[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_fixLinks.pl - Where to download?

2015-09-02 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi all, I have a lot of files in my pc-tree which are not correct linked into my pool. I'll like to verify and linked them correctly into my pool (not cpool). I've found some mailings regarding BackupPC_fixLinks.pl as well as hints to the location http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc

[BackupPC-users] Patch for V3.3.2-1: partial and yearly backups

2019-02-16 Thread Matthias Meyer
I've developed two enhancements to BackupPC 3.1.0 and use it since 2010. In June 2013 I've done the upgrade to BackupPC V3.2.1 (debian wheezy) and I implemented my patch in this release. In Februar 2019 I've done it again to BackupPC V3.3.2-2 (debian buster/testing) As requested by Jeffrey Kosow

Re: [BackupPC-users] FEATURE REQUEST - "lock" designated backups from being deleted...

2019-04-08 Thread Matthias Meyer
Am Sonntag 07 April 2019, 17:11:47 schrieb backu...@kosowsky.org: > Sometimes you want to save a special backup that for example > corresponds to a specific change (pre/post) on your system. The > trouble is that with exponential deleting there is no way to > guarantee that your specific designated

Re: [BackupPC-users] Patch for V3.3.2-1: partial and yearly backups

2019-04-08 Thread Matthias Meyer
I've recognized today my firewall issue with ftp://www.backup4u.at. It is solved now and you can access it again. Maybe someone can put the patches into a standard place for backuppc patches? br Matthias Am Samstag 16 Februar 2019, 14:13:40 schrieb Matthias Meyer: > I've

[BackupPC-users] howto configure rsyncd

2008-05-11 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hello, I get my backups since a long time wit backuppc/tar. Now I want to switch to rsync. I've install rsync onto the backup-Client and configure it to run in daemon-mode. I create a also the: root:/home/Meyer# cat /etc/rsyncd.conf motd file = /etc/motd max connections = 5 syslog facility = loca

Re: [BackupPC-users] auto-expire when the disk is full

2008-05-12 Thread Matthias Meyer
You can reuse my script "BackupPC_deleteBackup": http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/How+to+delete+backups It will delete a specified backup-number and all incrementals depends on it if it is a full backup. Furthermore it will modify the pc//backups. Last but not least it can start BackupPC_nig

Re: [BackupPC-users] howto configure rsyncd

2008-05-17 Thread Matthias Meyer
Am Montag 12 Mai 2008 schrieb Matthias Meyer: > Hello, > > I get my backups since a long time wit backuppc/tar. > Now I want to switch to rsync. > I've install rsync onto the backup-Client and configure it to run in > daemon-mode. > I create a also the: > root:/hom

[BackupPC-users] What is the advantage of usinr rsync instead tar?

2008-05-17 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hello, I get up&running my backups with rsync. Used tar before. But I see no usable advante of using rsync. should rsync be faster than tar or should it need less space on drive? Thanks Matthias -- Don't Panic - This SF.ne

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to BackupFilesExclude to exclude locked files on Windows XP

2008-05-18 Thread Matthias Meyer
Am Sonntag 18 Mai 2008 schrieb Kurt Jasper: > Hi, > > some of my client-pcs are running win xp/2000. > They get backed up using SSH and rsync and everything seems to work > fine, except that every backup gives back some XferLOG Errors, because > it can not copy some locked files: > > Remote[1]:

[BackupPC-users] /bin/tar: --totals: Cannot chdir: No such file or directory

2008-05-19 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hello, I've renamed my "localhost" to "fileserver". Thats mean I renamed the directory "backuppc/pc/localhost" to "backuppc/pc/fileserver" and renamed the entry in /etc/backuppc/hosts too. Of course I import the new host key for fileserver for user backuppc. Unfortunately I get erros in every b

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to BackupFilesExclude to exclude locked files on Windows XP

2008-05-20 Thread Matthias Meyer
Am Dienstag 20 Mai 2008 schrieb Les Stott: > Kurt jasper wrote: > > ok, to exclude the follwing files that can be found in any > > user-directory C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME), I followed your > > suggestion and put intomy CLIENT.PL: > > [...] > > $Conf{RsyncShareName} = '/'; > > $Conf{Backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] /bin/tar: --totals: Cannot chdir: No such file or directory

2008-05-20 Thread Matthias Meyer
Am Montag 19 Mai 2008 schrieb Tino Schwarze: > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 09:57:03PM +0200, Matthias Meyer wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've renamed my "localhost" to "fileserver". > > Thats mean I renamed the directory "backuppc/pc/localhost&q

[BackupPC-users] rsync - writefd_unbuffered failed to write

2008-10-22 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi, I've installed cygwin and rsync on a vista client and want backup it to backuppc 3.1.0-2 on my Linux server: On client side (vista) I use rsync 3.0.4 (protocol version 30) Capabilities:     64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 32-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,     socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks,

[BackupPC-users] Is it possible to configure different languages for different hosts?

