Re: [BackupPC-users] restore a backup from command line

Hi there, On Fri, 3 Nov 2023, Ghislain Adnet wrote: ? Well i saw the exemples but they seems to create tar on the backup server then moving the tar then untar it. ? unfortunatly I do not have the disk space for that nor on the backup server nor on the destination server :( ?I would like to

Re: [BackupPC-users] restore a backup from command line

Hi there, On Tue, 31 Oct 2023, Ghislain Adnet wrote: ?i was wondering if there was any way to restore from the command line. I need to restore all /home/ daily to another server ?I was trying to use /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_restore ?but there is no docs and it fails for me as i try

Re: [BackupPC-users] Deleting backups does not free up disk space

Hi there, On Thu, 26 Oct 2023, Tobias wrote: ... in another installation, we have backups of no longer existing hosts that cannot be simply deleted. ... If I understand correctly, and you mean that these cannot be deleted because they are your only copies of the data from those hosts, then

Re: [BackupPC-users] Ever-growing backups

Hi there, On Wed, 23 Aug 2023, Kirby wrote: I am running BackupPC-4.4.0-1.el8.x86_64 on an up-to-date CentOS Stream release 8 system. This system has been runing since early 2015 with updates, both hardware and software. Things work wonderfully, one might say too good. It seems old backups are

Re: [BackupPC-users] A Perl error?

Hi there, On Sun, 13 Aug 2023, Jan Stransky wrote: On Sun, 23 Jul 2023, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: On Sun, 23 Jul 2023, Jan Stransky wrote: I started to notice following error. Does any one have any ideas? It seems to be more related to configure.pl genrerator, rather than

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why not use Backuppc to backup server systems?

Hi there, On Thu, 10 Aug 2023, Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 8:42?AM W?chtler, Jan wrote: ... Is there any reason why this list does not include Server systems? I am using it for years now to backup (web/application/database)-server data and configuration, is there any reason

Re: [BackupPC-users] A Perl error?

Hi there, On Sun, 23 Jul 2023, Jan Stransky wrote: I started to notice following error. Does any one have any ideas? It seems to be more related to configure.pl genrerator, rather than the actual configuration. Cheers, Jan Can't use string ("1") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at

Re: [BackupPC-users] A Perl error?

Hi there, On Sun, 23 Jul 2023, Peter Major wrote: I don't usually wade in to discussions like these, but as I understand perl fairly well, I feel the need to point out that you are on the wrong track G.W.Haywood.The error message does not refer to line 742 of config.pl, but to that of

Re: [BackupPC-users] A Perl error?

Hi there, On Sun, 23 Jul 2023, Jan Stransky wrote: I started to notice following error. ... Can't use string ("1") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at configure.pl line 742. ... Looks like you broke it. Please let us see what you have around line 742 of configure.pl. In the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups failing, file contents printed to screen

Hi there, On Thu, 20 Jul 2023, David Raison wrote: On 19/07/2023 13:25, David Raison wrote: I guess I'll try to pipe the process' output to files so that I may be able to spot when and/or where exactly the switch from listing to dumping happens ... ... where it started dumping content during

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.4.0 on a RaspberryPi4 with rsync failure

Hi there, On Mon, 22 May 2023, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I recently upgraded my raspberrypi4 to a 64 bit os from 32 which had an upgrade of BackupPc from 3 to 4. This created an enhancement going from the 5 kernel to 6. BackupPC 3 on the 5 kernel worked perfectly, but so far BackupPC 4 fails

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync_bpc on thecommand line "works" but same rsync_bpc executed via apache fails

Hi there, On Wed, 17 May 2023, Bob Tanner wrote: ... backuppc-4.4.0-5ubuntu2 Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS I issue a ?Start Full Backup? via the web UI and the backup errors out, Errors from the web UI states ... testrs...@test.lab.real-time.com: Permission denied (publickey,password). <==

Re: [BackupPC-users] files removed

Hi there, On Fri, 5 May 2023, gregrwm wrote: i'm curious ... Me too. :) I'm replying largely because nobody else did so far, not because I think I have any brilliant insights or anything. Sorry. full backup started for directory /; updating partial #1 This is what I'm curious about.

