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

after signal INT I am sure I am doing something stupid Any help would be appreciated. Have a great day! -- -- Rob Morin Systems/Network Administrator Hardent Inc. ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List

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

net> wrote: > > On 13/7/21 05:32, Rob Morin wrote: > > Hello all... > > > > I was looking at a way to start up my vpn from our remote backup site > > to the office when backuppc starts a job. > > > > I googled around for quite a bit and saw some people

[BackupPC-users] Move current data dir to another location and start from scratch.

dir on that new partition immutable. I want to do that every 6 months... Suggestions? Thanks & have a great day! -- -- Rob Morin Systems/Network Administrator Hardent Inc. ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge

Re: [BackupPC-users] Move current data dir to another location and start from scratch.

> ___ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.i

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync error

Hey Gary, to start with, are you able to simply ssh as the backuppc user to those 2 servers? Let us know. On Wed., Sep. 22, 2021, 17:15 Gary L. Roach, wrote: > Hi All, > > After setting up SSH, Rsyncd and Backuppc, I tried to run a backup on two > different computers and got the following log f

[BackupPC-users] FTP backup of website

-12 10:00:00 2017-07-12 10:00:00 Next wakeup is 2017-07-12 11:00:00 You see where i manually try to do a full backup at 7:57 and 7:59 Nothing happens I can successfully connect to the hot via filezilla and can see and upload or download files without problems using same user and passwords as BackuP

[BackupPC-users] Change retention to 14 days

Hello all, I could not seem to find or understand how to change the retention to 14days and 3 full back ups. Maybe I just am blind... Any help appreciated.. Have a great day -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one

[BackupPC-users] Backup windows xp/wind7/vista

]; $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = { 'c$' => [ '\\temp' ] }; Thanks.. Rob Morin Systems Administrator Infinity Labs Inc. (514) 387-0638 Ext: 207 ilabs-email-sig <>-- What E

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup windows xp/wind7/vista

This works great, I see that you are using an exclude rather than include option... good to keep in mind... Thanks for the help buddy! Rob Morin Systems Administrator Infinity Labs Inc. (514) 387-0638 Ext: 207 -Original Message- From: Marcelino Mata [mailto:mm...@multimatic.com

[BackupPC-users] Rename of directories error and other oddities...

: Directory /var/lib/backuppc/pc/k1.momentum.local/1 is empty Rob Morin Senior Systems Administrator Momentum Ventures (514) 508-7500 Ext 207 -- Is your legacy SCM system holding you back? Join Perforce Ma

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rename of directories error and other oddities...

Might be, i did start one and then dequeued it... but one would figure that if one is started the other should not be... :) But my biggest issue is the rename error and the fact it never saves the backups! Rob Morin Senior Systems Administrator Momentum Ventures (514) 508-7500 Ext 207

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rename of directories error and other oddities...

Yes its been about 2 weeks now... Its so bizarre.. Rob Morin Senior Systems Administrator Momentum Ventures (514) 508-7500 Ext 207 -Original Message- From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com] Sent: May-06-14 1:38 PM To: General list for user discussion, questions and support

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rename of directories error and other oddities...

same error?? Problem with the rename command????????? Rob Morin Senior Systems Administrator Momentum Ventures (514) 508-7500 Ext 207 -Original Message- From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com] Sent: May-06-14 1:38 PM To: General list for user discussion, questions and support S

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rename of directories error and other oddities...

To fix the issue I simply did the following... mv /usr/bin/rename /usr/bin/rename.orig ln -s /bin/mv /usr/bin/rename Testing a back up now Rob Morin Senior Systems Administrator Momentum Ventures (514) 508-7500 Ext 207 -Original Message- From: Rob Morin [mailto:r...@mventures.ca

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rename of directories error and other oddities...

BTW even if i use the rename command on the root partition or any partition i get pretty much the same error no matter what user I am... Rob Morin Senior Systems Administrator Momentum Ventures (514) 508-7500 Ext 207 -Original Message- From: Holger Parplies [mailto:wb...@parplies.de

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rename of directories error and other oddities...

why this command would stop working due to this particular error Rob Morin Senior Systems Administrator Momentum Ventures (514) 508-7500 Ext 207 -Original Message- From: Holger Parplies [mailto:wb...@parplies.de] Sent: May-07-14 8:49 AM To: backu...@kosowsky.org Cc: General list

[BackupPC-users] Windows XP backup NOT entire drive just one or two folders

backs up the entire C$ dirve rather than just the c:\outlook folder? I am dumbfounded. Can someone throw me a bone? J Thanks in advance. Rob Morin Systems Administrator Infinity Labs Inc. (514) 387-0638 Ext: 207 ilabs-emai

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows XP backup NOT entire drive just one or two folders

