Re: [BackupPC-users] RsyncArgs configuration

2008-02-10 Thread Raman Gupta
Raman Gupta wrote: Another thing that would be useful (with or without the change above) is if the RsyncArgs had the runtime variable substitution turned on for at least the ConfDir and the host name. For example, I tried this: $Conf{RsyncArgs} = [ [...], '--exclude

[BackupPC-users] RsyncArgs configuration

2008-02-10 Thread Raman Gupta
(with or without the change above) is if the RsyncArgs had the runtime variable substitution turned on for at least the ConfDir and the host name. For example, I tried this: $Conf{RsyncArgs} = [ [...], '--exclude-from=$confDir/pc/$host.exclude', ]; but it did not work. Cheers, Raman

[BackupPC-users] Missing backup

2008-03-05 Thread Raman Gupta
The backup for one of my hosts did not run two nights ago. I can't find any indication of the reason why -- no errors at all. The logs indicate the backup didn't even start. My other two hosts completed successfully. This is the first time this has happened in about three weeks, and without me

Re: [BackupPC-users] Missing backup

2008-03-05 Thread Raman Gupta
Les Mikesell wrote: Raman Gupta wrote: The backup for one of my hosts did not run two nights ago. I can't find any indication of the reason why -- no errors at all. The logs indicate the backup didn't even start. My other two hosts completed successfully. This is the first time this has

[BackupPC-users] Wildly different speeds for hosts

2008-04-13 Thread Raman Gupta
I have three hosts configured to backup to my PC. Here are the speeds from the host summary: host 1: 24.77 GB, 14,000 files, 18.78 MB/s (slower WAN link) host 2: 1.27 GB, 4,000 files, 1.89 MB/s (faster WAN link) host 3: 4.82 GB, 190,000 files, 0.66 MB/s (fast LAN link) They all use

Re: [BackupPC-users] Wildly different speeds for hosts

2008-04-14 Thread Raman Gupta
Raman Gupta wrote: I have three hosts configured to backup to my PC. Here are the speeds from the host summary: host 1: 24.77 GB, 14,000 files, 18.78 MB/s (slower WAN link) host 2: 1.27 GB, 4,000 files, 1.89 MB/s (faster WAN link) host 3: 4.82 GB, 190,000 files, 0.66 MB/s (fast

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using existing rsync exclusion files?

2009-01-17 Thread Raman Gupta
Walter Francis wrote: One thing which I really need to be able to do is utilize the rsync exclude files which I maintain for each of my backup sets. Is it possible to do this, either via config file, or (ideally), via something like /etc/backuppc/exclude/hostname.exclude where hostname is

Re: [BackupPC-users] high load and stuck processes

2010-03-05 Thread Raman Gupta
On 03/05/2010 09:01 AM, Josh Malone wrote: Also - you need a good filesystem to handle lots (or even not so many) of backups. I reently switched from EXT3 to EXT4 and saw on order of magnitude (I kid you not, 10+ hours to 1) reduction in the backup time and system load. Unfortunately, I think

Re: [BackupPC-users] suggestion for enhancement

2010-04-27 Thread Raman Gupta
On 04/27/2010 02:39 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On 4/27/2010 8:09 AM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: On Tuesday 27 April 2010 05:24:04 chitowner watertower wrote: I would like to suggest- if any dev team members happen to see this- that it would be a nifty option if some kind of progress indicator

Re: [BackupPC-users] The dread Unable to read 4 bytes / Read EOF: Connection reset by peer

2010-05-11 Thread Raman Gupta
On 05/11/2010 02:52 PM, Nick Bright wrote: Precisely correct. I removed those port arguments and set the SSH server on the target machine back to port 22 and it's working. Now I need to figure out how to properly tell BackupPC that SSH is on a non-standard port. I thought that I was doing it

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

2011-01-10 Thread Raman Gupta
On 01/10/2011 04:41 AM, mohammad tayebi wrote: *Hi Backuppc Users* i have problem ? my backupc server has Raid 5 And mounted /var/lib/backuppc ofcource my quesition is : This Log * 2011-01-09 20:00:03 Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE)* There are many reasons this

Re: [BackupPC-users] why are excludes sent to rsync when none are present in the config file?

2011-09-19 Thread Raman Gupta
On 09/18/2011 10:29 PM, Adam Monsen wrote: AHA, adding the following entry to BackupFilesOnly '*' worked: /opt/backup/stage/other/* Now that directory is backed up. But I don't understand why. :) Because /opt/backup/stage/other backs up the directory entry itself, but not its contents.

Re: [BackupPC-users] why are excludes sent to rsync when none are present in the config file?

