Re: [BackupPC-users] Sysadmin Newbie BackupPC Ubuntu 8.10

2009-12-01 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Delta backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Hi, I am going to use backuppc for the first time and would like to know how to backup the /etc and /home local on the machine/server with BackupPC.  Any issues regarding permissions would be great to know and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems to backup linux network computer

2009-12-02 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Jose Torres jetor...@conecodepr.com wrote: Hello! I have installed BackupPC on the backup server and I am able to connect to web interface fine.  This server is called server2. I have a another server called serverv2v2 which I want to backup from the server2

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems to backup linux network computer

2009-12-03 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Jose Torres jetor...@conecodepr.com wrote: Someone suggested to use the serverv2v2 root account to connect the backuppc user in the network, but for ssh is a security risk to allow root to connect, is there another way to configure the connection to a network

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems to backup linux network computer

2009-12-03 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Jose Torres jetor...@conecodepr.com wrote: Still does not work. 1. I can ssh r...@serverv2v2 without password from backuppc account but the backuppc dump does not backup the intended machine. I keep getting the data of (belongs to) the backup server (server2)

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems to backup linux network computer

2009-12-03 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Jose Torres jetor...@conecodepr.com wrote: Contents of file /data/BackupPC/pc/conecosrv2v2/XferLOG.2.z, modified 2009-12-03 09:57:32 (Extracting only Errors) Running: /usr/bin/sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C / --totals --exclude=./proc --exclude=./backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems to backup linux network computer

2009-12-03 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Jose Torres wrote: I followed this KBA for ubuntu/backuppc installation and configuration: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupPC The default config.pl tar command does not include the network computer either.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems to backup linux network computer

2009-12-03 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Richard Shaw wrote: I know you could use ssh to run the tar command on the remote machine but I don't know how you would get the output of tar (the data) back to the backup server. Ssh works as a pipe - anything

Re: [BackupPC-users] old backups not showing

2010-01-21 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Leandro Tracchia ltracc...@gmail.com wrote: I recently installed backuppc onto a new server and mounted /var/lib/backuppc from a remote NAS where all the backup data is stored. I can see all the old backups for the all my hosts except one. This one host ran a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using BackupPC to backup virtual hard discs

2010-02-19 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Mike Bydalek mbyda...@compunetconsulting.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:11 AM, John Moorhouse john.moorho...@3jays.me.uk wrote: I'm happily using backupPC to backup a number of machine within our home network, I'm wondering what will happen if I use it

Re: [BackupPC-users] pre-backup encryption? user wants files to be inaccessible even to me :-)

2010-03-23 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Steve lepe...@gmail.com wrote: You could show her something like TrueCrypt; if she put all the files she was worried about in a TrueCrypt volume(s), it would just be a file as far as BackupPC is concerned.  This is available for Windows and Linux I believe,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Alternative way to check if Host is alive -- can't use Ping

2010-03-30 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:37 AM, John BORIS jbo...@adphila.org wrote: In my setup ICMP packets are dropped by the firewall in front of the machine I need to backup. I have been searching for alternatives but haven't found anything yet. Any pointers to a fix? Any other way to let BackupPC

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly takes too much time

2010-04-07 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Tino Schwarze backuppc.li...@tisc.de wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 12:11:31PM +0200, Norbert Schulze wrote: [SNIP] OS is Ubuntu 9.04 32Bit IMHO it is better to migrate to a 64Bit-System!? I don't see an urgent reason to migrate to 64 bit... I would have

Re: [BackupPC-users] Syntax for excluding .gvfs

2010-05-07 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Allen allen.st...@rogers.com wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote: I'm running F11 and I keep getting an error on my backups. I've tracked this down to a file, .gvfs, in users home directories. From the log file: /bin/tar: ./.gvfs: Cannot stat: Permission denied I

Re: [BackupPC-users] problem in setting up BackupPC on Fedora 12

2010-05-07 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:24 AM, GUSNSW backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: I am trying to get going BackupPC on a fedora 12 64 bit machine as the server. I have got Apache running asn can see the test page. I can log on to the BackupPC web page at http://127.0.0.1/BackupPC but that is

Re: [BackupPC-users] problem in setting up BackupPC on Fedora 12

2010-05-09 Thread Richard Shaw
Thanks.  Tries the suggestion but still just get the basic web page with the menu items missing as above and not beig abel to set any thing up or see any of the machines listed in th DNS Just to make sure since I didn't say it explicitly, you have the username in the apache config and the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup WebDAV locations?

