I have been fighting with the proper syntax of excluding files and folders.
Now that I have it working properly I need to go in to the backups and
remove the files I was trying to exclude. Expiring the backups just for
these few folders/files is not worth it. Is there an easy(ish) way to do
this vi
Here is the entry in config.pl after adding it to the web interface. Is
this correct?
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'*' => [
'/sys',
'/proc',
'/dev',
'/tmp',
'/server',
'/mnt',
'*.tmp'
Sorry I didn't mention the xfer method. All servers use rsync over ssh. I
plan to try the above this weekend with the full runs.
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Holger Parplies wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Michael Stowe wrote on 2013-05-31 08:21:03 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
> Exclude directories]:
> > >
On each of our samba servers inside of each share is a .deleted folder that
all of the files that a user deletes from the share within windows goes to
instead of actually being deleted immediately. I do not want to back these
up but they are not all in the same path on all the servers. What is the
Lou
> k...@themusiclink.net
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Kameleon wrote:
>> > I guess I am just not sure how to even begin to build it since there
>> > is no documentation I can
I guess I am just not sure how to even begin to build it since there
is no documentation I can find.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Kameleon wrote:
>> What is the best way to back up windows 2008r2 servers with backuppc?
>&
What is the best way to back up windows 2008r2 servers with backuppc?
I have been looking at http://www.michaelstowe.com/backuppc/ but it
loses me at the requirement for winexe which looks to need samba4. We
are on a samba3 domain and cannot upgrade for a while. Is there a good
step by step anywher
teBackup.sh -c orca -d 1066
> -f
>
> That'll delete the first full (I keep 2 fulls, but let's say I'm
> running low on space) and all the incrementals, then it'll run
> Backuppc_nightly to reclaim the space.
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Kamele
I am trying to figure out the proper way to remove all but the most recent
backups on our system. I could just:
cd /var/lib/backuppc/pc/hostname
rm -rf XX (for each old backup)
/usr/share/backuppc/bin/Backuppc_nightly 0 255 (to actually remove the
files from the pool)
But is there another way?
--
Perfect. Worked like a charm. Thanks for that pointer.
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Adam Goryachev <
mailingli...@websitemanagers.com.au> wrote:
> On 31/08/12 00:21, Kameleon wrote:
> > I have setup our new backuppc server. However I having a problem
> > pulling the ini
I have setup our new backuppc server. However I having a problem pulling
the initial full from two of our remote sites. Each site is on a T1 and has
around 500GB it needs to grab. The backup times out before it can finish.
Before I have had to get an external usb drive, take it to the site, do an
r
:
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Kameleon wrote:
> > I am trying to find the best way to install backuppc on my centos 6.3
> box.
> > Everything I read is for Centos 5 and older so alot does not apply to the
> > new version. Anyone have any pointers or good sites? I tried
I am trying to find the best way to install backuppc on my centos 6.3 box.
Everything I read is for Centos 5 and older so alot does not apply to the
new version. Anyone have any pointers or good sites? I tried just following
the readme in the tarball but backuppc won't start. Our old server is
ubun
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Kameleon wrote:
>>
>> Yes the host can talk just about any other way besides iSCSI to another
>> host. I never said it couldn't. Hence why I was going to resort to the rsync
>>
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Timothy J Massey wrote:
> Kameleon wrote on 06/22/2012 03:51:05 PM:
>
>
> > Thanks for that Tim. The host OS is CentOS, the backuppc OS is
> > ubuntu. The problem lies in the host OS's support, or broken
> > support, for the iscsi
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Timothy J Massey wrote:
> Kameleon wrote on 06/22/2012 03:41:56 PM:
>
>
> > We just had to buy 2 backup drives and they were over $1000. This is a
> > Dell server, not some basic desktop drive. Otherwise I woudl have to
> > fully agree
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Timothy J Massey wrote:
> Kameleon wrote on 06/22/2012 02:37:17 PM:
>
>
> > Thanks for the reply Les. Unfortunately setting up a "new backuppc"
> > and leaving the old is not an option in our case. Here is our
> > situation:
&
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Kameleon wrote:
>> Thanks for the reply Les. Unfortunately setting up a "new backuppc"
>> and leaving the old is not an option in our case. Here is our
>> situation:
>&
, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Kameleon wrote:
>> I forgot to explain that the current VM has a 6TB logical volume. I
>> would like to move that data to our iSCSI SAN which I have carved out
>> a 8TB logical volume on. The problem comes when I try t
option is the "rsync -vrlptgoDH" command? That is
what I used to get the data from the original machine to the vm.
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Kameleon wrote:
> Currently our backuppc server is a virtual server. The root partition
> is separate from the data store. All of its s
ve to be root. Now I see that the "root" login to the
server is specified on the "rsyncclientcommand". I will be changing
this asap. Thanks for the input guys.
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Kameleon wrote:
>&g
1:18 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Kameleon wrote:
>> Of course. :) Although the authentication was the backuppc user and
>> its password.