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC (tar) has started failing

Hi there, On Wed, 5 Apr 2023, Mark Murawski wrote: ... $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = { '/' => [ 'bin', 'apps', 'opt', 'lib32', 'intellasoft', 'etc', 'manageServ', 'boot', 'var', 'lib', 'lib64', 'usr', 'home', 'sbin' ] };

Re: [BackupPC-users] Files in backup with wrong uid/gid

Hi there, Sorry, wrote this last week and didn't manage to hit 'send'. :/ On Fri, 10 Mar 2023, David Heap wrote: I'm seeing an issue where the uid/gid of two files inside the backup are incorrectly root instead of the correct owner (openldap in this case). Files on the server: -rw--- 1

Re: [BackupPC-users] cpool not shrinking on deleting hosts or changing schedule (Github #427)

Hi there, On Fri, 24 Feb 2023, Paul Fox wrote: ... Nothing makes me nervous like having someone tell me that my backup strategy, which has been rock solid for almost 20 years, might now have problems. ... In this thread I don't think I've seen anything to cause that kind of concern for

Re: [BackupPC-users] cpool not shrinking on deleting hosts or changing schedule (Github #427)

Hi there, On Tue, 21 Feb 2023, David Raisonwrote: So since reducing the IncrKeepCnt for some hosts, I have actually lost another 6Gb in disk storage over the past night. ... results seem to indicate that I have no orphaned files: ... I have made sure that my $Conf{RsyncArgs} are the defaults

Re: [BackupPC-users] cpool not shrinking on deleting hosts or changing schedule (Github #427)

Hi there, On Mon, 20 Feb 2023, David Raison wrote: I'd like to pull your attention to this ticket on Github (https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/issues/427) ... ... pool/cpool isn't going down in size anymore with version 4.x after hosts or old backups are removed. I don't know if this is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Storing Identical Files?

Hi there, Today I realized I hadn't sent this. It may have been overtaken by events but here it is anyway... On Sat, 11 Feb 2023, Christian V?lker wrote: I have two clients which have a large share. These two (Debian) clients sync this share on a daily base through rsync (through a third

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to handle missing pool files reported in server log each night

Hi there, On Fri, 10 Feb 2023, Samual Flossie wrote: After a partial disk problem on the backuppc server storage area, I am seeing the following in the log: ... BackupPC_refCountUpdate: missing pool file ... ... ... 1. How can I get to point that resolves these missing pool files? no more

Re: [BackupPC-users] Some hosts ignored on wake up

Hi there, On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, Giannis Economou wrote: ... hosts that are ignored mention that they have been last checked at 13.00 (no backup to be done at 13:00 since 13:00 is only for nightly runs), but then they seem completely ignored at several wakeups after midnight (where backup should

[BackupPC-users] Slow web page loading of admin pages

Hi there, On Wed, 18 Jan 2023, Kenneth Porter wrote: Two PCs at the office that are much newer than mine are very slow at loading the web pages. ... My first thought is name resolution. -- 73, Ged. ___ BackupPC-users mailing list

Re: [BackupPC-users] Just done 3 to 4 migration - couple of UI related problems

Hi there, On Tue, 17 Jan 2023, Laurence Hurst wrote: Yes, I know I'm very late to the v4 party... Just upgraded my version 3 to 4 (3 days into the process) and all seems to be working again but I cannot find 2 things I used regularly in the v3 UI in the v4 one: Quite a few years ago when I

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup virtual machine vmware

Hi there, On Fri, 13 Jan 2023, backuppc-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: Il giorno gio 12 gen 2023 alle ore 14:32 G.W. Haywood ha scritto: > On Thu, 12 Jan 2023, lu lu wrote: > > > On Wed, 11 Jan 2023, G.W. Haywood wrote: > > > > On Wed, 11 Jan 2023, lu lu wrote: > > > > > > > ... is