2010-05-25 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:10 AM, leSasch backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Hello guys, is it possible to backup a WebDAV location with BackupPC? (except of mounting it locally and backing up the mount-direcory ;-)) I think what you're really asking is, Does anyone know how to backup a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup WebDAV locations?

2010-05-25 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:44 AM, leSasch backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Hi Richard, thanks for your long reply. I'd like to backup a sharepoint document library - and like M$ is, it's only accessible via WebDAV. The wish of not-having-to-mount is simply because of keeping the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc - archive without using tar

2010-06-01 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Paso backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Hi there, actually I use Backuppc to backup several Windows- and Linux-Hosts on my local network which works quite well. Now I'm planning to store snapshots of several hosts data outside my house for security

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC file system full, best way to recover?

2010-06-01 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:46 PM, James Ward jew...@torzo.com wrote: Recently, a new NAS was mounted on several servers and the BackupPC filesystem filled before I got the new NAS excluded.  What's the best way to get BackupPC moving again.  It's 100% full. I'm not an experienced BackupPC user

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup a single file

2010-06-22 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Jonas Meurer jo...@freesources.org wrote: Hello, I would like to backup a single file from a huge directory. Unfortunately it's neither possible to store the file in a subdirectory, nor to backup the whole directory. The file in question is a self- compiled

Re: [BackupPC-users] slow backup of new PC

2010-08-13 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Chris Baker cba...@intera.com wrote: I have a computer that is about three months old. It has Windows 7 64-bit. For some reason, the throughput on backups is quite poor. It's about 1.5 MB/sec. It has a 1 Gbps network card. Network switches and BackupPC server

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup fails over rsync

2010-08-15 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 6:40 AM, waverider backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: I can rsync OK from my login but not when logged in as backuppc - it asks for the password.  However, I am using ubuntu and backuppc is a system user, so doesn't have a home directory - so where do I generate

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to exclude all hidden files except some of them ?

2010-08-24 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Xuo x...@free.fr wrote:  Hi, My RsyncShareName is /home. I would like to be able to backup everything under /home/* but NOT to backup all hidden files (.xxx files) of /home/* EXCEPT (for ex) .tcshrc, .ssh, .filezilla and .thunderbird files or dirs. I have

Re: [BackupPC-users] Trying to get started with backuppc

2010-09-06 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 1:38 AM, Dennis Blewett dennis.blew...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, all. I tried reading through the BackupPC manual, but I found it very cryptic. I can't tell if I should be using rsync or rsyncd. Furthermore, I can't determine if I should be using rsync in one scenario

Re: [BackupPC-users] Trying to get started with backuppc

2010-09-19 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Dennis Blewett dennis.blew...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, the rsync mirror option sounds pretty good. I think I'll look into that. At the moment, I'm using my laptop as a mobile workstation. As such, I'm attempting to find a way to hookup the laptop to the server

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why does my rsync backup takes 7 hours?

2010-09-21 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom chr...@real-time.com wrote: On 09/15 04:49 , Les Mikesell wrote: Perhaps you could start a run manually when going to lunch or some other known slack time.  Or maybe the bulk of files could be moved to an always-on server and mapped back

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best way to backup on remote dynamic IPs

2010-10-15 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Boniforti Flavio fla...@piramide.ch wrote: Hello there. I'm struggling to find a definitive solution to my troubles: I'm backing up servers which are on remote DSL connections. Just a few of them have fixed IPs, thus I had to use DDNS services for the other

Re: [BackupPC-users] Irritating problem

2010-10-26 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Rob Poe r...@poeweb.com wrote: I'm having an irritating problem with BackupPC for a client of mine. They're still running some Netware (yes, I know ...), and the File::RsyncP perl module is barfing on the Netware rsync.

[BackupPC-users] How does BackupPC work?

