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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 '/'
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that is running the commands.
That should be the hostname as known in the backuppc setup - that is,
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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
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happen later in the morning when everything should be
finished.
And what about
`$Conf{BlackoutPeriods}`?
I think 0 should work there too.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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
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to report. Maybe the backups are
just all up to date.
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web interface, then check the file to see if it did what you expected,
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under /etc/apache2/conf.d.
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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
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expired by the time you
could restore anyway, or already have fresh copies reloaded from the
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(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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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That looked normal to me - are they not being excluded in the backup results?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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What is your $Conf{CgiAdminUsers} set to?
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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.
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there may be time limits for either idle periods or total connection
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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?
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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.
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make the changes you want.
When you save, the /etc/BackupPC/pc directory is added with the per host config.
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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
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to know,. And something
that should have an effect whether the bottleneck on the system is the
CPU or disk.
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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.
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, but haven't tried
it and wouldn't expect it to beat rsync.
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up every little delay at either end. Are you sure the target has no
other activity happening during the backup?
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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.
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didn't have
it on already, you'd need to repeat again to store them first)
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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
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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
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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
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also some weirdness about logging in with a password vs. using ssh
keys, etc. that might be different in 2008.
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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.
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guest to
be backed up just like a physical machine, and common files would be
pooled in that case.
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On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:43 AM, gshergill
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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
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
problem.I think the default used to be 7200 seconds so it was much
more common to see the issue.
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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
a different hostname with
ClientNameAliase pointed at the original host to see if it does reuse
the partials when there is no other choice.
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or script an extract from the tar file the archive host generates.
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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
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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
it, but the template/copy approach is good where you
have several of a different type (like windows/linux).
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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
? 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.
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am good there.
The packaging on the EPEL version uses /etc/BackupPC,
user/share/BackupPC, and /var/lib/BackupPC respectively.
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Then follow the instructions in /etc/httpd/conf.d/BackupPC.conf to add
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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.
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should show the reason for each file. Windows normally
locks files if anything else has them open.
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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
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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
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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
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I think a zfs snapshot with incremental send/receive might work, but
you'd need freebsd or solaris instead of linux for that.
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transfer. An incremental against a fairly recent full should run
about as fast as both systems can read the directory contents, though.
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but note that it doesn't start working until after the 2nd full run
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$ (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.
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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
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of a windows expert so I'm not sure how to
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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.
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. 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.
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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.
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and edit it.
Your 'lib/ location may depend on how you installed backuppc. Mine
(EPEL rpm based) is under /usr/share/BackupPC/.
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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.
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, 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.
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around for emergency restores
while the new replacement collected its own history.
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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
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