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup virtual machine vmware

Hi there, On Thu, 12 Jan 2023, lu lu wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jan 2023, G.W. Haywood wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jan 2023, lu lu wrote: > > > ... is it possible with backuppc to backup a complete virtual machine? > > ... > > Yes, but it's pointless. You may as well just make a copy. > > There are better

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup virtual machine vmware

Hi there, On Wed, 11 Jan 2023, lu lu wrote: ... is it possible with backuppc to backup a complete virtual machine? ... Yes, but it's pointless. You may as well just make a copy. There are better ways to do what you want, for example you might look into snapshotting filesystems. -- 73,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Missing backup files

Hi there, On Sat, 5 Nov 2022, Adam Goryachev wrote: I don't understand why you would NOT want backuppc to have at least read access to ALL data, including data only accessible to root. Because I wouldn't want BackupPC to be a vector for compromise. The whole point of giving read access only

Re: [BackupPC-users] Missing backup files

Hi there, On Fri, 4 Nov 2022, Mark Murawski wrote: ... This is the most recently finished full backup [51] for /etc/ssl/private ... There's no files in there!! Just directories!? Everything is missing And it looks like the *entire* backup system looks like this.? I didn't even know that my

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar causing problems with removable drive on localhost

Hello again, On Thu, 20 Oct 2022, Adam Hardy wrote: I scanned the problem USB drive with smartctl and with gnome-utilities and it logged nothing.? Be careful with smartctl if you use it for anything other than reading information from the drive. Heed the warnings in the 'man' page, and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar causing problems with removable drive on localhost

Hi there, On Wed, 19 Oct 2022, Adam Hardy wrote: I keep getting a problem from tar when backuppc goes to back up the localhost, which includes a removable drive in the backup targets: Running: /usr/bin/sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C /media/adam/Videos-2TB/Videos --totals --newer=2022-10-11\

Re: [BackupPC-users] errors on network-mounted pool filesystem

Hi there, On Sat, 3 Sep 2022, Sandro Bordacchini wrote: ... I needed to switch to a cloud solution, though. ... I think that's a very bad idea. -- 73, Ged. ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failed after upgrading client to Debian 11

Hi there, On Mon, 25 Jul 2022, Iosif Fettich wrote: ... you might fight a TCP level failure between some intermediate routers. Which I acknowledge that almost anything is possible, it's difficult to see how a problem like that would suddenly present itself simply because of an upgrade to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Serious error: last backup directory doesn't exist!!! Need to remove back to last filled backup

Hi there, On Tue, 14 Jun 2022, gregrwm wrote: ... interrupted BackupPC_dump. on the next invocation i got: 2022-06-12 21:35:02 Serious error: last backup /var/lib/backuppc/pc/avocado/32 directory doesn't exist!!! Need to remove back to last filled backup 2022-06-12 21:35:02 Deleting backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to do a initial seed on pool

Hi there, On Fri, 3 Jun 2022, Bruno Rogerio Fernandes wrote: ... about 15TB of data ... planning to migrate to backuppc V4 ... backup is done every day through an Internet connection and would be pretty dangerous waiting for many weeks to do a first full backup (wait for transfers to complete

Re: [BackupPC-users] are 2 backuppc hosts safe from each other's activity?

Hi there, On Sun, 15 May 2022, gregrwm wrote: ... is my assumption correct? i assume that the backuppc hosts are where it is saved which backups were done last, and when. Yes, your assumption is correct. Consider for example what happens if the client to be backed up is switched off. But

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync/File::RsyncP conflict

Hi there, On Wed, 13 Apr 2022, Dave Sherohman wrote: On 4/11/22 18:22, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: Looking at https://metacpan.org/dist/File-RsyncP/changes it seems that there is only one later version (0.76) so your options seem to be somewhat limited. :) Is it even still

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync/File::RsyncP conflict

Hi there, On Mon, 11 Apr 2022, Matthew Pounsett wrote: I seem to have encountered the same problem described in this thread which ends here: To summarize what I understand from that thread, there's a bug in

