Re: [BackupPC-users] Restores only directories and not directory content

2012-11-14 Thread Les Mikesell
directory. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restores only directories and not directory content

2012-11-14 Thread Les Mikesell
. There were 2 comments about depreciated commands in the script but no errors. You don't get the help message unless the command had an error. You omitted the 'files/directories' that the help message should have shown as part of the command. '.' will work for everything - or '/' -- Les

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restores only directories and not directory content

2012-11-14 Thread Les Mikesell
that is running the commands. That should be the hostname as known in the backuppc setup - that is, what you put in the hosts file. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restores only directories and not directory content

2012-11-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Gary Roach gary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/14/2012 04:01 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: You don't get the help message unless the command had an error. You omitted the 'files/directories' that the help message should have shown as part of the command

Re: [BackupPC-users] want to take backup in human readable format in BackupPC

2012-11-09 Thread Les Mikesell
have developed might work. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu

Re: [BackupPC-users] Afraid of the midnight monster?

2012-11-08 Thread Les Mikesell
happen later in the morning when everything should be finished. And what about `$Conf{BlackoutPeriods}`? I think 0 should work there too. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Everyone hates slow websites

Re: [BackupPC-users] Performance reference (linux --(rsync)- linux)

2012-11-07 Thread Les Mikesell
will thresh the disk since they are on the same drive. This may be unavoidable, but it might be worth excluding things like log files you don't care about, database files that won't be consistent anyway, etc.. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 3.2.1 incremental SMB backup question

2012-11-02 Thread Les Mikesell
xfer methods where the target side has any knowledge of the previous backup's contents. However, if you do more frequent smb fulls, backuppc will pool the duplicate content anyway, so you might do that instead of incrementals. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 3.2.1 incremental SMB backup question

2012-11-02 Thread Les Mikesell
in the destination back them up based on that, regardless of modtime. It is running smbclient in tar mode. It doesn't know anything about previous runs. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- LogMeIn Central: Instant

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 3.2.1 incremental SMB backup question

2012-11-02 Thread Les Mikesell
matching directory entries. However, fulls will probably be much less efficient because the entire contents will be read over the network mount for a data comparison that is being done in the wrong place. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC suddenly stopped sending email

2012-10-31 Thread Les Mikesell
to report. Maybe the backups are just all up to date. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today

Re: [BackupPC-users] Need help with interpreting error

2012-10-29 Thread Les Mikesell
the web interface show when you edit that host's config? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- The Windows 8 Center - In partnership with Sourceforge Your idea - your app - 30 days. Get started! http

Re: [BackupPC-users] Need help with interpreting error

2012-10-29 Thread Les Mikesell
sense, I guess I would try changing it in the web interface, then check the file to see if it did what you expected, then change it back to undef. There must be something you aren't seeing somewhere. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Centos Backuppc. Can I install php without breaking Backuppc

2012-10-26 Thread Les Mikesell
under /etc/apache2/conf.d. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- The Windows 8 Center In partnership with Sourceforge Your idea - your app - 30 days. Get started! http://windows8center.sourceforge.net/ what

Re: [BackupPC-users] Any procedure for using 2 external harddrives

2012-10-25 Thread Les Mikesell
data to be able to back it all up twice in a reasonable amount of time). This is really the best solution if you have a host in another location and enough bandwidth to make it feasible. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-23 Thread Les Mikesell
expired by the time you could restore anyway, or already have fresh copies reloaded from the original source. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup plan

2012-10-23 Thread Les Mikesell
way to get those files? Forget BackupPC and use rsync? Use BackupPC and disable incremental backups? Use backuppc with rsync or rsynd as the xfer method. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Everyone hates

Re: [BackupPC-users] Need help creating a new module or any way to incorporate

2012-10-23 Thread Les Mikesell
relative to the operation. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu

Re: [BackupPC-users] Need help creating a new module or any way to incorporate

2012-10-23 Thread Les Mikesell
(for Linux) that backuppc is missing, particularly dealing with bare-metal recovery. I think it could be integrated with backuppc fairly easily but haven't had time to do it myself. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Need help creating a new module or any way to incorporate

2012-10-23 Thread Les Mikesell
have a large number of them with files that would pool nicely on the backuppc server. As a tradeoff you'd have to download the contents and rebuild the iso at restore time, but you'd always be able to build the matching one for any backup. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup plan

2012-10-23 Thread Les Mikesell
they have duplicate files that change in duplicate ways so the difference would matter more than once? After you get your initial copy, rsync is only going to xfer the changes. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup plan

2012-10-23 Thread Les Mikesell
for rsync to work against. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-15 Thread Les Mikesell
way to copy the backuppc data pool from one set of disks to another at anything like the expected speeds, is to use 'dd' and copy the whole filesystem. But that approach won't work when the source and destination are different filesystem types. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-15 Thread Les Mikesell
filesystem is xfs, so I can not copy data with dd. Just curious: does the content you back up consist mostly of tiny files without much duplication? It seems odd to run out of inodes while still having substantial disk space. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring Backuppc itself

2012-10-15 Thread Les Mikesell
differences. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-14 Thread Les Mikesell
for emergencies and let the new copy build its own history from scratch. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app

Re: [BackupPC-users] stumped by ssh

2012-10-11 Thread Les Mikesell
connection. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude list being ignored?

2012-10-11 Thread Les Mikesell
? That looked normal to me - are they not being excluded in the backup results? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance

Re: [BackupPC-users] stumped by ssh

2012-10-10 Thread Les Mikesell
ssh. When I exchanged keys and ran ssh -l root [clientip] whoami the client properly returns 'root'. Are you executing this test as the backuppc user? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Don't let slow site

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-05 Thread Les Mikesell
in the new archive. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening

Re: [BackupPC-users] Only two machines out of 3 visible in CGI interface

2012-10-05 Thread Les Mikesell
as apache's AuthUserFile and AuthGroupFile. They have nothing to do with system users unless you have gone out of your way to make apache use system logins. And in any case apache should be prompting you for a login before allowing access to the web page if it is set up correctly. -- Les

Re: [BackupPC-users] Only two machines out of 3 visible in CGI interface

2012-10-05 Thread Les Mikesell
files containing the data. These can be in the main (or included) config file or in an .htaccess file in the directory containing the web page or cgi script and control the web server where backuppc is running. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4 byte

2012-10-05 Thread Les Mikesell
you did these tests? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what

Re: [BackupPC-users] Only two machines out of 3 visible in CGI interface

2012-10-04 Thread Les Mikesell
as the configured admin user or a user specified as the owner of the targets in question? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app

Re: [BackupPC-users] Only two machines out of 3 visible in CGI interface

2012-10-04 Thread Les Mikesell
on this host' (rough translation, my interface is in french)... What is your $Conf{CgiAdminUsers} set to? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc major restore ... check status

2012-09-27 Thread Les Mikesell
. How can I see more information in log not only 2012-09-26 23:35:28 restore started below directory /var/www/vhosts/ to host I usually just ssh to the target and use 'du', etc. to see what is actually there and how it is changing. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely)

2012-09-27 Thread Les Mikesell
. If you are connecting through a firewall or NAT router, there may be time limits for either idle periods or total connection length that you might exceed. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Everyone hates

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc cannot connect to windows 2000 server for backup

2012-09-26 Thread Les Mikesell
for it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- How fast is your code? 3 out of 4 devs don\\\'t know how their code performs in production. Find out how slow your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc cannot connect to windows 2000 server for backup

2012-09-26 Thread Les Mikesell
name) session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Not listening on called name) session request to KMWEB failed (Not listening on called name) session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Not listening on called name) Can you connect to that share from smbclient or another windows machine? -- Les

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to prove backups for Audits

2012-09-25 Thread Les Mikesell
of backups currently available with the date it was taken. Doesn't show the year in that view, but you can tell from the age/days column how old it is. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to deactive the file mangling on backups ?

