Run tarCreate at the command prompt. The log file may have the tarCreate
command line that was used.
On 2024-02-09 14:27, daggs via BackupPC-users wrote:
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2024 at 11:40 PM
From: "Les Mikesell"
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support"
Cc:
Thanks for the feedback and pointer to ClientNameAlias. This saves me
creating an alias at the OS level.
Here is the doc page:
https://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#_conf_clientnamealias_
On 2023-06-29 06:05, Guillermo Rozas wrote:
Hi,
what I do is to have two different hosts
If you have clients with dhcp set to 1 in the /etc/BackupPC/hosts file,
try setting the dhcp to 0. I had a similar problem, and this worked for
my situation.
On 2022-05-06 15:59, gregrwm wrote:
when i invoke BackupPC_dump it always just says "nothing to do". why
would it be doing that?
Sorry for replying to my own post. I got the verbose working by editing
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC
at around line 811:
push(@args, "-v");
After some more digging in the config files, I found that the RsyncArgs
had be overridden in the host file to be only "--stats". I don't know
On 2021-11-04 07:36, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 4:16 AM Anthony Chavez wrote:
Namely?
I use NFS for a lot of things. And apart from an abysmal security model (that
can fortunately be hardened with a lot of extra work), I've had no complaints.
Think about the network activity
My question is in the last line of this email.
I was having errors backing up, so I decided to start with a fresh,
empty /var/lib/BackupPC , and started a manual full backup. Afterwards,
I was able to access various backup files, as a sanity check. Also ...
The server log file looks good:
(sorry if this is a duplicate -- sent previously from wrong email account)
I get this in my log of an incremental backup. Is it a problem that
needs fixing?
R
bpc_poolWrite_unmarkPendingDelete(/var/lib/BackupPC//cpool/1c/a6/1da694c9347eb6ab49812ac56d645a6d)
failed; errno = 1
The file
I found your errors.txt file in the archives -- didn't seem to make it
to my own email client (weird).
Is it correct that tar is supposed to be getting 238 GB to deal with?
The action seems to be happening in BackupPC_tarExtract . Maybe you can
find out what its command line is, and try the
For what it is worth, I have been using an nfs mount to hold the pool
files for both BPC V3 and V4. This is the fstab entry:
192.168.1.80:/mnt/HD/HD_a2/POOLS /home/disks/nasPOOLS nfs nolock,rw,suid 0 0
The man page nfs(5) explains that nolock does not turn off locking
completely.
On
l-debugged the BackupPC script into the
method, QueueOnePC, and because $Hosts->{$host}{dhcp} is non-zero, the
backup request was not being queued (line 1885).
??
On 2020-06-17 9:36 a.m., Tim Evans wrote:
On 6/17/20 12:28 PM, Norman Goldstein wrote:
Sorry for possible re-posting -- am h
Sorry for possible re-posting -- am having trouble with this mailing list.
Rats, previous email sent to "users-owner" by mistake.
--
Am running BPC 4.3.2 on fedora 32 x86-64. I am able to run /ping/ from
the command line as backuppc and as root (and as
Haven't seen your config.pl file, but this might explain/help:
#
# Number of incremental backups to keep. Must be >= 1.
#
# Note: Starting in V4+, deleting backups is done based on
Fill/Unfilled,
# not whether the original backup was full/incremental. For historical
#
On 2019-08-03 2:56 p.m., Michael Stowe wrote:
On 2019-08-03 14:14, Norman Goldstein wrote:
On 2019-08-03 2:08 p.m., Michael Stowe wrote:
On 2019-08-03 08:24, Norman Goldstein wrote:
Am running Fedora 30 x86-64, BP 4.3.1
Am not able to start the BackupPC server manually.
I
On 2019-08-03 2:08 p.m., Michael Stowe wrote:
On 2019-08-03 08:24, Norman Goldstein wrote:
Am running Fedora 30 x86-64, BP 4.3.1
Am not able to start the BackupPC server manually.
I would like to be able to run the BC server manually, to be able to
debug into it. When I do, as root
Am running Fedora 30 x86-64, BP 4.3.1
Am not able to start the BackupPC server manually.
I would like to be able to run the BC server manually, to be able to
debug into it. When I do, as root:
systemctl stop backuppc
this stops the server. Then, as user backuppc, to start the server
:
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Norman Goldstein norm...@telus.net wrote:
I can see the advantage of kick-starting a remote server with a hard
drive backup of your system. This is not practical for me, and,
fortunately, my backups are under 2 GB. Here is my plan
1. ssh to my web-hosting
I can see the advantage of kick-starting a remote server with a hard
drive backup of your system. This is not practical for me, and,
fortunately, my backups are under 2 GB. Here is my plan
1. ssh to my web-hosting company (which supports ssh)
2. Set up an sshfs with their site (which is also
Thanks very much for the ideas and experience.
