What version of CentOS are your clients? I seem to recall this was a problem with RHEL 4, but has not been a problem on later versions. I use rsync and do not exclude /var/log/lastlog and do not have any problems with it.
Tony Schreiner On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Moorcroft, Mark (ARC-TS)[ERC, Inc.] < mark.moorcr...@nasa.gov> wrote: > > All of my systems are 64 bit CentOS, and all have /var/log/lastlog. With > various pressure from both the private sector and government demanding > some kind of log archiving, I thought some kind of FAQ or note could save > countless man hours for people trying to use BackupPC. I wasted 2 days > going down various rabbit holes, and I actually knew better. But that was > so long ago that I forgot about this until the light bulb went on. When I > searched the BackupPC list archive, I had to go all the way back to 2007 > to find discussion about lastlog. So I suggested some kind of hint to help > people OR hard coding something. Perhaps I should have written ³||² > instead of ³or² so you could understand my suggestion. As far as database > files, for some reason those have not killed rsync the way lastlog seems > to. Even backing up an LVM snapshot with lastlog present kills rsync. > Mongo actually recommends backing up it¹s files ³live² from an LVM > snapshot. Of course they suggest dd/gzip, not rsync. I have not decided on > the best way to handle mysql with BackupPC yet. > > -- > > > Mark Moorcroft > ERC Corp. > 650-604-4784 > mailto:mark.moorcr...@nasa.gov > > > > > > > On 10/24/14, 8:18 AM, "Les Mikesell" <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > >You might temper the sarcasm a bit if you also mentioned the > >alternative which is to have your whole backup fail completely without > >an obvious reason and/or filling a huge amount of archive space, > >crowding out stuff that is actually useful. But yes, appropriate > >configs are the right solution. > > > >> I believe lastlog is only a problem on 64-bit systems, and only until > >>someone comes up with a different implementation. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ >
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