2008-10-27 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi, I've found the $Conf{Language} = 'en'; in the CGI configuration of the backuppc-server. I assume that the language configuration will work for all hosts within this backuppc-server. It is possible to configure different languages for different hosts? Thanks Matthias -- Don't Panic ---

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync - writefd_unbuffered failed to write

2008-10-28 Thread Matthias Meyer
> > > > > > Matthias Meyer wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've installed cygwin and rsync on a vista client and want backup it to > > > backuppc 3.1.0-2 on my Linux server: > > > > > > > 2008/10/17 10:30:28 [1432] rsyn

[BackupPC-users] NT-Authority/System will be file owner after rsync restore

2008-12-04 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi, I try to backup WindowsXP as well as Vista to an Linux server. I use backuppc 3.1.0 as backup-server (Debian, ext3), cygwin as client environment and rsyncd for the transport. The backup seems to work well but the restore not. The restored files get "NT-Authority/System" as new owner, indepen

Re: [BackupPC-users] help with BackupFilesExclude

2008-12-05 Thread Matthias Meyer
Nick Smith wrote: > I currently have several windows server backup clients that i use > volume shadow to backup the data, i use a pre script that lauches the > shadow and maps it to drive B on the windows box and then backuppc > backups B over rsync then a post script to kill the volume shadow. >

Re: [BackupPC-users] NT-Authority/System will be file owner after rsync restore

2008-12-05 Thread Matthias Meyer
Matthias Meyer wrote: Hi, Don't know why but today it have another point of viw ;-) I try to backup WindowsXP as well as Vista to an Linux server. I use backuppc 3.1.0 as backup-server (Debian, ext3), cygwin as client environment and rsyncd for the transport. The backup seems to work wel

Re: [BackupPC-users] help with BackupFilesExclude

2008-12-05 Thread Matthias Meyer
Nick Smith wrote: >> >> I declare the exclude list within the GUI of backuppc. >> >> Declare the "RsyncShareName" in the same manner as they are declared in >> your rsyncd.conf in your windows client. >> Define BackupFilesExclude: >> NewKey = "*" if it should applicable to all RsyncShareName or th

Re: [BackupPC-users] help with BackupFilesExclude

2008-12-06 Thread Matthias Meyer
Nick Smith wrote: >> Within the Key you can add the directories relativ to the RsyncShareName >> in Linux syntax. >> e.g.: >> $Conf{RsyncShareName} = [ >> 'D', >> 'C' >> ]; >> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { >> 'C' => [ >>'/WINDOWS/Downloaded Program Files', >>'/WINDOWS/Offline Web Pages'

[BackupPC-users] rsync - fileowner lost during backup or restore

2008-12-08 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi, I try to backup my windows clients with backuppc as well as cygwin/rsync. The backup/restore with rsyncd at windows and rsync on linux (run as root) works well. Only as normal (linux) user it didn't work because of insufficient privileges for chmod and chgrp. With backuppc (run as user backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] backups failing due to errors under /sys... BackupFilesExclude is not taking effect. What gives?

2008-12-08 Thread Matthias Meyer
Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.2 > > Backups of a single host are aborting after lots of errors like > > sys/block/hdc/capability: md4 doesn't match: will retry in phase 1; file > removed Remote[1]: rsync: read errors mapping "/sys/block/hdc/capability": > No data availa

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupFilesExcludes for Linux

2008-12-08 Thread Matthias Meyer
Mark Adams wrote: > > I believe the $Conf{RsyncShareName} statement should involve '/' rather > than '/etc'. The directory I want to backup is /etc which is a > subdirectory of /. I also believe the /home/madams directory should be > /home. Am I right? > $Conf{RsyncShareName} should contain

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync - fileowner lost during backup or restore

2008-12-09 Thread Matthias Meyer
Matthias Meyer wrote: > Hi, > I try to backup my windows clients with backuppc as well as cygwin/rsync. > > The backup/restore with rsyncd at windows and rsync on linux (run as root) > works well. Only as normal (linux) user it didn't work because of > insufficient privile

