Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Working Well - Except Archiving
I am struggling to create an archive from the command line. The desired outcome is to emulate the clicking of the "Start Archive" button in the web page as this method is working perfectly. The overall objective is to create the archive as a cron job. >From /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archive Extract Start # BackupPC_archive: Archive files for an archive client. # # DESCRIPTION # # Usage: BackupPC_archive Extract End I cannot find the definitions ofand all permutations of my guesses of what might be required have all failed. Can anyone help or indicate where the definitions are listed? SamK > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/11/17 Mon AM 11:15:03 GMT > To: "General list for user discussion, > questions and support" , > "General list for user discussion, > questions and support" > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Working Well - Except Archiving > > InstallDir on my system = /usr/share/backuppc > In /usr/share/backuppc/bin are various files including: > BackupPC_archive (Note not BackupPC_archiveStart) > BackupPC_archiveHost > > The on-line docs at Sourceforge do not correspond with my Ubuntu 8.04-Server > LTS distribution. > > At the command line, using the full path, both can be started. From the CGI > it appears that BackupPC_archiveHost is started with the following command: > $Installdir/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost $tarCreatePath $splitpath $parpath $host > $backupnumber $compression $compext $splitsize $archiveloc $parfile * > > Still, it doesn't explain why it it fails to run when scheduled or fails to > create a log entry, but works when started manually using the button in the > CGI and creates the log entries. > > SamK > > > > > From: "Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 2008/11/17 Mon AM 09:45:41 GMT > > To: "General list for user discussion, > > questions and support" > > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Working Well - Except Archiving > > > > SamK wrote: > > > > > The on-line documentation at Sourceforge mentions creating an > > > archive at the command line using BackupPC_archiveStart. This > > > method fails as the system cannot find BackupPC_archiveStart. > > > > The BackupPC_archiveStart binary is probably not in your path. Try > > calling it using the full path, e.g. /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/ > > BackupPC_archiveStart on our systems. > > > > > > > > - > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > > prizes > > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > > ___ > > BackupPC-users mailing list > > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > > Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > - > Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email > Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam > > > - > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > ___ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > - Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] $Conf{RsyncShareName} globally and for hosts
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Yohoo!
Yes, it's perhaps a stupid question. Anyway:
I have a global option in the config.pl:
$Conf{RsyncShareName}= ['/','/boot'];
Rsync is configured with the '--one-filesystem'.
So my rsync hosts are backed up including / and /boot. Fine
On some hosts there are some more shares to backup i.e. /srv/ftp.
What is the right statement in the hosts.pl file?
$Conf{RsyncShareName}= ['/','/boot','/srv/ftp'];
or
$Conf{RsyncShareName}= '/srv/ftp';
In other words: will this value be overwritten or will it be added?
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc mirroring with rdiff-backup or not?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yohoo! > I think that you can use rsync v3 (on both sides) to sync pools without > issue. > I'm assuming that you are using linux here also. With *solaris you have > the zfs option as well. > I did some research a while back to use a cluster filesystem for the > storage pool but all cluster filesystems have much lower I/O performance > than an on-disk filesystem. My way to backup the backup ;-) is LVM The pool is on a LVM as a LV. To backup the pool while backuppc is running I can take a snapshot of the pool's LV and I rsync this one. So there are no filesystem issues and backuppc can stay running while the rsync is running. As the pool is connected to the backuppc through iSCSI the backup runs on a different host and does not influence any running backuppc tasks. Works like a champ! Greetings Christian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJIn4l0XNIYlAXmzsRAmC1AKCbXoPjMYoM+w8TEQ7N8aGb/+t5rACgxx57 BF2UumTRS3pD7mqcxyf8wDk= =YU7g -END PGP SIGNATURE- - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] $Conf{RsyncShareName} globally and for hosts
Christian Völker wrote:
> I have a global option in the config.pl:
> $Conf{RsyncShareName}= ['/','/boot'];
>
> Rsync is configured with the '--one-filesystem'.
>
> So my rsync hosts are backed up including / and /boot. Fine
>
> On some hosts there are some more shares to backup i.e. /srv/ftp.
>
> What is the right statement in the hosts.pl file?