Forgot to show what the config file looks like, sorry $Conf{SmbShareUserName} = 'domain_name\\admin'; $Conf{SmbShareName} = [ 'c$' ]; $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = { 'c$' => [ '\\outlook' ] }; Rob Morin Systems Administrator

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows XP backup NOT entire drive just one or two folders

7;] }; >From what I can see it was the / rather than \ that did it Thanks to all! Rob Morin Systems Administrator Infinity Labs Inc. (514) 387-0638 Ext: 207 ilabs-email-sig From: Rob Morin [mailto:r...@ilabsinc.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 12:07 PM To: 'Gene

[BackupPC-users] Backup lasts forever rsync with linux

g, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 76.8%id, 23.1%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 8193608k total, 8109764k used,83844k free, 3347896k buffers Swap: 98052080k total, 640k used, 98051440k free, 1880360k cached Rob Morin Systems Administrator Infinit

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup lasts forever rsync with linux

Ok thanks, I had another first full backup run and it took 14 hours to complete, it was under 125 gigs... Thanks for the info Mark & Les Rob Morin Systems Administrator Infinity Labs Inc. (514) 387-0638 Ext: 207 -Original Message- From: Mark Maciolek [mailto:macio...@unh.edu]

[BackupPC-users] 18 hour incremental backups?

27 23:00 566.9 0.5 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/d9.interhub.local/6 Any suggestions? Thanks to all.. Rob Morin Systems Administrator Infinity Labs Inc. (514) 387-0638 Ext: 207 ilabs-email-sig <>-- Free Sof

[BackupPC-users] Cannot backup a sub directory of a share?

g here? Also second question if i simply do ... $Conf{SmbShareName} = ['d$']; this does not work either... i am using backuppc version 3.0.0-2.1 on Debian Etch the username i use to back up with has domain admins privillages Any ideas? Thanks to all in advance Have a supe

[BackupPC-users] Possible to have 2 backup loactions?

disks, then copy some of that data to an external disk so that i can leave the building with it... Anyone, Anyone,.. *Bueller?* :) -- Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990-

Re: [BackupPC-users] Possible to have 2 backup loactions?

Thanks for the suggestion, i will look into that... Have a great day! Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Les Mikesell wrote: > Rob Morin wrote: >> I want to use Backuppc to do standard backups from windows servers to >> a raid 10 setu

[BackupPC-users] Tar errors all of a sudden for localhost only

adm','/var/lib/postgrey','/var/mail']; $Conf{TarClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C $tarPath -c -v -f - -C $shareName' . ' --totals'; # remove extra shell escapes ($fileList+ etc.) that are # needed for remote backups but may brea

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar errors all of a sudden for localhost only

be done to get it to work, in a nice way? Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Rob Morin wrote: > Hello all... i started getting localhost backup errors... > > Log file is... > > 2007-06-27 13:10:29 incr backup started back to 2007-06-

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar errors all of a sudden for localhost only

Thanks! Have a great day! Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Ali Bendriss wrote: You need to find a way to give access to those directories (read exec) and files (read) the backuppc user. look for "How can client access as root be avoided

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar errors all of a sudden for localhost only

reat power comes great responsibility. Password: My /etc/sudoers is... # User privilege specification root    ALL=(ALL) ALL backuppc ALL=NOPASSWD:/bin/tar my tar is actual in that dir , its not a link Any ideas? This is on a debian etch system Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.di

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar errors all of a sudden for localhost only

    ALL=(ALL) ALL backuppc    ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /bin/tar joe:/etc/backuppc# grep backup /etc/group backuppc:x:114: joe:/etc/backuppc# grep backup /etc/passwd backuppc:x:114:114:BackupPC,,,:/var/lib/backuppc:/bin/sh Anything else? Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar errors all of a sudden for localhost only

Does anyone have any idea why this is happening ?? I would appreciate any suggestions... Thanks... Have a super day! Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Rob Morin wrote: OK so i ran this command... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/share/backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar errors all of a sudden for localhost only]

/backuppc:/bin/sh Anything else? Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Randy Barlow wrote: Rob Morin wrote: 2007-06-29 13:35:40 Running: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h localhost -n 16 -s /etc -t /updatedb.conf

[BackupPC-users] Localhost tar back odditie...

x27;/var/lib']; $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/var/log', '/var/lib/backuppc', '/var/lib/backuppc.off','/var/oldjoe']; # remove extra shell escapes ($fileList+ etc.) that are # needed for remote backups but may break local ones $Conf{TarFullArgs} = '

Re: [BackupPC-users] Localhost tar back odditie...