2010-10-29 Thread Richard Shaw
There is surprisingly little info on how BackupPC really works, at least with the google searches I've tried. I'm just looking for a concise overview of how the different backup methods work and how they are different from one another. The reason I'm looking for this information is I will be

Re: [BackupPC-users] How does BackupPC work?

2010-10-29 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: First backuppc uses a native tool to transfer files.  Then it checks the file contents against the pool with a hashing mechanism, and replaces any exact matches with a link to the existing pool copy. For instance: I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using Wildcards in include file paths.

2010-11-01 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 7:37 AM, swisstone backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: I have been running BackupPC for 2 years and everytime I add a client PC (XP Pro) to be backed up I manually add the machine and its folder paths. This can lead to much confusion as everytime a different user

Re: [BackupPC-users] How does BackupPC work?

2010-11-05 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Peter Vratny usenet2...@server1.at wrote: On 10/29/2010 03:16 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: The reason I'm looking for this information is I will be giving a presentation of BackupPC to my local LUG. could you please publish it here when done? With your work my

Re: [BackupPC-users] Huge remote directory (20GB): how will it be transferred?

2010-11-09 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Robin Lee Powell rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 04:11:15PM +0100, Boniforti Flavio wrote: Hello Pavel. for huge dirs with millions of files we got almost an order of magnitude faster runs with the tar mode instead of rsync (which

[BackupPC-users] Perl module requirements

2010-11-09 Thread Richard Shaw
Quick question I could not find the answer to elsewhere. I currently use BackupPC on Fedora which is stuck at 3.1. The reason given is that there are now some Perl module dependencies that are built into the BackupPC package which Fedora requires be packages separately (no bundled libraries).

Re: [BackupPC-users] Am I going about this wrong?

2010-11-10 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 2:53 PM, gregwm backuppc-us...@whitleymott.net wrote: I'm archiving the BackupPC backup folder (/var/lib/BackupPC) folder to external disk with rsync. However, it looks like rsync is filling the links? My total disk usage on the backup server is 407g, and the space

Re: [BackupPC-users] ext2 vs. ext3

2010-12-20 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Chris Baker cba...@intera.com wrote: I installed a new enclosure on our BackupPC server. It has 4 TB of space. I noticed that fdisk would not work with anything over 2048 GB. I thus ended using GNU Parted for my partitioning. I noticed that it would only let me

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to restore 200GB as fast/easily as possible?

2010-12-22 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 08:21 -0500, gimili wrote: I left it running all night and it is still not done.  It shows it running in the web interface but when I do a df on the target machine the Used Available Use% are not

[BackupPC-users] Net:FTP::RetrHandle problem persists for BackupPC 3.2.0?

2011-01-30 Thread Richard Shaw
I am trying to help get 3.2.0 packaged for Fedora and the package maintainer ran into a couple of problems. The main issue is the bundled Perl module: Net:FTP::RetrHandle. Besides the fact that Fedora doesn't allow bundled libraries, when I try to install the module using span it fails its tests.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Net:FTP::RetrHandle problem persists for BackupPC 3.2.0?

2011-01-30 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to help get 3.2.0 packaged for Fedora and the package maintainer ran into a couple of problems. The main issue is the bundled Perl module: Net:FTP::RetrHandle. Besides the fact that Fedora doesn't allow

Re: [BackupPC-users] New: BackupPC_extract

2011-04-29 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Nick van IJzendoorn nick.de.ne...@gmail.com wrote: Good midday, Since we weekly want to store all backups on an external HD in 7zip format I created this script to exract the latest backup so I can later add it to a 7zip archive. You might also enjoy it.

