Re: [BackupPC-users] GUI error after upgrade
On Wednesday 14 February 2007, Jim McNamara wrote: snip If any additional info or configs would make this easier to diagnose, please let me know. Thanks, Jim Did you restart both backuppc and httpd after the upgrade. Not restarting http will cause problems with the cgi-scripts. Tony --- -- 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=DEVD EV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- Tony Molloy. System Manager. Dept. of Comp. Sci. University of Limerick - 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] GUI error after upgrade
Jim McNamara jim.mcnamara at gmail.com writes: Hello list! My thanks again go out to Craig for a great piece of software! I have been running BackupPC 2.1.1 on a debian box, installed by the apt-get package system. Tonight I upgraded by compiling 3.0.0, and Good news: I've uploaded backuppc 3.0.0 to debian unstable yesterday. Your feedback is welcome ! Cheers, Ludovic Drolez. - 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] out of disk space - big oops
By default my backuppc is backing up to /var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost for example. I back up only 2 machines - localhost (Ubuntu linux) via tar and a WindowsXP via smb. All was going well until I added some dirs from the Windows machine, the backup jumped to about 40Gb and has filled the disk. I only have 1.5Mb free space on drive /var is mounted on. Unless you've done this before, you have no idea how hard it is to do things with no spare space. As I type this I am 'cp -a /var/lib/backuppc/pc/windows /mnt/hda4' to get windows off to another partition. Then I'll 'sudo rm -rf /var/lib/backuppc/pc/windows' to free the space. My questions: - is there a better way to migrate in future? - is there a way to tell backuppc to store backups somewhere else? or should I just mount another partition to /var/lib/backuppc/pc or similar? Any recommendations? -- Troy Piggins ,-O (o-O All your sigs are belong to us. http://piggo.com/~troy O ) //\ O RLU#415538 `-O V_/_ OOO hackerkey://v3sw5HPUhw5ln4pr6OSck1ma9u6LwXm5l6Di2e6t5MGSRb8OTen4g7OPa3Xs7MIr8p7 - 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] out of disk space - big oops
My suggestion, in the future, would be to consider creating the partition under Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM). What LVM does is to create a pool of small chunks of the hard drive (extents) that can be added and removed from a given filesystem. In the case of additions, in many cases (such as with ReiserFS), this can be done on the fly. For instance, in my case. my backup partition is /var/lib/backuppc, the physical (LVM) partition is /dev/vg00/backup. For me to extend the partition by 40GB would require the following two commands: lvextend -L+40G /dev/vg00/backup resize_reiserfs /dev/vg00/backup Since the partition doesn't have to be unmounted, activity on the partition is not affected by these commands. I have a PVR on my workstation, and was recording a movie once, and had to extend the partition. It did not affect recording. HTH, --b - Original Message - From: Troy Piggins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: BackupPC List backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 7:37:38 AM GMT-0500 US/Eastern Subject: [BackupPC-users] out of disk space - big oops By default my backuppc is backing up to /var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost for example. I back up only 2 machines - localhost (Ubuntu linux) via tar and a WindowsXP via smb. All was going well until I added some dirs from the Windows machine, the backup jumped to about 40Gb and has filled the disk. I only have 1.5Mb free space on drive /var is mounted on. Unless you've done this before, you have no idea how hard it is to do things with no spare space. As I type this I am 'cp -a /var/lib/backuppc/pc/windows /mnt/hda4' to get windows off to another partition. Then I'll 'sudo rm -rf /var/lib/backuppc/pc/windows' to free the space. My questions: - is there a better way to migrate in future? - is there a way to tell backuppc to store backups somewhere else? or should I just mount another partition to /var/lib/backuppc/pc or similar? Any recommendations? -- Troy Piggins ,-O (o-O All your sigs are belong to us. http://piggo.com/~troy O ) //\ O RLU#415538 `-O V_/_ OOO hackerkey://v3sw5HPUhw5ln4pr6OSck1ma9u6LwXm5l6Di2e6t5MGSRb8OTen4g7OPa3Xs7MIr8p7 - 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/