Ahh, ok i get it now, so then i should back up "/" then exclude what i want, as an example as anything i put would be under the root.. Thanks dude! Rob Morin Director of Technologies Dido Internet Inc. Montreal,Canada http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Craig Barratt wrote: &g

[BackupPC-users] A tar restore issue, does not work on localhost

;http://joe.dido.ca:888/backuppc/index.cgi?host=localhost> -n 8 -s / -t -r /home/rob -p /home/rob/ /home/rob/Videotron.txt 2007-10-17 16:06:00 Restore failed (BackupPC_tarCreate failed) The sudoers file rootALL=(ALL) ALL backuppc ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/tarCreate HELP! --

Re: [BackupPC-users] A tar restore issue, does not work on localhost

The files are there, however not sure what the command line would be to restore it manually... Thanks for replying Rob Morin Director of Technologies Dido Internet Inc. Montreal,Canada http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 10/18 08:15 , Rob Morin wr

Re: [BackupPC-users] A tar restore issue, does not work on localhost

everyone have a super day! Rob Morin Director of Technologies Dido Internet Inc. Montreal,Canada http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Rob Owens wrote: > Holger Parplies wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Rob Morin wrote on 18.10.2007 at 08:15:47 [[BackupPC-users] A tar restore &g

Re: [BackupPC-users] A tar restore issue, does not work on localhost

r/lib/backuppc', '/sys', '/var/oldjoe', '/var/run']; My sudo file backuppc ALL = NOPASSWD: /bin/tar Anything else you need? Thanks for your help and prompt reply! Rob Morin Director of Technologies Dido Internet Inc. Montreal,Canada http://www.dido.ca 514-990-

Re: [BackupPC-users] A tar restore issue, does not work on localhost

OK well thanks anyways. the webserver in question, is on a secure LAN, and no public access it, only 3 technicians.. ANyone else? Thanks Rob Morin Director of Technologies Dido Internet Inc. Montreal,Canada http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 10/23 12

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring entire Linux machine

except for the afore mentioned /proc /tmp bla bla ... but what would a recommend live cd be? I use Debian Etch for instance Rob Morin Director of Technologies Dido Internet Inc. Montreal,Canada http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Toni Van Remortel wrote: > Nick Triantafillou wrote: &

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring entire Linux machine

Thanks for that... but just wondering how backuppc would restore if keys are not there, on the system with the live cd? Thanks for the help... Rob Morin Director of Technologies Dido Internet Inc. Montreal,Canada http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Toni Van Remortel wrote: > Rob Morin wr

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring entire Linux machine

is i have a raid mirror, does this affect anything t a great deal? Should i be more careful with anything? Thanks... Rob Morin Director of Technologies Dido Internet Inc. Montreal,Canada http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Les Mikesell wrote: > Rob Morin wrote: >> If possible i would lik

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring entire Linux machine

t on that machine Thanks again for your input, its very reassuring to know that backuppc can help out in a bare metal restore too! :) Rob Morin Director of Technologies Dido Internet Inc. Montreal,Canada http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 11/05 01:1

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using NFS share as BackupPC pool

I too am using Backuppc to backup over NFS V3 never had an issue i backup 5 linux box every day, its been running smooth as ice for the last 6 months or so... I have a question, is there any advantage to use nfs v3 over nfs v4? Everybody have a great day! Rob Morin Dido Internet Inc. Montreal

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup time has increased??

( bad files, bad shares, 45 other) Rob Morin Dido Internet Inc. Montreal,Canada http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Rob Morin wrote: > Hello all. > > Normally my full backup takes about 5 to 6 hours > > 2007-12-07 20:00:02 full backup started for directory / > 2007-1

[BackupPC-users] Backup time has increased??

12:51:57 Saved partial dump 80 What should i be checking for.. Thanks in advance for all your help... -- Rob Morin Dido Internet Inc. Montreal,Canada http://www.dido.ca 514-990- - This SF.net email is sponsored by

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup time has increased??

'    . ' -v -f - -C $shareName+'; $Conf{TarFullArgs} = '$fileList'; $Conf{TarIncrArgs} = '--newer=$incrDate $fileList'; $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/data', '/tmp', '/root/.cpan', '/var/log', '/var/download

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup time has increased??

Ok so i found the culprit, i think... in one websites tmp dir i found 1.9 million php  sess_  files!!  i guess i will delete this dir and try to find out what causes this thanks to all who answered me anyways :) Have a good one Rob Morin Dido Internet Inc. Montreal,Canada http

[BackupPC-users] mysql files

Is it possible that backuppc can mulch mysql files while doing a backup? Should i be excluding mysql files from the backup, mind i do night mysqldumps anyways... Any suggestions? -- Rob Morin Dido Internet Inc. Montreal,Canada http://www.dido.ca 514-990-

Re: [BackupPC-users] mysql files

Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: > Op 11 apr 2008, om 14:27 heeft Rob Morin het volgende geschreven: > > >> Is it possible that backuppc can mulch mysql files while doing a >> backup? >> >> Should i be excluding mysql files from the backup, mind i do night &

[BackupPC-users] Backup to localhost?

it in my tarball... Can some one suggest hat i should do or point me to some docs... Thanks Have a great day! Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Matt wrote: > Hi, > > I am using the rsyncd transfer method and would like to have each new ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup to localhost?