[BackupPC-users] pre-xfer and post-xfer exec

2008-12-10 Thread Matthias Meyer
Jean-Michel Beuken wrote: > hello, > > I have tried to use "pre-xfer exec" with rsyncd / cygwin > > I have created a special module to restore in a unique folder ( > d:/BackupPC ) > > > > $ cat /etc/rsyncd.conf > > > [RESTORE] > path = /cygdrive/d/BackupPC

Re: [BackupPC-users] pre-xfer and post-xfer exec

2008-12-11 Thread Matthias Meyer
Jean-Michel Beuken wrote: > Matthias, > > thanks for the quick answer... > >> I run pre-xfer successfully under Win XP but has no luck with Vista. >> Did you use XP or Vista? >> > > XP SP3 > >> Maybee "#! /bin/sh" is necessary in the first line of your >> "/bin/pre-exec.sh". > > administra

Re: [BackupPC-users] pre-xfer and post-xfer exec

2008-12-13 Thread Matthias Meyer
Matthias Meyer wrote: > > I have a similiar problem in Vista with failure code (65280). I asked > today for both failure codes in the rsync.general mailing list. > > br > Matthias >From rsync.general I get the answer that this are not error codes from rsync and I cou

[BackupPC-users] how to examine progress of backup

2009-01-05 Thread Matthias Meyer
I use rsyncd to backup both, windows as well as linux clients. Is it possible to examine or calculate the progress of an actual running backup? One Idea would be to calculate the duration of the last backups and assume the actual backup will have the same performance. But this can be wrong if some

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to examine progress of backup

2009-01-05 Thread Matthias Meyer
Adam Goryachev wrote: > > I don't think it is even possible to guess how much rsync will transfer > on a changed file without running through the whole comparison. > rsync does have --progress which I find very useful, this at least > displays how many files need to be looked at, and how many are l

[BackupPC-users] how to restore one extra file if a restore is requested

2009-01-10 Thread Matthias Meyer
If a user requests a restore I want to restore one extra file and handle it by the RestorePostUserCmd. Is it possible to request this additional restore with BackupPC_restore during the RestorePreUserCmd or RestorePostUserCmd ? Thanks Matthias -- Don't Panic

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to restore one extra file if a restore is requested

2009-01-11 Thread Matthias Meyer
Craig Barratt wrote: > Matthias writes: > >> If a user requests a restore I want to restore one extra file and handle >> it by the RestorePostUserCmd. >> Is it possible to request this additional restore with BackupPC_restore >> during the RestorePreUserCmd or RestorePostUserCmd ? > > Yes, you c

[BackupPC-users] errors in cpool after e2fsck corrections

2009-01-18 Thread Matthias Meyer
After a system crash and tons of errors in my ext3 filesystem I have to run e2fsck. During this I lost some GB of data in /var/lib/backuppc. For the time being I have disabled BackupPC_nightly by renaming it to BackupPC_nightly.disabled ;-) The rest of the backuppc system should run as well as pos

Re: [BackupPC-users] errors in cpool after e2fsck corrections

2009-01-18 Thread Matthias Meyer
Johan Ehnberg wrote: > Quoting Matthias Meyer : > >> After a system crash and tons of errors in my ext3 filesystem I have to >> run e2fsck. >> During this I lost some GB of data in /var/lib/backuppc. >> For the time being I have disabled Back

Re: [BackupPC-users] errors in cpool after e2fsck corrections

2009-01-18 Thread Matthias Meyer
> Matthias Meyer wrote: >> Thanks for your sympathy :-) >> I would believe the filesystem should be ok in the meantime. e2fsck needs >> to run 3 or 4 times and need in total more than 2 days. After this >> lost+found contains approximately 10% of my data :-( No chance to

Re: [BackupPC-users] errors in cpool after e2fsck corrections

2009-01-18 Thread Matthias Meyer
Holger Parplies wrote: > Hi, > > Matthias Meyer wrote on 2009-01-18 15:33:30 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] > errors in cpool after e2fsck corrections]: >> Johan Ehnberg wrote: >> > Quoting Matthias Meyer : >> > >> >> After a system crash and tons

Re: [BackupPC-users] errors in cpool after e2fsck corrections

2009-01-18 Thread Matthias Meyer
Adam Goryachev wrote: > Matthias Meyer wrote: >> Johan Ehnberg wrote: >> >> 1) So you would recommend: >> mv /var/lib/backuppc/cpool /var/lib/backuppc/cpool.sav >> mkdir /var/lib/backuppc/cpool >> I would believe that the hardlinks >> from /var/lib/

Re: [BackupPC-users] errors in cpool after e2fsck corrections

2009-01-18 Thread Matthias Meyer
Johan Ehnberg wrote: > Matthias Meyer wrote: >>> Matthias Meyer wrote: >>>> Thanks for your sympathy :-) >>>> I would believe the filesystem should be ok in the meantime. e2fsck >>>> needs to run 3 or 4 times and need in total more than 2 days. Afte

[BackupPC-users] how to make a backup available as a backup basis for another client?