> $Conf{RsyncShareName}= ['/','/boot','/srv/ftp'];
> or
> $Conf{RsyncShareName}= '/srv/ftp';
>
> In other words: will this value be overwritten or will it be added?
It's an override.
Nils Breunese.
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Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_zipCreate and charset for encoding file names
My conclusions from PKWARE Application Note:
1. Encoding must be OEM code page of terminal where zip will be viewed or
unpacked;
2. "version made by" field must be set in accordance with OS where zip will be
viewed or unpacked;
3. If filenames encoded in UTF-8 (Linux terminal code page), general purpose
bit 11 for UTF-8 must be set for crossplatform compatibility. Last versions of
some windows archivers supports it.
I have no idea yet what command line options and defaults must be and how
integrate it with CGI.
But with hardcoded charset and "version made by" BackupPC_zipCreate works
perfectly well with most windows archivers.
BackupPC_zipCreate:
8<--
#=> Set OEM code page for unpacking terminal
my $Charset = "cp866"; #Cyrillic code page. Change to yours windows terminal
code page.
8<--
# Specify the compression level for this member
$zipmember->desiredCompressionLevel($compLevel) if ($compLevel =~ /[0-9]/);
#=> Set "version made by" field to 0 (MS-DOS)
$zipmember->fileAttributeFormat('FA_MSDOS');
#=> Set general purpose bit 11 for UTF-8
$zipmember->{bitFlag} = $zipmember->{bitFlag} | 0x0800 if ( $Charset eq ""
);
# Finally Zip the member
$zipfh->addMember($zipmember);
}
8<--
P.S. Also Appendix D of Application Note on the .ZIP file defines optional
"Extra Field" storage for UTF filenames. But no archivers that really supports
it.
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[BackupPC-users] Import client config
Hi all. I'm running backuppc on a linux server and everything works well. I have now to move backuppc on a solaris server and the main installation went fine. I then copied the configuration files for the differente servers to be backed up...i modify the hosts files and it works...but, backuppc is not reading (so it seems) the per-server configuration files. The permission are ok...everything belongs to backuppc user. Can you help me? Thanks Pier - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc mirroring with rdiff-backup or not?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Völker wrote: > My way to backup the backup ;-) is LVM > > The pool is on a LVM as a LV. To backup the pool while backuppc is > running I can take a snapshot of the pool's LV and I rsync this one. So > there are no filesystem issues and backuppc can stay running while the > rsync is running. > Works like a champ! Except your filesystem is not in a stable state. You should stop backuppc, umount your filesystem, then take your snapshot, and then remount filesystem, start backuppc, and finally copy the snapshot remotely as needed With your existing method, you should fsck your filesystem after it is copied to the remote location BTW, 99% of the time it won't matter, but if it screws up that one time when you need it, then oops :( Regards, Adam -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkijhMACgkQGyoxogrTyiXQNQCfW7EIyuYErCfUnWYXwzIouq5k wg0AoLej/lIAth/L+lFNK8Zo7Led2iJR =SqM4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] merge host from one pool into another pool
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dan wrote: > I have done this on a small setup a while ago. I just pulled over the > pc directory from one into the other and adjusted my config files for > the imported backups.. aditionally I made an error when copying and > brought over numeric user ids for the files and had to chown them. Im > not sure if the nightly run will handle the typical deduplication or > not. I never checked. > > so..yet you can merge them but I am not sure if you get deduplication in > the next nightly run... You would not get proper de-duplication... basically you keep the de-duplication amongst the files you copy across, but because you are not linking those files to the pool, you don't get any de-dupe between the existing files in the pool and the new files you just copied across under the pc dir. Also, what is potentially worse, is the next backup will store another duplicate for each file (because it doesn't exist in the pool). However, the good news is that nothing should break by doing this, except you use up additional disk space. Finally, someone recently questioned what would happen if they moved the pc dirs across one backup at a time, and then ran backuppc_link... I don't recall seeing any response/answer to that, but it sounded like a very sensible method to combine two backuppc systems... Regards, Adam -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkijyAACgkQGyoxogrTyiVGNQCgz0nXBuU8lXVByftUItigXkv4 uh0AoMns2SYlFMpHlyy4mtzzBAYjzLKk =mZzv -END PGP SIGNATURE- - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc mirroring with rdiff-backup or not?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yohoo! >> My way to backup the backup ;-) is LVM >> The pool is on a LVM as a LV. To backup the pool while backuppc is >> running I can take a snapshot of the pool's LV and I rsync this one. So >> there are no filesystem issues and backuppc can stay running while the >> rsync is running. >> Works like a champ! > Except your filesystem is not in a stable state. You're partially right. AFAIK with journaling filesystem (like the ext3) this shouldn't be an issue. I'm not dumping the partition with dd, istead I mount the snapshot read-only. I'm using rsync- so it reads the filesystem. Files not been written totally should not be seen in the snapshot. Greetings Christian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJIpCQ0XNIYlAXmzsRAmYGAJwLpoxwu/xsl3OLo+vAG2MtklPEQwCfXeZj zCTUTPFhB7dQ+a+0Muv0xAU= =mWCf -END PGP SIGNATURE- - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc mirroring with rdiff-backup or not?
