Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC and OS X

2007-05-02 Thread Jamie Lists
Hey Scott, this may sound weird but have pretty much the same setup as you and we're finding the cause of our terrible backup speeds to be a problem with ssh speeds on centos. We don't know why this is happening yet but are working on it. Also we're on centos 4.4. Anyway try it yourself and see

[BackupPC-users] Howto tell BackupPC to start Full Backup at a specific weekday

2007-05-02 Thread megaram networks
Hello, I installed BackupPC in a test environment and it works quite good backing up a windows server and a suse linux machine via rsync. I only have 2 problems : 1. How do I tell BackupPC to start the Full backup for example at Friday night at 22:00 or Saturday morning at 02:00,

[BackupPC-users] a script to copy backup on a remote host

2007-05-02 Thread daniel berteaud
Hi everyone. I've just wrote a small script to save the data of a backuppc 3.0 server to a remote *NIX host (offsite backup, uses mainly rsync over ssh, but also need a small shell, at least for the command cat on the remote host). This script is written in perl and depends on the module

Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto tell BackupPC to start Full Backup at a specific weekday

2007-05-02 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, megaram networks wrote on 02.05.2007 at 12:30:08 [[BackupPC-users] Howto tell BackupPC to start Full Backup at a specific weekday]: I only have 2 problems : your lines are not wrapped and spaces appear in front of your commas? ;-) 1. How do I tell BackupPC to start the Full backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] Making Nodes In A Cluster Backup At Different Times

2007-05-02 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Jesse Proudman wrote on 01.05.2007 at 19:18:13 [[BackupPC-users] Making Nodes In A Cluster Backup At Different Times]: What's the best way to make sure that two specific nodes are not being backed up at the same time? set $Conf {MaxBackups} to 1? Regards, Holger

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC and OS X

2007-05-02 Thread Scott
On May 2, 2007, at 5:59 AM, Jamie Lists wrote: Hey Scott, this may sound weird but have pretty much the same setup as you and we're finding the cause of our terrible backup speeds to be a problem with ssh speeds on centos. We don't know why this is happening yet but are working on it. Also

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups stalling for no apparent reason

2007-05-02 Thread Les Mikesell
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: When doing a backup, the whole thing seems to just stall for no reason. While watching top, I noticed that the system is idle and BackupPC_dump is nowhere on the list of active processes. This will last for several minutes before it shows up again and gets

Re: [BackupPC-users] Giving talk on BackupPC at LInuxFest Northwest

2007-05-02 Thread Nate Carlson
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Ski Kacoroski wrote: Most recent stats are 1300 clients with about 4TB data across all clients, 8 BackupPC servers with 3.4TB of data (love the hardlinks and compression) Just curious - is there a nifty way to access all the servers via a single web interface? :)

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC and OS X

2007-05-02 Thread Les Mikesell
Scott wrote: One goal I have is to not have to modify the OS X clients at all. Meaning, I should be able to do a fresh 10.4 install, apply the Apple updates, then enable whatever access is needed before I can start recovery. I would rather not have to remember to install xtar or what-

Re: [BackupPC-users] Making Nodes In A Cluster Backup At Different Times

2007-05-02 Thread Jesse Proudman
Well that'd be the easy way, but if we do that it will take forever for our network to be backed up... Any other ideas? -- Jesse Proudman, Blue Box Group, LLC On May 2, 2007, at 4:34 AM, Holger Parplies wrote: Hi, Jesse Proudman wrote on 01.05.2007 at 19:18:13 [[BackupPC-users]

[BackupPC-users] Backup PC smbclient and passwords

2007-05-02 Thread Matt Godbolt
Hi there, I've just installed BackupPC at my company having happily used it at home for some time. In both locations it's used in a mixed OS environment, but at work we've decided to use SMB shares to read from everyone's PCs for ease-of-use reasons. As such we have a backuppc domain user

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup PC smbclient and passwords

2007-05-02 Thread Matt Godbolt
Matt Godbolt wrote: Hi there, I've just installed BackupPC at my company having happily used it at home for some time. In both locations it's used in a mixed OS environment, but at work we've decided to use SMB shares to read from everyone's PCs for ease-of-use reasons. As such we have a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Making Nodes In A Cluster Backup At Different Times

2007-05-02 Thread Ski Kacoroski
Use blackout periods in local configuration files. cheers, ski On Wed, 2 May 2007 08:46:55 -0700 Jesse Proudman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well that'd be the easy way, but if we do that it will take forever for our network to be backed up... Any other ideas? -- Jesse Proudman, Blue

Re: [BackupPC-users] Making Nodes In A Cluster Backup At Different Times

2007-05-02 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Jesse Proudman wrote on 02.05.2007 at 08:46:55 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Making Nodes In A Cluster Backup At Different Times]: On May 2, 2007, at 4:34 AM, Holger Parplies wrote: Jesse Proudman wrote: What's the best way to make sure that two specific nodes are not being backed up at the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Making Nodes In A Cluster Backup At Different Times

2007-05-02 Thread Josh Marshall
What's the best way to make sure that two specific nodes are not being backed up at the same time? set $Conf {MaxBackups} to 1? Well that'd be the easy way, but if we do that it will take forever for our network to be backed up... Any other ideas? If you use

Re: [BackupPC-users] Making Nodes In A Cluster Backup At Different Times

2007-05-02 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Josh Marshall wrote on 03.05.2007 at 08:38:50 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Making Nodes In A Cluster Backup At Different Times]: What's the best way to make sure that two specific nodes are not being backed up at the same time? set $Conf {MaxBackups} to 1? Well that'd be

Re: [BackupPC-users] Making Nodes In A Cluster Backup At Different Times

2007-05-02 Thread Josh Marshall
If you use the rsyncd method you can limit the number of simultaneous connections. In rsyncd.conf set: max connections = 1 yes, but that's on the side of the backed up host, meaning it would only work to ensure no two hosts pointing to the same machine via ClientNameAlias were

[BackupPC-users] dhcp syntax error

2007-05-02 Thread Jason M. Kusar
Hi all, I was just happening to look at the log file for the system and noticed that it is FULL of lines like these: 2007-05-02 01:00:12 dhcp 192.168.0.50: sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `0x933d2b8' 2007-05-02 01:00:12 dhcp 192.168.0.50: sh: -c: line 0: `ARRAY(0x933d2b8)'

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC and OS X

2007-05-02 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Scott wrote on 02.05.2007 at 11:08:01 [Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC and OS X]: On May 2, 2007, at 9:02 AM, Holger Parplies wrote: Due to the implementation of pooling your second full backup may be much faster than the first: [...] This sounds like it just skewed the results of my

Re: [BackupPC-users] dhcp syntax error

2007-05-02 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Jason M. Kusar wrote on 02.05.2007 at 21:04:37 [[BackupPC-users] dhcp syntax error]: I was just happening to look at the log file for the system and noticed that it is FULL of lines like these: 2007-05-02 01:00:12 dhcp 192.168.0.50: sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token