2011-09-19 Thread Raman Gupta
On 09/19/2011 01:04 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 9/19/2011 11:16 AM, Raman Gupta wrote: On 09/18/2011 10:29 PM, Adam Monsen wrote: AHA, adding the following entry to BackupFilesOnly '*' worked: /opt/backup/stage/other/* Now that directory is backed up. But I don't understand why

[BackupPC-users] Backup the backup to online provider

2013-06-25 Thread Raman Gupta
For disaster recovery purposes, I have been periodically backing up my BackupPC pool to external storage. I have a small pool of approximately 300 GB on a Linux server, and currently use rsync to copy the pool to storage and keep it updated. I am considering moving my DR backup to an online

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup the backup to online provider

2013-06-27 Thread Raman Gupta
On 06/25/2013 12:05 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: On 06/25 11:55 , Raman Gupta wrote: For disaster recovery purposes, I have been periodically backing up my BackupPC pool to external storage. I have a small pool of approximately 300 GB on a Linux server, and currently use rsync to copy

[BackupPC-users] Moving lots of data on a client

2013-08-20 Thread Raman Gupta
I have a client on which about 100 GB of data has been moved from one directory to another -- otherwise its exactly the same. As I understand it, since the data has been moved, BackupPC 3 will transfer all the data again (and discard it once it realizes the data is already in the pool) i.e. it

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving lots of data on a client

2013-08-20 Thread Raman Gupta
On 08/20/2013 03:27 PM, John Rouillard wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 02:23:38PM -0400, Raman Gupta wrote: I have a client on which about 100 GB of data has been moved from one directory to another -- otherwise its exactly the same. As I understand it, since the data has been moved, BackupPC

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving lots of data on a client

2013-08-20 Thread Raman Gupta
On 08/20/2013 03:28 PM, Arnold Krille wrote: On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:23:38 -0400 Raman Gupta rocketra...@gmail.com wrote: I have a client on which about 100 GB of data has been moved from one directory to another -- otherwise its exactly the same. As I understand it, since the data has been

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC finds the wrong hosts when ISPs hijack the DNS

2013-09-05 Thread Raman Gupta
yourself a favor and switch your router to use the OpenDNS or Google DNS servers. You'll probably get better performance, as well as real NXDOMAIN responses. Regards, Raman Gupta -- Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012

Re: [BackupPC-users] Anyone have a copy of BackupPC_DeleteFile.pl?

2015-02-07 Thread Raman Gupta
Here is version 0.1.4 from 2009: https://gist.github.com/rocketraman/ebce662290da354222c2 I don't know if it is the latest that was available before the wiki disappeared. Regards, Raman On 02/07/2015 11:47 AM, Carl T. Miller wrote: When I searched for BackupPC_DeleteFile.pl it appears that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups missing entire directories: "file has vanished"

2019-05-10 Thread Raman Gupta
re-create the problem? It would be great to track down what went > wrong. (I still need to look at your log file snippets in more detail, > hopefully this weekend.) > > Craig > > On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 10:24 PM Raman Gupta wrote: >> >> So the issue was definitely with t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups missing entire directories: "file has vanished"

2019-05-08 Thread Raman Gupta
backup. Once this was done, a manually triggered full backup then finally completed with no issues. Regards, Raman On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 11:32 AM Raman Gupta wrote: > > The backup is large, but not huge. I created a new test host pointing > only to /home/raman/x and it worked just fine.

[BackupPC-users] Misconfigured or bad backup detection

2019-04-29 Thread Raman Gupta
Hi guys... I just ran into an interesting situation. I was looking for some files from my backup, and noticed that nothing had been backed up in my home directory since late 2017. Upon investigation, it looks like the Fedora packages started adding "--one-file-system" by default in the

[BackupPC-users] Backups missing entire directories: "file has vanished"

2019-05-07 Thread Raman Gupta
Certain directories (and their contents) on one of my hosts are not getting backed up at all, even with a "Full" backup. I use rsync as my Xfer method, with BackupPC 4.3.0 on Fedora (rpms BackupPC-4.3.0-1.fc29.x86_64, BackupPC-XS-0.58-1.fc29.x86_64). Looking at the backup logs, I see messages

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups missing entire directories: "file has vanished"

2019-05-08 Thread Raman Gupta
tion) and looking in the > XferLOG file. When the initial file list is sent, are those directories and > their contents present in the file list? > > Craig > > On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 4:26 PM Michael Stowe > wrote: >> >> On 2019-05-07 13:39, Raman Gupta wrote: &

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups missing entire directories: "file has vanished"

2019-05-08 Thread Raman Gupta
ing on. >> > >> > I'd recommend turning on additional debug in rsync (eg, add -vvv to >> > $Conf{RsyncArgs}, and also look at the --debug option) and looking in the >> > XferLOG file. When the initial file list is sent, are those directories >> > and t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Renaming host...

2020-02-27 Thread Raman Gupta
I believe you can just rename the host in the config file, and rename the host directory under `pc` in the backuppc data directory. After you rename the hosts to whatever makes sense, use ClientNameAlias to ensure the renamed host points to the *real* hostname. See