2012-09-24 Thread Les Mikesell
attributes are pooled with hardlinks. There is no way that regular rsync or any other direct file access approach can reproduce the original owner/group/timestamp/permissions, etc. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Per host host.pl not found on new CentOS 6.3 install

2012-09-21 Thread Les Mikesell
for these settings? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Got visibility? Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. Find out how fast your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk

Re: [BackupPC-users] Per host host.pl not found on new CentOS 6.3 install

2012-09-21 Thread Les Mikesell
edit config (upper one, in host section) make the changes you want. When you save, the /etc/BackupPC/pc directory is added with the per host config. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Got visibility? Most

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-21 Thread Les Mikesell
somewhere. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Got visibility? Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. Find out how fast your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-21 Thread Les Mikesell
not while doing a restore. That used to happen all the time with windows targets running cygwin 1.5 with rsync over ssh. I wonder if some similar scenario can happen with recent linux versions? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-19 Thread Les Mikesell
to know,. And something that should have an effect whether the bottleneck on the system is the CPU or disk. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-18 Thread Les Mikesell
! :) ) I don't think it will matter that much once you have passed the 2 fulls to get cached checksums. After that you'll only be compressing/uncompressing content with changes. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-18 Thread Les Mikesell
, but haven't tried it and wouldn't expect it to beat rsync. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-18 Thread Les Mikesell
comparison so you add up every little delay at either end. Are you sure the target has no other activity happening during the backup? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-18 Thread Les Mikesell
running at 200Mbs transfer speed. What's the target here? It takes a pretty good disk system at both ends to sustain rates like that, especially if you have a tree of small files. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-18 Thread Les Mikesell
didn't have it on already, you'd need to repeat again to store them first) -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-18 Thread Les Mikesell
are probably right. I do and they seem related to hardware capabilities. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-17 Thread Les Mikesell
the 2nd will not have to read/uncompress unchanged files on the server side. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security

Re: [BackupPC-users] Getting files newer than error

2012-09-17 Thread Les Mikesell
by different time zones between the system to be backed up (Windows, I assume, due to smbclient) and the BackupPC process. Where the disconnect is I can only speculate. Does everything work OK when it tries the incremental the 2nd day after the full? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-17 Thread Les Mikesell
caching before doing the 2nd. Incrementals should be reasonably fast if you don't have too much file churn but you still need to run fulls to rebase the comparison tree. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-17 Thread Les Mikesell
? /dev/null' or a smartctl test run followed by checking the status. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-17 Thread Les Mikesell
for efficiency. Compression is on and no checksum caching. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has

Re: [BackupPC-users] Adding client file accesses to AV exceptions

2012-09-12 Thread Les Mikesell
the distinction between what is reading a file when a file is read. (Nor would it be particularly wise to do so.) Is there a way to make a volume shadow snapshot and exclude the snapshot location? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Fails on Access Denied Warning

2012-09-10 Thread Les Mikesell
. There is also some weirdness about logging in with a password vs. using ssh keys, etc. that might be different in 2008. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Fails on Access Denied Warning

2012-09-06 Thread Les Mikesell
as a user with backup rights? You should see the same thing using smbclient in interactive mode (a dir of the same directory) - maybe there would be more expertise on the samba mail list. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Functionality to Back Up VSphere box?

2012-09-04 Thread Les Mikesell
guest to be backed up just like a physical machine, and common files would be pooled in that case. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all

Re: [BackupPC-users] Functionality to Back Up VSphere box?

