Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup changes .gz files

2011-07-17 Thread Patrick Nagel
Hi, Arno Wagner a...@wagner.name wrote: I found a bit more time and found also some .pm files with the same issue. Looking into the files though, I have a suspicion, namely that for some reason these files were changed by a Debian update, that then did set the same original metadata after

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backup not identifying changed file, even though hash is different

2011-03-25 Thread Patrick Nagel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Scott Jilek sc...@bytality.com wrote: On 3/24/2011 3:42 PM, Chris Wilson wrote: Hi Scott, On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Scott Jilek wrote: Unfortunately, I can't just touch the file because it's in use and locked by the truecrypt process. In that

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backup not identifying changed file, even though hash is different

2011-03-25 Thread Patrick Nagel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2011-03-26 08:27, Patrick Nagel wrote: If that TrueCrypt volume is mounted anyway, why don't you just rdiff-backup the files inside it into another TrueCrypt volume on the backup system? Patrick. Hi Scott, Hm... I think I might have used

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backup not identifying changed file, even though hash is different

2011-03-23 Thread Patrick Nagel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 2011-03-24 06:29, Scott Jilek wrote: Is there any way to force Rdiff to use a hash compare for difference triggering? I looked over the manual, and nothing seems to be what I'm looking for. I've tried adding the --compare-hash switch.

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Slowdown from a few mins to 8 hours backup time due to one large log file

2011-02-01 Thread Patrick Nagel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Dominic, On 2011-02-01 17:14, Dominic Raferd wrote: That seems extraordinarily slow for rdiff-backup to backup a text file to a local disk, even a file that is 3.9GB. Was the file changing (additional log entries, maybe?) while rdiff-backup was

[rdiff-backup-users] Weird error messages

2010-08-24 Thread Patrick Nagel
Hi, I have been running rdiff-backup on multiple servers for a couple of years, and never saw something that comes even close to what I just got from one of the backup servers. The output is attached - I replaced some file names with 'X's - those were normal file names, containing customer and

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] strange read-only file error

2010-06-22 Thread Patrick Nagel
Hi Eric, On 2010-06-21 19:39, Eric Beversluis wrote: Well I rebooted and then it ran fine. Does that mean it is _necessary_ to run rdiff-backup with a clean boot, or does anyone have some other explanation for the errors I got? Thanks On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 07:27 -0400, Eric Beversluis

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] removing from a subdirectory of a backup?

2009-08-29 Thread Patrick Nagel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Matthew, On Sunday 30 August 2009 02:05:48 Matthew Miller wrote: I'd like to have one backup with different expiration policies -- is this possible, or do I need to split it up? Thanks! AFAIK you will have to split it up. Patrick. - -- Key

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup painfully slow using NFS mount

2009-08-12 Thread Patrick Nagel
But the whole discussion still doesn't explain why it's so much slower during the *first* run (that's what Scott's mail was about, if I'm not mistaken). In that case, rsync/rdiff-backup should be (roughly) as fast as NFS, if there is no processing bottleneck on the machine that's running both

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Understanding Session Statistics

2009-07-19 Thread Patrick Nagel
Hi, On 2009-07-20 08:07, Dean Cording wrote: My understanding of rdiff-backup is that effectively nothing is ever deleted and therefore the backup size should always be increasing. For example, if I create a 1Mb file, back it up and then modify 500Kb worth of the file, then the next backup

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Newbie bumbler rdiff-bkp horribly horribly slow

2009-07-11 Thread Patrick Nagel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Harry, On 2009-07-10 22:42, Harry Putnam wrote: Ended up copying 23 GB... but the nasty thing is, it took a whopping 6+ hrs... from the session-stats log: ElapsedTime 21751.67 (6 hours 2 minutes 31.67 seconds) I guess it would help to have

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup over FTP

2009-05-07 Thread Patrick Nagel
Hi, On 2009-05-07 14:14, Gregy wrote: Wouldn't it be easier to just follow the guide located on the wiki? There is step-by-step how to configure rdiff-backup on windows as a client to linux server. Or do you want windows to be the server? Oh, right, there is a Wiki article:

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup over FTP

2009-05-06 Thread Patrick Nagel
Hi Chencho, On 2009-05-06 23:02, Chencho wrote: Now i want to develop an app (windows platform will be 99% users) to make this external incremental backups directly from the desktop, without office server. I'm not sure how configure ssh in each desktop to not ask about password, and i think

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: Combining --max-file-size and --exclude bug?

