Re: [BackupPC-users] Set host-based backup path
El Lunes, 24 de Julio de 2006 21:41, Mark Coetser escribió: > I would suggest stopping backuppc and moving /var/lib/backuppc/pc to your > other partition just make sure you keep the permissions intact, then making > a symlink to that Yeah, this is what I did just after posting my request...it looks like a trick but it work nicely. Only one doubt left: I'm using rsyncd as main backup method and I'm wondering if I could use two rsyncd "repositories" in one config file (as multiple directories with tar and rsync method). Maybe it's in the doc but I can't get it... -- Davide Ferrari System Administrator atrapalo.com - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] dry run of BackupPC_compressPool cant' create dirs
2006/7/25, Arlequín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I su to BackupPC user (backuppc) and launched the command: > > /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_compressPool -t -r > > but I am getting the following permission errors: > > mkdir /var/lib/backuppc/cpool/4: Permission denied at > /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_compr > essPool line 153 (...) > I don't want to run that command as root because the documentation says > I have to run it as backuppc user. Try this: sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_compressPool -t -r -- Vincent - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] How can I verify backup pool integrity?
I have used fsck to clear many errors on my backup volume after a crash
during a power failure (see
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=25989686&forum_id=503).
The system is back up, and the web GUI seems to be working normally.
How can I verify the integrity of the backups without doing a full
restore and compare, for which I simply do not have the disk space?
I've just re-read the FAQs and Docs and it seems like the combination of
BackupPC_link, BackupPC_trashClean and BackupPC_nightly *might* do
enough checking to do the trick. The next closest thing was
BackupPC_compressPool, but I already am running with cpool and it
specifically says "there must be no existing compressed backups when you
run BackupPC_compressPool."
I'd rather not just clear the entire thing and start from scratch again
because I have backups going back many months and would hate to lose
that history. But after fsck "fixed" all the stuff it did, I am worried
that the pool has been corrupted and worse that it will CONTINUE to be
corrupted as BackupPC assumes all is well and continues to hard link to
crap instead of what it thinks it has.
For example, should there be directories below cpool/x/y/z? No other
container in cpool seems to have them except the one that had most of
the fsck errors. This seems like a Bad Thing:
/data/backuppc/cpool# find 1/9/4 -type d
1/9/4
1/9/4/1948594ab2b81e13ebeb08e4568cb7a8
1/9/4/1949df51f3b82896655bb92f8e61a5e8
1/9/4/1946962146aafc779f065303f338056b
1/9/4/19416ee737e69b60586629a65a023c87
1/9/4/19406588e36a7c661dae020d52a3d593
1/9/4/1942008474e4fb5cde93b56e47f67cb8
1/9/4/1940d491ca3f7f6640e22e6cf279d887
1/9/4/19431f3c7e5e1c086e20705e351b2276
1/9/4/194fd19855f8b6160a6dae78a7680e3c
1/9/4/19474739e5492f141d65f02212f459db
What happens if I 'rm -rf /data/backuppc/cpool/1/9/4'?
Thanks,
JP
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[BackupPC-users] front end for selection of backuppc
Dear All, We are trying to contribute for front end to selecte the bakcup. As we have team good in java. Initially we will try with rsync only. This is already done with linux to linux backup. We are trying for windows client also. Any body interested let me know. Will send you or upload the code and the method.-- Nilesh VaghelaElectroMechRedhat Channel Partner and Training Partner74, Nalanda Complex, Satellite Rd, Ahmedabad 25, The Emperor, Fatehgunj, Baroda.www.electromech.info - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring a localhost
On 07/25 12:12 , Mark Miksis wrote: > This means that I will want to have certain critical files > available (and backed up) somewhere outside of the BackupPC infrastructure: > > - BackupPC source or RPM (can be downloaded) > - File::RsyncP source or RPM (can be downloaded) > - any changes to default config.pl > - localhost's per-PC config.pl > - any necessary customization to the BackupPC httpd conf file this is why I turn off compression on the backups of localhost. if you look at the tree of files, they're still not quite a live copy; but close enough to be usable if you only needed a few of them. > - backuppc user's ssh keypair (and known_hosts?) dunno about other distros, but under Debian, the backuppc user's homedir is the same as __TOPDIR__ (/var/lib/backuppc). -- Carl Soderstrom - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] fsck errors after crash in cpool data
On 07/21 02:01 , JP Vossen wrote: > I ran an fsck -n, logged the results and looked through them: > 41"Inode * ref count is *, should be *." > 34deleted/unused inode > 25incorrect filetype > 21link to directory > > That seems like a lot of errors for a simple power crash. Any thoughts > on that? if you have a lot of disk activity, and a lot of changes queued up in memory that haven't been flushed to disk yet, then it's not unusual. you might be surprised just how much Linux buffers in memory... try sending several hundred MB to a slow USB drive sometime... it'll look like hundreds of MB are transferred immediately, but then it appears to slow down. you'll note that the amount which appears to be transferred, corresponds with roughly the amount of memory which can be freed for the purpose. it's all just cached in memory and slowly being flushed to disk. this makes a lot of sense, because for short-lived files, it may happen that they're created and deleted before ever hitting disk, thus improving performance substantially. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Understanding rsync
Craig Barratt wrote:
> ..plus drop the "+" from $argList:
>
> $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/sudo $rsyncPath $argList';
>
> since there is no shell that needs escaping of arguments.
