Re: [BackupPC-users] OT - Minimum specs for a BackupPC server

2006-07-10 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 00:09, Krsnendu Dasa wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I tried emailing the backuppc-users list but my email keeps bouncing, so
> I thought I'd try here.

You have to subscribe to the list from the same address you use
when posting.

> Almost every night I get an email from my backuppc server telling me
> that the backup process was aborted due to signal=PIPE.  I've tried
> upping the timeout to no avail.

A timeout would give signal=ALRM.  

>   Some nights the backup works, often it
> works when I do it manually, but not always.  Anyway, my server is very
> wimpy.  I'm running a Celeron 466, 256 of RAM and the backup drive is
> 78% full.  Which of any of that would you think could be causing the
> problem?  Or do you think this isn't the issue.  "top" shows my CPU
> pegged at 99% for a lot of the backup.  My backups are usually taking
> about 650+ minutes when they manage to finish.

If you are using rsync as the backup method the entire
directory listing is transferred first so there is a
certain amount of RAM overhead per file.  If you are
backing up machines with a huge number of files you might
be running out of memory.

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[BackupPC-users] OT - Minimum specs for a BackupPC server

2006-07-10 Thread Krsnendu Dasa
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From: *Carl Keil* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 11-Jul-2006 15:22
Subject: [K12OSN] OT - Minimum specs for a BackupPC server
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hi folks,

I tried emailing the backuppc-users list but my email keeps bouncing, so
I thought I'd try here.

Almost every night I get an email from my backuppc server telling me
that the backup process was aborted due to signal=PIPE.  I've tried
upping the timeout to no avail.  Some nights the backup works, often it
works when I do it manually, but not always.  Anyway, my server is very
wimpy.  I'm running a Celeron 466, 256 of RAM and the backup drive is
78% full.  Which of any of that would you think could be causing the
problem?  Or do you think this isn't the issue.  "top" shows my CPU
pegged at 99% for a lot of the backup.  My backups are usually taking
about 650+ minutes when they manage to finish.

Thanks a lot, list.

ck

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Got remote protocol 757955594

2006-07-10 Thread Craig Barratt
Kai Grunau writes:

> I'm using  backuppc version 2.1.0pl1 on  RedHat Enterprise 3 server
> 
> before last weekend I had no problem but since then no BackupPC
> is running on  2 Solaris machines (no problem with the other linux 
> computer).
> 
> I found in the Xferlog file following message :
> ---
> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root hathorjan /usr/local/bin/rsync --server
> --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group --devices --links --times
> --block-size=2048 --recursive --exclude /lost+found/ . 
> /var/opt/SUNWmsgsr/store/partition/primary/
> Xfer PIDs are now 661
> Got remote protocol 757955594
> Fatal error (bad version):

The decimal value 757955594 is the first four bytes of the unexpected
text or error from the remote machine.  In hex it is 2D2D7C0A or
"--|\r".  Does your .cshrc or ssh login sequence emit this string?

This text should appear in ascii after "bad version".  I'm surprised
to see the rest of that message is empty.

Craig


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Re: [BackupPC-users] Email Notifications - Via another MTA rather than sendmail

2006-07-10 Thread mna.news
Le lundi 10 Juillet 2006 19:28, Ken Gregoire a écrit :
> [...]
> like backuppc to send email notifications via a standard email system.
maybe you can use nail : http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/nail.1.html

hope this help you.
mna.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling strangeness

2006-07-10 Thread Craig Barratt
BDaniels writes:

