Re: [BackupPC-users] Absolute Symlink Hang
Doug Mitchell wrote:
> BPC Users,
>
> I'm backup up a remote Linux system using rsync over SSH with BackupPC-3.0.0.
>
> My per-host config file contains:
>
> $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = [
> '/etc',
> '/usr/local',
> ];
>
> Everything works fine unless I put an abolute symlink in /usr/local using
> cd /usr/local ; ln -s /var var
>
> Then BackupPC will hang during the backup and it will have to be manually
> killed. If the symlink is relative, everything works fine.
>
Hi Doug,
This probably won't help much, but I thought I would try your approach.
I use the rsyncd method (meaning there is rsync running in daemon mode
running on the client). Rsync version is 2.6.9.
There is no hang or error message, but looking at the backup, instead of
a directory I got a 12 byte file containing what looks like very random
binary data.
However in the http interface, the file is identified as type symlink,
and apparently has the information required to restore the symlink if
needed.
Indeed, I remove the symlink on the client and execute the restore, the
symlink is perfectly recreated, except the time stamp is the current
time instead. (Is that how the relative symlink works for you?)
There are my observations anyway...
Curt
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[BackupPC-users] Not getting all files on a C share from Win XP
I've installed backuppc on a Ubuntu box and can backup successfully shares from an XP machine on my network. (The shares are the "My Document" folders from the two main users.). I would prefer to backup the whole C: drive, but I'm running into a problem. I shared the C: drive in XP and listed it as the samba share to backup in the *.pl file for backuppc. The backup runs successfully and no error shows up in the server log. However, when I browse the backup I see that it only backed up some of the files on the drive. For example, it backs up the 'Documents and Settings' folder but none of the information in the subfolders that hold the user "My Documents" data. When I click on a user folder (folder that is within the 'Documents and Settings' folder, it says that "The directory C/Documents and Settings/Tyler is empty." (my user name and folder) This folder isn't empty. It holds some preference information and my "My Documents" folder, which I can backup with this installation if I specify that share in the *.pl config file for this machine. Can someone point me in the right direction. Is it possible to back up the entire C drive? I looked at some how to's and they only said to enable file sharing in XP for the C drive, which I did. Thanks. Also please respond to this email. I've never used a mailing list before and I'm not sure how they work. My email is rtylerdunn at h o t ma i l . co m. Thanks twice. _ http://liveearth.msn.com - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Ldap authentication using mod_authz_ldap
This works for us. SSLRequireSSL AuthNameBackupPC AuthTypeBasic AuthzLDAPEngine on AuthzLDAPServer "localhost:389" AuthzLDAPUserKey uid AuthzLDAPUserBase ou=people,dc=example,dc=com require valid-user Dale - Original Message - From: ravi thakur To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 6:49 AM Subject: [BackupPC-users] Ldap authentication using mod_authz_ldap below is my httpd.conf file for backuppc. I am unable to authenticate using mod_authz_ldap . plz if anybody worked on it let me know. SetHandler perl-script PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry PerlOptions +ParseHeaders Options +ExecCGI Allow from all AllowOverride Indexes AuthConfig Options FollowSymLinks AuthzLDAPEngine on AuthzLDAPServer ldaps://ldap.etrade.com:636 AuthzLDAPUserBase dc=etrade,dc=com AuthzLDAPUserKey uid AuthzLDAPUserScope subtree AuthzLDAPBindDN uid=proxyuser,ou=People,dc=etrade,dc=com AuthzLDAPBindPassword "secret" AuthzLDAPLogLevel debug AuthType basic AuthName "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Require valid-user -- Ravi Bhushan Thakur Network Administrator Subex Technologies Ltd -- - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ -- ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] How do I configure BackupPC to find repeated files?
Peter writes: >o Pool is 2.88GB comprising 17366 files and 4359 directories (as of > 7/4 01:01), > > [snip] > > There are 3 hosts that have been backed up, for a total of: > * 6 full backups of total size 11.84GB (prior to pooling and compression), > * 18 incr backups of total size 1.72GB (prior to pooling and compression). > > [snip] > > I know there are identical files on the three hosts although they are > not located in identical directory tree. How do I configure BackupPC > to find these repeated/identical files? It's already doing it. The pool occupies 2.88GB of space, and the total size of all backups is 11.84 + 1.72 = 13.56GB. By the way, with the default config backups will be skipped starting today because the pool file system is now too full (> 95%): >o Pool file system was recently at 97% (7/4 22:00), today's max is > 97% (7/4 20:00) and yesterday's max was 94%. Craig - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] How do I configure BackupPC to find repeated files?
