[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 found it cool to give up life. The server that is still working has enough space to contain also the backups of the dead server. I was wondering now if it is possible to join both servers into one big one? I can imagine that just copying the pc directory into the other one, will not work, because of the cpool right? Any help would be enormously appreciated. Regards, 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 Guide to the Galaxy - 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=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] some questions...
On 12/20 01:14 , Filipe wrote: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom escreveu: On 12/19 07:17 , Filipe wrote: Using Backuppc (debian) successfully in my company for about 5 months, backing up 6 winXX shares using samba. The machine is a simple Pentium 4 with a 40GB HD that is getting full. Already ordered a 250GB ata100 hd. but I'm not sure what to do... should I use the 250Gb for the data only, or just replace the hd's using ghost?! move the contents of /var/lib/backuppc (or whereever your data pool is) to the new drive, and then mount the new drive on /var/lib/backuppc. It's a very good idea to have your data on a separate drive from the OS. At the very least, use a separate partition on disk. also, I would suggest using LVM on the data partition/disk. this will allow you to add space much more easily in the future; or move your data to another disk. thanks... but if I have 2 drives like that, what should I do if one fails? if the data drive fails, then you have the OS drive to use to recover your data (if possible); or at least to quickly set up the new data drive. if the OS drive fails, you put in a new drive, boot with knoppix, install backuppc to knoppix's ramdrive, and restore your OS drive from backup. it *is* best to have a redundant drive array in any situation. for buisness use, a 3ware RAID controller will more than pay for itself the first time you have a drive problem. -- 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=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] Two servers into one server
Klaas Vantournhout wrote: 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 found it cool to give up life. The server that is still working has enough space to contain also the backups of the dead server. I was wondering now if it is possible to join both servers into one big one? I can imagine that just copying the pc directory into the other one, will not work, because of the cpool right? Any help would be enormously appreciated. If you have a lot of extra space you can copy the directories under pc over. They will work that way but the space they take won't be shared until those runs expire. Unless it is likely that the older history will be needed, I'd just add the configuration for the other machines and let your working server accumulate its own history - and hang on to the old disk for a while just in case. -- 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=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] some questions...
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: thanks... but if I have 2 drives like that, what should I do if one fails? if the data drive fails, then you have the OS drive to use to recover your data (if possible); or at least to quickly set up the new data drive. if the OS drive fails, you put in a new drive, boot with knoppix, install backuppc to knoppix's ramdrive, and restore your OS drive from backup. it *is* best to have a redundant drive array in any situation. for buisness use, a 3ware RAID controller will more than pay for itself the first time you have a drive problem. Linux RAID1 mirrors work nicely too, and can actually mirror over more than two drives. I use 2 internal 250 gig drives and once a week add a matching external firewire drive and let it sync, which takes a couple of hours, then swap it offsite. I keep a laptop with backuppc installed for quick access to the external drive. There might be a better way to do this with LVM now but this approach should work up to the 750 gig drives that are available now. -- 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=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] some questions...
On 12/21 07:52 , Les Mikesell wrote: Linux RAID1 mirrors work nicely too, and can actually mirror over more than two drives. we've had mediocre experiences with linux software RAID at work, and I've had mediocre experiences with it at home. it works; but sometimes the box falls over anyway when a drive fails, and it's a decent amount of trouble to get the array rebuilt after you replace the drive. I usually figure on an hour of labor to do that, once its all said and done. Considering that labor is usually upwards of $150/hr, and a 2-port 3ware controller is $130; it's pretty simple math to figure out which is better. we've had nothing but good luck with the dozens of 3ware controllers that we have in service. I heartily recommend them to everyone. -- 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=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] Migrating to bigger storage
I've had good results moving storage pools between RAID devices (for maintenance) using xfsdump and xfsrestore. I'd recommend that you investigate the dump/restore commands for your filesystem (I've learned to avoid ext for anything over ~1TB but YMMV). For locally attached devices, the rates were competitive with all other methods I tried. You can use dump/restore commands over the net from one server to another, but beware of the overhead of your transfer protocol (if you're using a ssh tunnel choose your cipher wisely to reduce overhead). Hope this helps. Cheers, Stephen -- Stephen Joyce Systems AdministratorP A N I C Physics Astronomy Department Physics Astronomy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Network Infrastructure voice: (919) 962-7214and Computing fax: (919) 962-0480 http://www.panic.unc.edu (3) With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. -- RFC 1925 - Fundamental truths of networking On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Mike Sauer wrote: I've has success using PAX to copy ~72GB of data. pax -r -w /old/path /new/path It took quite a while, far longer than DD would have, but personally prefer copying on a file level to a device level. The tail end copy process in an intense IO seek for to match hard lines. - 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- - 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=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] some questions...
