ilias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Ilias
> I got BackupPC 3.0 up and running. I'm currently testing it with a windows > client using a samba share. I haven't touched anything in the default > configuration with which I believe the server should take backups of all hosts > every 1 hour excluding the blackout period which is the only thing I changed > in > order to test it. This is the last line of the logs, and every time that > passes > it reproduces the same message. > > "2007-07-04 10:00:00 Next wakeup is 2007-07-04 11:00:00" > > And just that, no backups are been taken by the system. Take a look at your "Host Summary" screen, and tell us what is the "last attempt" message for this host. > > Also if I manually take incremental backups after I make some changes in the > files of the share, for instance, change the filename of a file, the > incremental > backup won't see that change and take backup of the file with its older > filename. I have to take full backups in order to store updated files. Any > solutions to that ? I've read somewhere that samba method won't be able to > detect file changes and I'll have to install cygwin in every client in order > to > use rsync which does proper backup of updated files, is that true ? This seems to be a problem with the samba transfer method, take a look at: ,---- http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/roadMap.html | Replacing smbclient with the perl module FileSys::SmbClient. This | gives much more direct control of the smb transfer, allowing | incrementals to depend on any attribute change (eg: exist, mtime, file | size, uid, gid), and better support for include and exclude. Currently | smbclient incrementals only depend upon mtime, so deleted files or | renamed files are not detected. FileSys::SmbClient would also allow | resuming of incomplete full backups in the same manner as rsync will. `---- Maybe this rsync windows package will help: http://itefix.no/cwrsync/ I had never used it, ok? Maybe you could send some feedback about rsync and windows if you go this way. Best regards, Rodrigo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