Re: [BackupPC-users] Needed patch for BackupPC::Storage::Text.pm

Hi Iosif, On Sat, 9 Apr 2022, Iosif Fettich wrote: just to let you know: BackupPC::Storage::Text.pm needs a patch. in sub ConfigFileMerge, the line reading my $d = Data::Dumper->new([$newConf->{$var}], [*value]); should ... Which one? I'm not sure what you're asking... $

Re: [BackupPC-users] Needed patch for BackupPC::Storage::Text.pm

Hi there, On Sat, 9 Apr 2022, Iosif Fettich wrote: just to let you know: BackupPC::Storage::Text.pm needs a patch. in sub ConfigFileMerge, the line reading my $d = Data::Dumper->new([$newConf->{$var}], [*value]); should ... Which one? I've tried to get in touch with Craig Barrat

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rotating multiple drives on one mount point

Hi there, On Sat, 26 Mar 2022, Kenneth Porter wrote: I'm adding a second external drive to my rotation so I can keep one off-site in case of disaster. Without looking into it carefully I couldn't be sure that swapping the storage device from under BackupPC wouldn't actually cause more issues

Re: [BackupPC-users] HELP - FW: BackupPC administrative attention needed

Hi there, On Thu, 24 Mar 2022, Edward Cotter wrote: New user to your mailing list and completely new to the product. Hello and welcome. A BackupPC system is necessarily and unfortunately a little complex, but I'm sure you'll get the hang of it given time. It's not exactly a 'product', it's

Re: [BackupPC-users] Some directories stay empty (The directory ... is empty).

Hi there, On Mon, 21 Mar 2022, chiel wrote: ... a few directories are not included ... One of these directories is "/var/lib/automysqlbackup". Which is created after installing "automysqlbackup" which creates auto backup's mysql db's. This folder has the following rights:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fill older backups retroactively

Hi there, On Tue, 15 Mar 2022, Samantha Rapp wrote: Is there any way to decide, after a backup has been taken, to fill said backup? ... https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/BackupPC.html#Other-Command-Line-Utilities 8<--

Re: [BackupPC-users] Archive ACLs

Hi there, On Tue, 8 Mar 2022, ralph strebbing wrote: what we're trying to do is get the ACLs working from the Archive host. It is correctly exporting the tar.gz files, but when I extract them onto my PC, the files have lost their ownership/group ... It isn't clear to me exactly what you're

Re: [BackupPC-users] Real Time View of What Is Being Copied

Hi there, On Mon, 7 Mar 2022, Dave Sherohman wrote: Re: Real Time View of What Is Being Copied On 3/5/22 14:36, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: On Sat, 5 Mar 2022, Les Mikesell wrote: Unix/Linux has something calle 'sparse' files ... I can't remember the last time I saw a sparse

Re: [BackupPC-users] Real Time View of What Is Being Copied

Hi there, On Sat, 5 Mar 2022, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: > Another possibility (and the only time I've ever seen this happen) is > that there might be a large file which is causing a timeout. It was > on a Linux box here, something

Re: [BackupPC-users] Real Time View of What Is Being Copied

Hi there, On Fri, 4 Mar 2022, Les Mikesell wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 3:34 PM Akibu Flash wrote: > > I backup a couple of Windows machines to a linux machine via rsync. > However, the backup for one of the Windows machines never finishes > and results in a partial backup. In the CGI user

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to check total disk usage of backups for each client PC

Hi there, On Sun, 27 Feb 2022, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Sunday, February 27, 2022 12:20 AM + Chris Wu wrote: Is there one way to know how much disk space has been used for backups of each client PC? No, because of de-duplication. ... Mr. Porter might be putting it a little strongly

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

Hi there, On Thu, 17 Feb 2022, brogeriofernandes wrote: I'm wondering if would be possible to run a command just after client transfers file data but before it's stored in backuppc pool. My idea is to do an image compression, like jpeg-xl lossless, instead of the standard zlib one. Have you