[BackupPC-users] Backup from a debian etch
Hello list, I tried to make backup with backuppc on debian sarge, and the server client is a Debian etch kernel: 2.6.8-2-386. When I start the full backuppc for this machine, I got a error with the follow message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -f portal started full dump, share=/ xferPids 7258 xferPids 7258,7259 dump failed: aborted by signal=ALRM link portal Could someone help me? Thanks for help. Best resgast, Bruno Sampayo -- Bruno Sampayo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel.: +55(011) 50973005 Engenharia Samurai Projetos Especiais - 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] Backup from a debian etch
Bruno Sampayo schrieb: I tried to make backup with backuppc on debian sarge, and the server client is a Debian etch kernel: 2.6.8-2-386. When I start the full backuppc for this machine, I got a error with the follow message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -f portal started full dump, share=/ xferPids 7258 xferPids 7258,7259 dump failed: aborted by signal=ALRM link portal Are you using tar as transfer method? There has been a change in tar 1.16 that reports a failure if a file changed during backup. etch is using tar 1.16. If this is your problem, try tar 1.15.1 or a recent backuppc version where this problem is fixed. Ralf - 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] out of disk space - big oops
Troy Piggins wrote: By default my backuppc is backing up to /var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost for example. I back up only 2 machines - localhost (Ubuntu linux) via tar and a WindowsXP via smb. All was going well until I added some dirs from the Windows machine, the backup jumped to about 40Gb and has filled the disk. I only have 1.5Mb free space on drive /var is mounted on. Unless you've done this before, you have no idea how hard it is to do things with no spare space. As I type this I am 'cp -a /var/lib/backuppc/pc/windows /mnt/hda4' to get windows off to another partition. Then I'll 'sudo rm -rf /var/lib/backuppc/pc/windows' to free the space. My questions: - is there a better way to migrate in future? - is there a way to tell backuppc to store backups somewhere else? or should I just mount another partition to /var/lib/backuppc/pc or similar? Any recommendations? The pool/cpool directory and the pc directory must be on the same filesystem in order for the hardlinks to work. The only way you can add extra drives is if you are using LVM or a similar system that allows mapping multiple drives underneath a single filesystem that can grow, and then any single drive failure will lose data. I'd recommend copying what you have in /var/lib/backuppc to a much larger drive or raid (which may take a long time to reconstruct the hardlinks), then mount it or symlink the mount point into /var/lib/backuppc. Or keep what you have for emergencies and start over with a new setup on a larger drive. Depending on how much you need those old backups and how long it will take to get new runs, they may not be worth the time it takes to copy them. -- 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] backuppc 3: ARRAY(0x...) in the level column
Ludovic writes:
Ludovic writes:
I've upgraded from 2.1 to 3.0 and I have the following problem: Incremental
backups are not correctly displayed on the backup summary page.
For example I get in the 1st summary table:
Backup# TypeFilled Level Start Date
Duration/minsAge/daysServer Backup Path
...
...
1365 incrno ARRAY(0x87993cc)2/13 11:10 6.6
0.0
/var/lib/backuppc/pc/xiii/1365
In the /var/lib/backuppc/pc/xiii/backups file, the same ARRAY(0x...) can be
found on the last column.
Oh dear. What is your $Conf{IncrLevels} set to?
Craig
To nothing :-( ...
I was also checking if the 2.1 config.pl worked with BackupPC 3.0 :-)
Is there a list a new mandatory parameters available somewhere ?
There isn't a list of new parameters, but you could diff the
config.pl templates in the 3.0.0 and 2.1.3 distributions.
BackupPC assumes the config file came from a valid installation,
and doesn't automatically default many of the parameters.
I'm copying the list again.
In the meantime I recommend you edit your backups file to replace
the ARRAY(0x87993cc) with 1 (the incremental level).