> I'm trying out BackupPC, and had an odd event last night.
> 
> We have
> $Conf{WakeupSchedule} = [19.5,20,21,22,23,0,1,2];
> to allow the backup server to run backups between 7:30pm-2am when 
> machines are idle.  MaxBackups is set to two.
> 
> I added a new machine (NEWSERVER) to the backup hosts lists yesterday 
> afternoon, and started a manual backup of another machine (MANUAL). 
> Here is the log of what occurred overnight (Date removed to lessen 
> linewraps).
> 
>   19:30:00 Reading hosts file
>   19:30:00 Added host NEWSERVER to backup list
>   19:30:00 Next wakeup is  20:00:00
>   20:00:01 Next wakeup is  21:00:00
>   21:00:01 Next wakeup is  22:00:00
>   22:00:00 Next wakeup is  23:00:00
>   23:00:00 Next wakeup is  00:00:00
>   00:00:00 Next wakeup is  01:00:00
>   00:53:38 Finished full backup on MANUAL
>   00:53:38 Running 2 BackupPC_nightly jobs from 0..15 (out of 0..15)
>   00:53:38 Running BackupPC_link MANUAL (pid=3445)
>   00:53:38 Running BackupPC_nightly -m 0 127 (pid=3446)
>   00:53:38 Running BackupPC_nightly 128 255 (pid=3447)
>   01:00:00 Next wakeup is  02:00:00
>   02:00:00 Next wakeup is  19:30:00
>   02:12:07 BackupPC_nightly now running BackupPC_sendEmail
>   02:12:22 Finished  admin1  (BackupPC_nightly 128 255)
>   02:12:30 Started full backup on BOX1 (pid=3460, share=C$)
>   02:12:36 Started full backup on NEWSERVER (pid=3467, share=C$)
>   02:35:45 Finished  admin  (BackupPC_nightly -m 0 127)
>   02:35:45 Pool nightly clean removed 0 files of size 0.00GB
>   02:35:45 Pool is 0.00GB, 0 files (0 repeated, 0 max chain, 0 max 
> links), 1 directories
>   02:35:45 Cpool nightly clean removed 3234 files of size 0.48GB
>   02:35:45 Cpool is 97.03GB, 1046035 files (148 repeated, 7 max chain, 
> 5751 max links), 4369 directories
>   02:35:45 Running BackupPC_link MANUAL (pid=3478)
>   02:35:54 Finished MANUAL (BackupPC_link MANUAL)
>   09:09:51 Stopping current full of BOX1, request by administrator 
> (backoff=)
>   09:10:14 Backup canceled on BOX1 (received signal=ALRM)
>   09:10:14 Running BackupPC_link BOX1 (pid=4059)
>   09:11:19 Finished BOX1 (BackupPC_link BOX1)
>   09:11:32 Started full backup on BOX2 (pid=4067, share=C$)
>   09:14:39 Stopping current full of BOX2, request by administrator 
> (backoff=)
> 
> My questions:
> 
> Why did it wait until 2:12am to start backing up NEWSERVER?  This 
> machine was added the night before, had never been backed up, and there 
> was only one backup in progress.

BackupPC_nightly gets queued at the first entry in $Conf{WakeupSchedule}
(7:30pm), so new backups are started until BackupPC_nightly finishes.

> At 9am I came in and had to cancel BOX1.  Why did BOX2 start at 9:10am, 
> outside of the Wakeup_Schedule times?

WakeupSchedule controls when the server queues jobs.  It doesn't
control when they start.  With MaxBackups is set to two, the cancel
of BOX1 allows the backup of BOX2 to start.

The Blackout settings give more control over when not to
run backups.

Craig


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Re: [BackupPC-users] Email Notifications - Via another MTA rather than sendmail

2006-07-10 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 07/10 01:28 , Ken Gregoire wrote:
> Is there a way to setup backuppc to use a different MTA (email system) 
> where it has to provide a url, username and password to send email 
> notifications.  I don't have sendmail on the backuppc system and would 
> like backuppc to send email notifications via a standard email system.

what MTA do you have installed?
btw, sendmail *is* the "standard" for mail systems. :)

if you mean that you don't have an MTA installed at all; look into one of
the send-only MTAs out there, like nullmailer(+debian patches), or similar
ones (can't think of the names right now; they all suck compared to
nullmailer once the debian patches have been added to it). do a freshmeat
search, you'll find many.

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[BackupPC-users] Email Notifications - Via another MTA rather than sendmail

2006-07-10 Thread Ken Gregoire
Is there a way to setup backuppc to use a different MTA (email system) 
where it has to provide a url, username and password to send email 
notifications.  I don't have sendmail on the backuppc system and would 
like backuppc to send email notifications via a standard email system.

Thanks in advance.
Ken



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[BackupPC-users] command line usage and updating of LOG and status on CGI

2006-07-10 Thread Mark Coetser
Hi Ppl

I am trying to write a small bash script that I can use to archive certain
hosts to tape using cron. How would I get the command line to update the CGI
interface so that users can see whether the job completed successfully or
not and also to show whether the job is running currently or not.

Thank you,

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