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: On 12/21 07:52 , Les Mikesell wrote: Linux RAID1 mirrors work nicely too, and can actually mirror over more than two drives. we've had mediocre experiences with linux software RAID at work, and I've had mediocre experiences with it at home. it works; but sometimes the box falls over anyway when a drive fails, and it's a decent amount of trouble to get the array rebuilt after you replace the drive. I usually figure on an hour of labor to do that, once its all said and done. Considering that labor is usually upwards of $150/hr, and a 2-port 3ware controller is $130; it's pretty simple math to figure out which is better. we've had nothing but good luck with the dozens of 3ware controllers that we have in service. I heartily recommend them to everyone. I agree that 3ware controllers are good hardware and worth the money, but I suspect you are comparing the time of swapping an internal drive vs. a swappable cage here. It's not that hard to type an fdisk command followed by an mdadm --add command. Many/most IDE controllers do lock up when one of the drives fails with certain failure modes - this can be a problem especially if your boot drive is there. Scsi tends to fail more gracefully. -- 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=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] some questions...
On 12/21 08:25 , Les Mikesell wrote: I agree that 3ware controllers are good hardware and worth the money, but I suspect you are comparing the time of swapping an internal drive vs. a swappable cage here. It's not that hard to type an fdisk command followed by an mdadm --add command. no, I'm actually not. it sounds like one of those things that's simple; but somehow always ends up taking a lot longer than you expect. At least, that's my real-world experience with the process. it's noteworthy that I'm in a consulting environment, rather than being a full-time admin for one company. so going off to do something else productive while the drives are sync'ing, or a long command is running, is not always an option. -- 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=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] some questions...
On 12/21 10:20 , Les Mikesell wrote: It really is as simple as an fdisk and mdadm command for the case where it isn't a boot drive and the other mirror member is still good. that's the theory. your caveats are noteworthy tho; I've been bitten by them, and that's one of the reasons I don't like software RAID. with a 3ware controller, there's no worry about the bootability of whichever drive is left in the array. For a permanent replacement, there is no need to wait for anything. we consider it good policy to wait for the drives to sync, and do a test reboot, before leaving the customer premises. the reboot is important, as it often shows up problems you didn't notice, or put off until 'after this next command'. You can use the machine normally while the sync happens and it takes care of itself when finished. yep. -- 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=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] some questions...
On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 10:37 -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: It really is as simple as an fdisk and mdadm command for the case where it isn't a boot drive and the other mirror member is still good. that's the theory. your caveats are noteworthy tho; I've been bitten by them, and that's one of the reasons I don't like software RAID. with a 3ware controller, there's no worry about the bootability of whichever drive is left in the array. Booting from software raid is a special case in that it really just uses one member so there are some quirks about getting the boot loader installed on both drives and configured to match the bios concept of which drive it is. My approach here is to not worry about it as a special case but keep a boot/install CD around to fix things after the fact like you would any other problem that requires a re-install of grub. The tradeoff is that the drives can be moved to any PC with standard controller or stuck in an external USB/firewire case. I haven't tried that with a disk pulled out of a 3ware set but I'd be surprised if it works. In any case, I like to have the backuppc archive on its own separate partition and it usually takes the whole disk so booting from raid is really a different issue. -- 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=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] some questions...
