Re: [BackupPC-users] Daylight Saving change - 1 day backups were off

On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 17:30 +0200, Boniforti Flavio wrote: > Thus, *what* was the problem that my backups did not run on this last > time? > I double-checked and my IncrPeriod is 0.97 >From your logs, it appears the backups did run on 2011-03-28. You're saying they did not run on 2011-03-29, right

Re: [BackupPC-users] bare metal restore?

On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 09:51 -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > Would there be a similar procedure using rsync? I've done it using the GUI. Bring up the affected machine on a Live CD, run sshd and install the BackupPC root key. Create a mounted filesystem tree in /mnt/, and use the GUI to restore there.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Viewing detail of a backup in progress?

On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 09:41 -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat XferLOG.z |tail Note that the the log files, like XferLOG.z, are buffered. They may not show files currently copying, if the log write buffer hasn't filled. Regards, Tyler -- "It's not give

Re: [BackupPC-users] bare metal restore?

On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 11:20 -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > Interesting. I thought that rsync is no worse than using e.g., tar in the > case > of nothing to compare to. Do you think rsync is actually worse (slower)? It probably is slightly slower, especially at start. However, if there is little i

Re: [BackupPC-users] Making errors in log stand out

Edit the interface .pl/cgi files, and add tags around any error message output. Regards, Tyler On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 08:46 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to make any errors on the BPC-log page stand out more, like eg > use red characters instead of the standard black? If

Re: [BackupPC-users] Making errors in log stand out

On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 10:58 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: > Are we speaking of the file /usr/share/backuppc/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin, > referred > to in /etc/httpd/conf.d/backuppc.conf? Sorry. Try these: /usr/share/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/CGI/ /usr/share/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Lang/ CGI is the better pl

Re: [BackupPC-users] Making errors in log stand out

On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 14:54 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: > ./usr/lib/BackupPC/Lang/en.pm:$Lang{Reason_backup_failed} = "backup > failed"; See if this works. In /usr/lib/BackupPC/Lang/en.pm: $Lang{Reason_backup_failed} = "backup failed"; Do the same for any other backup errors in the lang fi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exporting host settings from old to new BPC-server

On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 16:57 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: > Now, instead of recreating all the hosts on the new machine, I'm thinking I > could move the individual host's *.pl-files should they exist, to the new > box. > > Is this possible? Any gotchas'? Or should I just recreate them all from > sc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exporting host settings from old to new BPC-server

On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 09:47 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: > Anyway, the answer seems to be yes, you can just copy over the ssh-keys from > the > old BPC-server to the new, and have it working. > > A follow-up question to this is as follows; is this a recommended practice? > Can > something bad happen

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exporting host settings from old to new BPC-server

On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 11:02 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: > I will still be using the old server, for less critical backups. In that case > I guess it's okay? It's fine. It's just a decision you have to make for security. Sharing private keys between servers means that a breach at one is a risk to all

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to restore an 8GB archive file?

On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 14:38 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: > Googling a bit I found out 32b linux is limited to 2GB per file on > account of the file system. 8GB is a lot more than 2GB, so this would explain > the uncompression failing. That limit is long gone: root@frances:/tmp# uname -a Linux f

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to restore an 8GB archive file?

On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 14:38 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: > A user came to me this morning asking me to restore a folder which turns out > to > be some 8,5GB. Why don't you just restore it back to his machine, using the typical option 1? If BackupPC archived it in the first place, it can restore it th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Renaming files causes retransfer?

On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 15:43 -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Well... you could write a script (or even one-liner) to do the same name > change (modulof-mangling) on the last backup... this would be pretty easy if > your > name change is well-defined... What about the file attributes stored in

Re: [BackupPC-users] NFS woes

On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 09:49 -0700, comfi wrote: > I've known all along it was an NFS issue (hence the subject title and > the observation that everything runs perfectly under iSCSI). Let me get this straight. You moved away from a working iSCSI implementation to NFS? Regards, Tyler -- "No one

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc sauvegarde automatique comment on fait ?

On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 02:31 -0700, driss wrote: > j'ai installe un serveur debian avec un serveur de sauvegarde backuppc pour > sauvegarder un client windows xp et seven et le serveur lui meme . > les sauvegarde manuelles c'est a dire a partir de l'interface web > fonctionnent a merveille > mais

Re: [BackupPC-users] Need help setting up clients

On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 10:13 -0500, Brian Kinney wrote: > Also want to give users their own login > credentials so they may see/restore data. Brian, That's just a matter of: 1. Adding users to the htpasswd file, if you are using standard apache auth, and ... 2. Adding that user to the "User" fiel

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc sauvegarde automatique comment on fait ?

On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 02:04 +0200, Holger Parplies wrote: > yes, and s'il vous plait en anglais si possible. While we're learning French, > shouldn't it be "les sauvegardes automatiques ne marchent pas"? Had I directly quoted the poster, instead of using Google Translate, that would have been corr

Re: [BackupPC-users] No luck with Fedora F15 client

On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 16:54 -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > I had tried ssh -v from backuppc on server to root on client. It showed > trying > rsa and dsa keys (I use dsa), then falling back to asking for password. Did it list which keys it tried? It should identify the filename it is trying. Are y

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup retention and deletion.

On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 19:14 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > Ugh, missed that. I thought that past FullAgeMax, only > FullKeepCntMin mattered. In fact, I thought that was the *point* of > FullKeepCntMin. Myself as well. Although the math will be the same in my case (since I rarely run backups ma

Re: [BackupPC-users] Data missing in the CGI-GUI

On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 10:46 +0200, Urs Forster wrote: > All > > I run backuppc 3.1.0-9ubuntu1 on an Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. In the CGI-GUI > there is no data at all. Only the timestamp and table-headers are > shown. > > There is neither a link 'Edit Config' nor 'Edit Host'. (only Wiki > etc.) W

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best NAS device to run BackupPC ?

On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 02:45 -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote at about 15:02:37 -0500 on Tuesday, May > 17, 2011: > > I found it to be a lot easier to deal with booting off a 3ware controller > > than to reliably get redundant boot records on software RAID. That's

Re: [BackupPC-users] session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE

Audi, You've asked this question several times. You've even received a reply, pointing out that this is an SMB authentication problem. Stop asking. Regards, Tyler On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 10:43 +0530, Audi Narayana Reddy wrote: > Dear All, > > I configured Backuppc in ubuntu 10.10 using xfer meth

Re: [BackupPC-users] XFS BackupPC optimal mount options

On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 08:58 -0500, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote: > and when mounting use: > > mount -t xfs -o noatime,nodiratime,logbufs=8 As someone recently pointed out to me, nodiratime is a subset of noatime. Just use "noatime". http://blog.endpoint.com/2010/02/on-linux-noatime-includes-nodirati

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to Cancel a Restore

On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 11:02 -0400, Long V wrote: > I have BackupPC version 3.2.0, I don't see any "cancel" button in the > Host Summary page. Do you mean the "Stop/Dequeue Backup" button? "Stop/Dequeue Backup" could use a better label. What it means is "Stop/Dequeue Action, or Delay Scheduled Act

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to Cancel a Restore

On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 11:20 -0400, Long V wrote: > I would make it even more explicit by renaming it to "Stop/Dequeue > Backup/Restore". I personally prefer "Whatever you are doing, just stop". :) Tyler -- "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the hi

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to Cancel a Restore

On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 18:09 +0200, Holger Parplies wrote: > actually, when a restore is running, there should be a second button > "Stop Restore" (and if no restore is running, the button shouldn't be > there). Agreed. > What do you do if you concurrently have a backup *and* a > restore running?