2009-01-18 Thread Matthias Meyer
I plan to backup (with rsync) some machines with nearly identical data (operating system). Because this machines are only reachable through internet I want to avoid a lot of traffic for files which are already on the backuppc server. I assume rsync will only compare the data between the client and

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to make a backup available as a backup basis for another client?

2009-01-18 Thread Matthias Meyer
dan wrote: > just want to clarify here. > > you have x number of remote hosts, all running the same OS and presumably > have almost identical files (size, permissions etc)? and you want back one > up and then clone that backup for each of the other machines to avoid > transfering the data numerou

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to make a backup available as a backup basis for another client?

2009-01-20 Thread Matthias Meyer
Juergen Harms wrote: > I agree, I would separate initial cloning (better use plain rsync) and > backup operations (a case for backuppc). From what you wrote, I am not > even sure whether - once you have done the initial cloning - in steady > state you want to do "backup" (periodically take increme

Re: [BackupPC-users] errors in cpool after e2fsck corrections

2009-01-20 Thread Matthias Meyer
dan wrote: > You should run two tests that can pick up any CPU or memory error. On > boot > run memtest from grub. That will hammer on your RAM for as long as you > want. Then run cpuburn to see if your CPU has some issue. I would think > that your RAM is the more likely candidate here. The p

Re: [BackupPC-users] user information customization

2009-01-25 Thread Matthias Meyer
Simone Marzona wrote: > Hi > > Is there a way to show failed backups only to users who administer the > host that failed? > > I manage users and hosts as documented with the backuppc hosts file like > this: > > serverA 0 backuppc userA > serverb 0 backuppc userB It is not necessary to hav

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to make a backup available as a backup basis for another client?

2009-01-26 Thread Matthias Meyer
Tino Schwarze wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 05:29:21PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> > you have x number of remote hosts, all running the same OS and >> > presumably have almost identical files (size, permissions etc)? and you >> > want back one up and then clone that backup for each of the

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to make a backup available as a backup basis for another client?

2009-01-27 Thread Matthias Meyer
Matthias Meyer wrote: > I plan to backup (with rsync) some machines with nearly identical data > (operating system). Because this machines are only reachable through > internet I want to avoid a lot of traffic for files which are already > on the backuppc server. > I assume

[BackupPC-users] against which basis rsync do compare files before transmit the changed part?

2009-01-27 Thread Matthias Meyer
I do not fully understand how rsync works within backuppc. In the documentation for BackupPC_dump I found: As BackupPC_tarExtract extracts the files from smbclient or tar, or as rsync runs, it checks each file in the backup to see if it is identical to an existing file from any previous backup o

[BackupPC-users] how to examine the actual transfered Size/MB of a running BackupPC_dump

2009-01-29 Thread Matthias Meyer
Is it possible to examine how many data a running BackupPC_dump has copied from client to server until now? Thanks Matthias -- Don't Panic -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to

Re: [BackupPC-users] errors in cpool after e2fsck corrections

2009-02-01 Thread Matthias Meyer
Matthias Meyer wrote: > Johan Ehnberg wrote: > >> In 2) you should not delete anything - only when filesystem errors are >> causing trouble. You need the nightly. >> >> Other than that - read the other posts too, they have good pointers to >> actually dealing

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to make a backup available as a backup basis for another client?

2009-02-01 Thread Matthias Meyer
Matthias Meyer wrote: > As outlined in the documentation: > su backuppc > cd NEW_TOPDIR > mkdir pc > cd pc > /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarPCCopy /var/lib/backuppc/pc | tar xvPf > - I should run: > su backuppc > cd /var/lib/backuppc/pc/host2 > mkdir 0 &g

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to make a backup available as a backup basis for another client?