that's the theory. your caveats are noteworthy tho; I've been bitten by them, and that's one of the reasons I don't like software RAID. with a 3ware controller, there's no worry about the bootability of whichever drive is left in the array. You also need to set a partition as active and reinstall LILO, and rewrite the boot sector of the new drive. Doing this ensures both drives are bootable. - 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=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] Migrating to bigger storage
On 12/20/06, John Pettitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm about to migrate my BackupPC partition to a new raid controller (more space and more spindles) - my current thinking is to use dump/restore - has anybody done this - what issues did you encounter? I've used tar over ssh which worked well, you could also use tar over netcat, but haven't tried that. Not as fast as dd, but not bad. -Dave - 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Problem when displaying pc backup log
Hi, I installed the BackupPC 3.0.0Beta3 version. I'm taking a backup using rsync of a linux host. The backup gets created in the correct /data/-directory but there is no logfile. /data/backuppc/pc/test$ ls -l total 116 drwxr-x--- 3 backup backup47 Dec 20 19:59 1 -rw-r- 1 backup backup 0 Dec 20 18:00 LOCK -rw-r- 1 backup backup 989 Dec 20 19:59 LOG.122006 -rw-r- 1 backup backup 99245 Dec 20 19:59 XferLOG.1.z -rw-r- 1 backup backup 289 Dec 20 19:01 XferLOG.bad.z.old -rw-r- 1 backup backup 118 Dec 20 19:59 backups I think that this is also the cause why I can't browse or view the backups on the CGI. I suppose there is no problem with permissions because he can create the backup. Any ideas? Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Maarten _ All things trendy for Windows Live Messenger ... http://entertainment.msn.be/funwithmessenger - 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=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] Backing up Win2000 server
Problem solved ... it was a rights issue. Sorry _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Burgstaler Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 5:52 PM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [BackupPC-users] Backing up Win2000 server I'm getting the following error when I try to do a backup of my 'F' drive ... 2006-12-21 16:39:08 Backup failed on https://192.168.10.9/cgi-bin/BackupPC/BackupPC_Admin?host=data-serv data-serv (chroot failed) I have another USB 278Gg drive that is also attached to this server as 'E' and I have no problem backing of this drive. The only difference that I see is that the 'E' drive itself is not a share point but has shared folders within it whereas the 'F' drive is a main share point so that users can see the folders but only access the ones they have permission to. Any ideas on what would cause the 'F' drive to exibit the (chroot failed) error? Thanks in advance Ed - 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Problem with Backup Contentas of Data Unreadable Lots of tar errors etc.
The backup seems to run fine but but when browsing the backup nothing is readable its all ASCII jibberish The error log also mostly unreadable looks like this Says Tar Extract: Unable to open/var/lib/backuppc/pc/servername/new/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@$^% Tar Extract: botch, no matches on /var . same Tar Extract: Can't open /var/lib/backuppc/pc/mrfile/new I am attaching to a win2003 server, I can open files logged in from the gui, in nautilus using the backuppc account. Etc. I am also backing up 15 other hosts just fine. This is the only one acting weird. - 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] full backup failed - Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely)
Hi list!
I recently set up a backuppc server running on debian etch 64 bits,
installation and configuration were clean and easy.
I did some test backups (full and incremental) with small folders and
everything was fine.
But when I tried to backup up the /, (approximately 10 gigas) it doesn't work.
BackupPc takes a lot of time in the backup in progress state, and after some
hours it creates a partial backup, although its duration is only 6 minutes
Please have a look of the logs:
192.168.0.119/LOG
2006-12-19 10:25:01 full backup started for directory /
2006-12-19 10:31:04 Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely)
2006-12-19 10:31:09 Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely)
2006-12-19 10:31:09 Saved partial dump 0
.
192.168.0.119/XferLOG.0.z
Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root 192.168.0.119 /usr/bin/rsync --server
--sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group --devices --links --times
--block-size=2048 --recursive --specials -D --ignore-times . /
Xfer PIDs are now 14794
Got remote protocol 29
Negotiated protocol version 26
Remote[2]: file has vanished: /proc/2/exe
Remote[2]: file has vanished: /proc/2/task/2/exe
Remote[2]: file has vanished: /proc/3/exe
Remote[2]: file has vanished: /proc/3/task/3/exe
Remote[2]: file has vanished: /proc/4/exe
Remote[2]: file has vanished: /proc/4/task/4/exe
Remote[2]: file has vanished: /proc/5/exe
SO ON...
pool 644 0/0 811578
lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/volatile/fcdslusba.ko
pool 644 0/0 616476
lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/volatile/fcpci.ko
pool 644 0/0 609575
lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/volatile/fcusb.ko
pool 644 0/0 500101
lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/volatile/fglrx.ko
pool 644 0/0 656303
lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/volatile/fxusb.ko
Parent read EOF from child: fatal error!