Re: [BackupPC-users] Root disk grows linearly 1GB between 07h-09 and then drops back - each morning

> Sean Boran wrote: > > *Each* morning my root disk free space drops by one 1GB, > starting at 07:00 linearly until 09:00. > At 09:00, the 1GB is suddenly freed up again. > ...and I'm trying to figure out why. This sounds like a job for lsof or 'find / -m

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recovery from archive

On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 01:34 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Is there any kind of BackupPC data on the machine itself > required for recovery of the archived material? If your installation is Ubuntu, you need: /etc/backuppc /var/lib/backuppc It's common to have the second of these on its own data

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recovery from archive

On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 12:43 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I can see that I should save /etc/backuppc , > but is it really necessary to save /var/lib/BackupPC/ ? > This seems to be exactly what BackupPC has archived, > and is almost the same size as the archive file > (48GB archive file against 34G

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: Thoughts for "push" backup

On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 17:02 -0400, Timothy J Massey wrote: > I've been asked to consider implementing a push-style backup for > roaming users: > > users that are out of the office and irregularly connected to the > Internet. We would like to be able to back up the profile of such > users. We wo

Re: [BackupPC-users] upgrade from Fedora to Ubuntu

On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 09:34 -0500, Chris Baker wrote: > I'm thinking of just doing a clean install on a new drive and then > mounting /var to the external drive. I suppose I could also mount > /var/lib/backuppc to the external drive. > > Hopefully I have provided enough details. What is the best s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Different UID numbers for backuppc on 2 computers

On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 03:30 +0200, Holger Parplies wrote: > right. I checked my /etc/backuppc, and it was owned by root:root (as it should > be ;-), but then, I'm still using BackupPC 2.1.2. The web configuration editor > needs write access to the config files if it is supposed to work, so I see wh

Re: [BackupPC-users] Installation of BackupPC

On 2011-07-19 10:18, larsN wrote: > Hi, i'm french so sorry for my accent. > > I try to install backuppc in Ubuntu 10.04 and it's very difficult. > I went to use the last version of backuppc (3.2.1) , thank's for help. Hi Lars, Forget about 3.2.1, and just install it from the standard repository.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving a stockage of 32-bits server to a server 64 bits?

On 2011-08-14 19:39, Frederic MASSOT wrote: > Hi, > > I prepare a new backup server (64 bits) to replace a old server (32 > bits). I use data compression. > > Does the "/var/lib/backuppc" directory (Debian system) can be moved from > the old server to the new? > > Is the backuppc home director

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_copyPcPool error

Hi all (well, Jeff, really), I'm trying to copy a very large pool (1 TB, 70 hosts, about 20 backups each) to another server with a bigger disk array. I'm using BackupPC_copyPcPool. However, on running it I get a lot of errors. cd /var/local/backuppc su - backuppc -c "/usr/local/bin/BackupPC_copyP

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_copyPcPool error

On 2011-09-02 18:06, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Why do you assume something is wrong with how you are using the > program? > > The error message is saying that you have a bunch of files in the pc > tree that are linked to each other but not to the pool (actually there > is a small bug in my prog

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_copyPcPool error

On 2011-09-05 17:38, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > You probably want to read the documentation under --help (and also > perhaps at the head of the executable). But you probably want to use > the --fixlinks|-f option which will create links between any pc file > that is not linked to the pool to eith

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fairly large backuppc pool (4TB) moved with backuppc_tarpccopy

On 2011-09-30 12:51, Arnold Krille wrote: > Thats stupid. > > Raid5: Loose one disk during recovery -> you are screwed. > Raid6: Loose two disks during recovery -> you are screwed. Further: Raid5: Lose power during write operation = silent data corruption, which you'll find out about next time y

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fairly large backuppc pool (4TB) moved with backuppc_tarpccopy

On 2011-09-30 14:37, Les Mikesell wrote: > For software raid, I thought a cron job was > supposed to be testing them periodically, but the notification may not > reach you - and hardware raid may not to the tests. Ubuntu has a job in cron.monthly which does a full check of all md RAID arrays. It r

