Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't open /var/lib/backuppc/pc... for empty output
Ralf Gross said: since last weekend I have a problem with the rsync backup of one of our server. I'm not sure if this is related to an update of the Solaris rsyncd (sunfreeware 2.6.6-2.6.8) last Friday. This is definitely a problem with the 2.6.8 (sunfreeware) rsync. I switched back to 2.6.6 and have no more problems with that particular module. Ralf ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] BackupPC on a non-24x7 server
Hello, I'm happily using BackupPC both in some companies and also at home. And while all installations work perfectly (rsync-compatibility issues aside, but that's not BackupPC's fault), I have a question about my home installation. That server is not running all the time, most of the days it's shutdown for the night. Hence I run BackupPC_nightly from a daily cronjob with su -c '/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 255' backuppc (this is a Debian unstable installation, btw) This seems to work fine, but on the General Status Information page I still read * Pool is 16.00GB comprising 521616 files and 4369 directories (as of 1/14 01:04), ... * Nightly cleanup removed 2906 files of size 0.09GB (around 1/14 01:04), * Pool file system was recently at 65% (6/1 09:00), today's max is 92% (2/7 14:00) and yesterday's max was 55%. which is weird, as in, the dates for some of the values is completely wrong, as are of course the ##GB values. At the moment I'm not too worried about it, but I wonder whether this can be a problem if the filesystem is filling up, etc., so I'd like to know how or when BackupPC is updating those values and if I can manually trigger this process. Thanks in advance for any tips. Kind regards WK -- Wolfgang Karall [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] segmentation fault using rsyncd
nilesh vaghela wrote: Try to exlude the file which u think the backup is stuck up. Use --exclude option of rsync. I hope this will help you. Good thought. That gets me a bit farther. I excluded '/dev', and it continued, but now it is stopping with a different error on every special file it hits. I will post details in a new thread. -- Bowie ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] fileListReceive fails for special files using rsyncd
I am trying to back up a linux server using BackupPC and rsyncd. The problem is, every time it hits a socket file or fifo file, the fileListReceive fails. This is the output I see from BackupPC_dump: -- overflow: flags=0x72 l1=98 l2=1915581545, lastname=tmp/.fam5niafV overflow: flags=0x6f l1=111 l2=1048692, lastname=tmp/.fam5niafV fileListReceive() failed Done: 0 files, 0 bytes Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed) cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/ping -c 1 -w 3 store cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING store.cis.buc.com (xx.xx.xx.xx) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from store.cis.buc.com (xx.xx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.100 ms --- store.cis.buc.com ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.100/0.100/0.100/0.000 ms, pipe 2 cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/ping -c 1 -w 3 store cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING store.cis.buc.com (xx.xx.xx.xx) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from store.cis.buc.com (xx.xx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.092 ms --- store.cis.buc.com ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.092/0.092/0.092/0.000 ms, pipe 2 CheckHostAlive: returning 0.092 Backup aborted (fileListReceive failed) dump failed: fileListReceive failed -- The file it fails on is this: srw---1 root nobody 0 Sep 12 2003 /tmp/.fam5niafV If I exclude this file, it will continue on and die on the next special file it encounters. Help! :) -- Bowie ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] fileListReceive fails for special files usin g rsyncd
Gwenn Boussard wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: I am trying to back up a linux server using BackupPC and rsyncd. [...] srw---1 root nobody 0 Sep 12 2003 /tmp/.fam5niafV Do you really need to backup /tmp ? /home and /etc are sufficient most of the time, no ? Or you could exclude /dev /proc and /tmp... I excluded /tmp and that seems to have fixed it. I let the manual dump run for a while before killing it. I will let a normal scheduled backup run tonight and cross my fingers. :) In order to get the backup to work, I had to exclude /dev, /proc, /var/gdm/.gdmfifo, and /tmp. -- Bowie ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] BackupPC install on Windows
Hi all, have anyone tried to install BackupPC on a Widows box ? I mean nothing is said about it in the docs, nothing found in devel or user archives, so I tried ... I tried and failed !!! So far, I've found the next problems : - no support from configure.pl : expects '/' at the beginning for absolute paths, no way if '/C:' or '/cygdrive/c' is used (cygwin is installed) and configure.pl run from Command Prompt or bash from Cygwin - Apache support is needed : no problem, Apache 2.0 is available for Windows (although many Windows compatible admins prefer IIS) - No bzip2, cat or utility programs found : even when run from bash (remember, cygwin installed !!). Looking at FindProgram() in configure.pl it should find for cat.exe, bzip2.exe, etc. and it's not doing it :-P - Unimplemented getpwnam: obviously the user database is not in the /etc/passwd style and getpwnam() for searching users is not implemented (the error : The getpwnam function is unimplemented at configure.pl line 255, STDIN line 4) I gave up :-P. OK, I didn't went further but my suspicion is that __even__ if I install it manually (following the code in configure.pl and making some tweaks) I'll end with similar problems in the files at bin/ and cgi-bin/ in BackupPC distribution. Any thoughts ?? ideas ?? takers ?? Thanks for all your help. -- Víctor A. Rodríguez (http://www.bit-man.com.ar) El bit Fantasma (Bit-Man) CaFe.pm - Perl Mongers Capital Federal (http://cafe.pm.org/) Probaste con Software Libre (http://www.bit-man.com.ar/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AyudaCompu/SoftwareLibre ?? ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC install on Windows
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 13:27 +0100, Víctor A. Rodríguez wrote: have anyone tried to install BackupPC on a Widows box ? I mean nothing is said about it in the docs, nothing found in devel or user archives, so I tried ... I tried and failed !!! The real killer is that the pooled files need hardlinks to work in the filesystem. NTFS does have a similar concept but I'm not sure if they work exactly the same way and I don't think perl knows how to make them even if they do. So, I don't think anyone has done a windows version. If you really need it to run on a windows host you might try installing Linux under VMware using the free server version. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC install on Windows
Hi Les, thanks for your reply. On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 13:27 +0100, Víctor A. Rodríguez wrote: have anyone tried to install BackupPC on a Widows box ? I mean nothing is said about it in the docs, nothing found in devel or user archives, so I tried ... I tried and failed !!! The real killer is that the pooled files need hardlinks to work in the filesystem. NTFS does have a similar concept but I'm not sure if they work exactly the same way and I don't think perl knows how to make them even if they do. So, I don't think anyone has done a windows version. True. Indeed and sadly true, I forgot about it. If you really need it to run on a windows host you might try installing Linux under VMware using the free server version. Is what I was trying to avoid, but perhaps I'll end doing it (it's just a lab, BTW). -- Víctor A. Rodríguez (http://www.bit-man.com.ar) El bit Fantasma (Bit-Man) CaFe.pm - Perl Mongers Capital Federal (http://cafe.pm.org/) Probaste con Software Libre (http://www.bit-man.com.ar/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AyudaCompu/SoftwareLibre ?? ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] fileListReceive fails for special files using rsyncd
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Bowie Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gwenn Boussard wrote:
Bowie Bailey wrote:
I am trying to back up a linux server using BackupPC and rsyncd.
