[BackupPC-users] File has vanised (weird path)

2023-08-13 Thread martin f krafft via BackupPC-users
Folks, I am running BPC 4.4.0 across 57 pretty much identical hosts (all Debian) and it's all working great, except today I noticed that on 4 of those hosts, there are XferErros, and they are all along the following lines: ``` file has vanished: "/var/lib/ntp/f%2f/fvar/flib/fntp/attrib" ```

[BackupPC-users] after v4 migration: pool files missing or wrong digest

2022-11-22 Thread martin f krafft via BackupPC-users
Hello, I have a very old BackupPC server (coming up to 15 years, now running 4.4.0). I've been migrating the entire pool to v4, basically one backup per day (since the migration requires downtime). This has been going fine for months, but recently, one of the backups exposed some problems in

[BackupPC-users] Removing a file from all backups

2022-09-22 Thread martin f krafft via BackupPC-users
Hey there, If I need to remove a file from all backups on a host using the v4 format, is it better to step through all the backups from new to old, or the other way? I am thinking that since the backups are all incremental, if I were to touch an old one, all new ones would need to be

[BackupPC-users] Determine heavy-weight clients

2022-09-22 Thread martin f krafft via BackupPC-users
Hello, has anyone written a tool to identify the hosts that contribute most to recent pool size increase for v4? I see the data in pc/*/backups and I could extract the size of new files for each backup, then correlate with the time of the backup and then… With v3, it was possible to use