2009-01-31 Thread Patrick Nagel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 2009-01-31 06:09, Andrew Ferguson wrote: [...] Fortunately, the fix is simple. In selection.py just change lines 534 and 535: if min_max: sel_func = lambda rp: (rp.getsize() = size) else: sel_func = lambda rp:

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Updating mirror more often than incremental backups?

2008-11-05 Thread Patrick Nagel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Randy, Randy Orrison wrote: I suppose this is a strange request. I used to use rsync to create and update a mirror of my /home directory (on /backup/home, where /backup is an external USB drive). This is my home PC, used just by my family, so

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Client dying randomly on 1.1.16

2008-08-21 Thread Patrick Nagel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Oliver Hookins wrote: | Hi, I posted about this issue a while ago but I'm having a hard time | diagnosing the problem since there is no logging on the client side. We are | doing backups by initiating from the backup server, and for some reason

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup for windows has a problem with root directory

2008-08-17 Thread Patrick Nagel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ahd71 wrote: | Yes I tried all combination I could imagine except changing the working directory (smart thinking!!!). | Unfortunatly it didn't work either. Maybee I'm doing something wrong with my 'globbing-file'? | | My goal is to backup a windows

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] What does 'Attempt to rename over same inode' mean?

2008-08-14 Thread Patrick Nagel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Andrew, thanks for getting back to me about this. Andrew Ferguson wrote: | On Aug 10, 2008, at 8:17 AM, Patrick Nagel wrote: | today's backup gave me the following message: | | Warning: Attempt to rename over same inode: | /mnt/sdb1/backup/some

[rdiff-backup-users] What does 'Attempt to rename over same inode' mean?

2008-08-10 Thread Patrick Nagel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, today's backup gave me the following message: Warning: Attempt to rename over same inode: /mnt/sdb1/backup/some/path/rdiff-backup.tmp.3491 to /mnt/sdb1/backup/some/path/some_filename Is it something I need to worry about? Patrick. - -- Key

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Status of native Windows port?

2008-07-30 Thread Patrick Nagel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Mico Siahaan wrote: | I built rdiff-backup 1.2 python binary module for Windows using MinGW. The module can be downloaded here: http://www.intermatik.co.id/download/ftp/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-1.2.0.win32-py2.5.exe .You need python 2.5 to make

[rdiff-backup-users] Status of native Windows port?

2008-07-28 Thread Patrick Nagel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I read a lot about a native Windows port of rdiff-backup going on. Andrew Ferguson mentioned it (stating that he thinks it's finished) in the announcement of version 1.1.17, for example. Now I have a few questions, regarding this port: * Is it

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Restoring to an archive, i.e. making a snapshot

2008-06-18 Thread Patrick Nagel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, David Sickmiller wrote on 2008-06-07: | I'm using rdiff-backup to run a nightly backup across the Internet from | a production server to a backup server. I'd like to be able to produce | monthly snapshots and save them on removable media. It'd

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backing up between 2 remote hosts

2008-06-09 Thread Patrick Nagel
Hi Bert, Bert Hiddink (Monday, 2008-06-09): If I would like to implement: rdiff-backup [EMAIL PROTECTED]::/source-dir [EMAIL PROTECTED]::/dest-dir ...rdiff-backup should be installed on ALL hosts, that is, local host, host1 and host2? Why don't you just ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] rdiff-backup

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff backup first run.. advice needed!

2008-05-12 Thread Patrick Nagel
Hi Mike, Mike Green (Monday, 2008-05-12): [...] Is there a way of getting rdiff-backup to use the current working copy on the backup machine rather than trying to push the lot across again? My initial thought was to make a second copy on the backup machine, however we do not have the free

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup versus rsnapshot

2008-04-28 Thread Patrick Nagel
Hi Richard, Richard Chapman (Tuesday, 2008-04-29): It appears to me that both rdiff-backup and rsnapshot would do a good job for me. Could anyone provide their thoughts on the relative strengths and weaknesses of the two tools. I have posted a similar request on the rsnapshot list - and have

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Native Windows Port

2008-04-03 Thread Patrick Nagel
Hi Josh, Josh Nisly (Friday, 2008-04-04): I'm attempting to make a native Windows port of rdiff-backup. I've succeeded so far in building librsync and rdiff-backup's cmodules, as well as fixing rdiff-backup's fs_abilities checks. What I'm running up against now is that there seems to be a lot

[rdiff-backup-users] SpecialFileError ... Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long

2008-02-26 Thread Patrick Nagel
Hi there, I'm new to rdiff-backup, and so far I find it to be a great tool. During this night's (incremental, the script runs for the 5th time or so) backup of four vservers, I encountered a batch of errors that looked like: SpecialFileError var/run/dovecot/auth-worker.2765 Socket error: