(I don't see any .deb downloads for earlier versions...?)
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Title:
sbackup is not able to mount remote directory via SSH (testing
After some further testing, I now see the problem is different. Backups *do*
work, for both versions.
But from the config or restore window, acces to the remote machine *does not*
work. It did use to work at least in 0.11.4 about a month or two ago (last
used).
I've seen some bug reports (not
Question #143229 on sbackup changed:
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Anton posted a new comment:
Jean-Peer, tar writing to tape is indeed trivial, in stead of
tar zcvf /var/local/backup/today/files.tgz
you would do
tar zcvf /dev/rmt/0n
This needs one or two changes
Question #234488 on sbackup changed:
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Anton requested more information:
That's nice to know!
Does sbackup read the exit status of the pre-backup script, so the script could
allow or block starting of the backup?
Likewise, it would be good
Question #234488 on sbackup changed:
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Anton posted a new comment:
/usr/share/sbackup/retry_backup:
#!/bin/bash
#
# retry running Sbackup if previous attempt failed
# used by pm to run at thaw/resume
# find config file and read some variables
Question #234488 on sbackup changed:
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Anton posted a new comment:
p.s., the scripts work for me. They should work for you, too, but I
cannot guarantee that. Please just ask if you run into problems.
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Hi Jean-Peer,
I'll be installing 13.04 in a couple of weeks (will be spending 6 hours
in the train to Berlin - perfect time), and will be happy to test
things then and there. (At the same time, I may start looking into
Mint.)
Groetjes,
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Anton posted a new comment:
OK, thank you. So it appears sbackup fails to write the custom schedule
into /etc/crontab. Could anyone confirm this behaviour?
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Status: Open = Needs information
Anton requested more information:
Hi Muhammed,
Are you running sbackup as user or as root? Did you check if you are
using the right sbackup profile?
Could you please
/sbackup/sbackup.conf for user)? Look for a line that says 'target = '
and add the target directory after the equal sign (I believe a space between
equal sign and directory name is required).
Best,
Anton.
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Status: Open = Needs information
Anton requested more information:
Which directory do you mean with 'root directory'?
You should check the target directory defined in /etc/sbackup.conf for
root
Question #216144 on sbackup changed:
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Anton requested more information:
I should clarify my question. There are, as you mentioned, two instances
of Simple Backup Config and Simple Backup Restore
Question #216105 on sbackup changed:
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Anton posted a new comment:
Just one additional note, as general 'good practice' regarding backups.
A backup is intended as a *fallback* option in case your primary data
gets lost. In the situation you
OK, thanks. Marking bug as invalid.
For future reference, I think it is a bad idea to have two different
schedules and/or users back up to the same backup location, and it
actually seems to be not supported. It would be nice if this was
signalled and reported back to the user in a more
Question #216144 on sbackup changed:
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Status: Open = Answered
Anton proposed the following answer:
Yes, two copies do exist. One is user and the other root. This should be
indicated but isn't so they appear identical. I posted a patch
Question #216105 on sbackup changed:
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Status: Open = Answered
Anton proposed the following answer:
It sounds like you are out of luck, certainly because you say you did
see the backup files previously. But offhand I can't think
Question #213138 on sbackup changed:
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Status: Open = Answered
Anton proposed the following answer:
Put the output to a logfile in stead of /dev/null, like:
10 0 * * * /usr/bin/sbackup /tmp/sbackup.log
Does this give any clue
Question #215376 on sbackup changed:
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Status: Open = Answered
Anton proposed the following answer:
This is an inherent drawback of 'tar' which is used as the low level
archive format. There are possible solutions for this, but none
I would suggest a config option like 'remove older backups to free
space'.
That would work great as well in combination with the 'logarithmic'
cleaning, because you will only loose your oldest backup when your
backup disk is (nearly) full. You might also want to add an option to
'keep at least #
Public bug reported:
To monitor backup sanity, as well as monitor backup storage space, it is very
useful to know how large individual backups are.
If you see one that is (much) smaller than expected, something may have gone
wrong.
If your backup device is filling up, you may first want to
Can you check if your files are truncated at 2Gb? This happens on
filesystems that don't support files larger than 2G and currently Simple
Backup does not check for this error.
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New question #142032 on Simple Backup:
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I have some suggestions that I think would further improve usability of Simple
Backup. Since they're not bugs, I file them as questions here. Please inform me
if I should split these into separate
New question #142036 on Simple Backup:
https://answers.launchpad.net/sbackup/+question/142036
I currently have a sbackup backup session running, however the throughput is
(much) lower than I expect.
gzip is running at only ~20% CPU usage, suggesting that there is a bottlenect
in datatransfer
Yes, I've gone through the steps of that FAQ. I have certificates
(pub/private key-pairs) set up, and can 'sudo ssh feenstra@backuphost'
without password. E.g.,
$ sudo ssh feenstra@backuphost uptime
09:44:05 up 150 days, 2:56, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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No, as I said, I can 'sudo ssh username@hostname' to my backup host
without password.