Peter Carlsson schrieb: > I know there are identical files on the three hosts although they are > not located in identical directory tree. How do I configure BackupPC > to find these repeated/identical files? BackupPC finds these files automaticially during backup. Only one copy exist in the pool. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html Identical Files BackupPC pools identical files using hardlinks. By ``identical files'' we mean files with identical contents, not necessary the same permissions, ownership or modification time. Two files might have different permissions, ownership, or modification time but will still be pooled whenever the contents are identical. This is possible since BackupPC stores the file meta-data (permissions, ownership, and modification time) separately from the file contents. For more details -> 'BackupPC Design' on the same page. Ralf - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] How do I configure BackupPC to find repeated files?
Hello! I have been using BackupPC for a couple of weeks now and I think it's wonderful? Excellent piece of software! The server status says: * The servers PID is 17586, on host debian, version 2.1.2pl1, started at 7/4 15:08. * This status was generated at 7/4 22:23. * The configuration was last loaded at 7/4 15:08. * PCs will be next queued at 7/4 23:00. * Other info: o 0 pending backup requests from last scheduled wakeup, o 0 pending user backup requests, o 0 pending command requests, o Pool is 2.88GB comprising 17366 files and 4359 directories (as of 7/4 01:01), o Pool hashing gives 0 repeated files with longest chain 0, o Nightly cleanup removed 18 files of size 0.01GB (around 7/4 01:01), o Pool file system was recently at 97% (7/4 22:00), today's max is 97% (7/4 20:00) and yesterday's max was 94%. Hosts with good Backups There are 3 hosts that have been backed up, for a total of: * 6 full backups of total size 11.84GB (prior to pooling and compression), * 18 incr backups of total size 1.72GB (prior to pooling and compression). HostUser#Full Full Age/days Full Size/GBSpeed MB/sec#Incr Incr Age/days State Last attempt htpcpeter 2 1.1 1.831.696 2.1 idlenothing to do localhost backuppc1 7.1 2.731.856 1.1 idlenothing to do tux peter 3 0.2 4.660.706 1.2 idlebackup done I know there are identical files on the three hosts although they are not located in identical directory tree. How do I configure BackupPC to find these repeated/identical files? Best regards, Peter Carlsson - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] /var/lib/backuppc replace HDD
Rodrigo Real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > "Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Stefan Degen wrote: > >> "Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > >>> P.S. You could also just start over and keep the old disk > >>> around for emergency... > >> > >> This is a quite good idea. If there is an emergency, i only > >> need to change the harddisk again? Backuppc will not be > >> angy :-)? > > > > If you stop the backuppc daemon before unmounting and > > removing the drive, I think it should be fine, but I haven't > > tried this myself. > > I also think it would work. > > If you are in a hurry, don't try to copy the files, it will > take a long time, and you will have to stop doing backups > during this time. I had a problem with a disk in a LVM last > week, I had something like 120GB of data in the backuppc pool, > and it took almost 4 days to copy everything to another disk. Oh, that would be too much time for us. Well, i did it like Nils has written. I only replaced the harddisk, set the mountpoint to /var/lib/backuppc (change the permissions for the /var/lib/backuppc directory to backuppc:backuppc) and that all i did. At the moment a client does a full backup Thanks a lot for your help. Stefan - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ 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 won't take scheduled backups
ilias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi
> ok i've managed to make it work. Scheduled backups are working ok and updated
> files are stored correctly using rsyncd (i used the cygwin-rsync packet on the
> windows client). I need to ask you one thing though. IncrPeriod is set as
> default 0.97, does this mean backuppc takes incremental backups once per day ?
> and what time of day does it take the backup ?
>
> I would like to make it take incremental backups of every pc at 18:00 every
> day
> and full backups once per week on mondays at 21:00.
In backuppc you don't schedule a specific time for a backup to start,
instead, you specify the wakeup times, in which it will try to do
the backups, and you specify the blackout period in which it will not
do backups. So you should play with this values to make what you
want.
Also take a look at $Conf{MaxBackups} and $Conf{MaxUserBackups}, which
define how many backups you will do simultaneously.
