Re: [rdiff-backup-users] ANN: rdiff-backup-fs 1.0.0

2011-02-08 Thread Iain Dooley
this looks fantastic On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, Filip Gruszczy?ski wrote: I'd like to announce first stable release of rdiff-backup-fs filesystem (formerly known as archfs). rdiff-backup-fs is a filesystem that provides easy access and browsing of rdiff-backup archives. New version of filesystem

[rdiff-backup-users] error in long running system

2007-12-25 Thread Iain Dooley
hi all, i've been running rdiff-backup for about a year and a half with no troubles. i use version 1.1.5 on freebsd 6.2R. yesterday on two of my systems, i got the error below. other systems are still running correctly. i can't find anything meaningful in the messages below, does anyone else

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup for email

2006-11-10 Thread Iain Dooley
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Blair Zajac wrote: Michael Simms wrote: Hello, I'm new to the list, and to rdiff-backup. We're looking at alternatives for backing up email. It's currently 3TB, and growing quickly. Is anyone out there backing up email, or other 'mission critical' data with

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup for email

2006-11-10 Thread Iain Dooley
I back up my entire system with rdiff-backup to a local drive, then rsync the entire rdiff-backup over to another box. I backup email, Postgresql, Mysql, Apache, etc. Just be aware that unless you are taking special precautions, the postgresql backup is not guaranteed to be consistent. I am

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: Rdiff-backup fails to backup device files when not root

2006-11-06 Thread Iain Dooley
. Brian McDonald Iain Dooley wrote: i have /dev and /proc excluded from the backup as per the examples on the rdiff web page, isn't this the intended usage? cheers iain On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, fake wrote: I have discovered a serious bug in rdiff-backup 1.1.5-3~bpo.1 from debian backports.org

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [PATCH] Preserve symlink permissions

2006-11-04 Thread Iain Dooley
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Andrew Ferguson wrote: Hi, Some Unix systems (at least the *BSDs and Mac OS X) set the permission bits on symbolic links to 777 - umask at link creation. This is different from Linux, where all symbolic links are mode 777. This patch changes rdiff-backup's umask

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] backup to remote server fails and won't recover

2006-11-04 Thread Iain Dooley
why is it that you're using a samba mount for a backup? rdiff-backup runs over ssh and you can use keychain and cron to do it unattended. cheers iain On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Maarten Bezemer wrote: Hi, What's the exact setup you're using? (source, destination, as root or as normal user, etc.)