[BackupPC-users] The usual questions looking for better ansers

2011-04-29 Thread Richard Shaw
I was recently sub-contracted to setup BackupPC for a business and everything's fine so far but I was hoping to make some improvements. 1. On the server, which is a Xeon Quad 2GHz machine, I've got a rsync over ssh dump that's been running for over 12 hours which is about 300GB into a 800GB

Re: [BackupPC-users] New: BackupPC_extract

2011-04-29 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Nick van IJzendoorn nick.de.ne...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, it just rebuilds the whole backup you specified in the current work directory. One minor nit pick. The header still makes 5 references to zip archive which I presume is left over from the original script

Re: [BackupPC-users] The usual questions looking for better ansers

2011-04-29 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/29/2011 10:18 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: I was recently sub-contracted to setup BackupPC for a business and everything's fine so far but I was hoping to make some improvements. 1. On the server, which is a Xeon Quad

Re: [BackupPC-users] The usual questions looking for better ansers

2011-04-29 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:24 PM, John Rouillard rouilj-backu...@renesys.com wrote: Les almost got it right it's ClientNameAlias  http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#_conf_clientnamealias_ Thanks! I think I understand how that works! Richard

Re: [BackupPC-users] The usual questions looking for better ansers

2011-04-29 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/29/2011 1:09 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: 3. I have more than one share that needs to be backed up from the client but they want a different backup schedule for 1 of the shares. Am I going to have to setup fake/virtual

Re: [BackupPC-users] hosts disappearing from host list

2011-04-29 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 3:40 PM, John Rouillard rouilj-backu...@renesys.com wrote: Current release is 3.2.0 released last July and I know there were some gui improvements, but I am not sure if locking etc was one of them. I would like to get 3.2.0 as well but there's a 2 fold problem[1]: -

[BackupPC-users] First time setting up an archive host

2011-04-30 Thread Richard Shaw
I've got a couple of questions that should be very simple to answer. I've setup an archive host and configured the xfer settings to what I want but I noticed in the web interface that it still had a schedule section. Do archive hosts honor the schedule? I assume it would since it exists so I set

Re: [BackupPC-users] hosts disappearing from host list

2011-05-02 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: I built my own (for FC12)... That's an option but it shouldn't be necessary. Why would BackuPC require a perl module that has been a problem for a LONG time?

Re: [BackupPC-users] After an manual upgrade to 3.2.1 Graph is not available

2011-05-06 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:29 PM, boospy backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Hi I run backuppc on Ubuntu 10.04. Some time ago i've installed backuppc from synaptic. Today I made #8203;#8203;an manuel upgrade to the newest version. Since i can't see the chart on the first page. What can i

Re: [BackupPC-users] I need help and will compensate

2011-05-11 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Chris Baker cba...@intera.com wrote: It is extremely busy right now at the office. I am attempting to set up a new BackupPC server. It's an older Dell Dimension computer with 1 GB of memory and a 1 TB hard drive. Right now, I have the latest Ubuntu with

Re: [BackupPC-users] I need help and will compensate

2011-05-11 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: I just tried this under 10.04 LTS and the install process popped up a dialog with a password it had created and listed the command to change it.  You'd probably save yourself some trouble if you mount your drive under

Re: [BackupPC-users] No luck with Fedora F15 client

2011-05-13 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: Tried to setup as before so backuppc user on server can ssh as root on client. No luck.  If I test, public key doesn't work. You probably did things this way but you didn't specify so I'm just checking. When I'm setting up

Re: [BackupPC-users] Archive without tarball - directly to the file system

2011-05-23 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:44 AM, samuel_w...@t-online.de samuel_w...@t-online.de wrote: Is it possible to create a archive of a host without the tarball directly to the file system as it is on the server? My tarballs are now larger than 300 GB :-/ There was some discussion on this subject

Re: [BackupPC-users] archivehost encryption?

2011-06-17 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: We are planning to put some sensitive data into an offsite tape rotation.  Not sure yet if it will be generated with the archivehost facility, running Backuppc_tarCreate, or grabbing a fresh tar from the source files,

Re: [BackupPC-users] archivehost encryption?

2011-06-17 Thread Richard Shaw
I noticed that by default gpg will try to compress before encrypting so you'll need to add '-z 0' to stop that behavior if you want tar to do the compression before piping it to gpg. Thanks, Richard -- EditLive

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another filesystem thread

2011-06-30 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:54 AM, C. Ronoz chro...@eproxy.nl wrote: I found out that BackupPC is ignoring my Excludes though, while I have a 15GB /pub partition. This could explain why the run takes longer, but it should still finish within an hour? Rsnapshot runs were always lightning fast,