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Don't get me wrong: I'll take the hacks. It's better than >> nothing. I, like I think *most* of us, would kill (or even pay >> for!) a method of replicating a pool in a guaranteed-correct way, >> especially at the host or even backup level. But I still worry >> about using these hacks for production. > > You could also set up two BackupPC servers in two different locations. > No hacks needed. > That's what I do, and it works well. My "offsite" BackupPC server is actually an "onsite" BackupPC server at another office. And my office holds their offsite backups, so it works well. -Rob The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or other dissemination or use of this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately and then delete this e-mail. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free as information could be intercepted, corrupted lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard copy version. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc mirroring with rdiff-backup or not?
dan wrote: > Also, I did try to do some software raid mirroring over iscsi but did > not do much more that basic testing. The problem here is that the raid > mirroring is syncronous so the slow iscsi connection will effect backup > performance quite a bit. I couldnt find any info on making the linux > software raid work in async mode with the local drive being the priority > drive. > Would the --write-mostly option do this? (man mdadm) -Rob The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or other dissemination or use of this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately and then delete this e-mail. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free as information could be intercepted, corrupted lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard copy version. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Rsyncd on XP
I was having problems with SMB on XP pro so have shifted gears and am trying Rsyncd. I ran a full backup of the cDrive setup. The problem is that I am using a backup user I created that is part of the user group "Backup Operators". I do get files backed up but... The only files I get in the Documents and Settings folder is the backup user's files (basically empty). There are other users there and I need to get those files backed up as well. There seems to be a permission problem and I can't get the other users files backed up. How do I get all the users files backed up using Rsynced? Config file: [cDrive] path = c: comment = Entire Drive auth users = removed,removed secrets file = c:/rsyncd/rsyncd.secrets # hosts allow = 172.16.0.17 strict modes = false read only = true list = false - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Import client config
Pierguido wrote: > Hi all. > I'm running backuppc on a linux server and everything works well. > I have now to move backuppc on a solaris server and the main > installation went fine. I then copied the configuration files for the > differente servers to be backed up...i modify the hosts files and it > works...but, backuppc is not reading (so it seems) the per-server > configuration files. > The permission are ok...everything belongs to backuppc user. On my system, all the config files are owned by backuppc and assigned to group www-data. The files have 640 permissions. Can your web server user read the files? -Rob The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or other dissemination or use of this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately and then delete this e-mail. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free as information could be intercepted, corrupted lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard copy version. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd on XP
Eric Snyder wrote: > I was having problems with SMB on XP pro so have shifted gears and am > trying Rsyncd. I ran a full backup of the cDrive setup. The problem is > that I am using a backup user I created that is part of the user group > "Backup Operators". I do get files backed up but... The only files I get > in the Documents and Settings folder is the backup user's files > (basically empty). There are other users there and I need to get those > files backed up as well. There seems to be a permission problem and I > can't get the other users files backed up. > > How do I get all the users files backed up using Rsynced? > > Config file: > [cDrive] > path = c: > comment = Entire Drive > auth users = removed,removed > secrets file = c:/rsyncd/rsyncd.secrets > # hosts allow = 172.16.0.17 > strict