[...]
srw---1 root nobody 0 Sep 12 2003
/tmp/.fam5niafV
Do you really need to backup /tmp ?
/home and /etc are sufficient most of the time, no ?
Or you could exclude /dev /proc and /tmp...
I excluded /tmp and that seems to have fixed it. I let the manual
dump run for a while before killing it. I will let a normal scheduled
backup run tonight and cross my fingers. :)
In order to get the backup to work, I had to exclude /dev,
/proc, /var/gdm/.gdmfifo, and /tmp.
This was discussed on this list a while back and was caused by an
upgrade to rsync. Edit your config.pl or hostname.pl and change the
--devices line in the $Conf{RsyncArgs} section to -D.
Newer versions of rsync change the flag required to backup special
files, which is what causes the problem you mentioned.
HTH,
Jacob
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Installation on SuSE Linux
Mattia, A while back I documented the steps needed to install Backuppc on SuSE 10. The installation goes very well if you use some of the packages included in the SuSE distribution. See the following URL: http://www.moderndoorbells.com/backuppc I have suggested this document be included somewhere in the backuppc documentation on SourceForge. Best of luck, Peter --- Mattia Martinello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, is there a .rpm version of BackupPC for SuSE Linux 10? I don't found it, but it would be very good :-) Thank you very much and goodbye! Mattia. --- All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! Fully trained technicians. The highest number of Red Hat certifications in the hosting industry. Fanatical Support. Click to learn more http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=107521bid=248729dat=121642 ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ - Fight back spam! Download the Blue Frog. http://www.bluesecurity.com/register/s?user=Z3VtbWll __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Help .....
BackupPC crahes. I try to restart with /etc/init.d/backuppc restart The response is: /etc/rc.d/init.d/backuppc restart Shutting down BackupPC:[ OK ] Starting BackupPC: couldn't do /sisley/backupPC/data/log/status.pl: at /sisley/backupPC/bin/BackupPC line 115. [FAILED] The file /sisley/backupPC/data/log/status.pl is empty . Could some one tell me how to replace status.pl ? Sincerely -- == | Régis Gras | http://www-ledss.ujf-grenoble.fr | | L.E.D.S.S. | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | 301, rue de la chimie | --| | DU BP 53 | Tel 04 76 51 41 76| | 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9 | Fax 04 76 51 40 89| == ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] fileListReceive fails for special files usin g rsyncd
Jacob S wrote:
Bowie Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gwenn Boussard wrote:
Bowie Bailey wrote:
I am trying to back up a linux server using BackupPC and rsyncd.
[...]
srw---1 root nobody 0 Sep 12 2003
/tmp/.fam5niafV
Do you really need to backup /tmp ?
/home and /etc are sufficient most of the time, no ?
Or you could exclude /dev /proc and /tmp...
I excluded /tmp and that seems to have fixed it. I let the manual
dump run for a while before killing it. I will let a normal
scheduled backup run tonight and cross my fingers. :)
In order to get the backup to work, I had to exclude /dev,
/proc, /var/gdm/.gdmfifo, and /tmp.
This was discussed on this list a while back and was caused by an
upgrade to rsync. Edit your config.pl or hostname.pl and change the
--devices line in the $Conf{RsyncArgs} section to -D.
Newer versions of rsync change the flag required to backup special
files, which is what causes the problem you mentioned.
Perfect! That seems to have done it. I'll know for sure after the
full backup runs tonight.
I did search the list archives for the original error that I got when
it hit /dev. I found a few posts about it, but no solution.
Thanks!
--
Bowie
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Help .....
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 07:41, Regis Gras wrote: BackupPC crahes. I try to restart with /etc/init.d/backuppc restart The response is: /etc/rc.d/init.d/backuppc restart Shutting down BackupPC:[ OK ] Starting BackupPC: couldn't do /sisley/backupPC/data/log/status.pl: at /sisley/backupPC/bin/BackupPC line 115. [FAILED] The file /sisley/backupPC/data/log/status.pl is empty . Could some one tell me how to replace status.pl ? You can remove that file. A new one will be created after the next backup run. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