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC timesout backing up (old) Android phone (but equivalent standalone rsync command works fine)

Hi there, On Sat, 22 Jan 2022, Jeff Kosowsky wrote: ... log: recv cS+ rwxrwx--- 1006,1006 0 cam_socket0 log: recv cS+ rwxrwx--- 1006,1006 0 cam_socket1 log: recv >f+ rwx-- 1000,1000 8 hidden_volume.txt it seems

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc malcompsoed command Was: issue with RsyncClientCmd being ignored

Hi there, On Sat, 15 Jan 2022, robin hammond wrote: '--exclude=/*'\ '--exclude=/home/*'\ 'phantom.databit7.com:/home/administrator/'\ '/' but rsync fails to function with the error bash: phanton.databit7.com: command not found The log extract looks odd to me. You seem

Re: [BackupPC-users] Raspberry Pi 4 stops at /run

Hi there, On Tue, 4 Jan 2022, Jeff Kosowsky wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote at about 21:02:14 -0600 on Monday, January 3, 2022: > ... > I also am trying to backup a RaspberryPi4 that keeps hanging an stopping at the > directory /run . BackupPC does not error out and I have not found any log >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Excluding a directory.

Hi there, On Mon, 13 Dec 2021, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: ... I have a pretty long exclude list, and now I need to add an additional directory to exclude.? I added the new directory /home/new/* but the directory and it's contents are being backed up. I tried /home/new/ and /home/new with no

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup aborted (Non-zero exit status from smbclient)

Hi there, On Fri, 3 Dec 2021, Technik ITEAS wrote: ... 2021-12-03 10:47:07 Got fatal error during xfer (Non-zero exit status from smbclient) ... ... Where can the error lie here? ... On the very rare occasions when I've seen this error (the last event was at least two years ago, and was

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best Practice BPC from Home -> Internet

Hi there, On Wed, 17 Nov 2021, Taste-Of-IT wrote: i tested BackupPC since a few months at home with 5 Linux Clients and it is working well. Thanks all for this great peace of software. I now want that my family can backup from there Windows, Ubuntu and Linux Mint Clients to that server. The

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't access older backups after upgrade

Hi there, On Thu, 4 Nov 2021, Anthony Chavez wrote: On 11/2/21 7:54 AM, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: Hi G.W.! Thanks for responding. :) FWIW I wouldn't use NFS for anything that even vaguely bears a passing resemblance to a backup system.? In my experience NFS is always flaky

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't access older backups after upgrade

Hi there, On Tue, 2 Nov 2021, Anthony Chavez wrote: On 10/19/21 7:06 PM, Anthony Chavez wrote: On 10/9/21 3:02 PM, Anthony Chavez wrote: So I have had to make a slight change to my BackupPC setup and while I am able to access new backups in the web interface, I am now unable to access my

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommend an external drive

Hi there, On Tue, 19 Oct 2021, Kenneth Porter wrote: My Western Digital MyPassport 4TB external drive has filled up so it's time to buy something bigger. I'm thinking an 8 or 10, possibly a Western Digital, as I've had fairly good experience with them over the years. Any suggestions on which

Re: [BackupPC-users] "mutt" and "/etc/aliases"

Hi there, On Wed, 29 Sep 2021, orsomannaro wrote: To send BackupPC notifications I use "sendmail" (Postfix) forwarding the messages to a smarthost. And when I have to send an attachment I use "mutt". For both I would like to take advantage of "/etc/aliases" using the email address assigned to

Re: [BackupPC-users] V4 Infinite Incrementals

Hi there, On Sat, 25 Sep 2021, Kenneth Porter wrote: On 9/24/2021 8:25 AM, Stan Larson wrote: BTW, I'm also running weekly air-gap backups to external media that is stored offsite.? Having critical data backed up both locally and offsite is reassuring, but no guarantee against an organized

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc-4 on Debian-11

Hi there, On Wed, 15 Sep 2021, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: > On Tue, 14 Sep 2021, Juergen Harms wrote: > > > Well, this discussion really looks like a non-issue ... > > Unless you have a host named 'config'. Or more p