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Title:
Error File access manager not
Public bug reported:
Recently in sbackup (I believe since the re-merge with nssbackup), I
cannot backup as root. Backups as user still work (and I can open the
backup location in nautilus as user). Nothing has changed on the remote
machine (backup over ssh). I can 'sudo ssh u...@host' without
choosing.
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Question #129095 on Simple Backup changed:
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Anton proposed the following answer:
On 12/10/10 19:53, PeterK2003 wrote:
New question #129095 on Simple Backup:
https://answers.launchpad.net/sbackup/+question/129095
i used to have a cron job
On 13/10/10 09:45, Anton wrote:
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On 12/10/10 19:53, PeterK2003 wrote:
New question #129095 on Simple Backup:
https://answers.launchpad.net/sbackup/+question
Question #129095 on Simple Backup changed:
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Anton proposed the following answer:
On 13/10/10 09:45, Anton wrote:
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Anton proposed the following
?.
Groetjes,
Anton.
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problem occurs if nssbackup is run with the destination drive not present. It
looses the config info.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/622496
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Status: Open = Answered
Anton proposed the following answer:
On 24/08/10 11:53, paolocollector wrote:
New question #122507 on nssbackup:
https://answers.launchpad.net/nssbackup/+question/122507
(they're identical
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On 23/08/10 10:55, Jean-Peer Lorenz wrote:
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Von: Jean-Peer Lorenzpeer@gmx.net
An: Anton Feenstrafeens...@few.vu.nl
Betreff: Re: Logarithmic purge disabled
Datum: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:54:16 +0200
Good morning Anton,
Thank you for looking
or 100's of Mbs backup data over a costly
wireless connection. ;-)
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autorun script, would not
get the backup.
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(P.S., I could not bzr the nssbackup source. Is that due to launchpad
being in read-only?)
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Jean-Peer (whoops, almost wrote 'Pear' there...), after you've explained
me where how to start, could you assign this bug to me?
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587911
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Status: Open = Answered
Anton proposed the following answer:
On 01/07/10 12:49, B.J. Herbison wrote:
Question #116342 on NSsbackup changed:
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of the tgz file on the ftp server, to confirm that it is
getting progressively slower?
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of the
preceding incs.
Yes, I second that. In fact, I'd propose a restore browser that shows
your complete filespace, and shows which backups there are for each
file. Default restore would be the latest, from whichever set it comes.
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Oumar Aziz OUATTARA wrote:
Question #96168 on NSsbackup changed:
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Oumar Aziz OUATTARA proposed the following answer
Question #62814 on NSsbackup changed:
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Anton proposed the following answer:
lastico wrote:
Question #62814 on NSsbackup changed:
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lastico requested for more information:
thanks
Question #68850 on NSsbackup changed:
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Jean-Peer Lorenz wrote:
Question #68850 on NSsbackup changed:
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Status: Open = Answered
Jean-Peer
MrWoo wrote:
I got the crash after printing some pages from evince (pdf).
Could you please explain precisely what that has to do with nssbackup?
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Anton Feenstra wrote:
Oumar Aziz OUATTARA wrote:
I confirm that this feature is indeed wished. The implementation is
quite difficult using TAR. So maybe using DAR it would be possible. I
will create a blueprint for that.
This item is also on my wish-/todo-list.
Oumar can you keep me
New question #62529 on NSsbackup:
https://answers.launchpad.net/nssbackup/+question/62529
Wanting for more sophistication, I want to try using nssbackup in stead of
sbackup. (I've also joined the dev team to speed things up, since it all looks
very promising).
However, sbackup currently seems
Meanwhile, you may consider an alternative. You can put an 'autorun'
script on the USB stick that launches the backup. I've done that on my
external disk, but that one only runs the backup config, so I can push
'make backup now' (that was actually still using sbackup). Presumably,
you could
OK, so I've found a terribly trivial workaround. Googling, I found this
issue also for Nautilus, when started as root. But it only appears when
there is *an empty DVD (or CD) in the drive*!! It's apparently a glib
bug.
So the workaround is easy: pop your DVD drive! Worked wonders for me
(after
I have it working fine on my father's box (custom made), and my own
laptop (Fujitsu-Siemens). Gives the segfault on my wife's laptop (Dell),
though. Both are (or should be) running up-to-date Hardy (8.04) and
2.6.24-23-generic (my father runs an older kernel - 19 iirc - because of
VirtualBox
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