Re: [BackupPC-users] avoidable failure?

2007-01-15 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Cristian Tibirna wrote on 14.01.2007 at 13:16:29 [Re: [BackupPC-users] avoidable failure?]: On 14 January 2007 00:34, Holger Parplies wrote: [...] Might you simply need to increase your $Conf{ClientTimeout}? It would make sense that your backups take longer with busy client machines

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_dump Segmentation Fault

2007-01-15 Thread Craig Barratt
Art writes: I have been running BackupPC for over two years on a Mepis Linux box. All was well until early in the month when one of the WinXP boxes mysteriously stopped backing up. I have upgraded BackupPC to 2.1.2pl1 (using the Mepis Kpackage utility). I have used CPAN up re-install

Re: [BackupPC-users] reinstalling backuppc

2007-01-15 Thread Craig Barratt
David writes: I would like to reinstall Linux on new hard disks and copy the existing backuppc archives from the old disk to the new. What are the potential pitfalls? Can I just copy the whole directory of backuppc recursively? How can I copy and preserve hard links accross hard disks? There

Re: [BackupPC-users] avoidable failure?

2007-01-15 Thread Craig Barratt
Cristian writes: First, I'd like to thank Craig and his collaborators, who gave us this great tool that simplifies our lives greatly. I use BackupPC for many years already, in many settings, and I couldn't think of a better way of dealing with this thorny requirement. Thanks. So, once

[BackupPC-users] New version of BackupPC 3?

2007-01-15 Thread Timothy J. Massey
Hello! I was wondering if there will be a new release of the BackupPC 3 code? I know that there was at least one change (the permissions on web-edited files), and at least one bug (the GUI brings up the oldest log file when you click on the LOG link) that I am specifically interested in. Are

Re: [BackupPC-users] [Semi-OT] Encrypting backup partitions?

2007-01-15 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/11 08:20 , Bradley Alexander wrote: I (currently) have a 200GB partition for backups, and I was considering using Truecrypt on-the-fly encryption. I'm still on the fence regarding whether to set it up as individual containers or one large one. I don't know anything about this encryption

Re: [BackupPC-users] Email reports

2007-01-15 Thread Travis Fraser
On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 10:30 +0100, Francisco Daniel Igual Peña wrote: Hi, Is it possible that Backuppc sends weekly (or daily, dont mind) reports to a specific email even though there are no errors with the backups?. I want something like that, but I dont know how to do it. I have a

Re: [BackupPC-users] schedule problem since using latest beta

2007-01-15 Thread Craig Barratt
Brad writes: On all of the servers we have installed the latest beta I have seen a problem with the blackout periods. They appear to be ignored or interpreted incorrectly. I am using the default blackout periods and schedules in all my configs but all the incremental backups are starting

Re: [BackupPC-users] Proper way to schedule Archive jobs

2007-01-15 Thread Craig Barratt
Tim writes: The first is that it overwrites the previous archive daily. Is it possible to get ArchiveHost/TarCreate to use the backup number in the file name even when you use -1 as the backup job number? You could modify the code to use the date in the file name. Is there a way to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Email reports

2007-01-15 Thread Les Stott
Travis Fraser wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 10:30 +0100, Francisco Daniel Igual Peña wrote: Hi, Is it possible that Backuppc sends weekly (or daily, dont mind) reports to a specific email even though there are no errors with the backups?. I want something like that, but I dont know how to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Email reports

2007-01-15 Thread Craig Barratt
Francisco writes: Is it possible that Backuppc sends weekly (or daily, dont mind) reports to a specific email even though there are no errors with the backups?. I want something like that, but I dont know how to do it. I really don't like programs that annoy you with emails. That said, I

Re: [BackupPC-users] blackout fulls incrs differently?

2007-01-15 Thread Craig Barratt
brien writes: I'd like to run full backups at night (say, 10pm-2am), but run incrementals every 2 hours from 6am-6pm. There doesn't seem to be any way to do this. Unless, maybe I can use a predump script to test the time and $type and abort fulls that try to run during the day? It would

[BackupPC-users] searching backups

2007-01-15 Thread Krsnendu dasa
I am looking for a file that I think is in the backups somewhere. Is there a way to search for files saved in backups? - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get

[BackupPC-users] CGI scripts to manage removable hard drive media.

2007-01-15 Thread Timothy J. Massey
Hello! Here are the scripts I use to manage the removable hard drive media used to store daily archives of my backup servers via the GUI, instead of from the command line. Briefly, the system is set up like this: BackupPC's pool is stored on a large internal hard drive. Every day at a

Re: [BackupPC-users] searching backups

2007-01-15 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/15 02:09 , Krsnendu dasa wrote: I am looking for a file that I think is in the backups somewhere. Is there a way to search for files saved in backups? find | grep filename -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com

[BackupPC-users] What happens, if client rsync process crashes?

2007-01-15 Thread Clemens von Musil
Hi all, I am very new to backupPC - and I like it more more and more every day. ;-) I made a direcory with four 1MB files and some smaller text files for test purposes. Today, I tried some error cases and killed the rsync process on my client machine while syncing with xfermethod=rsync. After

Re: [BackupPC-users] Email reports

2007-01-15 Thread Travis Fraser
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 08:24 +1100, Les Stott wrote: Travis Fraser wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 10:30 +0100, Francisco Daniel Igual Peña wrote: Hi, Is it possible that Backuppc sends weekly (or daily, dont mind) reports to a specific email even though there are no errors

Re: [BackupPC-users] Email reports

2007-01-15 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi, Travis Fraser wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 10:30 +0100, Francisco Daniel Igual Peña wrote: Hi, Is it possible that Backuppc sends weekly (or daily, dont mind) reports to a specific email even though there are no errors with the backups?. I want something like that, but I

[BackupPC-users] Switching cipher

2007-01-15 Thread Philip Gleghorn
Hi, Just wanted to share this interesting test result I found about switching the ssh cipher. I am running the 3.0.0 beta3 in production on a fairly small centos4 server (basic spec but with a 1.5TB raid5 setup) and backing up a variety of windows, linux and solaris across a 100mbit lan. I