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc-4 on Debian-11

Hi there, On Tue, 14 Sep 2021, Juergen Harms wrote: Well, this discussion really looks like a non-issue ... Unless you have a host named 'config'. -- 73, Ged. ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Setting up BackupPC config.pl file

Hi there, On Tue, 31 Aug 2021, Gary L. Roach wrote: ... I have set up my installation with *rsyncd*. I think I am OK dowh to "$Conf{RsyncSshArgs} = ['-e', '$sshPath -l root'];" ( Line #1241 on my file). After that point, I am totally confused. The instructions for "$Conf{RsyncShareName} =

Re: [BackupPC-users] issue with one client

Hi there, On Wed, 25 Aug 2021, klemens wrote: ... slw ... ... any direction might help. My first guess would be running out of RAM because rsync can use a lot of RAM for directories which contain large numbers of files. If my guess is right you might see heavy swap usage in 'top' or

Re: [BackupPC-users] New debian version "bullseye"

Hi there, On Tue, 24 Aug 2021, Pascal Legrand wrote: I am upgrading debian servers currently "Buster" to "BullsEye". I notice that backuppc is upgrading from 3.3.2-2+deb10u1 (buster) to version 4.4.0-3 (bullseye). Are there any prerequisites before upgrading or is there nothing to do? Will

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

Hi there, On Fri, 13 Aug 2021, Rob Morin wrote: WHat I was thinking was simply moving/renaming the current backup set and making the dir immutable to prevent ransomware from getting to it. I suspect that your idea won't work. How do you propose to make the directory immutable? If it's by

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

Hi there, On Thu, 12 Aug 2021, Rob Morin wrote: I have a full week's backup of all my servers, i want to make an immutable copy of them, so I was thinking of just "moving" the current data dir, and whatever else I might need to another partition, and start the backup from scratch again. Mean

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem with WakupSchedule and Backupplan

Hi there, On Wed, 5 May 2021, Ralph Sikau wrote: I have a large media library which is too big to be backed up on a single day. Does it matter that it's too large to be backed up in a single day? You could run a weekly or even monthly schedule. It doesn't have to be daily. -- 73, Ged.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Adding a max and warning line to the backup pool size?

Hi there, On Mon, 15 Mar 2021, Sorin Srbu wrote: On Sun, 2021-03-14, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: > On Sun, 14 Mar 2021, Sorin Srbu wrote: > > > ... add a red max and yellow warning line to the BackupPC pool size chart ... > > ... Icinga/Nagios might be the way to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Adding a max and warning line to the backup pool size?

Hi there, On Sun, 14 Mar 2021, Sorin Srbu wrote: Is it possible to add a red max and yellow warning line to the BackupPC pool size chart, reading from the df or OS partition size? Just to get an idea when the disks, pool or partitions are getting on the full side. I'd suggest that there's a

Re: [BackupPC-users] btrfs questions

Hi there, On Sat, 6 Mar 2021, John Botha (SourceForge) wrote: ... take the plunge with BackupPC, ... bit rot protection is key ... ... ... fragmentation ... how best to approach this with a combination of rebalancing and scrubbing, or if there is another way or other aspects to keep in mind.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Simple server side embedded config file to allow full shadow backups of Windows host

Hi there, On Fri, 26 Feb 2021, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: ... useful in case you have multiple backuppc servers backing up a single client (I do this so that I have totally redundant backups in case one backuppc server fails) Good idea to have "totally" independent backups, but do note

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

Hi there, On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Michael Stowe wrote at about 20:50:45 + on Wednesday, February 10, 2021: > On 2021-02-09 16:34, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > On Tue, 9 Feb 2021, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: &

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using BackupPC 4.x with rrsync on the client

Hi there, On Wed, 10 Feb 2021, Felix Wolters wrote: I'd like to use it with restricted access to the client ... If I understand you correctly there's no need for complications, you can do that with plain vanilla rsyncd. It's what I do on my machines. Forbidding ssh access further reduces