2009-02-03 Thread Matthias Meyer
Les Mikesell wrote: > > You get new directories and attrib files in each run. The only plain > file in the list does have the same inode number - and a count of 4 links. > Yes, you are right :-) cp -rl /var/lib/backuppc/pc/host1/0 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/host2/0 do what I want. Also cp -al /var/

Re: [BackupPC-users] multiple pre/post commands

2009-02-03 Thread Matthias Meyer
Try something like this: /usr/local/bin/mypreexec $host -f -q -x -w 10 -s $share -t $cmdType Notify: all "-?" parameters will perform actions in my script "mypreexec". $host as well as $cmdType will be filled by backuppc with the documented values. br Matthias -- Don't Panic --

[BackupPC-users] Is a switch between different transfer methods possible?

2009-02-06 Thread Matthias Meyer
I use rsyncd to backup my (Windows) clients. The first backup of each client needs a really long time. Would it be faster if I use smb or tar for the initial backup? Is it possible to switch back to rsyncd after this initial backup? Would I maintained all the benefits of rsyncd starting with the 2

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is a switch between different transfer methods possible?

2009-02-07 Thread Matthias Meyer
Tino Schwarze wrote: > On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 01:56:33AM +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote: >> I use rsyncd to backup my (Windows) clients. >> The first backup of each client needs a really long time. >> >> Would it be faster if I use smb or tar for the initial backup? >

[BackupPC-users] meaning of different "Aborting backup" failure messages

2009-02-12 Thread Matthias Meyer
Sometimes my backups abort with different failures. Anybody know the meaning of/reason for the following failures? 1) Aborting backup up after signal ALRM 2) Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely) 3) Aborting backup up after signal INT 4) Aborting backup up after signal PIPE 5) Backup aborted (l

Re: [BackupPC-users] meaning of different "Aborting backup" failure messages

2009-02-13 Thread Matthias Meyer
John Rouillard wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 05:44:33PM +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote: >> Sometimes my backups abort with different failures. >> Anybody know the meaning of/reason for the following failures? >> 1) Aborting backup up after signal ALRM > > The backup

[BackupPC-users] did --partial-dir works with perl::rsync

2009-02-14 Thread Matthias Meyer
I have some big files (*.pst ;-)) to backup over a small connetion. Could I improve the transfer by using --partial-dir? My goal is that rsync didn't transfer the whole file again but only the part which not been transfered before. Thanks Matthias -- Don't Panic

Re: [BackupPC-users] did --partial-dir works with perl::rsync

2009-02-14 Thread Matthias Meyer
Tino Schwarze wrote: > Hi Matthias, > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:39:21PM +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote: > >> I have some big files (*.pst ;-)) to backup over a small connetion. >> Could I improve the transfer by using --partial-dir? >> My goal is that rsync didn&#

[BackupPC-users] Child is aborting during backup but backuppc reports a success

2009-02-17 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi, I backup a windows client with rsyncd over ssh. I am pretty sure the ssh connection was interrupted at 23:27. In the /var/lib/backuppc/pc/st-ms-wv/XferLOG.0.z I found the error message: create 770 4294967295/4294967295 240986 Help/Windows/de-DE/artcone.h1s Read EOF: Tried again: got

Re: [BackupPC-users] help me sir

2009-03-10 Thread Matthias Meyer
mohan infant wrote: > hello sir i'm final year engineering student now i'm working a project > BackupPC > but i have lot of problem in this project > the backup is normaly done...but the automatic incremental backup is not > be done.. > i have seen the error "host Backup summary > * this PC

[BackupPC-users] How scalable is backuppc?

2009-03-11 Thread Matthias Meyer
Dear all, How scalable is backuppc? Where are the limits or what can produce performance bottlenecks? I've heard about hardlinks which can be a problem if theire are millions of it. Is that true? I can imagine that backuppc have a lot of work to find identical files if theire are to much of them

Re: [BackupPC-users] My cpool and pool dirs are empty

2009-03-12 Thread Matthias Meyer
Wayne L Andersen wrote: > So it sound slike the best solution is to re-install. > > Can I do that without destroying my current backups? :-O Your backups are in cpool (compressed) and/or pool (uncompressed). regarding your subject you have lost your backups already! > > Is there a way to do tha

Re: [BackupPC-users] How scalable is backuppc?

