Re: [BackupPC-users] Efficiently browsing backups

Hi there, On Thu, 16 Apr 2020, Alwyn Kik wrote: What is the best way to find a file or directory ... man find -- 73, Ged. ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Troubles avoiding nightly backups on V4

Hi there, On Tue, 14 Apr 2020, R.C. wrote: I have Backuppc V4 rpm installation on Centos8 and I am experiencing troubles with blackout periods. I would like this server to perform backups during daytime only but I cannot apply the desired behaviour. At the end of this message you can find my

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar update from 3.2.1 to 4.3.2

Hi there, On Sun, 12 Apr 2020, R.C. wrote: Got 3.2.1 installed from tarball on Centos 6.7 (Perl 5.10, httpd 2.2.15, Kernel 2.6.32) Any caveat or prepare-actions, except than activating "PoolV3Enabled", for updating to 4.3.2 taball? Yes. First, update all the software. Per 5.10 was

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4 - Wrong user: my userid is 33, instead of 108

Hi there, On Sun, 16 Feb 2020, shacky wrote: I'm trying to upgrade from BackupPC 3 to BackupPC 4 on one Debian system, but I'm having problems with Apache2 and the BackupPC cgi file. The web interface tells me "Error: Wrong user: my userid is 33, instead of 108(backuppc)", even if the cgi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Q: Issues w/network account for backuppc?

Hi there, On Thu, 5 Dec 2019, Kenneth Porter wrote: On 12/4/2019 7:07 AM, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: > On Wed, 4 Dec 2019, Gardner, Kevin wrote: > > > ... My IT group is asking me if we can migrate this a new > > Linux-based server where the account runn

Re: [BackupPC-users] Q: Issues w/network account for backuppc?

Hi there, On Wed, 4 Dec 2019, Gardner, Kevin wrote: ... My IT group is asking me if we can migrate this a new Linux-based server where the account running Backuppc would be networked rather than a local account. Initial trials by the IT group have not been successful ... Why does this

Re: [BackupPC-users] RsyncIncrArgsExtra

Hello again, On Sat, 3 Aug 2019, Ted Toal wrote: I am NOT sure whether bandwidth limitation is what I want. ... only backing up our lab?s small portion of the data ... only backing up files less than 1 MB ... BackupPC shines, I think, in less well-constrained situations. Given the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Identical files

Hi there, On Fri, 26 Jul 2019, Ted Toal wrote: Is it easy to make updates to the documentation? I haven't seen a reply to this so I'll take a stab at it, although I don't really know the proper procedure. Mr. Barratt will know. It's not clear to me where you saw the "BackupPC

Re: [BackupPC-users] Identical files

Hi there, On Thu, 25 Jul 2019, Ted Toal wrote: ...What about filename and file directory, do these have to match for a pair of files to be identical? They wouldn't be identical files. They'd be the same file. :) -- 73, Ged. ___ BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup fails after three days, possibly millions of files

Hello again, On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, David Koski wrote: I suspect there are over ten million files but I don't have a good way of telling now. This indicates to me an issue more fundamental than not being able to back up a few files using BackupPC. You need to have *some* kind of a handle on

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup fails after three days, possibly millions of files

Hi there, On Mon, 8 Jul 2019, David Koski wrote: I am trying to back up about 24TB of data that has millions of files.? It takes a day or to before it starts backing up and then stops ... Your post is a little light on detail. BackupPC installations routinely back up that kind of data

Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto backup using a "jump host"

Hi there, On Sat, 22 Jun 2019, Carl Soderstrom wrote: On 06/21 06:07 , Patrick B?gou wrote: I'm using BackupPC 3 for many local PCs. I would like now to backup some data from a remote server, located in another entity and where I need to go throught a frontend BackupPC <<--->> Frontend

Re: [BackupPC-users] BACKUPPC V4 - rsync-bpc error connecting to client

Hi Dave, On Mon, 10 Jun 2019, David Wynn wrote: ... I just don't think I've found the right module/subroutine that would be the one. I've looked in all your suggested places and nothing jumps out as the 'aha .. let's test this' location. I can find the spot in RSYNC.PM ( LN450

Re: [BackupPC-users] BACKUPPC V4 - rsync-bpc error connecting to client

Hi Dave, On Sun, 9 Jun 2019, David Wynn wrote: ... I have attached a picture ... Sorry, I don't genrally see attachments. I'm looking at the digest mailing list (I rarely subscribe to anything other than digest mailing lists), and most mailing list managers prune attachments. I went back

Re: [BackupPC-users] BACKUPPC V4 - rsync-bpc error connecting to client

Hello again, On Sat, 8 Jun 2019, David Wynn wrote: >> netpublic4.pl < $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = { '/nfs/Public' => [ '.FULL BLAST CREATIVE Or INKPLOT PROJECTS/*', '.HOTWINGS & WINGSNBEERS/*' ] }; $Conf{RsyncClientPath} = 'rsync'; ... You need the full