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

Hi there, On Tue, 9 Feb 2021, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote at about 14:26:30 + on Friday, February 5, 2021: > > [Red Hat is] dropping BTRFS because they can't support it in the way they'd > like to for their commercial customers. That's bec

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

Hi there, On Sun, 7 Feb 2021, Les Mikesell wrote: ... I have had several drive hardware failures and one instance of one port on a powered USB hub going bad with intermittent failures causing disc corruption. Glad you mentioned that. There's a seven port hub here which has duct tape stuck

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

Hi there, On Fri, 5 Feb 2021, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: So what filesystem is safest to run over USB? Frankly I don't know. Like Mr. Mikesell I've had good experience with the tools for EXT4, but my wife has managed to trash at least one EXT4 partition by simply plugging a USB device

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

Hi there, On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 11:05 PM wrote: > ... Snapshots have also saved me when I have run across the occasional > backuppc gremlin of disappearing files in that I can find the cpool > file and revert it from past snapshots. Are you sure that

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

Hi there, On Thu, 4 Feb 2021, Kenneth Porter wrote: On Wed, 3 Feb 2021, backuppc@kosowsky wrote: > On Wed, 3 Feb 2021, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > > I'm deploying a system with an external (USB) 1.5 TB drive. How should I > > format it? (Ie. which filesystem is best for this?) > > I just built

Re: [BackupPC-users] Defining all-day blackout periods

Hi there, On Sun, 31 Jan 2021, Ari Sovij?rvi wrote: I need to define couple of all-day blackout periods for BackupPC and the manual wasn't clear if I can just specify 0 in the start and end field to accomplish this. I'm also wondering if 0 is a valid ending time or is it considered start of

Re: [BackupPC-users] Return to BackupPC

Hi there, On Sun, 10 Jan 2021, several authors wrote: > > Why do people like to install from source instead from packages? > > ... manually installing software ... would be the very last resort. Sometimes packages are out of date. For Debian, they can be ridiculously out of date and

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.x on Raspberry PI?

Hi there, On Fri, 8 Jan 2021, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Les Mikesell wrote at about 14:19:03 -0600 on Thursday, January 7, 2021: > On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 1:57 PM Guillermo Rozas wrote: > >> > >> Interesting... how does Banana Pi Pro compare to Pi4? e.g., > >> performance,

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.x on Raspberry PI?

Hi there, On Tue, 5 Jan 2021, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Robert E. Wooden wrote at about 10:02:58 -0600 on Monday, January 4, 2021: > On 1/4/2021 9:55 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 9:32 AM G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: > >> I've tried u

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.x on Raspberry PI?

Hi there, On Mon, 4 Jan 2021, backuppc-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: Has anybody had good success running BackupPC 4.x on a Raspberry PI? Yes, I have. Very good, with one reservation. I am considering either: 1. (old) Pi 3 - Quad core ARM Cortex-A53, 1.2GHz. 2. (new) Pi 4 -

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc in large environments

Hi there, On Tue, 1 Dec 2020, backuppc-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: How big can backuppc reasonably scale? You can scale it yourself as has already been suggested, but I don't think you'd have any problems with a single backup server and the data volumes you've described if you

Re: [BackupPC-users] Turn-key backup solution for all-Windows network

Hello again, On Thu, 19 Nov 2020, Kenneth Porter wrote: Do you install to your Pi using just a tarball, or is there some packaging as there is for RPM? We use Raspbian, or Raspberry Pi OS as they've decided to call it now. It's based on Debian, with the same packaging tools. You can grab a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Turn-key backup solution for all-Windows network

Hi there, On Wed, 18 Nov 2020, Kenneth Porter wrote: I'm advising a friend on what to use to back up his networked Windows PCs (including one Windows Server) in a machine shop. I deploy BackupPC at home and at my own office on CentOS servers, but this shop has no technical people and no Linux

