Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems migrating backups from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7

Since both are ext4 filesystems, I'd prefer a dd copy from one to the other. See this on some sample command line suggestions on how to do this over the network: https://www.ndchost.com/wiki/server-administration/netcat-over-ssh Just make sure the source and destination LV is unmounted during

[BackupPC-users] Latest backuppc fuse version

Hi, I was looking on the backuppc github project, but can't seem to find the current version of the backuppc fuse program. I only find old versions attached to the mailing list. Can anyone advise where the current version is maintained please? Regards, Adam

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc in large environments

On 2/12/20 10:35, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: Hi there, On Tue, 1 Dec 2020, backuppc-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: How big can backuppc reasonably scale? Remember you can scale vertically or horizontally. Either get a bigger machine for your backups, or get more

Re: [BackupPC-users] What to do with a restore that's going on far too long?

Regards, Adam -Original Message----- From: Adam Goryachev via BackupPC-users < backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Reply-To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" < backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [BackupPC-users] What to do with a restore that's going on far too long?

On 17/11/20 22:39, Adam Hardy wrote: OK, I just saw Raoul's message. Backuppc_zcat is the tool I need. Thanks Raoul Personally, I prefer strace. Regards, Adam -Original Message- From: Adam Hardy Reply-To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <

Re: [BackupPC-users] Imnproving backup speed

On 8/1/21 06:30, Alexander Kobel wrote: Hi Sorin, On 1/7/21 9:39 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: Hello all! Trying to improve the backup speed with BPC and looked into setting noatime in fstab. But this article states some backup programs may bork if noatime is set.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Checking rsync progress/speed/status

On 13/1/21 09:21, Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 4:15 PM Greg Harris wrote: Yeah, that “if you can interpret it” part gets really hard when it looks like: select(7, [6], [], [6], {tv_sec=60, tv_usec=0}) = 1 (in [6], left {tv_sec=59, tv_usec=99}) read(6,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Run VPN script before backup - PingCmd?

On 13/7/21 05:32, Rob Morin wrote: Hello all... I was looking at a way to start up my vpn from our remote backup site to the office when backuppc starts a job. I googled around for quite a bit and saw some people were using  a script in place of the pingcmd parameter. I have tried that

Re: [BackupPC-users] job queue order

On 13/7/21 09:02, Kenneth Porter wrote: How can I change the order in the queue? I just added 18 new "hosts" (actually 6, but with 3 backup jobs per host). How can I push them to the front of the queue to initialize their first backup? Is there some UI to rearrange the queue order? I don't

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem with WakupSchedule and Backupplan

On 4/5/21 22:00, Ralph Sikau wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 28.04.2021, 16:30 + schrieb backuppc- users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net : However, I have a suspicion that you are on the right track. If a backup is missed, then it is put into the queue

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using BackupPC 4.x with rrsync on the client

On 10/2/21 02:56, Felix Wolters wrote: Hello! Let me first thank you for providing BackupPC as open source software. I appreciate it a lot and consider it to be one of the most usefull backup systems out there! I’d like to use it with restricted access to the client, so a potentially

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using BackupPC 4.x with rrsync on the client

On 11/2/21 10:14, Felix Wolters wrote: Jeff, I appreciate your detailled discussion of the topic, and I consider your arguments to be strong. But this … Finally, while the sudoer code I shared in my previous note was just aimed at restricting the sudoer power to rsync with specific flags,

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC permission issue?

On 1/4/21 00:08, Joseph Bishay wrote: Hello Adam and everyone, Thank you for the reply.  I've responded below: On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 10:42 PM Adam Goryachev via BackupPC-users <mailto:backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>> wrote: On 31/3/21 12:26, Joseph Bishay wrote:

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC permission issue?

On 31/3/21 12:26, Joseph Bishay wrote: Hello, I hope you are all doing very well today. I have BackupPC backing up a Linux client and it appears to only back up certain files.  The pattern seems to be that if the directory has permissions of -rw-r--r-- BackupPC can enter, read the files and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Per-host $Conf{MaxBackups} effects

On 12/3/21 00:03, Dave Sherohman wrote: If I were to set $Conf{MaxBackups} = 1 for one specific host, how would that be handled?  Would it prevent that specific host from running backups unless there are no other backups in progress?  Would it prevent any other backups from being started

Re: [BackupPC-users] Simple server side embedded config file to allow full shadow backups of Windows host

On 27/2/21 08:23, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Adam Goryachev wrote at about 05:48:56 +1100 on Saturday, February 27, 2021: > > > > > I was missing the ClientShareName2Path. I've added that in, but now I > > > get another error: > > > > > > No such NTFS drive 'c:' skipping

Re: [BackupPC-users] Simple server side embedded config file to allow full shadow backups of Windows host

Hi, I've just setup a new Win10 machine, and thought I'd try this solution to do the backup... So far, I have installed the MS SSH server, using the powershell command line installation method, copied the backuppc ssh public key across, used a powershell script to fix permissions on the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Simple server side embedded config file to allow full shadow backups of Windows host

On 27/2/21 03:31, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Adam Goryachev via BackupPC-users wrote at about 00:41:40 +1100 on Saturday, February 27, 2021: > Also, I was thinking it should be possible to have this script in a > single file, and then just include or require it for each host

Re: [BackupPC-users] Simple server side embedded config file to allow full shadow backups of Windows host

PC --rsync-path=/cygdrive/c/cygwin64/root/bin/rsync.exe --super --recursive --protect-args --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --times --links --hard-links --delete --partial --log-format=log:\ %o\ %i\ %B\ %8U,%8G\ %9l\ %f%L --stats --checksum --one-file-system --timeout=72000 10.1.1.119:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc-4 on Debian-11

On 14/9/21 02:00, Juergen Harms wrote: This is not the place to fight for being right, but to understand and document help for users who hit this kind of problem. Trying to understand: how do you define separate and different profiles ("per-host override configs") for each of your 18

Re: [BackupPC-users] Run VPN script before backup - PingCmd?

potential improvements you or someone else in future might need/want. Thanks a bunch Adam. I hope this helps others! Have a great day everyone! Regards, Adam On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 7:52 PM Adam Goryachev via BackupPC-users <mailto:backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>> wrote: On

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving to 4.4.0, sudo on FreeBSD

Sounds to me that you might have restricted your source IP in the *bsd .ssh/authorized_keys file. Maybe double check on those restrictions. Regards, Adam On 24/7/21 14:27, Brad Alexander wrote: I ran across what appears to be the reason for the issue that I am having. I found the following

Re: [BackupPC-users] Run command per file before storing in the pool

On 17/2/2022 23:43, Bruno Rogério Fernandes wrote: Maybe I've got a solution Instead of modifying backuppc behavior, I'm planning to disable compression setting at the server and create a FUSE filesystem that transparently compresses all the images using jpeg-xl format and put backuppc pool

Re: [BackupPC-users] When does compression and de-duplication happen?

It depends on the version of backuppc either v3 or v4 as to the exact sequence of events, but in either case, the files are processed one at a time as they are received, so if there is an existing file from another host in the pool, then that file will only require additional space during the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Missing backup files

On 5/11/2022 01:04, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: Hi there, On Fri, 4 Nov 2022, Mark Murawski wrote: ... This is the most recently finished full backup [51] for /etc/ssl/private ... There's no files in there!! Just directories!? Everything is missing And it looks like the *entire*