Re: [BackupPC-users] BACKUPPC V4 - rsync-bpc error connecting to client

Hi there, On Fri, 7 Jun 2019, David Wynn wrote: I?ve just noticed that there are two directories ... The fact that you have one of your IP addresses appearing some place it probably shouldn't be makes me wonder if you've made a typo in a configuration file, but I couldn't swear to it. Looks

Re: [BackupPC-users] 0 repeated, 0 max chain in BackupPC 4

Hi there, On Fri, 5 Apr 2019, Stefan Schumacher wrote: ... sorry for ... so many questions ... Please don't apologize for asking sensible questions. At the very least it will help the people who try to document this stuff, and it might even help to find some of the bugs in new software. :)

Re: [BackupPC-users] Xfer errors (especially bpc_sysCall_checkFileMatch(/path/to/file): file doesn't exist)

Hi there, On Tue, 12 Mar 2019, Daniel Berteaud wrote: I've been using BackupPC since the past 13 years (starting with 2.1.2 I think), with great success. I'm now running a few installations with v4, and one of the things I don't understand is the Xfer errors. [...snip...] On Thu, 4 Apr 2019,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Zfs Deduplication vs Backuppc Pooling

Hi there, On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 B wrote: On Tue, 2 Apr 2019, Stefan Schumacher wrote: I want to set up a new zfs volume as storage for Backuppc. I plan on using the zfs features encryption, deduplication and compression. Unless you have an _absolute_ need, do NOT use deduplication into ZFS

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental fails after full

Hi there, On Fri, 15 Mar 2019, Erik wrote: After a full backup, the next incremental fails. It starts as planned, but never finishes. ... interrupt the backup and start it manually ... This then succeeds and the next scheduled incremental after that succeeds as well. Until after the next full.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Laptop backups

Hi there, On Sun, 30 Dec 2018, Jan Stransky wrote: I want to backup a laptop. It is connected most of the time over wifi, but sometimes I connect it over cable. It is on linux First, thing I am struggling with its accessibility, but it is probably something in DNS lookup. However, the main

Re: [BackupPC-users] Post-BackupPC_migrateV3toV4 work?

Hi there, On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Sorin Srbu wrote: .. I have a vague memory .. Perhaps see the thread entitled "turn off PoolV3Enabled"? -- 73, Ged. ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to distinguish from which BPC-server administrative emails are coming (Was: BackupPC administrative attention needed)

Hi there, On Thu, 1 Nov 2018, Sorin Srbu wrote: Tagging the $Conf{EMailAdminUserName} won?t work for me, the central smtp-server bounces it if I choose something else than a real existing mail address unfortunately. Most sane mail servers will accept real.user+some_tag_or_ot...@example.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] DHCP backups - only once possible

Hi there, On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Craig Barratt wrote: I've been reviewing the mail list over the last few months, and there are still a couple of reported issues I'm trying to replicate or learn more about. I'm still looking at the issue I had with BackupPC a couple of months ago (Re: BackupPC

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.2.1 apparently in an infinite loop.

Hi there, Thanks for your reply. On Thu, 20 Sep 2018, Craig Barratt wrote: First, this error message looks like just a bug in the message text: it shouldn't be concatenating those paths: > RmTreeQuietInner: > /mnt/3TLV/backuppc/pc/kestrel/268//var/lib/backuppc/pc/kestrel/268/X > isn't a

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.2.1 apparently in an infinite loop.

Hello again all, On Tue, 18 Sep 2018, Michael Stowe wrote: On Mon, 17 Sep 2018, G.W. Haywood wrote: I suspect that this is a fault in BackupPC_backupDelete ... RmTreeQuietInner seems to be seeing some sort of bowdlerization ... RmTreeQuietInner:

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.2.1 apparently in an infinite loop.

Hello again all, [Replying to myself here to try to get the thread back on topic.] On Mon, 17 Sep 2018, G.W. Haywood wrote: ... I suspect that this is a fault in BackupPC_backupDelete ... 8<-- BackupPC_backupDelete debug

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.2.1 apparently in an infinite loop.