2012-09-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:43 AM, gshergill backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Hi Les Mikesell, No, not only does it not have any special facility to deal with the VM host (other than generic ssh commands), the large VM image files would always have changes

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failing to back up a host with big files

2012-08-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:09 AM, martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net wrote: also sprach Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com [2012.08.27.2326 +0200]: The only setting I can see that relates to this would be PartialAgeMax. Are the retries happening before this expires? Otherwise you'd have

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failing to back up a host with big files

2012-08-28 Thread Les Mikesell
problem.I think the default used to be 7200 seconds so it was much more common to see the issue. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failing to back up a host with big files

2012-08-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:35 AM, martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net wrote: also sprach Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com [2012.08.28.1650 +0200]: Maybe it is a bug that has been fixed in the current version but I know I have seen situations where the backup ended with an Alarm signal

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failing to back up a host with big files

2012-08-27 Thread Les Mikesell
a different hostname with ClientNameAliase pointed at the original host to see if it does reuse the partials when there is no other choice. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference

Re: [BackupPC-users] Archive as mirrored file structure

2012-08-27 Thread Les Mikesell
-archive.com/backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04201.html) or script an extract from the tar file the archive host generates. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failing to back up a host with big files

2012-08-27 Thread Les Mikesell
backup as a baseline when attempting a new full backup? The only setting I can see that relates to this would be PartialAgeMax. Are the retries happening before this expires? Otherwise you'd have to poke though the code to see why it prefers the previous full. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failing to back up a host with big files

2012-08-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: The best solution would be to have enough bandwidth to meet your requirements... Or at least enough to catch up by running through weekends. Forgot to mention that you might have to bump ClientTimeout way up

Re: [BackupPC-users] Error Backing up Servers

2012-08-22 Thread Les Mikesell
it, but the template/copy approach is good where you have several of a different type (like windows/linux). -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover

Re: [BackupPC-users] Error Backing up Servers

2012-08-21 Thread Les Mikesell
when adding more and then edit in any specific differences in the new instances. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync: full backup more than twice faster than incremental backup

2012-08-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Udo Rader list...@bestsolution.at wrote: Hi, after adding one of our customers' server we see some weird backup effects with a full backup taking (somewhat expected) 7 hours but incremental backups taking more than twice that time. [...] One of the reasons

Re: [BackupPC-users] Help setting up backups on HFS+ network drive

2012-08-15 Thread Les Mikesell
? Should I be backing up to this drive in a different manner? Right now, $Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar'; but I have tried it set to smb as well with the same results. The way you back up the target systems won't make any difference regarding the need to make hardlinks on the storage archive. -- Les

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_archiveStart problems

2012-08-14 Thread Les Mikesell
? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- 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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Centos 6.3 install

2012-08-10 Thread Les Mikesell
I am good there. The packaging on the EPEL version uses /etc/BackupPC, user/share/BackupPC, and /var/lib/BackupPC respectively. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive

Re: [BackupPC-users] Centos 6.3 install

2012-08-09 Thread Les Mikesell
/BackupPC before the install. Then follow the instructions in /etc/httpd/conf.d/BackupPC.conf to add your web password. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event

Re: [BackupPC-users] Copy host backups from one BackupPC server to another

2012-07-30 Thread Les Mikesell
in sync first (and should be documented as such. You can't do that after making other backups on the new server. You can simply 'rsync -aH ' the host directories under pc to the corresponding new location and everything will work. However, those files will not be pooled with other hosts. -- Les

Re: [BackupPC-users] SMB not copying all files

2012-07-30 Thread Les Mikesell
should show the reason for each file. Windows normally locks files if anything else has them open. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all

Re: [BackupPC-users] SMB not copying all files

2012-07-30 Thread Les Mikesell
section' where there is a link for each backup number. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape

Re: [BackupPC-users] backupPC and backup via VPN connection.