Rodrigo
>
> thanks for you reply
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[BackupPC-users] BackupPC ends with a timeout
I always have the following error <> - I checked the disk with "chkdsk" : All is OK - I recompiled samba to increase the smbclient time out from 2 milliconds to 20 milliseconds. The same problem always occurs - I tried to uninstall the AV software (ViruScan) . Same problem - I change the Network Interface Card. I use now a recent NIC. D Link DGE 528 (10/100/1000)... Same problem. When BackuPC crashes, it's always with the same file and the same message with exactly the same nread value: <> I tested to copy this file on two others PC. The problem is excatly the same with this file (Didn't get entire file. size=207872, nread=65520) (the same nread) The file is a MSoffice file (.doc) and though it seems to be clean. I can read it or move it More over, this problem appears to be the same on several other PC but for other file. (Call timed out: server did not respond ). So, for each PC, the file is different. The only one solution I found is to exclude the file, and then, BackupPC works fine. The problem may come from the file but why Could some one help me to solve this problem. Note: I can send you the file if you wish (203Ko) -- == | Régis Gras | http://dcm.ujf-grenoble.fr| | D.C.M. | 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| == - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ 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 won't take scheduled backups
ok i've managed to make it work. Scheduled backups are working ok and updated files are stored correctly using rsyncd (i used the cygwin-rsync packet on the windows client). I need to ask you one thing though. IncrPeriod is set as default 0.97, does this mean backuppc takes incremental backups once per day ? and what time of day does it take the backup ? I would like to make it take incremental backups of every pc at 18:00 every day and full backups once per week on mondays at 21:00. thanks for you reply - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] /var/lib/backuppc replace HDD
"Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Stefan Degen wrote: > >> "Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >> >>> P.S. You could also just start over and keep the old disk >>> around for emergency... >> >> This is a quite good idea. If there is an emergency, i only need >> to change the harddisk again? Backuppc will not be angy :-)? > > If you stop the backuppc daemon before unmounting and removing the > drive, I think it should be fine, but I haven't tried this myself. I also think it would work. If you are in a hurry, don't try to copy the files, it will take a long time, and you will have to stop doing backups during this time. I had a problem with a disk in a LVM last week, I had something like 120GB of data in the backuppc pool, and it took almost 4 days to copy everything to another disk. Of course, one of my disks had some errors which slows the copy, but most of the time was spent for re-creating the hard links. Rodrigo > > Nils Breunese. > - > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/___ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ 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 won't take scheduled backups
ilias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Ilias > I got BackupPC 3.0 up and running. I'm currently testing it with a windows > client using a samba share. I haven't touched anything in the default > configuration with which I believe the server should take backups of all hosts > every 1 hour excluding the blackout period which is the only thing I changed > in > order to test it. This is the last line of the logs, and every time that > passes > it reproduces the same message. > > "2007-07-04 10:00:00 Next wakeup is 2007-07-04 11:00:00" > > And just that, no backups are been taken by the system. Take a look at your "Host Summary" screen, and tell us what is the "last attempt" message for this host. > > Also if I manually take incremental backups after I make some changes in the > files of the share, for instance, change the filename of a file, the > incremental > backup won't see that change and take backup of the file with its older > filename. I have to take full backups in order to store updated files. Any > solutions to that ? I've read somewhere that samba method won't be able to > detect file changes and I'll have to install cygwin in every client in order > to > use rsync which does proper backup of updated files, is that true ? This seems to be a problem with the samba transfer method, take a look at: , http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/roadMap.html | Replacing smbclient with the perl module FileSys::SmbClient. This | gives much more direct control of the smb transfer, allowing | incrementals to depend on any attribute change (eg: exist, mtime, file | size, uid, gid), and better support for include and exclude. Currently | smbclient incrementals only depend upon mtime, so deleted files or | renamed files are not detected. FileSys::SmbClient would also allow | resuming of incomplete full backups in the same manner as rsync will. ` Maybe this rsync windows package will help: http://itefix.no/cwrsync/ I had never used it, ok? Maybe you could send some feedback about rsync and windows if you go this way. Best regards, Rodrigo - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar errors all of a sudden for localhost only
