[BackupPC-users] Can't create test hardlink error

2013-08-01 Thread Steve Blackwell
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[BackupPC-users] Can't create test hardlink error

2013-07-28 Thread Steve Blackwell
I just rebooted to a new kernel and now I'm getting this error: Can't create a test hardlink between a file in /var/lib/BackupPC//pc and /var/lib/BackupPC//cpool. Either these are different file systems, or this file system doesn't support hardlinks, or these directories don't exist, or there is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Email configuration

2013-06-01 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 16:32:15 -0500 Michael Stowe mst...@chicago.us.mensa.org wrote: It also seems to imply that the username you're using is backuppc rather than zephod. This will be set under hosts. Errr, you can safely ignore that, I was thinking of something else entirely, but it

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full backup locks up computer.

2012-02-21 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:12:23 -0500 Steve Blackwell zep...@cfl.rr.com wrote: 8 snip The problem I'm having is that whenever I try to do a full backup, the computer locks up. There are no messages in any of the logs to indicate what might have caused the problem. Interestingly

[BackupPC-users] Full backup locks up computer.

2012-02-16 Thread Steve Blackwell
I have a fairly old computer, a ~6yr old dual 3.4GHz Pentium 4 that is running Fedora 12. It's (past) time for an upgrade. I'm want to do a clean install as the requirements for boot partition size have increased and so I need a good complete backup before I start. The problem I'm having is that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Syntax for excluding .gvfs

2010-05-13 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Wed, 12 May 2010 12:36:47 -0400 Steve Blackwell zep...@cfl.rr.com wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2010 10:48:03 -0500 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: A quick fix might be to add the --one-file-system option to the tar command so it will ignore all mount points. I always do

Re: [BackupPC-users] Syntax for excluding .gvfs

2010-05-12 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Thu, 6 May 2010 17:38:46 -0400 Steve Blackwell zep...@cfl.rr.com wrote: I'm running F11 and I keep getting an error on my backups. I've tracked this down to a file, .gvfs, in users home directories. From the log file: /bin/tar: ./.gvfs: Cannot stat: Permission denied I use the web

Re: [BackupPC-users] Syntax for excluding .gvfs

2010-05-12 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Wed, 12 May 2010 09:29:32 -0400 Bowie Bailey bowie_bai...@buc.com wrote: What version of tar do you have? From the manual: Note that GNU tar version = 1.13.7 is required for the exclude option to work correctly. [st...@steve ~]$ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.22 ...

Re: [BackupPC-users] exclude not working

2010-05-12 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Wed, 12 May 2010 10:01:15 -0400 Mark Maciolek m...@sr.unh.edu wrote: Hi, Backuppc 3.1 using rsync $Conf{RsyncShareName} = [ '/raid1' $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '*' = [ '/raid1/*/tilecache', '/raid1/temp', '/raid1/osmplanet' ] NewFileList still

Re: [BackupPC-users] Syntax for excluding .gvfs

2010-05-12 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Wed, 12 May 2010 10:48:03 -0500 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: A quick fix might be to add the --one-file-system option to the tar command so it will ignore all mount points. I always do that anyway to avoid picking up ad-hoc DVD/USB or network mounts that might happen to be

Re: [BackupPC-users] Syntax for excluding .gvfs

2010-05-09 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Sat, 8 May 2010 23:26:40 +0100 Luis Paulo luis.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Steve Blackwell zep...@cfl.rr.com wrote: On Sat, 8 May 2010 17:35:47 +0100 [..] Contents of file /media/disk/pc/steve/XferLOG.bad.z, modified 2010-05-08 14:41:36 Running: /usr

Re: [BackupPC-users] Syntax for excluding .gvfs

2010-05-09 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Mon, 10 May 2010 03:51:20 +0100 Luis Paulo luis.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Steve Blackwell zep...@cfl.rr.com wrote: On Sat, 8 May 2010 23:26:40 +0100 Luis Paulo luis.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Steve Blackwell zep

Re: [BackupPC-users] Syntax for excluding .gvfs

2010-05-08 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Sat, 8 May 2010 17:35:47 +0100 Luis Paulo luis.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Luis Paulo luis.bar...@gmail.com wrote: The OP said that he is using tar and $Conf{RsyncArgs} directive... I made a bit of a mess Steve is using tar, TarShareName is / and is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Syntax for excluding .gvfs

2010-05-07 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Fri, 7 May 2010 15:56:00 +0100 Luis Paulo luis.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Allen allen.st...@rogers.com wrote: Hi Richard et al; Perhaps I should have been more specific... This is included in my global configuration under RsyncArgs for rsync.    

