Re: [BackupPC-users] BackuPC 4 hang during transfer

Hi there, On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: I'm tryiig to backup 2 hosts with BPC4 but bpc seems to be frozen during transfer. [...] nothing happens from about 3 hours. When I first used version 4 I ran into a very similar issue, there were one or two bug-fixes which

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync error buffer overflow

Hi there, On Fri, 24 Nov 2017, Jose Barriga wrote: Im trying to backup a very large number of files and trees and trees of directories. How can i solved??? You either need to add memory to the machine or modify the way that you use rsync/rsyncd so that it uses less memory to do the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Don't expand first backed up directory by default?

Hi there, On Sat, 25 Nov 2017, Craig Barratt wrote: On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Jamie Burchell wrote: > Is it possible to configure BackupPC 4 not to expand the first directory > when viewing a backup? How about this: by default it opens the last one, rather than the

Re: [BackupPC-users] File System containing backup was too full

Hi there, On Tue, 19 Dec 2017, Adrien Coestesquis wrote: Debian 8, no disk quota. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151491 ? -- 73, Ged. -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's

Re: [BackupPC-users] getaddrinfo is not a valid Socket macro after Update to version 4.0.0

Hi there, On Thu, 24 May 2018, Diane Leon wrote: I installed Perl 5.8.8 ... Why on Earth did you install such out-of-date software? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#2000%E2%80%93present -- 73, Ged. -- Check out

Re: [BackupPC-users] Encryption

Hi there, On Mon, 2 Jul 2018, Kbtest Testar wrote: Any thoughts regarding my question about encryption? You might want to consider whether using whole-disk encryption plus a Web interface to the backup data makes the data more secure or less so. You might want to consider encryption of the

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC V4 and --checksum

Hi there, On Sat, 28 Jul 2018, Guillermo Rozas wrote: ... rsync --checksum only checksums files on the client, not the server. I find this strange because not only the manual says otherwise ... It is not clear to me what document ("manual") you are reading which leads you to the conclusions

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup in a special scenario

Hi there, On Sun, 5 Aug 2018, daggs wrote: I have a windows installation running inside a kvm vm, for past experience, backup using the samba protocol is unreliable ... For more than a decade, using the SMB protocol, I've backed up some hundreds of Windows machines, and a fair number of SMB

Re: [BackupPC-users] New Client; Same Hostname

Hi there, On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, Tim Evans wrote: I'm retiring the oldest PC among my BackupPC clients, and replacing it with a new one. Would like to use the same hostname for the new machine, but think this might confuse things with BackupPC. I'd recommend that you don't do it. BackupPC is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Large directory

Hi there, On Fri, 6 Jul 2018, Bowie Bailey wrote: I am trying to backup a large directory tree with BackupPC v4.? This directory is 660GB and contains over 25 million files with about 3 million hard links.? The initial backup ran for 2 weeks before dying with an rsync error.? It is showing as

Re: [BackupPC-users] Large directory

Hello again, On Sat, 7 Jul 2018, Bowie Bailey wrote: ... The directory is XFS. I have no experience of XFS, but I've read of strangenesses. It's my understanding is that yours is a fairly newly-copied filesystem, and the strangenesses I've read about have been after the filesystems have had

Re: [BackupPC-users] offsite server

Hi there, On Tue, 10 Apr 2018, Philip Parsons wrote: I was wondering if it would be a good idea to set up another instance of backuppc on the remote server, turn off all the backup functions, copy the config settings, rsync the pool and just have that instance as a restorative method (should

Re: [BackupPC-users] Getting data from cpool

Hi there, On Mon, 9 Apr 2018, "Thanks!" wrote: First of all I am sorry if this question can be answered upon long RTFM. There's also _short_ RTFM. :) Lazy questions like this are frowned upon on most mailing lists. If you can't spare the time to do things properly when you're being paid

Re: [BackupPC-users] considerations on i-nodes

Hi there, On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, Michael Stowe wrote: ... Those who do reach back a decade or more to select a filesystem, That's like saying the Linux kernel is a hangover from the end of the 20th century. It's misleading, and more than a bit unfair especially considering the numbers of

Re: [BackupPC-users] considerations on i-nodes

Hello again, On Fri, 20 Apr 2018, Michael Stowe wrote: ... I don't think we're disagreeing ... Agreed. :) "I want to futz around with inode allocations" is rarely at the top of people's to do lists. Perhaps not, but "What do I need to ask of a filesystem for it to be able to support my

Re: [BackupPC-users] Delete files from Backups

Hi there, On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, Stefan Schumacher wrote: ... Are there any other, better ways I should consider when sanitizing my backups? ... #!/usr/bin/perl #= -*-perl-*- # # BackupPC_deleteFile.pl: Delete one or more

Re: [BackupPC-users] RGDP, is backuppc still usable for non hobby backups after may 25

Hi there, On Sun, 25 Mar 2018, Ghislain Adnet wrote: ... The problem lies more with encryption as backuppc, from what i know, cannot encrypt data it store ... It isn't a problem. Just encrypt the partition on which the backup resides. -- 73, Ged.