Re: [BackupPC-users] localhost (BackupPC_tarCreate failed)

On 2011-10-12 13:53, Joseph Reeves wrote: > I've tried reading the RestoreLOG file, but it's in .z format - I don't > seem to have anything on my Ubuntu laptop that s happy with this. Are there > any suggestions? I'm under the impression that this file should include the > command that backuppc att

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recovery of a BackupPC server

On 2011-11-16 22:29, Geoffrey Downs wrote: > I am using the "Copying the pool" instructions in the BackupPC FAQ to > restore as much of the pool into the new server but have lost the config > directory '/etc/backuppc'. The steps are generally: 1. Copy/move the old pool to the same location as t

Re: [BackupPC-users] ClientNameAlias

If you want to fully rename a host, you must (assuming Ubuntu standard install): 1. Edit the /etc/backuppc/hosts 2. Rename any /etc/backuppc/hostname.pl and .pl.old files 3. Rename the directory in /var/lib/backuppc/pc/ Attached is my bash script to do this with some error checking. Regards, Tyl

Re: [BackupPC-users] missing pool.rrd on BackupPC 3.2 on SL 6.1

The pool.rrd and graph are a patch normally provided with the Debian package. It may not exist in the package in the EPEL repo. Regards, Tyler On 2011-11-30 04:05, briffle wrote: > I have a Scientific Linux 6.1 server I have setup with BackupPC 3.2.1 from > (If I remember) the EPEL repository. >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Are these folder/file names normal?

On 2011-12-02 16:33, Igor Sverkos wrote: > Every folder/file is prefixed with a "f" char and I don't understand the > folder name "f%2f". Doesn't look right to me. > > Every backed up host shows that... This is normal. Regards, Tyler -- A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver. -

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

On 2012-01-10 18:43, Timothy J Massey wrote: > So, my question: is there a NAS GUI out there that can be added on top of > "standard" Linux (preferably RHEL, but very willing to consider others) > that will add most of these functions? For example, something like the GUI > for an Iomega NAS would

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

On 2012-01-12 19:11, Timothy J Massey wrote: > Exactly. Webmin is little more than webified configuration files. You use > Firefox instead of ssh, but the process is nearly identical. Fair enough. > For now, Webmin is what I'm using, on top of CentOS 6.2. But if you've > ever used a NAS, you k

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using BluRay for archive

On 2012-01-17 15:04, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Germano Paciocco > wrote: >> I'm evaluating use of Blu-Ray discs for archiving long term backups. The >> idea is to periodically schedule the burning of /var/lib/backuppc in a new >> session of the disc, avoiding to close

Re: [BackupPC-users] Delete old backups when disk full?

No. BackupPC has no real tracking of "unique disk space used by backup" because that doesn't really exist. The *pool* uses disk space. Deleting single older backups will (1) free no space at all right away, (2) lead to some free space once the next BackupPcNightly runs, and (3) the amount freed wi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc is Hammering My Clients

On 2012-02-01 08:32, Kimball Larsen wrote: > On Jan 31, 2012, at 5:47 PM, Steve wrote: >> check the "nice" level during the backup (on the client) and see where >> rsync is running. If it's the same as the other user processes, maybe >> change the $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} to include a nice level? I

Re: [BackupPC-users] [SOLVED] Backuppc is Hammering My Clients

On 2012-02-01 16:30, Kimball Larsen wrote: > First off, the users with performance problems on their machines during > backups all had a copy of Parallels (Windows emulation software) that was > either running or had been run in the last day. Parallels stores a virtual > hard drive in a single

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

On 2012-02-16 10:21, Arnold Krille wrote: > You did become the backuppc-user on the backupserver and then did one first > "ssh root@" to accept the host-fingerprint and make sure the > passwordless login works? You can avoid the prompt in future with this: # cat /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/config S

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore folder with partially removed files