Re: [BackupPC-users] different settings for different shares on the same host

2011-06-30 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Micha Silver mi...@arava.co.il wrote: Hello: Is there a way to set a different backup schedule for one share on a host - different from the host's settings? I have a Win2K3 host, being backed up thru smb. BackupPC 3.1.0 on a CentOS server. All shares are

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another filesystem thread

2011-06-30 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:09 AM, C. Ronoz chro...@eproxy.nl wrote: I see how you use excludes to exclude back-ups of files with specific extensions, but then how do I now exclude specific paths per host? Well, it's not file specific. Some of those are directories. On a per host basis you just

Re: [BackupPC-users] Location of TopDir

2011-07-11 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote: Can TopDir be a network drive? I have a NAS, and I would like to use rsync to store the data on the NAS from the backuppc server. Is this possible? How do I configure it? To add to Andy's comments. Obviously the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Installation of BackupPC

2011-07-19 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:28 PM, jiahwei backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: after the installation how should I go about it? there should be a web interface right?? i'm new at unix/linux too. perhaps it would be better if someone could guide me along. =D There's plenty of HOWTO's and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Installation of BackupPC

2011-07-20 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 4:27 AM, jiahwei backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Hi Richard, I tried to start backup pc by using the command : ./backuppc start and i got this following error Starting BackupPC: No language setting BackupPC::Lib-new failed                                    

Re: [BackupPC-users] Installation of BackupPC

2011-07-20 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Alain Péan alain.p...@lpp.polytechnique.fr wrote: Jiahwei said previously that he was under RHEL 6. So there, it is better DOH! I don't know why I thought he was on a deb based system. Yup, like you said, use the service command to start both backuppc and httpd

Re: [BackupPC-users] Installation of BackupPC

2011-07-22 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Alain Péan alain.p...@lpp.polytechnique.fr wrote: Hi Jiahwei, As you can see, you have a problem with a hardlink. The default location for BachpPC data pool is /var/lib/BackupPC. I guess you tried to change this location to another one, by setting a hard link.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Poor BackupPC Performance

2011-07-26 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:13 PM, C. Ronoz chro...@eproxy.nl wrote: Are you upgraded to the latest version of Linux and BackupPC? I noticed wonderful improvements after upgrading. I am running the BackupPC 3.1 for CentOS 5.6 via EPEL. Although performance on a Debian server was identical.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Poor BackupPC Performance

2011-07-27 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:42 PM, C. Ronoz chro...@eproxy.nl wrote: Depending on how comfortable you are building your own packages, Fedora has 3.2.1 almost ready to go. We had to package two perl modules for the added FTP support. If you are willing to try them but don't want to build

Re: [BackupPC-users] Poor BackupPC Performance

2011-07-28 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Any chances of backporting this to older Fedora versions? (I still run Fedora 12) It wouldn't take me very long but it's very likely that the current F14 version (once it hits the stable repos) would work, i.e.:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Poor BackupPC Performance

2011-07-28 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Any chances of backporting this to older Fedora versions? (I still run Fedora 12) Just checked, the oldest version of Fedora I have a mock configuration for is F13... Let me know if you want to try it. Richard

Re: [BackupPC-users] Poor BackupPC Performance

2011-07-29 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Sure... Would love to see the src rpm too because worse comes to worse I could modify/recompile for FC12. Here's the link. There are F13 packages of the requires perl modules for FTP support and a F13 package for

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't do a backup

2011-08-01 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Rory Toma r...@ooma.com wrote: On a side note, when I hand edit the client config, it seems that I have to restart BackupPC to re-read the config file. Is there another way to do this? I did not try a HUP. From the CGI interface: Admin Options - Reload Richard

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC on client machine running on Fedora13

2011-08-05 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:19 AM, jiahwei backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Hi Les, I have solved the network issue. However I was wondering if anyone could guide me along with the rsync method of backing up a fedora machine? Of course I must respond with the obligatory Read the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't locate BackupPC/Lib.pm on Centos5.6 x86_64

2011-08-06 Thread Richard Shaw
to follow the mentioned notes and gotcha's , it was no help ! i guess coz i played around a little . so i thought it was better to start over as Richard Shaw Advised and install an official package from epel repo. and it went like a charm, but i`m facing a small problem is .. # htpasswd -c

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't locate BackupPC/Lib.pm on Centos5.6 x86_64

2011-08-08 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 9:59 AM, saed backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Thank you Richard for your response .. thats what i`m saying files should be no difference with CEntos than Fedora .. but as i excepted troubles caused by configuration files mess which happened by re installing the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't locate BackupPC/Lib.pm on Centos5.6 x86_64

2011-08-08 Thread Richard Shaw
Ok, I was trying to lead you to the solution but I think things are getting lost in translation... On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:27 AM, saed backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Thank you Richard for your response .. thats what i`m saying files should be no difference with CEntos than Fedora ..

