/07/14 15:06:17 [3292] connect from localhost (::1) > 2017/07/14 15:06:17 [3292] rsync denied on module Backup-Data-Folder > from localhost (::1) > ... snip ... > > ###

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the server computer

2017-07-14 Thread Bob Katz
Still not much progress but I've simplified things. In Fedora, rsync daemon is supposed to be run by systemctl. But I am pretty sure my attempt to create a service for rsync as a daemon has failed somewhere. So I'm debuggin by using the simple command line: sudo rsync ---daemon By the way, rsync

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the server computer

2017-07-14 Thread Bob Katz
Thanks. Well, first I have to ensure that inetd and no other mechanism I foolishly initiated in my efforts is running. I'm working on that now. But is there a point to running sudo rsync if the object is to use systemctl to run the daemon? Is that for a test or permanent? Yes, I'm confuse

[BackupPC-users] Ran out of inodes

2017-07-14 Thread Tapio Lehtonen
Running BackupPC 3 on Debian Wheezy. Ran out of inodes on 250 GB filesystem, max inodes was 15 million. Can the nightly cleanup now run and maybe release some idodes from the oldest backups? Since the filesystem is Ext4 I can not increase max inodes. Would it reduce the need of inodes if I reduced

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the server computer

2017-07-14 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Thursday, July 13, 2017 12:03 PM -0400 Bob Katz wrote: There must be a foolproof way of displaying running daemons, finding out the PID and killing it. The PS command that everyone is fond of does not show the daemon is runnning, I don't believe. If ps doesn't see it, then it's not the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the server computer

2017-07-14 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Thursday, July 13, 2017 4:37 PM + Michael Stowe wrote: At this point, I'd recommend sudo rsync --daemon --foreground --verbose So you can actually tell what's happening. According to the man page, --foreground should be --no-detach. That keeps the daemon from disappearing and cau