Restore with the rsync method. It will copy only the lost files. Regards, Tyler On 2012-03-16 09:51, Christian König wrote: > Hello, > > a customer reported, that he accidentally started to delete a big folder > with pictures. Shortly afterwards he canceled the process. > Now, he doesn't know wi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issues with DDNS and DHCP

On 2012-03-28 17:26, Tim Fletcher wrote: > Can you use mDNS aka Bonjour aka Avahi depending on the flavor of the > implementation? > > If you can ping .local then you might have a chance to make > it work as the machine (normally) is the one that is replying to the > mDNS request. mDNS works grea

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issues with DDNS and DHCP

On 2012-03-28 17:58, Tim Fletcher wrote: >> mDNS works great for us. However, we also use normal DHCP+DNS integration >> for hosts outside the backup server's LAN (where mDNS doesn't reach). > > Would an avahi reflector help you reach those remote hosts? I hadn't even considered that. That might

Re: [BackupPC-users] Not getting mail from BackupPC

On 2012-04-24 13:34, Norman Goldstein wrote: > On another mail-related note, every time I go to, or refresh, > a host homepage within BPC, one of the Summary messages > at the top of the page is > > Last email sent to norm15 was at 4/24 05:26, > subject "". > > The time i

Re: [BackupPC-users] encrypted pc and pool directory

Short answer: no. Speculative answers: 1. The web interface and dump/link commands could be re-written to support ecryptfs or a similar file-based method. 2. You could use loop-AES to decrypt the partition/logical volume only when you need it, including when accessing the web page, running backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] encrypted pc and pool directory

On 2012-05-17 21:38, Gerry George wrote: > * Optionally, the data can (possibly) be encrypted BY THE CLIENT, and > sent across as raw bits to be stored on the Rsync store. This will render the de-duplication features of BackupPC useless. Regards, Tyler -- "[...] the effectiveness of pat-d

Re: [BackupPC-users] run apache as www-data user

On 2012-05-18 09:11, Michael Kolowicz wrote: > I have found some HowTo´s to install BackupPC on Ubuntu 10.04. But the only > thing is: I cannot change the apache-user (www-data) to “backuppc”. I know > how can I change them, but the other web-apps don´t run anymore if I change > them. > > How can

Re: [BackupPC-users] Auto and GUI initiated backups don't work

On 2012-05-20 02:39, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > I have the latest BackupPC release running on LinuxMCE (based on kubuntu > 10.04). Let me just say I'm a RHEL/CentOS/Fedora user/admin. I don't > know the ins and outs of Debian, much less Ubuntu. Anyway, the BackupPC > install was straightforwa

Re: [BackupPC-users] Auto and GUI initiated backups don't work

On 2012-05-21 17:28, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > The new package sets the backuppc users's home dir to /var/lib/backuppc. > That's where I put the .ssh dir and keys, and the .bashrc in which I > have the keychain config. Perhaps you have a saved entry in known_hosts that conflicts? That *shouldn

Re: [BackupPC-users] Auto and GUI initiated backups don't work

On 2012-05-22 02:46, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 13:00 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Do you have a passphrase for the key? The only difference in your >> scenarios I can think of is that something might be supplying the >> passphrase on your behalf when you are logged in a

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Migration, Fedora 8 and BackupPC_tarPCCopy

On 2012-05-23 01:18, ad^2 wrote: > Anyway, I went with the rebuild and let BackupPC recreate the pool > option. I copied the configuration files to retain all the previous > system's settings. It worked and it was fast to set up. What is this option? I assume it means "Copy the pc directory withou

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Migration, Fedora 8 and BackupPC_tarPCCopy

creating a > new pool) the pool is done by the BackupPC process. Just let the > system run backups and do what it was intended for. > > Thx > > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: >> On 2012-05-23 01:18, ad^2 wrote: >>> Anyway, I wen