Hi there, About a month ago I made the elementary mistake of upgrading my backup server from Debian Jessie to Debian Stretch. Just about everything broke. The biggest concern was the backups themselves. The upgrade changed BackupPC from version 3.3.0, which seemed to have been working fine

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup in a special scenario

Hi there, On Sun, 5 Aug 2018, daggs wrote: I have a windows installation running inside a kvm vm, for past experience, backup using the samba protocol is unreliable ... For more than a decade, using the SMB protocol, I've backed up some hundreds of Windows machines, and a fair number of SMB

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC V4 and --checksum

Hi there, On Sat, 28 Jul 2018, Guillermo Rozas wrote: ... rsync --checksum only checksums files on the client, not the server. I find this strange because not only the manual says otherwise ... It is not clear to me what document ("manual") you are reading which leads you to the conclusions

Re: [BackupPC-users] New Client; Same Hostname

Hi there, On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, Tim Evans wrote: I'm retiring the oldest PC among my BackupPC clients, and replacing it with a new one. Would like to use the same hostname for the new machine, but think this might confuse things with BackupPC. I'd recommend that you don't do it. BackupPC is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Large directory

Hello again, On Sat, 7 Jul 2018, Bowie Bailey wrote: ... The directory is XFS. I have no experience of XFS, but I've read of strangenesses. It's my understanding is that yours is a fairly newly-copied filesystem, and the strangenesses I've read about have been after the filesystems have had

Re: [BackupPC-users] Large directory

Hi there, On Fri, 6 Jul 2018, Bowie Bailey wrote: I am trying to backup a large directory tree with BackupPC v4.? This directory is 660GB and contains over 25 million files with about 3 million hard links.? The initial backup ran for 2 weeks before dying with an rsync error.? It is showing as

Re: [BackupPC-users] Encryption

Hi there, On Mon, 2 Jul 2018, Kbtest Testar wrote: Any thoughts regarding my question about encryption? You might want to consider whether using whole-disk encryption plus a Web interface to the backup data makes the data more secure or less so. You might want to consider encryption of the

Re: [BackupPC-users] getaddrinfo is not a valid Socket macro after Update to version 4.0.0

Hi there, On Thu, 24 May 2018, Diane Leon wrote: I installed Perl 5.8.8 ... Why on Earth did you install such out-of-date software? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#2000%E2%80%93present -- 73, Ged. -- Check out

Re: [BackupPC-users] considerations on i-nodes

Hello again, On Fri, 20 Apr 2018, Michael Stowe wrote: ... I don't think we're disagreeing ... Agreed. :) "I want to futz around with inode allocations" is rarely at the top of people's to do lists. Perhaps not, but "What do I need to ask of a filesystem for it to be able to support my

Re: [BackupPC-users] considerations on i-nodes

Hi there, On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, Michael Stowe wrote: ... Those who do reach back a decade or more to select a filesystem, That's like saying the Linux kernel is a hangover from the end of the 20th century. It's misleading, and more than a bit unfair especially considering the numbers of

Re: [BackupPC-users] offsite server

Hi there, On Tue, 10 Apr 2018, Philip Parsons wrote: I was wondering if it would be a good idea to set up another instance of backuppc on the remote server, turn off all the backup functions, copy the config settings, rsync the pool and just have that instance as a restorative method (should

Re: [BackupPC-users] Getting data from cpool

Hi there, On Mon, 9 Apr 2018, "Thanks!" wrote: First of all I am sorry if this question can be answered upon long RTFM. There's also _short_ RTFM. :) Lazy questions like this are frowned upon on most mailing lists. If you can't spare the time to do things properly when you're being paid

Re: [BackupPC-users] Delete files from Backups

Hi there, On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, Stefan Schumacher wrote: ... Are there any other, better ways I should consider when sanitizing my backups? ... #!/usr/bin/perl #= -*-perl-*- # # BackupPC_deleteFile.pl: Delete one or more

Re: [BackupPC-users] RGDP, is backuppc still usable for non hobby backups after may 25

Hi there, On Sun, 25 Mar 2018, Ghislain Adnet wrote: ... The problem lies more with encryption as backuppc, from what i know, cannot encrypt data it store ... It isn't a problem. Just encrypt the partition on which the backup resides. -- 73, Ged.

Re: [BackupPC-users] File System containing backup was too full

Hi there, On Tue, 19 Dec 2017, Adrien Coestesquis wrote: Debian 8, no disk quota. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151491 ? -- 73, Ged. -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's

Re: [BackupPC-users] Don't expand first backed up directory by default?

Hi there, On Sat, 25 Nov 2017, Craig Barratt wrote: On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Jamie Burchell wrote: > Is it possible to configure BackupPC 4 not to expand the first directory > when viewing a backup? How about this: by default it opens the last one, rather than the

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync error buffer overflow

Hi there, On Fri, 24 Nov 2017, Jose Barriga wrote: Im trying to backup a very large number of files and trees and trees of directories. How can i solved??? You either need to add memory to the machine or modify the way that you use rsync/rsyncd so that it uses less memory to do the

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackuPC 4 hang during transfer

Hi there, On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: I'm tryiig to backup 2 hosts with BPC4 but bpc seems to be frozen during transfer. [...] nothing happens from about 3 hours. When I first used version 4 I ran into a very similar issue, there were one or two bug-fixes which

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