Does anyone have any idea why this is happening ?? I would appreciate any suggestions... Thanks... Have a super day! Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Rob Morin wrote: OK so i ran this command... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h localhost -n 14 -s /etc -t /aliases And the output was this ./aliases6440036410634234246011264 0ustar rootroot# /etc/aliases mailer-daemon: postmaster postmaster: root nobody: root hostmaster: root usenet: root news: root webmaster: root www: root ftp: root abuse: root noc: root security: root root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] clamav: root amavis: root logcheck: root Done: 1 files, 244 bytes, 0 dirs, 0 specials, 0 errors And the file was NOT restored!? Was up with that??? the LOG file in /var/lib/backuppc/log has this in it 2007-06-29 14:15:17 User backuppc requested restore to localhost (localhost) 2007-06-29 14:15:17 Started restore on localhost (pid=5284) 2007-06-29 14:15:21 Restore failed on localhost (BackupPC_tarCreate failed) On the web gui i get 2007-06-29 14:15:17 Running: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h localhost -n 14 -s /etc -t /aliases 2007-06-29 14:15:21 Restore failed (BackupPC_tarCreate failed) Just for FYI joe:/var/lib/backuppc# ls -la total 12 drwxr-x--- 8 backuppc backuppc 91 2007-06-14 12:42 . drwxr-xr-x 41 root root 4096 2007-06-27 09:31 .. -rw--- 1 backuppc backuppc 2258 2007-06-29 14:16 .bash_history drwxr-x--- 18 backuppc backuppc 134 2007-06-14 10:00 cpool drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 2007-06-29 01:00 log drwxr-x--- 6 backuppc backuppc 57 2007-06-14 12:39 pc drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 6 2007-02-06 13:46 pool drwx-- 2 backuppc backuppc 54 2007-06-14 12:49 .ssh drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 6 2007-06-29 08:48 trash joe:/etc/backuppc# ls -la total 172 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-06-14 12:32 . drwxr-xr-x 87 root root 4096 2007-06-29 14:16 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 414 2007-02-06 13:46 apache.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64328 2007-06-14 12:32 configPETER -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64437 2007-06-29 08:41 config.pl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2301 2007-06-14 12:24 hosts -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2007-06-14 09:04 htgroup -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23 2007-06-19 12:21 htpasswd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 603 2007-06-29 08:43 localhost.pl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 244 2007-06-14 12:22 peter.pl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147 2007-06-14 12:22 quag.pl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147 2007-06-14 12:22 stewy.pl # User privilege specification root ALL=(ALL) ALL backuppc ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /bin/tar joe:/etc/backuppc# grep backup /etc/group backuppc:x:114: joe:/etc/backuppc# grep backup /etc/passwd backuppc:x:114:114:BackupPC,,,:/var/lib/backuppc:/bin/sh Anything else? Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Randy Barlow wrote: Rob Morin wrote: 2007-06-29 13:35:40 Running: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h localhost -n 16 -s /etc -t /updatedb.conf 2007-06-29 13:35:45 Restore failed (BackupPC_tarCreate failed) I do not get it? Backup works fine just restore does not.. What else should i be checking... any logs? Hmm, try using su - backuppc to become the backuppc user, and try the restore command there and see if you can do it or not. You can also look at the logs on the CGI interface to see if they give you any useful info... - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] /var/lib/backuppc replace HDD
Stefan Degen wrote: "Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: P.S. You could also just start over and keep the old disk around for emergency... This is a quite good idea. If there is an emergency, i only need to change the harddisk again? Backuppc will not be angy :-)? If you stop the backuppc daemon before unmounting and removing the drive, I think it should be fine, but I haven't tried this myself. Nils Breunese. PGP.sig Description: Dit deel van het bericht is digitaal ondertekend - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] /var/lib/backuppc replace HDD
"Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Stefan Degen wrote: > > /var/lib/backuppc has its own harddisk. The problem is, that > > the harddisk is full and there is no LVM or RAID. > > > > So is it possible to change the harddisk like this (without > > to lose the backups)? > > 3. copy all data stored on the old harddisk to the new one > > with rsync -H /old_harddisk /new_var/lib/backuppc > > > > 4. start backuppc > > rsync -paH or something might be better, but because of all > the hardlinks it might take quite a while to copy all the > data. The fastest way to copy and preserve everything is > probably to use dd to copy everything to the new drive and > then grow the filesystem afterwards. > P.S. You could also just start over and keep the old disk > around for emergency... This is a quite good idea. If there is an emergency, i only need to change the harddisk again? Backuppc will not be angy :-)? Stefan - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] /var/lib/backuppc replace HDD
Stefan Degen wrote: /var/lib/backuppc has its own harddisk. The problem is, that the harddisk is full and there is no LVM or RAID. So is it possible to change the harddisk like this (without to lose the backups)? 1. stop backuppc 2. Install the new harddisk and set the mountpoint to /var/lib/backupc 3. copy all data stored on the old harddisk to the new one with rsync -H /old_harddisk /new_var/lib/backuppc 4. start backuppc rsync -paH or something might be better, but because of all the hardlinks it might take quite a while to copy all the data. The fastest way to copy and preserve everything is probably to use dd to copy everything to the new drive and then grow the filesystem afterwards. Nils Breunese. P.S. You could also just start over and keep the old disk around for emergency... PGP.sig Description: Dit deel van het bericht is digitaal ondertekend - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] /var/lib/backuppc replace HDD
Hello, /var/lib/backuppc has its own harddisk. The problem is, that the harddisk is full and there is no LVM or RAID. So is it possible to change the harddisk like this (without to lose the backups)? 1. stop backuppc 2. Install the new harddisk and set the mountpoint to /var/lib/backupc 3. copy all data stored on the old harddisk to the new one with rsync -H /old_harddisk /new_var/lib/backuppc 4. start backuppc Stefan - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] problems during/after backup
Holger Parplies schrieb:
> Hi,
[...]