Re: [BackupPC-users] Need to restore Backuppc server

Yes to all counts. I generally mount my backuppc drives as /var/lib/backuppc. Then I have a cron job copy /etc/backuppc in there just in case I lose the root filesystem. SSH keys live in /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh. Regards, Tyler On 2012-05-24 15:55, Arch Willingham wrote: > Help!!! > > An upgrade

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pool filesystem wierdness

On 2012-05-30 00:27, Brad Alexander wrote: > I know it is bad form to respond to one's own post, but I was digging > around in my Munin graphs, and noticed that the filesystem skyrocked > from about 70% to 100% late on the 26th or early on the 27th. I have > included both the 4-week pool graph from

Re: [BackupPC-users] restore options

Try RsyncRestoreArgs. GUI -> host -> Edit Config -> Xfer. Regards, Tyler On 2012-05-30 13:51, Neal Becker wrote: > Is there an easy way to set restore options (using rsync), I want to not > restore > files on the destination that have mod time newer than the backup. > > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] CmdQueueNice

On 2012-06-06 17:45, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > I am able to achieve most of what you wish by doing most of my > customization in the individual host-specific config files since > variables set there override variables set in config.pl > > Alternatively, one could add a line of perl code at the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Outsourced BackupPC project - Please comment

You state "with encrypted data", but don't define what that means. Do you mean AES-encrypted filesystem, or are you referring to the use of OpenVPN? Max Accepted Bid: $170.00 USD Estimated size: $100 - $499.99 I've never seen this website before, but if that means either $170 or $50

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recent change - Got fatal error during xfer (NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \\*)

David, Mike Lerley and I found a solution for your problem. See here: http://www.tolaris.com/2012/06/14/smb-and-backuppc-on-ubuntu-12-04/ I hope that works for you. Regards, Tyler On Tue, 08 May 2012 18:28:17 -0700, David Trebacz wrote: > > It would seem that here is indeed a change in Samba

Re: [BackupPC-users] Update on BackupPC Development / Is backuppc dead?

On 2012-06-14 23:41, Steve wrote: > My novice understanding is that the next release is a "whopper" which > fundamentally changes many things about how BackupPC works...so it's > taking a long time. I'm sorry to have to cast doubt on this. I have heard the above many times on this list, but Backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Errors log

What OS and what versions of BackupPC and Samba are you using? Regards, Tyler On 2012-07-06 17:31, Bryan Keadle (.net) wrote: > I'm doing an initial install and testing of BackupPC. On a host Backup > Summary page, it shows 111 #Xfer errs. When I click on the Errors link, I > get a page with a

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC data volume

On 2012-07-10 23:44, Tim Fletcher wrote: > in fstab add ,noatime,nodiratime in the same place as you had _netdev so > you end up with: > > noatime,nodiratime,_netdev noatime is a superset of nodiratime. You need only "noatime,_netdev". Regards, Tyler -- WWJD? JWRTFM. -

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync: full backup more than twice faster than incremental backup

On 2012-08-16 15:51, Les Mikesell wrote: >> I've now disabled incremental backups on this server, but maybe someone >> has an idea how to enable incremental backups for this host as well. > > I think you've jumped to conclusions here - you need to time full runs > other than the first. Other thin

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync: full backup more than twice faster than incremental backup

On 2012-08-16 18:20, Arnold Krille wrote: > This variable (and also the corresponding FillLevels) works differently than > you expect: > It means keep one backup at IncrInterval, keep 2 backups at 2*IncrInterval > before that, keep 3 backups at 4*IncrInterval before that, keep 5 backups at > 8*I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Getting files newer than error

On 2012-09-14 13:46, Michael Stowe wrote: > The Linux kernel keeps its own time, generally in UTC. This is translated > to "local time" depending on the environment process of the user itself. > Thus, the backuppc user can have a completely different time than, say, > you, or root. > > Depending