2009-03-13 Thread Matthias Meyer
Mike Dresser wrote: > > > Matthias Meyer wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> How scalable is backuppc? >> Where are the limits or what can produce performance bottlenecks? >> >> I've heard about hardlinks which can be a problem if theire are millions &

[BackupPC-users] initial backup seems to loop again and again

2009-04-01 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi, I've a problem with the initial backup of a vista client, called "myclient". This client ist connected over internet with an 1Mbit/s upload bandwidth and have 100GB of storage to backup. Unfortunately the internet connection will be interupted each night for 5 minutes. 2009-03-31 23:59:19 B

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc CGI Interface not working for me

2009-04-02 Thread Matthias Meyer
Laurin d'Volts wrote: > I'm trying to access the CGI-interface of backuppc using a Debian Sid > distro. Backuppc doesn't want to display the CGI interface in the > browser. I got the program to work on a different computer (w/ Debian > Sid but not apt-get upgrade for a while), so I don't fully und

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc CGI Interface not working for me

2009-04-03 Thread Matthias Meyer
Odhiambo Washington wrote: > ls -al BackupPC_Admin try ls -alh /usr/share/backuppc/cgi-bin/index.cgi because that is the "BackupPC_Admin" installed by the debian package. If it is not suid, you have to suid it: chmod u+s /usr/share/backuppc/cgi-bin/index.cgi br Matthias -- Don't Panic ---

[BackupPC-users] rrdtool

2009-04-05 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi, I've installed rrdtool on my system and found the "BackupPC Pool Size" in the server status page. I didn't know before that backuppc can display measures from rrdtool. Their are any other rrdtool data which can be displeyed in the backuppc GUI? Is there a documentation about this integration?

Re: [BackupPC-users] rrdtool

2009-04-05 Thread Matthias Meyer
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: > Matthias Meyer wrote: > >> I've installed rrdtool on my system and found the "BackupPC Pool >> Size" in >> the server status page. I didn't know before that backuppc can display >> measures from rrdtool. &

Re: [BackupPC-users] debian/freebsd

2009-04-06 Thread Matthias Meyer
dan wrote: > http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/05/39 > > just an FYI for those that are fans of debian and of freebsd. > > Debian is now shipping with a freebsd kernel. This will give a debian > userland to the freebsd kernel, and access to debian packages. > > I cant wait to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why no files where transferred in this session?

2009-04-14 Thread Matthias Meyer
Boniforti Flavio wrote: > Hello list! > > This is the log from my last attempt to sync a directory containing 2 big > files: > > Executing DumpPreUserCmd: /var/lib/backuppc/tunnel.sh -fC > administra...@mail.omvsa.ch -L 8874:127.0.0.1:873 sleep 60 > SSH started successfully. > incr backup starte

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why no files where transferred in this session?

2009-04-16 Thread Matthias Meyer
Les Mikesell wrote: >>> /bin/nice -n 10 /bin/autossh -R :localhost:22 -M >>> 0 -N -C -i /etc/ssh/id_rsa -p 22 u...@server.domain.at or >>> install it as a service via cygrunsrv. >>> The ssh tunnel is open the whole day and my server can >>> connect to the client whenever he want. >> >> Nice, but

[BackupPC-users] which files are stored during a backup if a partial backup is present

2009-04-17 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi, If I have a partial backup and a new full backup is running, did backuppc store all already saved files from the partial in the /new directory or only the new saved files? Thanks Matthias -- Don't Panic -- Stay on

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup aborted by signal=PIPE

2009-04-18 Thread Matthias Meyer
Boniforti Flavio wrote: > Hello list. > > As I'm checking backups this morning, I see: > > delete d 777 0/0 0 VARIE > attribWrite(dir=fUfficio) -> > /var/lib/backuppc/pc/mail.cometti.ch/new/fUfficio/attrib > attribWrite(dir=) -> /var/lib/backuppc/pc/mail.cometti.ch/new//attrib

Re: [BackupPC-users] How BackupPC finds host when using SSH tunnel?

2009-04-28 Thread Matthias Meyer
Boniforti Flavio wrote: > Hello there. > > I read the chapter "How BackupPC Finds Hosts" and I found out that my > hosts don't get "found" if using the suggested > > perl -e 'print(gethostbyname("myhost") ? "ok\n" : "not found\n");' > > Thus I'm asking: how does BackupPC ping hosts which actual

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc

2009-04-28 Thread Matthias Meyer
soume86 wrote: > Hello to all, > I have just installed backuppc on a machine ubuntu. > The installation it is crossed(spent) well. My problem is the following > one: > > I added a machine to protect goes the interface of administration. > And when I click to Start the complete saving and when I r

[BackupPC-users] Is backuppc with rsyncrypto instead rsync possible

2009-04-28 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi, I think about an encrypted backup and find rsyncrypto. Is there a BackupPC_dump support for rsyncrypto? Or any other way to use rsyncrypto with backuppc? Thanks Matthias -- Don't Panic -- Register Now & Save for Ve