>>
>
> Note that only the admin user or someone in the admin group can create
> new target hosts a
Currently our backuppc server is a virtual server. The root partition
is separate from the data store. All of its storage is on the local
virtual server host. It has a 6TB partition with about 85%
utilization. I am wanting to move the data to our iscsi SAN. Every
time we have tried moving the lvm o
Of course. :) Although the authentication was the backuppc user and
its password.
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Chris Stone wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Kameleon wrote:
>>
>> Well I think we never used any of the authentication and it didn't
>&g
Stone wrote:
> Donny,
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Kameleon wrote:
>>
>> with user backuppc. This user is able to see every host we have. So I
>> need to do some digging and remember how we setup authentication. But
>> it should be as easy as adding anot
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Kameleon wrote:
>>
>> We have one central backuppc server that we have been using for some
>> years now. In our agency we actually have another IT group that
>> handles a small subset of users. That groups backup server has crashed
>> and we
We have one central backuppc server that we have been using for some
years now. In our agency we actually have another IT group that
handles a small subset of users. That groups backup server has crashed
and we are looking at adding them to our backuppc server. However we
do not want them to have a
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Kameleon wrote:
>> Currently our backuppc server is a Xen pv domU running Ubuntu 10.04.
>> It has served us well over the past two years. However it is time to
>> move it out of the vi
Currently our backuppc server is a Xen pv domU running Ubuntu 10.04.
It has served us well over the past two years. However it is time to
move it out of the virtual environment and back onto physical
hardware. This is only so that it can be located on the far edge of
our campus as far away from the
of the /var/hotcopy/. path and you should be good.
I hope this helps someone in the future.
Donny B.
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Kameleon wrote:
> I am looking at using r1soft's hotcopy to enable a snapshot of the
> filesystem before backuppc does it's magic. Simil
I am looking at using r1soft's hotcopy to enable a snapshot of the
filesystem before backuppc does it's magic. Similar to how Microsoft Volume
shadow copy works or LVM's snapshots. What I am wondering is this: Does
anyone currently use this type of setup and if so, would you mind sharing
your pre/p
Also remember that gmail will thread your messages together and can
mark your message as read since it will be the same as the one in your
sent folder. Took me a while to realize that also.
On 8/19/10, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> On Thursday 19 Aug 2010 11:18:58 Farmol SPA wrote:
>> An OT for a ques
Yes, this is what we do with 4 of our sites that are off our fiber
ring. Although 2 have the bandwidth to complete the initial backup the
other 2 don't. So we just take the backup server on site and let it
get an initial full. As Les stated, after the initial full it will
work the way you intend.
Why not just make backuppc take a week or so to traverse the entire pool
using $Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod} = 7 or similar? Also you can use the
rsync option to limit bandwidth so it won't kill their outbound connections
using the --bwlimit=XX where XX is the speed in kB/sec to limit to.
On Tue, M
Also, you can look up the "tower of hanoi" (spelling?) way of doing
backups. This is what we use on one of our picky servers. It will
basically keep fulls around for up to 3 years or something silly like
that. I can provide a link once I get back to the office in the
morning.
On 5/6/10, Brian Math
x = 90
> --
> IncrPeriod = 1
> IncrKeepCnt = 8
> IncrKeepCntMin = 4
> IncrAgeMax = 30
> IncrLevels = 1, 2, 3, 4
> --
>
> If your solution is not possible, do you think mine will work without
> create problem in BackupPC ?
>
> Tanks a lot.
>
>
>
> &g
or HDD breaks. For me it's better to have two
> HDD (at different locations) with a loss of one week if its burn. Do you
> understand why I want exchange between both every week and why I imagine
> this steps ? (maybe I'm not clear :-S)
>
> Thanks.
>
> >
This is very true. We have 4 remote sites, 2 T1's (1.5megabit up and down)
and 2 DSL (1.5megabit down x 256 kilobit up) and have a central backuppc
server located in-house that backs up those 4 server and 10 more in house on
the local fiber network. The only issue was the initial full on the 2 DSL
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 4/29/2010 2:42 PM, Eddie Gonzales wrote:
> > My issues were mainly do to my lack of linux knowledge but now it's
> > getting the exim mail service on my debian to send me emails. I know I
> > will rebuild if I put this in production so wan
I have been using backuppc for quite some time now. I use it at home in a
xen domu to back up all my servers/machines at home and here at work I use
it on a physical host to backup all of our servers. I use rsync method of
backing up where applicable and rsyncd on the windows machines.
One thing I
I too had the same question. However, I did think about mounting an iscsi
volume and create a secondary LV on it to move the snapshot to. Other
options would be to boot the server with something like clonezilla and the
target machine with the same and do a direct copy that way. I am actually
lookin
I can speak from experience on the matter of a slow link back to the
backuppc server. We have mutliple sites that we backup to a central
backuppc server. 2 of the sites have a 256k upload and 2 others are
T1's. The only issue is getting the initial full. What I did on the 2
local (256k) sites is ta
Anything that you want to be explicitly excluded you will need to put the
full path in the excludes. Otherwise if it matches anywhere else in the
filesystem it will be excluded.
