Re: [BackupPC-users] how can I identify in which backup a certain file is?

Not sure if this is helpful, but if you browse to a specific folder for a host, you can then click a link to view that folder's history. Robert Trevellyan On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 2:56 AM, Michael Schumacher < michael.schumac...@pamas.de> wrote: > good morning, > > one of the

Re: [BackupPC-users] about migrate to a new server

> > On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 2:37 PM, Luigi Augello > wrote: > > > > I cannot preserve the old server I will return it because it was on > leasing. > Can you purchase the hard drive(s) out of the server?

Re: [BackupPC-users] how can I identify in which backup a certain file is?

Perhaps scouring the XferLOG for lines marked 'new' would help? Robert Trevellyan On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 1:54 AM, Michael Schumacher < michael.schumac...@pamas.de> wrote: > > > RT> Not sure if this is helpful, but if you browse to a specific > RT> folder for a host, y

Re: [BackupPC-users] Are Files Re-Copied In Pool On Reinstall of Backup Client Operating System

Which transfer method are you using? With rsync or rsyncd, the data will not be copied again. Robert Trevellyan On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Akibu Flash wrote: > I am using BackupPC 4 on an ArchLinux distribution to backup a Windows > client. The amount of data on the Windows

Re: [BackupPC-users] ssh from an account without a shell

To run a shell as the backuppc user, do something like this: su -s /bin/bash backuppc Robert Trevellyan On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 8:22 AM, Philip Parsons (Velindre - Medical Physics) <philip.pars...@wales.nhs.uk> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I’ve tried looking in a couple of pla

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't switch users to BackupPC in terminal?

You can work around this using something like this: rsync .ssh/id_rsa.pub root@10.16.0.16:/root ssh root@10.16.0.16 cat id_rsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys rm id_rsa.pub exit Robert Trevellyan On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 6:05 AM, Marc Gilliatt <m.gilli...@live.co.uk> wrote: > So I'v

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't switch users to BackupPC in terminal?

eys* > > > I then switched users to backuppc, and tried to ssh to my host, however, I > was still getting *Permission denied (publickey,password).* > -- > *From:* Robert Trevellyan <robert.trevell...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* 12 March 2018 13:56:5

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't switch users to BackupPC in terminal?

Are you working in /srv/backuppc? What is the error message? If necessary, copy the public key to a regular text file, send that to the host, then log into the host and append it to the authorized_keys file. Robert Trevellyan On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 5:33 AM, Marc Gilliatt <m.gi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't switch users to BackupPC in terminal?

It should go in the authorized_keys file, not the known_hosts file. Robert Trevellyan On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Marc Gilliatt <m.gilli...@live.co.uk> wrote: > Sorry my mistake, I have now corrected myself, and I have copied the RSA > key from the bakcuppc user and pasted it

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't switch users to BackupPC in terminal?

Perhaps the client's firewall is blocking pings. And what do you have set for timeout - is it 600 seconds? Or perhaps the SSH connection is timing out. Robert Trevellyan On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 12:46 PM, Marc Gilliatt <m.gilli...@live.co.uk> wrote: > I believe I solved my issue of the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't switch users to BackupPC in terminal?

man ssh_config and man sshd_config. Robert Trevellyan On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 9:51 AM, Marc Gilliatt <m.gilli...@live.co.uk> wrote: > Our servers our on our internal LAN, so I don't think it's our firewall. I > used BackupPC v3 in the past, and I upgraded to BackupPC v4.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't switch users to BackupPC in terminal?

I'd say its worth a try. Robert Trevellyan On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:30 AM, Marc Gilliatt <m.gilli...@live.co.uk> wrote: > So I should set my ConnectTimeout on my backuppc server then? > -- > *From:* Robert Trevellyan <robert.trevell...@gmail.com&g

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't switch users to BackupPC in terminal?

According to the man pages, the ConnectTimeout and ServerAlive settings only apply to ssh_config, i.e. the BPC end, whereas the other settings only apply to sshd_config, i.e. the host you are trying to backup. Robert Trevellyan On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Marc Gilliatt <m.gi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't switch users to BackupPC in terminal?

rsync at the command-line. Robert Trevellyan On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 11:13 AM, Marc Gilliatt <m.gilli...@live.co.uk> wrote: > I've set the timeout on my backuppc server to 604800 which is one week. > One of my clients has just completed its first full backup. However, my > other cl

Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression

rsync with --ignore-times for full backups, which isn't quite the same thing, or having the filesystem do it (e.g. ZFS scrub). Robert Trevellyan On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 7:51 AM Jan Stransky wrote: > Hi, > > I have few questions related to compression > > Currently, I have Backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression

, which can both be split over multiple nightly runs. Robert Trevellyan On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 11:04 AM Jan Stransky wrote: > Hi Robert, > > 1-2) This is what I would expect, I am currious if there is a way to > gradually compress the files; not all at once. > > 3) By the host,