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Re: [BackupPC-users] dry run of BackupPC_compressPool cant' create dirs
On 25/07/2006 04:25, Vincent Fleuranceau wrote: > 2006/7/25, Arlequín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I su to BackupPC user (backuppc) and launched the command: >> >> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_compressPool -t -r >> >> but I am getting the following permission errors: >> >> mkdir /var/lib/backuppc/cpool/4: Permission denied at >> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_compr >> essPool line 153 > > (...) > >> I don't want to run that command as root because the documentation says >> I have to run it as backuppc user. > > Try this: > > sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_compressPool -t -r > > -- Vincent > Vincent, Actually doing it using sudo causes the same effect... permission denied. Perhaps I must change the permission on the directory cpool This is what I have: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/backuppc/cpool# ls -la total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 6 2006-07-12 10:10 . drwxr-x--- 7 backuppc backuppc 80 2006-07-21 15:28 .. -- Arlequín _o) amahoro_AT_adinet_DOT_com_DOT_uy / \\ http://counter.li.org/ _(___V Linux Registered User #207262 - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring a localhost
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom real-time.com> writes: > this is why I turn off compression on the backups of localhost. if you look > at the tree of files, they're still not quite a live copy; but close enough > to be usable if you only needed a few of them. Thanks for the feedback. I've thought of this, but I'd like to avoid turning off compression, especially if the alternative is as simple as keeping an extra copy of 2 or 3 small config files. > > > - backuppc user's ssh keypair (and known_hosts?) > > dunno about other distros, but under Debian, the backuppc user's homedir is > the same as __TOPDIR__ (/var/lib/backuppc). > Good point. I guess this addresses the per-PC config files too. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring a localhost
On 07/25 04:01 , Mark Miksis wrote: > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom real-time.com> writes: > > this is why I turn off compression on the backups of localhost. if you look > > at the tree of files, they're still not quite a live copy; but close enough > > to be usable if you only needed a few of them. > > Thanks for the feedback. I've thought of this, but I'd like to avoid turning > off compression, especially if the alternative is as simple as keeping an > extra > copy of 2 or 3 small config files. localhost's backups, at least on a dedicated server, aren't really that big. few hundred MB. I don't worry about it. backing up the whole machine also means that if some binary file on the machine is lost, which breaks everything (been there, seen that), then it's fairly straightforward to recover that file. if you're really concerned about it, just back up /etc non-compressed; or keep a separate live or semi-live backup using mondo, rsnapshot, or the like. (redundant backups are a good thing in any case; I still use my ancient Amanda server as a redundant and offsite backup system for some hosts). > > > - backuppc user's ssh keypair (and known_hosts?) > > > > dunno about other distros, but under Debian, the backuppc user's homedir is > > the same as __TOPDIR__ (/var/lib/backuppc). > > > Good point. I guess this addresses the per-PC config files too. per-pc config files should be under /etc/backuppc; tho I guess this probably varies by installation. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] dry run of BackupPC_compressPool cant' create dirs
2006/7/25, Arlequín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Vincent, > > Actually doing it using sudo causes the same effect... permission denied. > > Perhaps I must change the permission on the directory cpool > > This is what I have: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/backuppc/cpool# ls -la > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 6 2006-07-12 10:10 . > drwxr-x--- 7 backuppc backuppc 80 2006-07-21 15:28 .. > I have: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/lib/backuppc/cpool]# ls -al total 72 drwxr-x--- 18 backuppc backuppc 4096 mar 13 14:38 ./ drwxr-x--- 9 backuppc backuppc 4096 jui 25 15:29 ../ drwxr-x--- 18 backuppc backuppc 4096 mar 13 14:48 0/ drwxr-x--- 18 backuppc backuppc 4096 mar 13 14:48 1/ drwxr-x--- 18 backuppc backuppc 4096 mar 13 14:48 2/ drwxr-x--- 18 backuppc backuppc 4096 mar 13 14:48 3/ drwxr-x--- 18 backuppc backuppc 4096 mar 13 14:48 4/ drwxr-x--- 18 backuppc backuppc 4096 mar 13 14:48 5/ drwxr-x--- 18 backuppc backuppc 4096 mar 13 14:48 6/ drwxr-x--- 18 backuppc backuppc 4096 mar 13 14:48 7/ drwxr-x--- 18 backuppc backuppc 4096 mar 13 14:48 8/ drwxr-x--- 18 backuppc backuppc 4096 mar 13 14:48 9/ drwxr-x--- 18 backuppc backuppc 4096 mar 14 01:41 a/ drwxr-x--- 18 backuppc backuppc 4096 mar 13 14:48 b/ drwxr-x--- 18 backuppc backuppc 4096 mar 13 14:48 c/ drwxr-x--- 18 backuppc backuppc 4096 mar 13 14:48 d/ drwxr-x--- 18 backuppc backuppc 4096 mar 13 14:48 e/ drwxr-x--- 18 backuppc backuppc 4096 mar 13 14:48 f/ The following command should to fix the problem: chown -R backuppc:backuppc /var/lib/backuppc/ -- Vincent - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring a localhost
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 16:01 +, Mark Miksis wrote: > > this is why I turn off compression on the backups of localhost. if you look > > at the tree of files, they're still not quite a live copy; but close enough > > to be usable if you only needed a few of them. > > Thanks for the feedback. I've thought of this, but I'd like to avoid turning > off compression, especially if the alternative is as simple as keeping an > extra > copy of 2 or 3 small config files. I think your bigger worry should be that whatever might break the rest of the machine will also fry or erase the backuppc drive. My approach is to periodically raid-mirror my archive disk to an external firewire drive and I have a laptop with backuppc already installed so I can connect the external drive and be ready to restore. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