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is backuppc with rsyncrypto instead rsync possible

2009-04-29 Thread Matthias Meyer
Chris Robertson wrote: > Matthias Meyer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I think about an encrypted backup and find rsyncrypto. >> Is there a BackupPC_dump support for rsyncrypto? >> Or any other way to use rsyncrypto with backuppc? >> > > From the looks of

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc

2009-04-29 Thread Matthias Meyer
soume86 wrote: > > Hello, > > I think that I am not good explained. > I want to save a machine Linux. > When I click to save the machine, > I have the following error: > The saving failed (fileListReceive failed). > > And that I would want knowledge that it is necessary > to install samba ( smb

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is backuppc with rsyncrypto instead rsync possible

2009-05-01 Thread Matthias Meyer
Chris Robertson wrote: > > Rsyncrypto doesn't seem to send the files directly. From the tutorial > (http://www.linux.com/feature/125322) linked from the home page > (http://rsyncrypto.lingnu.com/index.php/Home_Page): > > "rsyncrypto is designed to be used as a presync option to rsync. That > is,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Total amount of traffic data per session

2009-05-13 Thread Matthias Meyer
Boniforti Flavio wrote: > Hello list. > > Is it possible to extract the value of the *effectively transferred > data* in a backup session? > > Thanks in advance, > Flavio Boniforti > You will find it in $HOME/pc//backups See backuppc online documentation for a description of this file br Matt

Re: [BackupPC-users] Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync

2009-05-14 Thread Matthias Meyer
Tim Cole wrote: > I have a similar question.  I'm using rsync for transfer and need to > exclude a few windows directories such as system volume.  I added the > path to the directory as rsync sees it on the other end > "/mnt/windows/system volume information" but it doesn't get > excluded.  I see

Re: [BackupPC-users] Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync

2009-05-15 Thread Matthias Meyer
Tim Cole wrote: > Sorry for the html - I forget thunderbird is set to do that by default. > I am not using cygwin, so the windows shares are mounted via cifs on an > embedded linux appliance at the remote end. The path to the mounted > shares on the remote end is "/mnt/lpl/" I have actually been

Re: [BackupPC-users] SMB vs RSYNCD

2009-05-15 Thread Matthias Meyer
Robert J. Phillips wrote: > When I first started using BackupPC I was letting the backups happen > with SMB. I have since found and figured out how to make it work the > process to use vshadow and rsyncd. > > > > I think now that I understand the vshadow command that I could use > vshadow and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc: Limit on the depth of folders backed up?

2009-05-15 Thread Matthias Meyer
Dean Lambourn wrote: > All, > > Is there a limit on the folder depth for backups? I recently noticed > that on at least one system not all files were being backed up despite > the backup being listed as successful. On the system in question, > backup files exist in this folder: > > fC$/fDocume

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling archiving host

2009-06-07 Thread Matthias Meyer
Boniforti Flavio wrote: > Hello list, > > I'd like to forget about the archiving host and its function now that > I've set it up. Is there any way to schedule it to run at a given time > from the BackupPC interface? The only alternative solution I can think > of is using a cron job... What are yo

Re: [BackupPC-users] problem backing up hosts

2009-06-07 Thread Matthias Meyer
Benedict simon wrote: > > Dear All, > > I am new to backupPC and do have a problem with backing up a Linux hosts > here is my configuration > > i have a Backup PC server on Centos 5.3 > i have downloaded installed backuppc as per intructions form the site but > from source rpm > also installed

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem with sendmail in Version 3.2

2009-06-08 Thread Matthias Meyer
Christian Baus wrote: > Hi Duds, > > It's my first time to send to this list! So I want to say thank you very > much for > this great software! > > We backup an network with 3 windows server and 6 linux servers, data > about 1TB. > > The Backup works fine! But when BackupPC send an mail to noti

Re: [BackupPC-users] SMB vs RSYNCD

2009-06-08 Thread Matthias Meyer
clint woodrow wrote: > > > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: >> Adam Goryachev wrote at about 13:42:41 +1000 on Wednesday, June 3, 2009: >> >> > clint woodrow wrote: >> > >> > > >> > > Matthias Meyer wrote: >> > &

[BackupPC-users] Is it possible to split backuppc and gui to two different servers

2009-06-08 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi, Is it possible to run Backuppc on another server as the web interface? thanks Matthias -- Don't Panic -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enable