Re: [BackupPC-users] Suggestions on how to back up a host

2011-08-14 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Kenneth L. Owen tx836...@bellsouth.net wrote: Hi Tim, I use the sudoer's method to allow backuppc to log in with no password, but with a limited privilege only sufficient to perform the necessary functions. If you decide to go that route I would definitely

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request

2011-08-29 Thread Richard Shaw
Ok, jumping in here a bit late :) Would it be easy to add a field in the GUI for this? Something like: Archive Name $host-$backup-date... I'm making up the variable names but use the ones already available and set the default to the current default. That way people could use whatever

Re: [BackupPC-users] first full never completes

2011-09-03 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 2:18 AM,  hans...@gmail.com wrote: [SNIP] Since I want to use the BackupPC 3.1 package (eventual production system will be on CentOS5), while I'm at it I'll use the Ubuntu version it's designed

Re: [BackupPC-users] xxShareName = /cygwin ??

2011-09-09 Thread Richard Shaw
I've only skimmed this thread so I apologize if I miss something but I was thinking. Might it be a better idea to make the user at least somewhat responsible for the backup? I was thinking you could use a program like Tucan[1] to get them to sync their portable data to a specific volume on the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can BackupPC email me a summary of system status?

2011-09-21 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin atsaloli.t...@gmail.com wrote: Hi.  I'm running BackupPC 3.1.0 for about 3 years now and love it.  It just works. I go into the Web admin UI once a week or so and check the host summary to make sure backups are chugging along. Is it

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fairly large backuppc pool (4TB) moved with backuppc_tarpccopy

2011-10-02 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Holger Parplies wb...@parplies.de wrote: no, BackupPC is implemented in Perl, so no libc dependency there (actually, the wheezy package *does* introduce a libc6 dependency, = 2.0 seems to mean you can't run it on Debian versions prior to hamm :-); I'm not sure

Re: [BackupPC-users] Minimal cygwin install?

2011-10-04 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: I've always just done a full install of Cygwin where I needed it, but now I'm looking for an installer package that would be easier for others to use.  Is there anything like cwrsync that also includes sshd? I found the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication

2011-10-25 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Chris Parsons chris.pars...@petrosys.com.au wrote: Option 2: run BackupPC on Solaris (Nexenta). Use snapshots and zfs send to replicate the data to another server. Very simple, very easy. And we've found BackupPC performance on ZFS much increased over ext3.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication

2011-10-25 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: Option 2: run BackupPC on Solaris (Nexenta). Use snapshots and zfs send to replicate the data to another server. Very simple, very easy

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC to NFS then to tape via DPM

2011-10-25 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Rick Bastedo rbast...@gmail.com wrote: I got back to this today. I have been finding and installing each of the dependencies and then came to: perl-XML-RSS It had a dependency of: perl-DateTime-Format-Mail I found that and tried installing it and got:  

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC to NFS then to tape via DPM

2011-10-25 Thread Richard Shaw
Actually I got that turned around... I don't know why it's not installing. On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Rick Bastedo rbast...@gmail.com wrote: I got back to this today. I have been finding and installing each

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC to NFS then to tape via DPM

2011-10-26 Thread Richard Shaw
Just to verify it works I tried installing to a chroot environment[1] as I don't have access to an EL system. The only thing I can think of is somehow your yum data was out of date or something like that. The only thing I can think of is to try: # yum clean all It's pretty radical but

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC to NFS then to tape via DPM

2011-10-26 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Rick Bastedo rbast...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks everyone, I assumed something that was not true. This problem is behind me, I truly appreciate the help here - even though it pointed out something that I failed to verify as working. Once I added EPEL and then

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC to NFS then to tape via DPM

2011-10-27 Thread Richard Shaw
Just an FYI, you probably avoided this problem (the hard way) by manually installing some of the perl packages. They are available in an optional RHEL (not EPEL) repository that is disabled by default. See the following bug for details: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740276 Richard

Re: [BackupPC-users] Let me get to the real point

2011-11-15 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, let me get to the point. The server is F15.  The client was just upgraded to F16 (but the upgrade failed, and it's a clean install). The backups had been working.  Now they're not.  I'm trying to troubleshoot.