Thanks! I figured once the first pass is done the rest will not be as bad... i will wait and see what happens, however i will create this handy conf file anyways Thanks for all the replies! Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- daniel berteaud

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup to localhost?

I had to use the user www-data as the backup user , because there is a problem for me to use sperl on all my debian systems for some reason Now if i add www-data to sudoers( which my apache runs as) does this introduce a security issue? Thanks... Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup to localhost?

first backup yesterday? Any help appreciated Thanks.. Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- daniel berteaud wrote: > On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:44:18 -0400 > Rob Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well I'm quite new in li

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup to localhost?

name dir... IE pc/localhost, now do i name the file config.pl or the name of the directory/pc IE localhost.pl as i forst named it localhost.pl and it still used ssh rather than tar Thanks dude! Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Les Mikesell wrote:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup to localhost?

By the way the backup took 12 hours to do, meanwhile the load was over 7 all the time Woa! that was for 65 gigs Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Rob Morin wrote: > Ahh i see ok so if i force an incremental for all machines at, say > mi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup to localhost?

27;/usr/bin/sudo' . ' $tarPath -x -p --numeric-owner --same-owner' . ' -v -f - -C $shareName+'; # end of the per pc config # Thanks.. Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Les Mikesel

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup to localhost?

0 lost+found create 755 0/0 0 etc create 644 0/0 624 etc/fstab create 755 0/0 0 etc/mkinitrd create 755 0/0 0 etc/mkinitrd/scripts create 755 0/0 0 etc/network Thats great, thanks! Rob Morin

[BackupPC-users] What if localhost dies?

backup machine? Should i just do the install the same way on another server as on the backup server? Thanks for everyone's help this application is a life saver for me and the staff :) -- Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990

Re: [BackupPC-users] What if localhost dies?

worry about this 100 floor office building coming down... :) However you do have very valid points... Thanks for your input... Has anyone ever unmounted and remount the drives as need in conjunction with BackupPC? Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990-

[BackupPC-users] How to exclude files like.....

this $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} <#item_%24conf%7bbackupfilesexclude%7d> = '/var/www/virtual/*/logs'; Thanks.. -- Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- - Using Tomca

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to exclude files like.....

Woa... weird, that not what i wrote in my email... it seems my "*" ot asterek was replaced with something else? i meant to say $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = '/var/www/virtual/*/logs'; thanks Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990-444

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to exclude files like.....

great thanks! Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Les Stott wrote: > Rob Morin wrote: > >> Woa... weird, that not what i wrote in my email... it seems my "*" ot >> asterek was replaced with something else?

[BackupPC-users] Rotation question...

conf file, i do not want o backup nothing by mistake! Also is the only way to delete current backups is by hand? Thanks once again for all your help! -- Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rotation question...

dir were gone? any idea? are these only links to the real files somewhere else? i hope the backup will still delete these files on the next run as per config?? Thanks again for all your help! Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Les Stott wrote

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rotation question...

So is there a way to run this nightly process by hand now so i can clear up a bit of space? Thanks Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Les Stott wrote: > Rob Morin wrote: > >> Thanks for the configs, i added them in just now and did

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rotation question...

Ahh i see the BackupPC_nightly binary, should i run this now with 0 255 ? Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Rob Morin wrote: > So is there a way to run this nightly process by hand now so i can clear > up a bit of space? > > Th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rotation question...

OK cool, sorry one last question, will it delete the files before it starts the backup or will do backup first then delete as i have no space left at all? Thanks.. Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Les Stott wrote: > Rob Morin wrote: >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rotation question...

Thanks for the info... Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 10/16 12:53 , Rob Morin wrote: > >> OK cool, sorry one last question, will it delete the files before it >> starts the backup or wi

[BackupPC-users] Exclude files issue...

'/var/www/virtual/*/backups']; However it keeps backing the log dirs in /var/www/virtual/domain.com/ What am i doing wrong? :( Thanks... -- Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- ---

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude files issue...

Thanks for the bit of info, i did not know that i will modify and let you know if it works out ok, if so i can keep an extra day or 2 of incrementals! :) Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Les Stott wrote: > Rob Morin wrote: > >&g

[BackupPC-users] Reccomendations for using BackupPC for windows server backups?

... Thanks for your replies in advance :) Havea great day! -- Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Te

Re: [BackupPC-users] Reccomendations for using BackupPC for windows server backups?

I will take a look at that ans i will let you know how it goes Thanks dude! Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Garith Dugmore wrote: > Hi Rob, > > I use it on a few windows boxes here. A simple howto I put together: > > note