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is it possible to split backuppc and gui to two different servers

2009-06-11 Thread Matthias Meyer
Holger Parplies wrote: > Hi, > > Matthias Meyer wrote on 2009-06-08 23:16:48 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] Is it > possible to split backuppc and gui to two different servers]: >> >> Is it possible to run Backuppc on another server as the web interface? > > yes, but yo

[BackupPC-users] include directive in config.pl

2009-06-11 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi, Unfortunately I am not a perl programmer. Therefore my, maybee stupid, question ;-) Is it possible to include a specification within the $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}? Something like: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { 'WINDOWS' => [ '/Downloaded Program Files', '/Offline Web Pages', '/

Re: [BackupPC-users] include directive in config.pl

2009-06-11 Thread Matthias Meyer
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Matthias Meyer wrote at about 18:00:22 +0200 on Thursday, June 11, 2009: > > Hi, > > > > Unfortunately I am not a perl programmer. > > Therefore my, maybee stupid, question ;-) > > > > Is it possible to includ

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backup takes all files

2009-06-12 Thread Matthias Meyer
Erik Hjertén wrote: > Hi all > > I'm using Backuppc on an Ubuntu-server and Deltacopy on windows clients. How do you call DeltaCopy from the Backuppc Server? > The incremental backup runs inludes all files, but only every other day. What did you mean with "but only every other day" ? > The back

Re: [BackupPC-users] include directive in config.pl

2009-06-12 Thread Matthias Meyer
:-) Yes, thats what I am looking for! So if I want to include the Vista junctions from another file I should create a file (e.g. /path/to/junction_definitions.pl) This file should contain the statements: # define the list of junctions for Vista in English: @VistaJunctions_english = ( "/dir1", "/di

[BackupPC-users] how to integrate the gui with single sign on into a different web page

2009-06-12 Thread Matthias Meyer
Is it possible to integrate the Backuppc GUI within my own homepage and reuse the login to my homepage as login to backuppc (single sign on)? There are some directions or hints which I have to give to a web programmer? Thanks Matthias -- Don't Panic -

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backup takes all files

2009-06-12 Thread Matthias Meyer
Erik Hjertén wrote: > Thanks for your reply. > > Matthias Meyer skrev: >> Erik Hjertén wrote: >> >> >>> Hi all >>> >>> I'm using Backuppc on an Ubuntu-server and Deltacopy on windows clients. >>> >> How do y

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backup takes all files

2009-06-12 Thread Matthias Meyer
Matthias Meyer wrote: > Erik Hjertén wrote: > >> Thanks for your reply. >> >> Matthias Meyer skrev: >>> Erik Hjertén wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hi all >>>> >>>> I'm using Backuppc on an Ubuntu-server and

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to integrate the gui with single sign on into a different web page

2009-06-12 Thread Matthias Meyer
Les Mikesell wrote: > Matthias Meyer wrote: >> Is it possible to integrate the Backuppc GUI within my own homepage and >> reuse the login to my homepage as login to backuppc (single sign on)? >> There are some directions or hints which I have to give to a web >> progr

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backup takes all files

2009-06-13 Thread Matthias Meyer
Erik Hjertén wrote: > >>> Please set $Conf{XferLogLevel} = 2; >>> Than check the XferLOG after a backup. >>> Look for: >>> create = new for this backup >>> pool= found a match in the pool >>> same= file is identical to previous backup >>> skip= file skipped in incremental because att

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backup takes all files

2009-06-14 Thread Matthias Meyer
Erik Hjertén wrote: > Matthias Meyer skrev: >> >>> - >>> incr backup started back to 2009-06-13 10:59:37 (backup #341) for >>> directory data Connected to eddie:873, remote version 29 >>> Negotiated protocol version 28 >>> Connected to mod

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backup takes all files

2009-06-14 Thread Matthias Meyer
Erik Hjertén wrote: > Matthias Meyer skrev: >> I'm with you. But your incrementals will backup all files changed since >> last full. Do you want that? >> > Not necessarily, but now it behaves as expected. >> I make a full backup each 7 days and use $Conf{

Re: [BackupPC-users] Error: Backup number for host .... does not exis

2009-06-15 Thread Matthias Meyer
vezza wrote: > > Could someone please explain me how to solve this problem? > > I have installed a new BackupPC server, mounted the __top-dir__ of the old > server into the __top-dir__ of the new server but when I go to the CGI > page that lists backups it output this error... > > what I am mis

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