Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore issues

2009-08-05 Thread Vetch
Hi Jeffrey, Sounds doable, but as I say, I'm backing a Linux server, not a Win client, so I don't think I need to worry too much about the busy files... Thanks for the suggestion though... Cheers, Jx On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Matthias Meyer wrote at about 21:00

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore issues

2009-08-05 Thread Vetch
Hi Matthias, Sorry it took me so long to get back to you - I've had a lot of tight deadlines. I'm not backing up a windows client... It's a Linux server offering a samba share. To be fair, thinking about it, since I'm using rsync, it's just a Linux server, and the fact that I access it with Windows

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore issues

2009-07-30 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Matthias Meyer wrote at about 21:00:54 +0200 on Thursday, July 30, 2009: > Vetch wrote: > > > Hi Matthias, > > All my xferlogs say they have 0 errors (apart from one, but that was after > > the problem occurred anyway)... > > I've had a look at them, but they are... quite long... > > Withou

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore issues

2009-07-30 Thread Matthias Meyer
Vetch wrote: > Hi Matthias, > All my xferlogs say they have 0 errors (apart from one, but that was after > the problem occurred anyway)... > I've had a look at them, but they are... quite long... > Without knowing what to search for, I'm not sure what I can do with > them... If they report no erro

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore issues

2009-07-24 Thread Vetch
Hi Matthias, All my xferlogs say they have 0 errors (apart from one, but that was after the problem occurred anyway)... I've had a look at them, but they are... quite long... Without knowing what to search for, I'm not sure what I can do with them... If they report no errors, I guess I can assume a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore issues

2009-07-24 Thread Matthias Meyer
You should check the backup log file XferLOG. Each file which can not backup will be logged theire, including the reason. br Matthias -- Don't Panic -- ___ BackupPC-users mail

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore issues

2009-07-22 Thread Vetch
Hi Jeffrey, Thanks for getting back to me... On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Vetch wrote at about 00:14:06 +0100 on Wednesday, July 22, 2009: [snip] > > Well, with Windows there can be all kinds of reasons for mismatches > including: > 1. Busy files that can't be b

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore issues

2009-07-21 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, sorry for replying so late, busy week. Matthias Meyer wrote on 2009-07-20 21:59:49 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore issues]: > Vetch wrote: > > I tried restoring a backup to my system - it kept on failing with aborted > > by signal=PIPE. > > I have a feeling it may

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore issues

2009-07-21 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Vetch wrote at about 00:14:06 +0100 on Wednesday, July 22, 2009: > Hi Matthias, > > Thanks for your help on this... > > See replies below... > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Matthias Meyer wrote: > > > Vetch wrote: > > > > > > > > Ok - I tried direct restores back into the origi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore issues

2009-07-21 Thread Vetch
Hi Matthias, Thanks for your help on this... See replies below... On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Matthias Meyer wrote: > Vetch wrote: > > > > > Ok - I tried direct restores back into the original directories over the > > network - and it came up with successful restores for all the home > > d

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore issues

2009-07-21 Thread Matthias Meyer
Vetch wrote: > > Ok - I tried direct restores back into the original directories over the > network - and it came up with successful restores for all the home > directories... > Does this mean that the data has been fully successfully restored? Probably. But as I said, BackupPC didn't check file

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore issues

2009-07-21 Thread Vetch
Hi Matthias, Thanks for getting back to me... I've put my replies below... On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Matthias Meyer wrote: > Vetch wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I have a question... > > > > I tried restoring a backup to my system - it kept on failing with aborted > > by signal=PIPE. > > I h

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore issues

2009-07-20 Thread Matthias Meyer
Vetch wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a question... > > I tried restoring a backup to my system - it kept on failing with aborted > by signal=PIPE. > I have a feeling it may have been related to corrupt files within the > hardlinks, since when I tried restoring using tar, the tar files were not > re

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore Issues with larger files

2008-05-20 Thread Lee A. Connell
backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore Issues with larger files Lee writes: > Sorr I missed information. I am restoring to RHEL4 box. I can transfer 500MB files no problem, but once I try 2GB or more it fails with a PIPE error. I have been able to transfer a 2G

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore Issues with larger files

2008-05-20 Thread Craig Barratt
Lee writes: > Sorr I missed information. I am restoring to RHEL4 box. I can transfer > 500MB files no problem, but once I try 2GB or more it fails with a PIPE > error. I have been able to transfer a 2GB file maybe twice out of the 20 > times I've tried. Any ideas? > > Not directly related

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore Issues with larger files

2008-05-19 Thread Eduardo TrĂ¡pani
>> You are restoring to Linux, Windows, MacOSX? 2G is, for example the size > limit for > FAT32, no way you can restore a bigger file to a, say WinXP with > FAT32. > I think you mean that 2 GB is the limit for FAT16. Windows 95a was the last > FAT16 operating system released by Microsoft. No, I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore Issues with larger files

2008-05-19 Thread Lee A. Connell
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore Issues with larger files

2008-05-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Chris Baker wrote: >> You are restoring to Linux, Windows, MacOSX? 2G is, for example the size > limit for > FAT32, no way you can restore a bigger file to a, say WinXP with > FAT32. > >> Eduardo. > > I think you mean that 2 GB is the limit for FAT16. Windows 95a was the last > FAT16 operating s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore Issues with larger files

2008-05-19 Thread Chris Baker
> You are restoring to Linux, Windows, MacOSX? 2G is, for example the size limit for > FAT32, no way you can restore a bigger file to a, say WinXP with FAT32. > Eduardo. I think you mean that 2 GB is the limit for FAT16. Windows 95a was the last FAT16 operating system released by Microsoft. The

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore Issues with larger files

2008-05-19 Thread Eduardo TrĂ¡pani
> I get the error below with large files, this one is around 2GB, files around > 500MB transfer and restore with no problem. What can be causing this? I am > running rsync 2.6.8 on both client and server. You are restoring to Linux, Windows, MacOSX? 2G is, for example the size limit for FAT32,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore Issues with larger files

2008-05-16 Thread Chris Baker
Has anyone used the Western Digital My Book studio drives with Linux? Do they work with Linux? Western Digital says that they don't support them. Chris Baker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] systems administrator Intera Inc. -- 512-425-2006 _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O