modes = false > read only = true > list = false > Does your rsyncd.conf file have a line like: uid = someuser This is the user that that the rsync daemon runs as. Mine is set to be my backup user. I'm not sure what the default is, but if it's uid = administrator, that might not give you enough rights to see everything. I'm pretty sure it needs to be run as someone who is in the "Backup Operators" group. Additionally, on my systems I found that some files were not readable by the "Backup Operators" group. That made it impossible for me to backup those files until I fixed the problem. -Rob The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or other dissemination or use of this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately and then delete this e-mail. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free as information could be intercepted, corrupted lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard copy version. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Vista client unauthorized user
On 11/18 08:49 , Jaco Lange wrote: > I am using deltacopy on Windows vista 32/64 bit and Server 2008 without any > problem > http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp It looks like Deltacopy just adds a bunch of GUI stuff and OS integration to rsyncd. This is fine and dandy for some applications; but I've gotten rather accustomed to just copying the rsyncd.conf and rsyncd.secrets files, then running the service.bat file to install it as a service. This also makes it possible to integrate it nicely with full cygwin installs. Is it possible to copy a deltacopy config file into place and use it; without having to go through the GUI, clicking buttons and filling out fields on every machine? There's a really good document out there somewhere, about what Microsoft learned when they bought out Hotmail and tried to convert all the Unix mailservers to WinNT. Turns out that being able to drop a config file into place on hundreds of machines simultaneously with a script, is a very valuable thing to have. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Working Well - Except Archiving
Trying an alternative angle on this... An archive is successfully created when started from within the web page. This produces a log-file with the following entry: Executing: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate /usr/bin/split home---tom 10 /bin/gzip .gz 000 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/whole---all_backups * In a terminal running exactly the same command line as user = backuppc returns: Usage: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost tarCreatePath splitPath parPath host bkupNum compPath fileExt splitSize outLoc parFile share Any suggestions why this runs successfully from the CGI but fails at the command line? SamK-01 > I am struggling to create an archive from the command > line. The desired outcome is to emulate the clicking of > the "Start Archive" button in the web page as this method > is working > perfectly. The overall objective is to create > the archive as a cron job. > Quote: > From /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archive > Extract Start > # BackupPC_archive: Archive files for an archive client. > # > # DESCRIPTION > # > # Usage: BackupPC_archive > > Extract End > I cannot find the definitions of > and all permutations of my guesses of what > might be required > have all failed. Can anyone help or > indicate where the definitions are listed? > Having read the Description within the files > BackupPC_archive and BackupPC_archiveHost it appears that > BackupPC_archive > begins the archive creation process and > then passes control to > BackupPC_archiveHost which uses > the settings listed in the CGI (ArchiveClientCmd). > This implies that BackupPC_archive could become a cron > job and thereby achieve the desired scheduling. > Consequently, creating an archive occurs at a predictable > date/time which > might be beneficial taking into account > the archive will take longer to complete than a normal > full/incremental backup. > If this is correct it implies that when the "Start > Archive" button is clicked it is BackupPC_archive that is > started. This is > a little confusing as the settings in > the web page refer to BackupPC_archiveHost. - Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Import client config
On 18-11-2008 14:02, Rob Owens wrote: > Pierguido wrote: > On my system, all the config files are owned by backuppc and assigned to > group www-data. The files have 640 permissions. > > Can your web server user read the files? Before i had a little different permission...now i did as you, but again all the hosts in the panel have the same configuration. So i think it's not a permission problem...it's like it apply all the general setting to all hosts. Pier - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Vista client unauthorized user