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

On 2012-09-17 14:18, Frédéric Massot wrote: > Is the relatime option is acceptable to replace atime? Unless you are using mutt on the BackupPC server, use noatime. There is no longer any common use for file access time. Regards, Tyler -- "We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97%

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

On 2012-09-18 15:09, Frédéric Massot wrote: > From what I've read, the new kernel mount the ext4 filesystem with acl > and relatime options by default. So for backuppc, add options noacl, > norelatime and noatime in fstab. > > I do not know if noatime implies norelatime? There is no "norelatime

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

On 2012-10-04 19:56, Michael Stowe wrote: > >> The inode number of the ext4 is static. >> >> - How can I do to increase the number of inodes? > > The number of ext4 inodes are set when the ext4 volume is created, so, you > have to recreate the file system. Perhaps using an alternative to ext4.

Re: [BackupPC-users] stumped by ssh

On 2012-10-13 14:33, Robert E. Wooden wrote: > What happened, I am asking myself. Last night I was running "ssh -vvv > [clienthostname]" to test my ssh connection. ssh was 'complaining' that I > had some bad lines in my /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/known_hosts file. I removed > those 'bad lines' with "ss

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring Backuppc itself

On 2012-10-15 20:07, Les Mikesell wrote: > The only likely problems would be if the backuppc version has changed > or the packaging has changed the locations for things - and these > shouldn't have much chance of harming your existing archive. What > I usually do for similar cases is save copie

Re: [BackupPC-users] Any procedure for using 2 external harddrives

On 2012-10-25 14:10, Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 10/24/2012 12:41 PM, dixieadmin wrote: >> I am currently using BackupPC 3.2.1 on SME Server 8.0. I wanted to know if >> there is a correct procedure for using 2 different external harddrives as a >> backup source and to interchange them weekly? > > "

Re: [BackupPC-users] Centos Backuppc. Can I install php without breaking Backuppc

On 2012-10-26 17:14, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 6:26 AM, robp2175 > wrote: >> I want to have a couple of php web pages on my backuppc server, but I will >> need to install php in order to do this. However, I am hesitant to install >> it for fear that this may break my BackupPC

Re: [BackupPC-users] Afraid of the midnight monster?

Sure, it works just fine. No idea why that is the default. Tyler On 2012-11-08 15:16, Jimmy Thrasibule wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder if it is possible to wake BakupPC at midnight. In the > documentation or on the Internet, they all start at 1 to 23. > > $Conf{WakeupSchedule} = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Thank you BackupPC!!!

On 2012-12-11 03:39, Richard Shaw wrote: > Well after getting the system up I went in and logged in as the > backuppc user, killed the IP from known_hosts (since it generated a > new rsa key on install) and did a ssh-copy-id (much easier then doing > the key exchange by hand) an voila! Consider:

Re: [BackupPC-users] can run su backuppc user

On 2012-12-11 13:57, Michael Stowe wrote: > Let's stop right there -- you either know the backuppc password, or you > don't. I bet one donut that he knows the "backuppc" HTTPauth password, not the system user password. Regards, Tyler -- Commander Harken: "Seems odd you’d name your ship after a

Re: [BackupPC-users] can run su backuppc user

On 2012-12-11 16:12, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > On 2012-12-11 13:57, Michael Stowe wrote: >> Let's stop right there -- you either know the backuppc password, or you >> don't. > > I bet one donut that he knows the "backuppc" HTTPauth password, not the >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Basic setup issues (Ubuntu 12.10)

On 2013-01-04 12:40, Travis Schwenke wrote: > * Ok.. I can't even change backuppc password! I figured I would su over > to backuppc but that doesn't even work. *How do I change the password > on Ubuntu?* Are you talking about the "backuppc" system user, which owns the data files and SS

Re: [BackupPC-users] Basic setup issues (Ubuntu 12.10)

On 2013-01-04 15:08, Travis Schwenke wrote: > Well, I figured there were two but wasn't 100% sure. So the frustrating > part would be that I seem to NOT know then the password to the backuppc > USER that was created on the system. That's because you really shouldn't need it. I don't know my backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] (no subject)