2012-07-26 Thread Les Mikesell
the IP in /etc/hosts on the server it will take care of name resolution whether the target on the same subnet or not. And for the backuppc application, you can put an IP address in ClientAliasName to take care of it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC data pool

2012-07-20 Thread Les Mikesell
. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- 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

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC data pool

2012-07-13 Thread Les Mikesell
use NFS anyway. And in the backuppc case it would be much more sensible to just run the program on the box with the drives. If you are thinking of one of those small NAS devices that don't support NFS, I wouldn't count on it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC data pool

2012-07-13 Thread Les Mikesell
the start. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- 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

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_dump syntax

2012-07-13 Thread Les Mikesell
transports. Rsync has a --dry-run option that can be used along with --verbose to see filenames with changes, but tar/smbtar are either going to give you the content or not depending on the options you give them. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC data pool

2012-07-13 Thread Les Mikesell
them by inode number, keeping the whole table in memory. I think a zfs snapshot with incremental send/receive might work, but you'd need freebsd or solaris instead of linux for that. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Improving large rsync backup performance

2012-07-09 Thread Les Mikesell
the transfer. An incremental against a fairly recent full should run about as fast as both systems can read the directory contents, though. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive

Re: [BackupPC-users] Improving large rsync backup performance

2012-07-09 Thread Les Mikesell
/uncompressing the server-side copy for the next comparison, but note that it doesn't start working until after the 2nd full run with an unchanged file. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual

Re: [BackupPC-users] Process for Overriding hosts configuration

2012-07-09 Thread Les Mikesell
$ (lowercase) which would contain Windows XP-specific BackupExcludeFiles. Excluding things that don't exist won't hurt anything. And some small number of errors in the log files isn't really fatal either. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Process for Overriding hosts configuration

2012-07-09 Thread Les Mikesell
an existing config as a template. For example if you are adding hosts in the web interface you can specify NEW=OLD in the host field and it will add the NEW host with a copy of all of the host-specific settings from the existing OLD host. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Errors log

2012-07-06 Thread Les Mikesell
of a windows expert so I'm not sure how to fix it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Errors log

2012-07-06 Thread Les Mikesell
. But I think it just does some filtering on the same Xferlog you get in the full view, and I'd be more concerned about eliminating the errors than why you are seeing some non-error lines. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Errors log

2012-07-06 Thread Les Mikesell
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Send Test email

2012-07-04 Thread Les Mikesell
. I haven't received the email, so there seems to be some configuration I'm missing somewhere. It should hand it to sendmail, which will deliver it however sendmail is configured. Normally sendmail will just follow DNS MX records. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Where does default email content come from?

2012-07-02 Thread Les Mikesell
IS to I.T. which is how our organization is referred to, having retired IS a few years back. Where would I make this change? http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#email_reminders__status_and_messages The messages should be in the language-dependent files. -- Les Mikesell

Re: [BackupPC-users] Where does default email content come from?

2012-07-02 Thread Les Mikesell
and edit it. Your 'lib/ location may depend on how you installed backuppc. Mine (EPEL rpm based) is under /usr/share/BackupPC/. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive

Re: [BackupPC-users] remove-source-files

2012-06-27 Thread Les Mikesell
-implementation in perl that knows how to compare against the compressed copies. It probably doesn't understand the --remove-source-files option, even though the work would be done at the other end. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Offsite copy

2012-06-26 Thread Les Mikesell
, but disable backups on it. Then you could do a restore to it using the data from the original source with rsync as the transfer method. However, I don't think there would be any way to automate that to make the restore run after a new backup. --- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another moving backuppc question

2012-06-22 Thread Les Mikesell
around for emergency restores while the new replacement collected its own history. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another moving backuppc question

2012-06-22 Thread Les Mikesell
that with extracting what you want from the old one. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another moving backuppc question

2012-06-22 Thread Les Mikesell
on it that the current host can access and has no problem writing to, and then copy the data over to the SAN. Simple enough. If the SAN is just a temporary copy that you are going to reload elsewhere, the clonezilla image copy should be the perfect storage format. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

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