There is a deltacd.conf file that you can edit ! in a similar way to rsyncd.conf exact same format. I was using cwRsync_Server_2.0.9.1 but did not had any luck on vista 64 bit and MS Windows server 2008 at least it is working On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/18 08:49 , Jaco Lange wrote: > > I am using deltacopy on Windows vista 32/64 bit and Server 2008 without > any > > problem > > http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp > > It looks like Deltacopy just adds a bunch of GUI stuff and OS integration > to > rsyncd. This is fine and dandy for some applications; but I've gotten > rather > accustomed to just copying the rsyncd.conf and rsyncd.secrets files, then > running the service.bat file to install it as a service. This also makes it > possible to integrate it nicely with full cygwin installs. > > Is it possible to copy a deltacopy config file into place and use it; > without having to go through the GUI, clicking buttons and filling out > fields on every machine? > > There's a really good document out there somewhere, about what Microsoft > learned when they bought out Hotmail and tried to convert all the Unix > mailservers to WinNT. Turns out that being able to drop a config file into > place on hundreds of machines simultaneously with a script, is a very > valuable thing to have. > > -- > Carl Soderstrom > Systems Administrator > Real-Time Enterprises > www.real-time.com > > - > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > ___ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Vista client unauthorized user
On 11/18 04:28 , Jaco Lange wrote: > There is a deltacd.conf file that you can edit ! in a similar way to > rsyncd.conf exact same format. Ok. Thanks for the information. I'll see about giving it a try. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Question about attrib file structure
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 22:51:22 -0500 on Monday, November 17, 2008: > Is the following true: > 1. If a directory is *empty*, is there any reason for it to have an >attrib file? > >Because in playing around with creating and deleting directory contents, I >found that sometimes even after emptying directory contents, the >subsequent incremental backups may sometimes still have (empty) >attrib files. > > 2. If not, can I safely erase any (empty) attrib file that has no files >associated with it? > > 3. Other than type=10 (delete), is there *any* reason for an attrib >file to contain an entry for a file that is not present in the directory? > >Because, I have found some attrib files on my system in past backups that >have file entries with type 0 (i.e *not* type 10) yet there is no >file present in the directory. > > 4. If not, can I safely *remove* any non type=10 attrib entry if the >corresponding file is not in the directory? > One more question to add: 5. Are 'attrib' files also linked into the pool/cpool? If so, are they done the same way as regular data files? Thanks - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc mirroring with rdiff-backup or not?
Christian Völker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/18/2008 03:34:45 AM: > > I think that you can use rsync v3 (on both sides) to sync pools without > > issue. > > I'm assuming that you are using linux here also. With *solaris you have > > the zfs option as well. > > I did some research a while back to use a cluster filesystem for the > > storage pool but all cluster filesystems have much lower I/O performance > > than an on-disk filesystem. > > My way to backup the backup ;-) is LVM > > The pool is on a LVM as a LV. To backup the pool while backuppc is > running I can take a snapshot of the pool's LV and I rsync this one. So > there are no filesystem issues and backuppc can stay running while the > rsync is running. I've been looking into this for a while now, both for BackupPC and for VMWare. How do you syncronize the snapshot with BackupPC to ensure that you are getting a consistent snapshot. For VMWare Server, that means shutting down the guests, taking the snapshot, and starting the guests, which is disruptive to say the least. (ESX Server has tools for doing this internal to the VM system.) Do you do the same for BackupPC? Or do you just hope that you're getting a consistent snapshot? Tim Massey - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc mirroring with rdiff-backup or not?