Re: [BackupPC-users] RsyncClientCmd

I think what you're looking for is under Edit Config -> Xfer. Robert Trevellyan On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 11:29 AM Stefan Schumacher < stefan.schumac...@net-federation.de> wrote: > Hello, > > in BackupPC 3 i used a modified RsyncClientCmd to nice and ionice rsync > o

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommended settings for BackupPC v4 on ZFS

Your TL;DR: for ashift refers to ZFS record size, but ashift determines block size (smallest I/O, with 12 meaning 4096 bytes to match common modern hard drive sector size), not record size. Robert Trevellyan On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 8:22 AM Alwyn Kik wrote: > I did some resea

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommended settings for BackupPC v4 on ZFS

, it leaves all-zero blocks unallocated. Robert Trevellyan On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 10:50 PM Carl Soderstrom < carl.soderst...@real-time.com> wrote: > Thanks for the advice. Anyone else care to share their experience? > > On 09/10 02:57 , Ray Frush wrote: > > We backup to a ZFS ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommended settings for BackupPC v4 on ZFS

One more thing about ZFS in general - I always set noatime. Robert Trevellyan On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 10:50 PM Carl Soderstrom < carl.soderst...@real-time.com> wrote: > Thanks for the advice. Anyone else care to share their experience? > > On 09/10 02:57 , Ray Frush wrote

Re: [BackupPC-users] chroot failed

an example showing the failure, perhaps with extra logging . Robert Trevellyan On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 10:25 AM David Williams < dwilli...@dtw-consulting.com> wrote: > Robert, > > Thanks for that. What commands would I need to give access to though? I > am connecting via smbcl

Re: [BackupPC-users] chroot failed

You probably need to make adjustments in System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Full Disk Access (on the client) to give the relevant commands the access they need. Robert Trevellyan On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 8:31 PM David Williams wrote: > I am pretty sure that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Does backuppc support bare metal restore?

then use in combination with an up to date BackupPC backup (restore the disk image, then update the data from BackupPC). Robert Trevellyan On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 9:11 AM Marek Grossman wrote: > Hello, > I can't find the clear answer on backuppc WEB site, so I ask you > here.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Force pool cleanup

You can run BackupPC_nightly <http://backuppc:1/filemin/download.cgi?file=BackupPC%5Fnightly=%2Fusr%2Flocal%2FBackupPC%2Fbin%2F> from the command line. Robert Trevellyan On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 10:09 AM Gandalf Corvotempesta < gandalf.corvotempe...@gmail.com> wrote: > H

Re: [BackupPC-users] Force pool cleanup

stopping BackupPC and running the command. Check the usage for BackupPC_nightly to find out if you can tell it to skip updating ref counts. Robert Trevellyan On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 10:20 AM Gandalf Corvotempesta < gandalf.corvotempe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Il giorno gio 19 dic 2019 alle

Re: [BackupPC-users] keeping permanent backups

You can change the configuration per host, including how older backups are expired. Will that do what you want? Robert Trevellyan On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 5:08 AM Graham Seaman wrote: > I'd like to be able to mark some older full backups as 'frozen', not to > be deleted. Is that possi

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC rsync skipping a directory

Glad you got it fixed. Robert Trevellyan On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 3:39 PM Robert Mares wrote: > Actually, a co-worker just pointed that out to me, so I removed the > --one-file-system argument and that fixed the problem. I had been banging > my head against the wall on that for

Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem Recommendation for 100 TB

Any reason not to use ZFS? Robert Trevellyan On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:59 AM Andrew Maksymowsky < andrew.maksymow...@sickkids.ca> wrote: > Hello, > > I believe the last time this was asked was a few years ago and I was > wondering if anything has changed. > We’ve

Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem Recommendation for 100 TB

than yours in terms of storage and number of hosts, but the backups in both BPC instances include large numbers of small files. IMO the fact that ZFS has no limit on inodes is one of the attributes that makes is a good choice, aside from the obvious (reliability and scale). Robert Trevellyan On Tue

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupFilesExclude osx catalina suggestions?

kup the entire system, including OS and apps? My goal is only to backup user data in BackupPC. I let Time Machine take care of the bare metal backup. Robert Trevellyan On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 12:25 PM Todd Wade wrote: > > I can't find anything on the mailing list so I'm guessing its unlikely but &g

Re: [BackupPC-users] ZFS very slow with BackupPC_refCountUpdate

Have you maxed out the RAM? ZFS needs lots of RAM for best performance. Robert Trevellyan On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 6:01 AM Ghislain Adnet wrote: > hi :) > >i reply to myself, i think i will abandon zfs completly after trying to > tweak it nothing solve the issue. I have incredi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 12:34 PM wrote: > G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote at about 14:44:57 + on Friday, > February 5, 2021: > > Hi there, > > > > On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 Les Mikesell wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 11:05 PM wrote: > > > > > > > ... Snapshots have also