Re: [BackupPC-users] undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr

2011-12-05 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: Just updated my backuppc server from fedora 15 to fedora 16.  Now backuppc won't start, but gives: Dec  5 20:06:43 nbecker6 BackupPC[2535]: /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/perl5\

Re: [BackupPC-users] undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr

2011-12-06 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks.  I got it fixed.  A mix of f15 and f16 perl packages was to blame. Good to hear! Fix it up with a good ole' yum distro-sync? Richard --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Achiving localhost using tar

2012-01-23 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom chr...@real-time.com wrote: While you were running the BackupPC_tarCreate job, did you watch the processes on the system (using another login of course) using 'ps ax' or 'top' or the like? Was there actually a tar process started? Also

Re: [BackupPC-users] [SOLVED] Backuppc is Hammering My Clients

2012-02-01 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Kimball Larsen quang...@gmail.com wrote: Here is my current RsyncClientCmd: $sshPath -q -x -c arcfour -l username $host nice -n 19 $rsyncPath $argList+ I also added ionice to my archive command since disk activity can gave the same effect even if you're not

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup failed (can't find Compress::Zlib)

2012-02-03 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: It is usually safe to just add the EPEL repo to your yum configuration as described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#How_can_I_install_the_packages_from_the_EPEL_software_repository.3F and then yum will sort

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup failed (can't find Compress::Zlib)

2012-02-06 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Estanislao López Morgan esta...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks a lot, boys... I tried to all solutions but reinstall CentOS minimal. I think that I could have made some mix between packages rpm and cpan. I going to follow Timothy J Massey  steps, but in a i386

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup failed (can't find Compress::Zlib)

2012-02-06 Thread Richard Shaw
Here's the tail end of my yum transaction if you're curious to see what packages are needed: Installed: BackupPC.x86_64 0:3.2.1-6.el6 Dependency Installed: apr.x86_64 0:1.3.9-3.el6_1.2 apr-util.x86_64 0:1.3.9-3.el6_0.1 apr-util-ldap.x86_64 0:1.3.9-3.el6_0.1 checkpolicy.x86_64

Re: [BackupPC-users] cannot log in web browser - BackupPC CentOS 6.2 minimal

2012-02-07 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.com wrote: I have to admit, the first change I make on BackupPC systems is to set SELinux to Permissive.  Too many issues without doing that. It's on my list to overcome that, but not a real high priority, sadly. I'm not sure

[BackupPC-users] Depreciated perl syntax?

2012-02-18 Thread Richard Shaw
I just checked my log and noticed a bunch of these: Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated at /usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Storage/Text.pm line 301. Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated at /usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm line 1412. Use of qw(...) as parentheses is

Re: [BackupPC-users] XferLog.z : How do I read this thing?

2012-03-20 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.com wrote: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote on 02/10/2012 10:35:17 AM: Seems trivial to me (plus or minus some buffering delay)... tail -n +0 -f /path/to/XferLog.Z | BackupPC_zcat I just tried your trivial

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving backuppc to a new machine

2012-04-20 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Kameleon kameleo...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Kameleon kameleo...@gmail.com wrote: Currently our backuppc server is a Xen pv domU running Ubuntu 10.04. It has

Re: [BackupPC-users] Make Backup in a Windows Share

2012-05-18 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Michael Kolowicz michael.kolow...@km-f.eu wrote: I have installed BackupPC 3.1.0 on Ubuntu 10.04. I have configure my fstab to mount a windows share as “/mnt/DaSi”. You've mounted a file system that doesn't support hard links. You'll need to use something like

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