Craig
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Re: [BackupPC-users] GUI error after upgrade
Ludovic writes: Good news: I've uploaded backuppc 3.0.0 to debian unstable yesterday. Your feedback is welcome ! Thanks for doing this. Your previous 2.x debian package has been very popular. I do have a question: for your 2.x package you hardcoded the config paths. In 3.x the FHS mode places the config files in places similar to your 2.x package - but not exactly the same. That's why people that started with your 2.x debian package and then upgraded using the vanilla tarball are having problems. What paths did you use for the 3.x package, and will it do the right thing when a user upgrades from the debian 2.x to the debian 3.x package? Craig - 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] out of disk space - big oops
* Les Mikesell is quoted my replies are inline below : Troy Piggins wrote: By default my backuppc is backing up to /var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost for example. I back up only 2 machines - localhost (Ubuntu linux) via tar and a WindowsXP via smb. All was going well until I added some dirs from the Windows machine, the backup jumped to about 40Gb and has filled the disk. I only have 1.5Mb free space on drive /var is mounted on. Unless you've done this before, you have no idea how hard it is to do things with no spare space. As I type this I am 'cp -a /var/lib/backuppc/pc/windows /mnt/hda4' to get windows off to another partition. Then I'll 'sudo rm -rf /var/lib/backuppc/pc/windows' to free the space. My questions: - is there a better way to migrate in future? - is there a way to tell backuppc to store backups somewhere else? or should I just mount another partition to /var/lib/backuppc/pc or similar? Any recommendations? The pool/cpool directory and the pc directory must be on the same filesystem in order for the hardlinks to work. The only way you can add Aah, I'd been reading about the hardlinks and wasn't sure to what extent they were relevant. As I said, I moved the .../pc dir, but didn't move the .../pool or .../cpool dirs. extra drives is if you are using LVM or a similar system that allows mapping multiple drives underneath a single filesystem that can grow, and then any single drive failure will lose data. I'd recommend copying what you have in /var/lib/backuppc to a much larger drive or raid (which may take a long time to reconstruct the hardlinks), then mount it or symlink the mount point into /var/lib/backuppc. Or keep what you have for emergencies and start over with a new setup on a larger drive. Depending on how much you need those old backups and how long it will take to get new runs, they may not be worth the time it takes to copy them. I think I'll do the latter - add new drive and start again. Thanks. -- Troy Piggins ,-O (o-O All your sigs are belong to us. http://piggo.com/~troy O ) //\ O RLU#415538 `-O V_/_ OOO hackerkey://v3sw5HPUhw5ln4pr6OSck1ma9u6LwXm5l6Di2e6t5MGSRb8OTen4g7OPa3Xs7MIr8p7 - 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] File system om backup drive?
Hi! I am trying to use an USB harddisk to store the backups (pool). This is a Western Digital drive, and I am having problems formatting it to ext3. So: is it possible to have the pool as a FAT32-system? It seems from the documentation that is ought to be ext3 or reiserfs, but what are the limit of choice really here? Also, anyone recognizes the problems of formatting an USB drive? I use Ubuntu Edgy or (on the server it is to run) Debian Sarge, with fairly new hardware. Regards, Magnus L - 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] GUI error after upgrade
Ludovic writes: Craig Barratt wrote: I do have a question: for your 2.x package you hardcoded the config paths. In 3.x the FHS mode places the config files in places similar to your 2.x package - but not exactly the same. That's why people that started with your 2.x debian package and then upgraded using the vanilla tarball are having problems. What paths did you use for the 3.x package, and will it do the right thing when a user upgrades from the debian 2.x to the debian 3.x package? With my last upload, the paths are the same used for the 2.x package, to make the Debian upgrade very easy. But I'm open to any suggestions: which paths do you think I should use ? That's fine with me. So long as it is easy for you - I want to minize (or eliminate) any code changes you need to make, so that people can configure the vanilla install in a manner that makes it the same as the package. Craig - 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] File system om backup drive?
Magnus Larsson wrote: I am trying to use an USB harddisk to store the backups (pool). This is a Western Digital drive, and I am having problems formatting it to ext3. So: is it possible to have the pool as a FAT32-system? It seems from the documentation that is ought to be ext3 or reiserfs, but what are the limit of choice really here? You need a filesystem that supports hardlinks, so FAT32 is not going to work. Also, anyone recognizes the problems of formatting an USB drive? I use Ubuntu Edgy or (on the server it is to run) Debian Sarge, with fairly new hardware. No, what problem are you having? Nils Breunese. PGP.sig Description: Dit deel van het bericht is digitaal ondertekend - 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/