> yes, sorry, my fault. There's a typo in my patch. You applied the patch
> correctly and to the correct file (/path/to/lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Tar.pm).
> The patch should have tested $? and not $! ... in context:
>
>if ( !close($t->{pipeTar}) && $? != 256 ) {
That works, thanks a lot! :)
[...]
> Regards,
> Holger
regards,
Thomas
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Re: [BackupPC-users] tarextract, checksum error
Hi, Bruno Zuber wrote on 04.07.2007 at 06:22:49 [[BackupPC-users] tarextract, checksum error]: > [the same as always, plus:] > > Now i have updated to 3.0.0 but the problem persists two things to try: 1.) Stop sending the same mail to the list every day. 2.) Try providing some useful information. Regards, Holger - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Strange OSX tar errors
Hello, I have no problems with Tiger tar. You should really make sure Parallels is not running during backups. Otherwise you will never get a valid backup. Is it just one file or does Parallels split disk images into smaller chunks like vmware? Cheers, Torsten Am Dienstag, 3. Juli 2007 23:28 schrieb James Ward: > This is OS X Tiger tar, so nothing new until Leopard... > > Does anyone know if OS X Tiger rsync takes care of resource forks? > > James > > On Jul 3, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Craig Barratt wrote: > > James writes: > >>> What version of tar is this? > >> > >> Tomm:/Users/user root# tar --version > >> tar (GNU tar) 1.14 +CVE-2006-0300 +CVE-2006-6097 > >> > >>> If it is not standard gnu tar, is > >>> there source available to look at? How big is the winxp.hdd > >>> file? > >> > >> -rw-r--r--1 user user 8731151360 Jul 2 20:25 winxp.hdd > > > > tar 1.14 had a bug related to not correctly padding files that > > got smaller during archiving. Doing this: > > > > diff -bur tar-1.14/src/create.c tar-1.16.1/src/create.c > > > > shows this change: > > > > @@ -868,39 +1034,54 @@ > > quotearg_colon (st->orig_file_name), > > STRINGIFY_BIGINT (size_left, buf))); > > if (! ignore_failed_read_option) > > - exit_status = TAREXIT_FAILURE; > > - pad_archive (size_left); > > + exit_status = TAREXIT_DIFFERS; > > + pad_archive (size_left - (bufsize-count)); > > return dump_status_short; > > } > > } > > > > which I suspect is the change mentioned in the ChangeLog: > > > > 2005-05-12 Sergey Poznyakoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > * src/create.c (dump_regular_file): Correctly pad archive > > members > > that shrunk during archiving. Repored by Frank Heckenbach. > > > > So I recommend trying a newer version of tar. However, I don't know > > if OSX adds features for resource forks to tar, so the vanilla GNU > > tar might not handle resource forks. Does a newer OSX have a newer > > tar version? > > > > Craig > > - > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > ___ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] BackupPC won't take scheduled backups
I got BackupPC 3.0 up and running. I'm currently testing it with a windows client using a samba share. I haven't touched anything in the default configuration with which I believe the server should take backups of all hosts every 1 hour excluding the blackout period which is the only thing I changed in order to test it. This is the last line of the logs, and every time that passes it reproduces the same message. "2007-07-04 10:00:00 Next wakeup is 2007-07-04 11:00:00" And just that, no backups are been taken by the system. Also if I manually take incremental backups after I make some changes in the files of the share, for instance, change the filename of a file, the incremental backup won't see that change and take backup of the file with its older filename. I have to take full backups in order to store updated files. Any solutions to that ? I've read somewhere that samba method won't be able to detect file changes and I'll have to install cygwin in every client in order to use rsync which does proper backup of updated files, is that true ? - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