Hello, the commentary from Rob Steele bellow the article in http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/010037.html seems quite relevant to me. I have tried rsync and cp in the past but had the already mentioned memory and time issues so I'm planning to give his suggestion (BackupPC_tarPCCopy to make the first copy) a try. Cheers, -- Fernando Laudares Camargos Révolution Linux http://www.revolutionlinux.com --- * Tout opinion et prise de position exprimée dans ce message est celle de son auteur et pas nécessairement celle de Révolution Linux. ** Any views and opinion presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Révolution Linux. Ermanno Novali wrote: > Hi everyone, > i'm a backuppc user and i use it on several different linux servers, > with backuppc backupping in some cases to internal hdd, raid or external hdds. > > I'd like to mirror the backuppc pool - I searched through ml archives > and found that mirroring the backuppc pool (wherever it is) with rsync > on an external hard drive isn't efficient and doesn't scale good - > i've tried myself and is cpu and time consuming and very very long for > big pools - not very reliable. > > So i've tried to mirror the pool with rdiff-backup, and it seems a > little better, but not the optimal solution. > > In this ml the best solutions for this task are two hdd with pool on > them (two external, or two in raid maybe) or dd form pool to external > mirror disk - but NOT mirroring the backup with rsync or something > like that - right? can you confirm that? > > And dd is time consuming like rsync but more reliable for backuppc pool? > > Thank you so much, > have a nice day > > Ermanno > > - > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > ___ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Vista client unauthorized user
Oz Dror wrote: > Thanks for responding. > > I have done all the correction that you undigested. I am still havening > the auth issue. > When I run the backup in a command line > I noticed these lines: > > Negotiated protocol version 28 > Got response: 73c7ac91a97cd967d94504b9a6347037 > Auth: got challenge: Mkx8AVu0NSVA9mANktJ9Tg, reply: c8eskal82WfZRQS5pjRwNw > Error connecting to module home at 192.168.0.97:873: auth failed on > module home > > what does that mean? Which user failed Authorization.? My user account > on the vista machine or backuppc user This is the user that is defined in your rsyncd.secrets file. It shouldn't require any other users. I would first check rsyncd.secrets and make sure you're passing the right password. You set up RsyncdUserName -> backuppc RsyncdPasswd -> samepasswordasinrsyncd.secrets in the Xfer settings of backuppc, right? > does the backuppc needs to be an administrator user of the vista machine > In my current setup it is not even a user of the vista machine. Rsyncd should be running as the SYSTEM user, so you won't need a backuppc user on the Vista machine unless you want to be able to ssh into it or the like. Are you running something like below to test? rsync -a [EMAIL PROTECTED]::home /var/lib/backuppc/testing/ -v If you're looking for a step-by-step guide that works on Vista, check out my site: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/projs/backuppc_guide.html Cody - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Child Exited Prematurely
Hi, Please excuse me if I am using this wrong, in all my years in IT, it seems this is the first time I have used a mailing list for support. (I'm usually pretty good at the whole RTFM thing) We have a backup box (FC6) that is running backups from a lot of windows servers using rSync. We are not running the latest version of BackupPC. I am reluctant to update this unless I have a good idea that it's going to help since we have a lot of automated scripts that manage the BackupPC config files and we will need to review them all. If this is the route we need to go then no problem but as I understand it, my problem is specifically related to rSync. (please correct me if I am wrong.) We have been running this for well over a year now (maybe a few years, my memory fails me) and iirc this problem has only started showing up over the past 6-12 months. We do not have any automatic updates on the BackupPC box so nothing there should have really changed. Out backup box resides on what we call our CORE network. The servers it backs up are all on remote network which are connected to the CORE network with VPN's. (VPN's are running over DSL) Backups do take a long time to run (~10 hours or so) due to the amount of data. The problem we are seeing is that Backups are randomly failing. The log file on BackupPC showing something like this: Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:873, remote version 29 Negotiated protocol version 26 Connected to module kale-susl Sending args: --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . . Xfer PIDs are now 5220 [ skipped 971 lines ] Read EOF: Connection reset by peer Tried again: got 0 bytes finish: removing in-process file Data/Apps/GoldMine/GMBase/ScriptsW.MDX Child is aborting Parent read EOF from child: fatal error! Done: 923 files, 3041217353 bytes Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely) Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely) The log on the windows server is: 2008/11/18 17:46:05 [3252] connect from UNKNOWN (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) 2008/11/18 17:46:05 [3252] rsync on . from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) 2008/11/18 17:46:05 [3252] building file list 2008/11/18 18:03:14 [3252] rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4092 bytes [sender]: Connection reset by peer (104) 2008/11/18 18:03:14 [3252] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.9/io.c(1122) [sender=2.6.9] I have been trying to work this out for month or two now. The problems seem to be random, but more common on specific servers. There is nothing special about these specific servers - they seem just random but persistant. Originally, we