On 2013-02-03 01:08, Matthew G. Ayres wrote: > All the data is there I just can’t seem to get it threw the web interface I > can get use the command line backup_zcat but it is not the best option Does BackupPC_tarCreate work? If so, then it's just your web server. Is it running as the backuppc us

Re: [BackupPC-users] Finding hosts on a home LAN

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Magnus Larsson wrote: > > I have no name server or other such function on my home LAN. All the > machines are Linux, and I use rsync. Easy, use Avahi. If these machines are Ubuntu, you probably already have it. But if not, one of these should install it: apt-get

Re: [BackupPC-users] (somewhat solved) Backing up many small files

On 2013-02-06 06:56, Sorin Srbu wrote: >> From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com] >> You are testing sustained transfer times there. The killer with small >> files is the seek time while the disk head bounces around reading >> little bits of directory and inode data.And once you get

Re: [BackupPC-users] (somewhat solved) Backing up many small files

On 2013-02-07 07:15, Sorin Srbu wrote: >>> /usr/bin/time -v find /home -mtime 1 >/dev/null > > Output from the client (/home): > User time (seconds): 2.12 > Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 10:17.32 > > Output from the BPC-server (/bak): > User time (seconds): 228.31 > Elapsed (wall cl

Re: [BackupPC-users] ldap login

On 2013-02-11 16:45, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:11 AM, Adi Spivak wrote: >> Is it possible to make backuppc login authentication against ldap server? >> >> if so, can you send a link to a guide? >> > > Backuppc just uses the environment variable REMOTE_USER as set by > apache

Re: [BackupPC-users] ldap login

On 2013-02-12 07:39, Adi Spivak wrote: > i did as is on the page like so: > #AuthUserFile /etc/backuppc/htpasswd > #AuthType basic > #AuthName "BackupPC admin" > #require valid-user > > AuthType Basic > AuthName "BackupPC login" > # replace M

Re: [BackupPC-users] secure install?

On 2013-02-20 22:35, Rajeev Prasad wrote: > do I need to run another instance of apache on my webserver? I have a > webserver running (ubuntu) and I can have a virtual website for backupPC > running on a specific port, is that not enough? You don't need any of that. You're running Ubuntu, so: apt

Re: [BackupPC-users] secure install?

On 2013-02-20 23:47, Rajeev Prasad wrote: > can I use backuppc, in addition to backups/restore, to simply keep a set > of folders 'in-sync' between two ubuntu installs - in both directions? No. See Unison. For a server-based always active sync like Dropbox, but private, see ownCloud. > can it ba

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC future development (was: Backuppc and windows)

On 2013-03-01 22:05, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: > Maybe it's time (or beyond time) to seek out Craig and see what his > plans are for maintaining/evolving BackupPC are. If he is not > reachable or is not interested in continuing, maybe we need to see if > others are willing to take over leadershi

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Pool synchronization?

On 2013-03-04 17:20, Mark Campbell wrote: > Oh, and while I'm thinking of it, what are your thoughts on using ZFS' dedup > feature on a BackupPC pool? I'm aware that a goodly amount of RAM would be > required for that feature. But since BackupPC's dedup feature is file-based, > and ZFS' dedup

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Pool synchronization?

On 2013-03-07 14:34, Mark Campbell wrote: > My thinking at this point is that I'll leave the pooling be--it may > require some extra CPU cycles & RAM from time to time, but my > understanding of the zfs dedup & compress features are that they should > be transparent to BackupPC, so while pooling in

Re: [BackupPC-users] Roaming Hosts

On 2013-03-12 13:12, Christian Völker wrote: > is there an easy way to tell BackupPC a host changes IP address? Beyond the DHCP option in the hosts file, no. That only makes BackupPC search the local subnet for it. The way to make roaming hosts accessible (to any service) is DNS. DynDNS is easy.

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