On 08/14/2014 09:15 PM, John Sellens wrote:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 01:18:07PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
| Or, do you mean to set up a BackupPC server in the cloud?
|
| Yes, a complete off-site server is the straightforward approach.
Hmmm -
folder, as
currently, on my NAS.
Thanks.
On 08/14/2014 02:44 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Norman Goldstein [mailto:norm...@telus.net]
Sent: den 14 augusti 2014 02:32
To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [BackupPC-users] off-site storage
I use BackupPC to back
server in the cloud?
On 08/14/2014 09:23 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
On 08/14 07:52 , Norman Goldstein wrote:
Does anyone have experience with such a setup?
-- Would that be an rsync protocol for BPC? I suppose it depends on
the cloud service,
Past experience has been that attempting
I use BackupPC to back up to an nfs-mounted NAS.
This works great.
I like the interface and control that we have for configuration,
status and walk-abouts. However, I am somewhat delinquent
in taking a hard copy DVD off-site on a regular basis.
I've been looking around for off-site cloud-type
/etc/auto.disks
/home/disks/nasNorman -fstype=nfs,noloc,timeo=14,intr
192.168.0.121:/mnt/HD/HD_a2/norman
(I have told my router to reserve 192.168.0.121 for the NAS)
The question may now be more one for the fedora group.
??
Thank you.
On 08/11/2014 05:35 PM, Norman Goldstein wrote:
I am
My apologies. Spelling mistake in auto.disks (used noloc instead of
nolock).
Now, backuppc is working with autofs.
I wish I had noticed this days earlier ...
Thank you.
On 08/12/2014 12:20 PM, Norman Goldstein wrote:
I have found the culprit, but can't explain why.
Backups are going
According to
http://www.ucblueash.edu/thomas/Intro_Unix_Text/IO_Redir_Pipes.html
this should work (but I have not tested it):
instead of , use 2
On 05/24/2013 01:29 AM, Nicolas Cauchie wrote:
Hello all,
I'd like to catch to log the output of the backuppc_tarcreate command :
Done: 24
I don't know what OS you are running backuppc on, but, at least on fedora,
the auto-startup of backuppc may need some help, by editing
/usr/lib/systemd/system/backuppc.service
(more details of this bug in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=959309)
In a nutshell, on the After= line,
how the BackupPC_Admin executable is built
from the BackupPC_Admin.pl script?
-rwsr-x---. 1 backuppc apache 6468 Jan 20 11:40 BackupPC_Admin
-rwxr-x---. 1 backuppc apache 3993 Jan 20 11:40 BackupPC_Admin.pl
On 05/10/2013 04:14 PM, Norman Goldstein wrote:
I want to track down the following
I want to track down the following error message that my browser gives me:
=
Gateway Timeout
The gateway did not receive a timely response from the upstream server
or application.
=
This happens after I choose the host, from the
, Norman Goldstein norm...@telus.net wrote:
I am running
BackupPC.i6863.2.1-7.fc17
and BackupPC does not load at boot. However, I can always get it
started manually with
systemctl start backuppc.service
I have issued the command
systemctl enable backuppc.service
so
I am running
BackupPC.i6863.2.1-7.fc17
and BackupPC does not load at boot. However, I can always get it
started manually with
systemctl start backuppc.service
I have issued the command
systemctl enable backuppc.service
so that backuppc should be starting at boot.
In
I use NFS on a LAN NAS as my backup disk.
Works fine.
On 05/19/2012 08:06 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 7:45 AM, MyKey0815
backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote:
Ok - i understand. But how can save my backup files to a windows share? Is
there a workaround for the not
Well, that worked -- I got an email from BPC to let me know
about the folder that was not a backup target.
On another mail-related note, every time I go to, or refresh,
a host homepage within BPC, one of the Summary messages
at the top of the page is
Last email sent to norm15
That makes sense.
How about being told to back up a non-existent file?
Would not BPC consider that important enough to
inform the user?
On 04/24/2012 05:55 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Norman Goldsteinnorm...@telus.net wrote:
As Les explained earlier, emails are
I have applied the patch. It works for me.
Thanks!
On 04/24/2012 06:50 AM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
On 2012-04-24 13:34, Norman Goldstein wrote:
On another mail-related note, every time I go to, or refresh,
a host homepage within BPC, one of the Summary messages
at the top of the page
I'm sorry if this is appearing as a new thread -- I did not figure
out how to continue a single thread.
I followed Les's suggestion and entered a non-existent
folder and file to backup. I initiated an immediate incremental
backup. After it completed, the log showed no errors, and no
email was
I am not getting status email from BPC.
The following two tests work fine from the command
line when I am the backuppc user (on Fedora 15):
./BackupPC_sendEmail -u norm
./BackupPC_sendEmail -c
In the first case, I receive a test email from BPC.
In the second case, I first shut down the BPC
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