Re: [BackupPC-users] Verify full integrity of pool and backups

Hi there, On Sun, 1 Nov 2020, Guillermo Rozas wrote: As explained in the README, the compression algorithm that BackupPC uses is slightly different to the one used by zlib/pigz. In some rare occasions, this results in a corrupted file when uncompressed by zlib/pigz. Most of the time the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows backups failing with special characters

Hi there, On Wed, 2 Sep 2020, Mariano Aliaga wrote: ... tar:974 Fatal: Can't translate pathname './Ajuste Inflaci?n A?o2019.xps' to UTF-8 ... ... So I wonder if this is a known bug, it's smbclient, backuppc, tar or what? Is there some known workaround? I'd appreciate any help you could give.

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Service Status "Count" Column

Hi there, On Thu, 23 Jul 2020, Akibu Flash wrote: In the CGI Interface on the BackupPC Service Status Page there is a Column labelled "Count". What exactly is that determining? Is it the number of files that have been backed up from that share? It's the count of files transferred. Look for

Re: [BackupPC-users] config.pl "built-in" script to backup Windows shares with Virtual Shadow Service Copy

Hi there, On Tue, 30 Jun 2020, Jeff Kosowsky wrote: It should just work... [snip] -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: BackupPCShadowConfig.pl Type: application/octet-stream Size: 8533 bytes Desc: not available --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unable to connect on port -1

Hi there, On Mon, 29 Jun 2020, Craig Barratt wrote: ... Are you running nfs v3 or v4? I have had experience with v3 not working reliably with BackupPC (related to buggy lock file behaviour). BackupPC does rely on lock files working, so it's definitely not recommended to turn locking off.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep only one Full Backup as Archive

Hi there, On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, J.J. Kosowsky wrote: ... FYI - Backuppc 4.x is really significantly better than Backuppc 3.x. ... To all those out there still using 3.x, if you haven't tried upgrading to 4.x yet, I suggest you do. If you have, I suggest you try again. ... For the record, I'm

Re: [BackupPC-users] How does --checksum work in v4?

Hi there, On Mon, 8 Jun 2020, Jeff Kosowsky wrote: ... presumably a very rare event ... That's putting it a little mildly. If it's really all truly random, then if you tried random collisions a million times per picosecond you would (probably) need of the order of ten trillion years to have

Re: [BackupPC-users] replication of data pool

Hi there, On Thu, 21 May 2020, Mike Hughes wrote: we're currently syncing our cpool to an off-site location on a weekly basis. Would it be feasible to only sync the latest of each backup rather than the entire pool? To elaborate, on Saturdays we run an rsync of the entire cpool to another

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore only corrupted files?

Hi there, On Fri, 15 May 2020, Richard Shaw wrote: Funny enough (well, actually I'm still kinda pissed ... with Seagate, ... this is my SECOND RMA for the same drive. Let me guess - Barracuda? I stopped buying Seagate drives years ago when it became clear that, running 24/7, if they lasted

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore only corrupted files?

Hi there, On Thu, 14 May 2020, Richard Shaw wrote: ... Is it possible to do a conditional restore? Something like: Only restore files which are the same date (mtime?) and the hashes don't match. Thoughts? Assuming that it's worth recovering the data, the data presumably must have some

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

Hi there, On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 1:02 PM Andrew Maksymowsky wrote: I have no strong preference for either xfs or zfs (our team is comfortable with either) was mainly just curious to hear about what folks were using and if they've run into any major issues or found particular file-system

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to find files in the pool?

Hi there, On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, R.C. wrote: How to retrieve the actual path of that file in the cpool tree? I cannot use the digest to walk down the cpool tree. Octects lead to non existent path. Have you just missed the little wrinkle that the subdirectories are all even numbers? You need

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to find files in the pool?

Hi there, On Thu, 23 Apr 2020, Robert Sommerville wrote: You can use the locate [...] command ... That's likely to be unreliable - not only because many systems don't have 'locate' installed by default but also because many systems will exclude BackupPC databases from indexing. -- 73, Ged.

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