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 12:53 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 11:45 AM Robert Trevellyan > wrote: > > > > > Is there any reason not to choose ZFS? Even without redundancy, you'll > at least know if it's corrupted. > > ZFS on Linux is always p

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 1:34 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 12:02 PM Robert Trevellyan > wrote: > > > Problematic in what way? It's been silky smooth for me with Ubuntu. > > Because it is not GPL and the kernel has a restriction against linking

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 2:41 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 1:25 PM Robert Trevellyan > wrote: > > > I'm pretty sure my Ubuntu systems are not using FUSE to access ZFS. If > that means I have to trust the lawyers for Canonical as to the legality of > us

Re: [BackupPC-users] MacOS Backup through rsync

It's not necessary to install rsync from elsewhere. You can install the macOS build tools and then build from source. Robert Trevellyan On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 9:48 AM Christian Völker wrote: > Hi Robert, > > thanks for suggestions. I agree this might be the culprit here. And not

Re: [BackupPC-users] MacOS Backup through rsync

rsync has been quite out of date. Robert Trevellyan On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 4:40 AM Christian Völker wrote: > Hi all, > > replying to my own, adding an update: > > When I do a simple "rsync -avz user@macbook:/Users/user/ /tmp/test/ I am > getting a "Operation not p

Re: [BackupPC-users] Run command per file before storing in the pool

I tend to agree. It sounds like an image library archive project, not a backup project. Robert Trevellyan On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 10:36 AM Greg Harris wrote: > Yet another sideline sitter here. However, here goes with a very > questionable thought. Maybe BackupPC is the wron

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best Practice to Speedup RSYNC

"The storage is connected via NFS." ^^^ I suspect this is the main bottleneck. Robert Trevellyan On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 5:11 PM wrote: > Hi, > > i use BackupPC on Linux with rsync since a while. One Task

Re: [BackupPC-users] When does compression and de-duplication happen?

With the rsync transfer method, checksums are computed on the hosts and duplicate files are not transferred. Not sure about the exact sequence with other transfer methods. Robert Trevellyan On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 4:38 AM Kenneth Porter wrote: > When backing up a new system that's simi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rclone dropbox mount

By default, with version 4.x, the rsync transfer method does not span filesystems. Robert Trevellyan On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 6:31 AM admin admin wrote: > Good morning > I have a problem with a folder where I have mount a dropbox account. > I use rsync to backup the mount point on inte

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rclone dropbox mount

Notice the --one-file-system parameter in the RsyncArgs section of the Xfer Settings page. Think about whether you want to delete it, or whether you want to set up more than one RsyncShareName for the host. Robert Trevellyan On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 3:32 PM Admin wrote: > thanks for your ans

Re: [BackupPC-users] need help with client config for mac ventura backuppc

Glad to know you got it working. Any reason you don't want to use rsync? IIRC I built rsync from source because of the issues with the version that ships with macOS. Robert Trevellyan On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 7:17 PM Samual Flossie wrote: > Robert - thanks for the suggestion. suggestion wo

Re: [BackupPC-users] need help with client config for mac ventura backuppc

My guess is it's the out-of-date rsync that ships with macOS, and I think there may be other oddities with the macOS version. The version I built from source is 3.1.3 and it seems to work fine. I have it in /usr/local/bin which is earlier in $PATH than /usr/bin. Robert Trevellyan On Mon, Jan 23

Re: [BackupPC-users] need help with client config for mac ventura backuppc

For the ping issue you could try something like: $Conf{PingPath} = '/usr/bin/nc' $Conf{PingCmd} = '$pingPath -w 1 -z $host 22' Robert Trevellyan On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 9:55 AM Samual Flossie wrote: > I have several new mac's to add to the backups and have not been able to > get them b

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup strategy for rarely-connected clients

are done would also provide an opportunity for backuppc to do its work. Robert Trevellyan On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 3:58 PM Kenneth Porter wrote: > My company has a laptop that spends most of its time on a shelf, not in > use. So I'm constantly seeing a daily BackupPC alert in my

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Share Content

Mine (4.4.0) works exactly as expected, i.e. each backup is a moment-in-time snapshot. There's clearly something amiss with jbk's setup. Robert Trevellyan On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 11:52 AM Paul Fox wrote: > jbk wrote: > >BackupPC-4.4.0-9.el9.x86_64 > > > >I see

Re: [BackupPC-users] restoring pool

It's the nightly tasks that should be disabled to ensure nothing is purged. Robert Trevellyan On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 2:56 PM daggs via BackupPC-users < backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Greetings, > > done all the suggested, now I have access to my backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] PingCmd no longer having effect

Unless I'm missing something, this seems to be important: 2024-04-05 15:28:10 Can't find host myhost.com via NS and netbios Have you tried adding an entry to your hosts file just to get past this and allow further troubleshooting? Robert Trevellyan On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 3:45 PM Ian via