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to distinguish from which BPC-server administrative emails are coming (Was: BackupPC administrative attention needed)

Hi there, On Thu, 1 Nov 2018, Sorin Srbu wrote: Tagging the $Conf{EMailAdminUserName} won?t work for me, the central smtp-server bounces it if I choose something else than a real existing mail address unfortunately. Most sane mail servers will accept real.user+some_tag_or_ot...@example.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] DHCP backups - only once possible

Hi there, On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Craig Barratt wrote: I've been reviewing the mail list over the last few months, and there are still a couple of reported issues I'm trying to replicate or learn more about. I'm still looking at the issue I had with BackupPC a couple of months ago (Re: BackupPC

Re: [BackupPC-users] Post-BackupPC_migrateV3toV4 work?

Hi there, On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Sorin Srbu wrote: .. I have a vague memory .. Perhaps see the thread entitled "turn off PoolV3Enabled"? -- 73, Ged. ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.2.1 apparently in an infinite loop.

Hi there, Thanks for your reply. On Thu, 20 Sep 2018, Craig Barratt wrote: First, this error message looks like just a bug in the message text: it shouldn't be concatenating those paths: > RmTreeQuietInner: > /mnt/3TLV/backuppc/pc/kestrel/268//var/lib/backuppc/pc/kestrel/268/X > isn't a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Laptop backups

Hi there, On Sun, 30 Dec 2018, Jan Stransky wrote: I want to backup a laptop. It is connected most of the time over wifi, but sometimes I connect it over cable. It is on linux First, thing I am struggling with its accessibility, but it is probably something in DNS lookup. However, the main

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.2.1 apparently in an infinite loop.

Hello again all, [Replying to myself here to try to get the thread back on topic.] On Mon, 17 Sep 2018, G.W. Haywood wrote: ... I suspect that this is a fault in BackupPC_backupDelete ... 8<-- BackupPC_backupDelete debug

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.2.1 apparently in an infinite loop.

Hi there, About a month ago I made the elementary mistake of upgrading my backup server from Debian Jessie to Debian Stretch. Just about everything broke. The biggest concern was the backups themselves. The upgrade changed BackupPC from version 3.3.0, which seemed to have been working fine

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.2.1 apparently in an infinite loop.

Hello again all, On Tue, 18 Sep 2018, Michael Stowe wrote: On Mon, 17 Sep 2018, G.W. Haywood wrote: I suspect that this is a fault in BackupPC_backupDelete ... RmTreeQuietInner seems to be seeing some sort of bowdlerization ... RmTreeQuietInner:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Xfer errors (especially bpc_sysCall_checkFileMatch(/path/to/file): file doesn't exist)

Hi there, On Tue, 12 Mar 2019, Daniel Berteaud wrote: I've been using BackupPC since the past 13 years (starting with 2.1.2 I think), with great success. I'm now running a few installations with v4, and one of the things I don't understand is the Xfer errors. [...snip...] On Thu, 4 Apr 2019,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Zfs Deduplication vs Backuppc Pooling

Hi there, On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 B wrote: On Tue, 2 Apr 2019, Stefan Schumacher wrote: I want to set up a new zfs volume as storage for Backuppc. I plan on using the zfs features encryption, deduplication and compression. Unless you have an _absolute_ need, do NOT use deduplication into ZFS

Re: [BackupPC-users] 0 repeated, 0 max chain in BackupPC 4

Hi there, On Fri, 5 Apr 2019, Stefan Schumacher wrote: ... sorry for ... so many questions ... Please don't apologize for asking sensible questions. At the very least it will help the people who try to document this stuff, and it might even help to find some of the bugs in new software. :)

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental fails after full

Hi there, On Fri, 15 Mar 2019, Erik wrote: After a full backup, the next incremental fails. It starts as planned, but never finishes. ... interrupt the backup and start it manually ... This then succeeds and the next scheduled incremental after that succeeds as well. Until after the next full.