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Mark Wass wrote:
> Hi Bowie
>
> Thanks for clearing that up. So does that mean I shoul
If I catch what you are thinking of Backuppc already does that. With rsync
it checks the updated files and only backs up those that have changed since
last backup. Unless I am missing what you are trying to accomplish.
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:14 AM, PD Support
wrote:
> If I have a source/dest
outdated.
Thank you very much.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Kameleon wrote:
> > To simplify what I am trying to accomplish I will explain it this way:
> >
> > We currently have 2 backuppc servers. Both have 2x 1TB drives in a Raid1
> >
why I need to move everything to one setup.
Thanks for any guidance.
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Kameleon wrote:
> Thanks for that idea but that is not an option. I need to combine both
> backuppc machines into one physical backuppc machine. Both servers have 2
> 1TB drives in a raid
ctory how would I move the files from
/var/lib/backuppc/pc/rsync-server/0/f%2fserver%2fremoteserver to
/var/lib/backuppc/pc/remoteserver/0/f%2f? Should it be as simple as moving
the folders? Or is this even possible?
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Chris Robertson wrote:
> Kameleon wrote:
&g
ing openvz via Proxmox
> with my backuppc, and it works perfectly).
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Kameleon wrote:
> > I have multiple backuppc servers that I would like to combine into one
> > physical machine. Each of them have different clients they were backing
> up.
&
I have multiple backuppc servers that I would like to combine into one
physical machine. Each of them have different clients they were backing up.
But in an effort to save power and heat, we are trying to consolidate
machines. Is there an easy way to combine multiple backuppc machines into
one exis
I have a few remote sites I am wanting to backup using backuppc. However,
two are on slow DSL connections and the other 2 are on T1's. I did some math
and roughly figured that the DSL connections, having a 256k upload, could do
approximately 108MB/hour of transfer. With these clients having around
I am working on a backuppc solution to allow backups to be kept for about 3
years while having a minimal impact on disk space. I was following the
directions located here:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/projs/backuppc_guide.html#Schedule for the
schedule. However, The question I have is this: Would
, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Erik Hjertén wrote:
> Kameleon skrev:
> > I am trying to setup the standalone rsyncd from the backuppc downloads
> > page on a 64 bit vista machine. I have done it already on about 5 32
> > bit machines. Only this one fails to start the service. I see no er
Also, I may not, I did the trick to run as administrator and no go. I get
the error:
cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1053:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely
fashion.
If that helps any. I am making sure it is not a gremlin
I am trying to setup the standalone rsyncd from the backuppc downloads page
on a 64 bit vista machine. I have done it already on about 5 32 bit
machines. Only this one fails to start the service. I see no error other
than it trys to run and then nothing. Has anyone else ran into this issue
and foun
wrote:
> Are you sure this isn't a ClientTimeout problem? Try increasing it and see
> if
> the backup runs for longer.
>
> Tyler
>
> On Thursday 03 Dec 2009 17:25:31 Kameleon wrote:
> > Update:
> >
> > We moved the backuppc server to the same room as the c
fore I give it a swift kick in the
pants?
Donny B.
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Kameleon wrote:
> I did some more testing watching top and such on both backuppc server and
> the client. Both had plenty of memory and such. The thing we are thinking is
> possibly the cable or switch be
ly in via
crossover cable to the server. That will eliminate the networking gear all
except the network intercafe cards.
Thanks for the input.
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Kameleon wrote:
> > I do apologize. The backuppc server is Ubuntu 9.10 and the server be
after signal PIPE
2009-12-02 14:25:00 Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE)
remote machine: rsync version 3.0.6 protocol version 30
backuppc: rsync version 3.0.6 protocol version 30
Both using ext3 filesystem
Donny B.
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
&g
I have an issue with one of my backuppc servers. This server is used to only
backup one server and has been doing flawless since it was installed about a
week ago. Until last night
I checked it this morning to find the above error in the host summary. I did
some checking and even manually ran
I am sure there are others that will chime in on this but as I see it you
have a few options.
1. Setup LVM and use the external disk as a permanent addition to the system
2. Mount the external disk as the directory that will house your desktops
backups
Honestly, I would be wary about using an ext
re setup
as the one physical ubuntu machine is still using rsync.
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Kameleon wrote:
> I upgraded to ubuntu 8.10 on the backuppc domu and the same issue
> remains. It went from backuppc ver 3.0.0 to 3.1.0. I will test a
> 64-bit ubuntu domu backup here soon a
e issues. All my DomU systems are running off of the same
> ISCSI array on a 1 GB ethernet.
>
> With having backuppc in deb format, it's easy enough to check if you have a
> 32 vs 64 bit issue. I'd also recommend you go at least 8.10, since it has a
> newer version of ba
Hello,
I have installed backuppc on an ubuntu 8.04 xen 64-bit domu and I must
say I like it. It was installed it via the "aptitude install backuppc"
command. I have setup a few other machines for it to back up and am liking
what I see. I have a slight problem however. When I backup a physical
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