[BackupPC-users] Dequeu a backup for unknown time

Hi, I was wondering if you can dequeu a backup for an unknown time? Thanks Klaas -- "Several billion trillion tons of superhot exploding hydrogen nuclei rose slowly above the horizon and managed to look small, cold and slightly damp." Douglas Adams - The Hitch Hickers Gui

Re: [BackupPC-users] Non-pingable host

I think it would be better to change the ping command to the arpping command. This way you can block ping requests on the clients (which is safer), and backuppc is still able to check if the pc is alive or not. It must be said then that backuppc must have access to the arpping command which is ge

[BackupPC-users] Another pool question

Hi All, Sorry to bother you all with this question, I am quite sure that it has been asked already a thousand times, but the mailinglist is so big, I could not find it back. As some of you know from my previous questions, our backupserver gave up life. So the decent thing to do is buy a new o

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC-users Digest, Vol 12, Issue 3

t=us-ascii > > On 03/30 06:52 , Klaas Vantournhout wrote: >> Two days ago, we had a power outage in our department which caused a >> rather brutal shutdown of the computers. All of the computers survived, >> which is a good thing. But only one gained a peculiar chara

[BackupPC-users] Server hangs after power outage

Dear all, The real questions are at the bottom, the rest is just a nice intro which introduces you to the nature of the questions. Two days ago, we had a power outage in our department which caused a rather brutal shutdown of the computers. All of the computers survived, which is a good thing

Re: [BackupPC-users] Update to 3.0

Hi Christophe, I would not really worry about an update. I have always updated without a single problem and this since version 1 of BackupPC. If you install BackupPC, untar the file in a new directory (for backupreaasons if things go wrong, you should still have the old install dir of your pr

Re: [BackupPC-users] owner not shown after changing owner

Hi, just some more info about this. I noticed that when a host had one user in BackupPC 2.1.2, and I add more users after upgrade to version 3.0.0beta3, the line "This PC is used by " vanishes! Altering the line back to only one user, shows the line again. This is not the case when a PC origina

Re: [BackupPC-users] owner not shown after changing owner

Dear Craig, Thanks for answering. I have checked the hosts file, and it looks clean. I'm running backupPC3.0.0-beta3. The strange thing is that, the user himself can login into the system, and sees his host. There the host file determines who gets access to which host, it must run correct,

[BackupPC-users] owner not shown after changing owner

Hi, Here I am again with another tiny problem. Lately I changed a host its owner by altering the host file. What I noticed now is that, when I look at the host itself, it does not show the line "This PC is used by " Is there a way this can be explained? I'm using 3.0.0beta3 Thanks again for

[BackupPC-users] how to include certain files

Hi, I'm posting a lot these days to the list. It is just that I am finetuning my backup server, and want to do it in a nice way. I was wondering about the following. In my general conf.pl file I have stated that no hidden files should be backuped, hence I have $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup of backup machine

The command you use for copying the pool from A to B, does not preserve hardlinks. That is the reason why the pool gets larger and larger. You should use rsync -avz -H, but this will go tremendously slow and eats a lot of memory. But it works! You should also know that, when working on an uns

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_serverMesg

Hi, I don't know if I overlooked or something, but I was wondering what the options for BackupPC_serverMesg are? I know you can do backup all, status and much more ... but I don't know what more. I can't find documentation on this. From time to time you can read in this list an other command

Re: [BackupPC-users] Email question

BackupAdmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Broken pipe I am quiete sure this is not what should be happening? Any clue? klaas Klaas Vantournhout wrote: > Hello, > > There is something which I was wondering about. > Is there a way to set full email addresses instead of only the parti

[BackupPC-users] Email question

Hello, There is something which I was wondering about. Is there a way to set full email addresses instead of only the partial domain? Assume I have a user john, and his email is [EMAIL PROTECTED], how do I set this email? I can not set $Conf{EMailUserDestDomain} there it is not [EMAIL PROTECTE

[BackupPC-users] Two servers into one server

Hi all, Some time ago I raised a question if it was possible to merge two servers together into one server, but no response came on that questions, therefore I would like to ask it again. I have two backup servers which were running fine, until we had a power outage and one of the servers foun

[BackupPC-users] merging two servers

Hi, In our department, we might combine several backup servers to one big one. The question is of course, how do you start with that. Can you just copy all the stuff? Thanks klaas -- "Several billion trillion tons of superhot exploding hydrogen nuclei rose slowly above the horizon and managed

[BackupPC-users] Putting a backup in the attic

Dear users and developers of the mighty backup program, I was wondering if it is possible to put a certain full backup or incremental in the attic. It is can we save a certain backup permanently disregarding changes in the config file and so on? thanks klaas -- "Several billion trillion tons

[BackupPC-users] Upgrade to 3.0.0 beta

Hi, At the current moment we are running BackupPC 2.1.2 and we are very pleased with it. Pool is 161.69GB comprising 633721 files and 4369 directories 144 full backups of total size 3499.96GB (prior to pooling and compression), 262 incr backups of total size 200.43GB (prior to pooling and compres

[BackupPC-users] unable to open ... and botch no match on ...

xx for writing' and 'botch, no matches on xxx'. Is this an rsync problem? (probably) and if this is not the case, how could i solve this problem? Thanks in advance klaas vantournhout Contents of file /var/backups/pc/client/XferLOG.605.z, modified 2006-03-06 20:01:33 (Extracting