Re: [BackupPC-users] Syntax for excluding .gvfs

2010-05-07 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Fri, 07 May 2010 12:17:14 -0500 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/7/2010 10:33 AM, Steve Blackwell wrote: On Fri, 7 May 2010 15:56:00 +0100 Luis Pauloluis.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Allenallen.st...@rogers.com wrote: Hi Richard et al

[BackupPC-users] Syntax for excluding .gvfs

2010-05-06 Thread Steve Blackwell
I'm running F11 and I keep getting an error on my backups. I've tracked this down to a file, .gvfs, in users home directories. From the log file: /bin/tar: ./.gvfs: Cannot stat: Permission denied I use the web interface to edit the configuration but I cannot find the correct syntax to exclude

Re: [BackupPC-users] SELinux preventing server connection.

2010-04-29 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:08:23 +0200 Johan Cwiklinski maili...@x-tnd.be wrote: Hello, Le 27/04/2010 20:30, Steve Blackwell a écrit : BZ=bugzilla? Yes :) That is a better place to report package specific issues, all of that SELinus stuff is not really BackupPC relevant. I had

Re: [BackupPC-users] SELinux preventing server connection.

2010-04-27 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:02:58 -0400 Steve Blackwell zep...@cfl.rr.com wrote: I'm getting a SELinux AVC when trying to connect to my BackupPC server. I found this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512035 and in comment 14 it says it was fixed in BackupPC-3.1.0-6.fc11 whereas I

Re: [BackupPC-users] SELinux preventing server connection.

2010-04-27 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:23:03 +0200 Johan Cwiklinski maili...@x-tnd.be wrote: Hello, Le 27/04/2010 17:33, Steve Blackwell a écrit : On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:02:58 -0400 Steve Blackwell zep...@cfl.rr.com wrote: I'm getting a SELinux AVC when trying to connect to my BackupPC server

[BackupPC-users] SELinux preventing server connection.

2010-04-26 Thread Steve Blackwell
I'm getting a SELinux AVC when trying to connect to my BackupPC server. I found this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512035 and in comment 14 it says it was fixed in BackupPC-3.1.0-6.fc11 whereas I am running: # rpm -qa | grep BackupPC BackupPC-3.1.0-9.fc11.noarch and I am still

[BackupPC-users] Backups failing

2010-01-02 Thread Steve Blackwell
I recently upgraded from F10 to F11 via preupgrade and everything appeared to go fine but now the backups of my PC keep failing with the following error in the log file: Backup failed on steve (Tar exited with error 512 () status) Info tar says there are only 3 possible exit codes; 0, 1 and 2

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups failing

2010-01-02 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Sat, 2 Jan 2010 10:40:51 -0600 Michael Stowe mst...@chicago.us.mensa.org wrote: - The upgrade from F10-F11 chaged the name of my backup media from /media/disk to /media/long UUID so I changed $TopDir accordingly. That's your problem ... you can't do this. I'd recommend

Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup

2009-08-13 Thread Steve Blackwell
: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup]: Steve Blackwell wrote at about 14:33:54 -0400 on Wednesday, August 12, 2009: Steve Blackwell wrote at about 11:18:36 -0400 on Wednesday, August 12, 2009: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:06:37 -0400 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky

Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup

2009-08-13 Thread Steve Blackwell
Last night's backup, after the restart due to the crash appears to have worked OK. Here is the server log file: 2009-08-13 01:00:00 Running 2 BackupPC_nightly jobs from 0..15 (out of 0..15) 2009-08-13 01:00:00 Running BackupPC_nightly -m 0 127 (pid=5801) 2009-08-13 01:00:00 Running

Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup

2009-08-13 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:18:20 -0500 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote: I didn't change any settings. I think it's worse when things magically start to work than when they continue to fail. [:-P Running Fedora or some other close-to-beta OS? F10. I use

[BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup

2009-08-12 Thread Steve Blackwell
Backuppc has been behaving strangely lately. This is another instance. This is part of the log file for host steve: 2009-08-12 01:00:06 full backup started for directory / 2009-08-12 01:00:06 full backup started for directory / 2009-08-12 05:00:06 Rename /media/disk/pc/steve/new -

Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup

2009-08-12 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:06:37 -0400 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote at about 08:49:23 -0400 on Wednesday, August 12, 2009: Backuppc has been behaving strangely lately. This is another instance. ... 05:00:06 Running BackupPC_link steve (pid=8901

Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup

2009-08-12 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:19:47 -0500 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote: Backuppc has been behaving strangely lately. This is another instance. This is part of the log file for host steve: 2009-08-12 01:00:06 full backup started for directory / 2009-08

Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup

2009-08-12 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:24:04 -0400 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote at about 11:18:36 -0400 on Wednesday, August 12, 2009: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:06:37 -0400 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote at about 08:49

Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup

2009-08-12 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:00:19 -0500 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:19:47 -0500 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote: Backuppc has been behaving strangely lately. This is another instance

Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup

2009-08-12 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:54:05 -0500 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:00:19 -0500 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:19:47 -0500 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup

2009-08-12 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:18:04 -0400 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote at about 13:27:17 -0400 on Wednesday, August 12, 2009: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:24:04 -0400 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote at about 11:18

Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup

2009-08-12 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:12:09 -0400 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote at about 14:33:54 -0400 on Wednesday, August 12, 2009: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:18:04 -0400 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote at about 13:27

[BackupPC-users] Backups stopped working for Vista machine

2009-08-05 Thread Steve Blackwell
I have BackupPC set up to backup my Fedora F10 box and my wife's Vista box to an external USB drive. I had everything working and then some time ago the backups stopped working for the Vista box and I'm just getting around to looking into it. The error log shows: Running: /usr/bin/smbclient

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc doesn't back up all files on Vista machine

2008-08-13 Thread Steve Blackwell
So I have 2 questions: 1) Why can't backuppc backup all the files when using smb as an administrator? Can't help you with that one. 2) Why does smbclient show files that I cannot see when logged into the machine directly? In Windows, files and folders can be marked as hidden or

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc doesn't back up all files on Vista machine

2008-08-13 Thread Steve Blackwell
Let me preface my questions by saying that I know just about nothing about Windows administration, never wanted to, never needed to before now, so this may well be a duh! question. I finially got backuppc to back up my wife's Vista computer using smb after I figured out that the user name

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc doesn't back up all files on Vista machine

2008-08-12 Thread Steve Blackwell
Let me preface my questions by saying that I know just about nothing about Windows administration, never wanted to, never needed to before now, so this may well be a duh! question. I finially got backuppc to back up my wife's Vista computer using smb after I figured out that the user name that

[BackupPC-users] Problems excluding files.

2008-08-04 Thread Steve Blackwell
The documentation for $Conf{TarClientCmd} says ... Also, you will probably want to add ``/proc'' to $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}. The following variables are substituted at run-time: ... $fileListspecific files to backup or exclude ... I took this to mean that $fileList takes care of excluding

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems excluding files.

2008-08-04 Thread Steve Blackwell
Hi, Steve Blackwell wrote on 2008-08-04 18:31:38 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Problems excluding files.]: [...] Id there something wrong with my $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} yes. or do I need to add --exclude something to TarIncrArgs? No. You need to use the share name as hash key

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fatal error during xfer

2008-07-29 Thread Steve Blackwell
Steve wrote: Well, I changed to use the correct full path for sudo and now I get this error: Contents of file /media/disk/pc/steve/XferLOG.bad.z, modified 2008-07-29 12:25:04 Running: /usr/bin/sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C / --totals -- newer=2008-07-27\ 17:56:09 . incr backup

[BackupPC-users] Fatal error during xfer

2008-07-28 Thread Steve Blackwell
I just installed BackupPC and I started by attempting to backup just my local machine which is also the BackupPC server. Since this is a local machine I don't need ssh so I set my TarClientCmd to $tarPath -c -v -f - -C $shareName+ --totals. This worked OK but some directories were not backed up

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fatal error during xfer

2008-07-28 Thread Steve Blackwell
Adam Goryachev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set the full path to sudo eg /bin/sudo Maybe that will help. Regards, Adam Thanls for the suggestion but I still get the same error. Stev e. Steve Blackwell wrote: I just installed BackupPC and I started by attempting to backup just