Done: 0 files, 0 bytes
Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely)
Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely)
192.168.0.119/XferLOG.0.z (Extracting only Errors)
Remote[2]: file has vanished: /proc/4798/task/4798/exe
Remote[2]: file has vanished: /proc/4803/exe
Remote[2]: file has vanished: /proc/4803/task/4803/exe
Xfer PIDs are now 14794,14958
Unable to open /var/lib/backuppc/pc/192.168.0.119/new/f%2f/f%0d for writing\n
Botch, no matches on /var/lib/backuppc/pc/192.168.0.119/new/f%2f/f%0d
(41f80cf5cb9a8c8542a3f81720d5c9df)\n
[ skipped 1 lines ]
Unable to open /var/lib/backuppc/pc/192.168.0.119/new/f%2f/f%0d.pub for
writing\n
Botch, no matches on /var/lib/backuppc/pc/192.168.0.119/new/f%2f/f%0d.pub
(7dc84c5de7b13a70da7ee68297c22d1e)\n
[ skipped 1 lines ]
Unable to open /var/lib/backuppc/pc/192.168.0.119/new/f%2f/attrib for writing\n
Botch, no matches on /var/lib/backuppc/pc/192.168.0.119/new/f%2f/attrib
(67a8e4e3b2d0f6f7c8337cea15ff0f2a)\n
[ skipped 16196 lines ]
Parent read EOF from child: fatal error!
Done: 0 files, 0 bytes
Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely)
Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely)
...
I defined $Conf{PartialAgeMax} = 0; To force making a full backup instead
updating a partial one, I'm using rsync with openssh and have no problems using
ssh with no password to the client (as root, of course), the compression type
is bzip2.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance for any help
Jorge
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[BackupPC-users] Permissions on files edited via GUI (V3 Beta)
Hello! I have a problem with the permissions on configuration files modified by the BackupPC GUI. The files are given 644 permissions, and owned by backuppc:apache. This is a problem. With 644 permissions, my rsyncd passwords are now world-readable. That is a deal-killer. Also, from my tests it does not seem that apache needs to have group ownership. After all, the CGI script is running setuid as backuppc, right? I've manually set the permissions to 640 backuppc:backuppc, and it seems to be fine. Is it possible to reconfigure the GUI to maintain this? Thank you, Tim Massey - 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Storing data on a CIFS NAS
Hello, I've been using BackupPC for quite a while, and recently started running low on disk space. We've got a 2TB NAS device that I'd like to use as a destination for BackupPC's data. I've got it setup to mount on boot via CIFS in fstab, and I can read and write data to the NAS. But for some reason, when I copy the pc directory to the NAS, make a symbolic link in its place and restart BackupPC, backups fail very quickly (within 2 minutes). Unfortunately I'm not seeing any diagnostic output in the logs. I can't even access the logs, once the pc directory is on the NAS, BackupPC complains that it can't read them (through the browser). Has anyone gotten a similar system working? I'd love to use this 2TB array for storage. It's unfortunate that I have to use CIFS to mount it, it has an embedded Windows OS that only supports SMB, AFS and FTP. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank You, Troy - 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Pipe bug?
Dear List After upgrading to the new 3.0b version of I get the following erros: 2006-12-21 22:38:00 Running BackupPC_trashClean (pid=16419) 2006-12-21 22:38:00 Next wakeup is 2006-12-21 23:00:00 2006-12-21 22:38:26 User backuppc requested backup of hilbert (hilbert) 2006-12-21 22:38:27 Started full backup on hilbert (pid=16428, share=/) 2006-12-21 22:38:33 Backup failed on hilbert (fileListReceive failed) 2006-12-21 22:44:50 User backuppc requested server configuration reload 2006-12-21 22:44:50 Reloading config/host files via CGI request 2006-12-21 22:44:50 Next wakeup is 2006-12-21 23:00:00 2006-12-21 22:45:38 User backuppc requested backup of hilbert (hilbert) 2006-12-21 22:45:39 Started full backup on hilbert (pid=16474, share=/) 2006-12-21 22:45:46 Backup failed on hilbert (fileListReceive failed) 2006-12-21 23:00:01 Next wakeup is 2006-12-22 01:00:00 2006-12-21 23:00:04 Started full backup on hilbert (pid=16502, share=/) 2006-12-21 23:00:12 Backup failed on hilbert (fileListReceive failed) I have no idea what is going on. I searched the list and found several hints indicating that there might be a pipe bug. How can I resolve the problem. I also refer to http://www.topology.org/linux/backuppc.html#bug1 Thanks for any help. - 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