Re: [BackupPC-users] BACKUPPC V4 - rsync-bpc error connecting to client

Hi there, On Fri, 7 Jun 2019, David Wynn wrote: I?ve just noticed that there are two directories ... The fact that you have one of your IP addresses appearing some place it probably shouldn't be makes me wonder if you've made a typo in a configuration file, but I couldn't swear to it. Looks

Re: [BackupPC-users] BACKUPPC V4 - rsync-bpc error connecting to client

Hello again, On Sat, 8 Jun 2019, David Wynn wrote: >> netpublic4.pl < $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = { '/nfs/Public' => [ '.FULL BLAST CREATIVE Or INKPLOT PROJECTS/*', '.HOTWINGS & WINGSNBEERS/*' ] }; $Conf{RsyncClientPath} = 'rsync'; ... You need the full

Re: [BackupPC-users] BACKUPPC V4 - rsync-bpc error connecting to client

Hi Dave, On Sun, 9 Jun 2019, David Wynn wrote: ... I have attached a picture ... Sorry, I don't genrally see attachments. I'm looking at the digest mailing list (I rarely subscribe to anything other than digest mailing lists), and most mailing list managers prune attachments. I went back

Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto backup using a "jump host"

Hi there, On Sat, 22 Jun 2019, Carl Soderstrom wrote: On 06/21 06:07 , Patrick B?gou wrote: I'm using BackupPC 3 for many local PCs. I would like now to backup some data from a remote server, located in another entity and where I need to go throught a frontend BackupPC <<--->> Frontend

Re: [BackupPC-users] BACKUPPC V4 - rsync-bpc error connecting to client

Hi Dave, On Mon, 10 Jun 2019, David Wynn wrote: ... I just don't think I've found the right module/subroutine that would be the one. I've looked in all your suggested places and nothing jumps out as the 'aha .. let's test this' location. I can find the spot in RSYNC.PM ( LN450

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup fails after three days, possibly millions of files

Hi there, On Mon, 8 Jul 2019, David Koski wrote: I am trying to back up about 24TB of data that has millions of files.? It takes a day or to before it starts backing up and then stops ... Your post is a little light on detail. BackupPC installations routinely back up that kind of data

Re: [BackupPC-users] RsyncIncrArgsExtra

Hello again, On Sat, 3 Aug 2019, Ted Toal wrote: I am NOT sure whether bandwidth limitation is what I want. ... only backing up our lab?s small portion of the data ... only backing up files less than 1 MB ... BackupPC shines, I think, in less well-constrained situations. Given the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Identical files

Hi there, On Fri, 26 Jul 2019, Ted Toal wrote: Is it easy to make updates to the documentation? I haven't seen a reply to this so I'll take a stab at it, although I don't really know the proper procedure. Mr. Barratt will know. It's not clear to me where you saw the "BackupPC

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup fails after three days, possibly millions of files

Hello again, On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, David Koski wrote: I suspect there are over ten million files but I don't have a good way of telling now. This indicates to me an issue more fundamental than not being able to back up a few files using BackupPC. You need to have *some* kind of a handle on

Re: [BackupPC-users] Identical files

Hi there, On Thu, 25 Jul 2019, Ted Toal wrote: ...What about filename and file directory, do these have to match for a pair of files to be identical? They wouldn't be identical files. They'd be the same file. :) -- 73, Ged. ___ BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Q: Issues w/network account for backuppc?

Hi there, On Wed, 4 Dec 2019, Gardner, Kevin wrote: ... My IT group is asking me if we can migrate this a new Linux-based server where the account running Backuppc would be networked rather than a local account. Initial trials by the IT group have not been successful ... Why does this

Re: [BackupPC-users] Q: Issues w/network account for backuppc?

Hi there, On Thu, 5 Dec 2019, Kenneth Porter wrote: On 12/4/2019 7:07 AM, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: > On Wed, 4 Dec 2019, Gardner, Kevin wrote: > > > ... My IT group is asking me if we can migrate this a new > > Linux-based server where the account runn

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4 - Wrong user: my userid is 33, instead of 108

Hi there, On Sun, 16 Feb 2020, shacky wrote: I'm trying to upgrade from BackupPC 3 to BackupPC 4 on one Debian system, but I'm having problems with Apache2 and the BackupPC cgi file. The web interface tells me "Error: Wrong user: my userid is 33, instead of 108(backuppc)", even if the cgi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Efficiently browsing backups

Hi there, On Thu, 16 Apr 2020, Alwyn Kik wrote: What is the best way to find a file or directory ... man find -- 73, Ged. ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar update from 3.2.1 to 4.3.2

Hi there, On Sun, 12 Apr 2020, R.C. wrote: Got 3.2.1 installed from tarball on Centos 6.7 (Perl 5.10, httpd 2.2.15, Kernel 2.6.32) Any caveat or prepare-actions, except than activating "PoolV3Enabled", for updating to 4.3.2 taball? Yes. First, update all the software. Per 5.10 was

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.

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] 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] Troubles avoiding nightly backups on V4

Hi there, On Tue, 14 Apr 2020, R.C. wrote: I have Backuppc V4 rpm installation on Centos8 and I am experiencing troubles with blackout periods. I would like this server to perform backups during daytime only but I cannot apply the desired behaviour. At the end of this message you can find my

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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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 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] 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 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] 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] 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] 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] 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 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] 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 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] 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] 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] 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 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 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

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