were running the recommended rSync package for BackupPC. After looking into the problem over the past month, I have seen a lot of posts suggesting there this was a common problem with a particular build of rSync. I have updated rSync on the backupPC box, "rpm -q rsync" currently replies... rsync-2.6.9-5.fc8 (yes, the only updated rpm i could find was an fc8 one) On a few select servers (including the one that generated the above logs) I setup cygwin directly and added rSync to it with the installer wizard. I selected rSync 2.6.9 rather than 3.x.x as i assumed this would b required for compatibility. These seem to be the only recommendations I can find for fixing this problem. (updating rSync) Sadly, it has not helped me so far. The connection between the BackupPC server and the example server used for the above logs is VPN like the rest of the servers but this server is local and the VPN operates over local Ethernet links. (ie. Stable links.) I have tried and tried to verify as much as I can that there are no network/VPN dropouts at the times that this is failing and im pretty sure there are not. It sometimes fails within 3 minutes of the job starting, other times after hours. I know I have had a remote desktop session open to the server and been actively using it at the time it failed and I noticed absolutely no disturbance in my RD session. (which you would expect at least a short pause if there was a brief disruption to the connection.) I am at a loss and I am really hoping that someone will be able to show me a way to further my research into what is causing this problem so that I can hopefully isolate the issue and resolve it. I have said above that this seems to be most prominent on specific servers (about 7 of them) but it IS happening occasionally on all of our servers. We do get drops on our VPN's from time to time but we have a monitoring system in place that alerts us immediately about this. These drops probably average at about 1 per every 3 months, per VPN. The rSync fails are daily, and usually several per day. Any help would be very much appreciated. Kind Regards, James Sefton Phase 5 Communications Ltd. (UK) --
Re: [BackupPC-users] moving a volume
Ray Todd Stevens wrote: > We have a backuppc system setup that has been running for a while now. We > are > expanding the office and I am going to need more storage space. To do this I > will need to > copy the data off, reconfigure the array with more drives and then reload the > system. > > How is the best way to do this? See "Copying the pool" under the "Other Installation Topics" header of the FAQ. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#other_installation_topics Chris - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] merge host from one pool into another pool
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: "Adam Goryachev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Gesendet: 18.11.08 10:53:36 > An: questions and support" > Betreff: Re: [BackupPC-users] merge host from one pool into another pool > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > dan wrote: > > I have done this on a small setup a while ago. I just pulled over the > > pc directory from one into the other and adjusted my config files for > > the imported backups.. aditionally I made an error when copying and > > brought over numeric user ids for the files and had to chown them. Im > > not sure if the nightly run will handle the typical deduplication or > > not. I never checked. > > > > so..yet you can merge them but I am not sure if you get deduplication in > > the next nightly run... > > You would not get proper de-duplication... basically you keep the > de-duplication amongst the files you copy across, but because you are > not linking those files to the pool, you don't get any de-dupe between > the existing files in the pool and the new files you just copied across > under the pc dir. > > Also, what is potentially worse, is the next backup will store another > duplicate for each file (because it doesn't exist in the pool). However, > the good news is that nothing should break by doing this, except you use > up additional disk space. > > Finally, someone recently questioned what would happen if they moved the > pc dirs across one backup at a time, and then ran backuppc_link... I > don't recall seeing any response/answer to that, but it sounded like a > very sensible method to combine two backuppc systems... Hi, I asked this, in this thread. Anyway, I would like to thank the three folks who replied for their suggestions. Before Friday, I will be unable to try anything out, so please be patient. Regards, Michael _ Sensationsangebot nur bis 30.11: WEB.DE FreeDSL - Telefonanschluss + DSL für nur 16,37 Euro/mtl.!* http://dsl.web.de/?ac=OM.AD.AD008K13805B7069a - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Working Well - Except Archiving
SamK writes: > I am struggling to create an archive from the command line. The desired > outcome is to emulate the clicking of the "Start Archive" button in the web > page as this method is working perfectly. The overall objective is to create > the archive as a cron job. > > >From /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archive > Extract Start > # BackupPC_archive: Archive files for an archive client. > # > # DESCRIPTION > # > # Usage: BackupPC_archive > Extract End > > I cannot find the definitions ofand all > permutations of my guesses of what might be required have all failed. Can > anyone help or indicate where the definitions are listed? BackupPC_archive isn't very easy to use directly: reqFileName is the path of a file (output from perl's Data::Dumper) with information about what to archive. BackupPC_archiveStart is much easier to use. It creates a reqFile and then tells the BackupPC server to run the archive. Craig - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Working Well - Except Archiving
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am struggling to create an archive from the command line. The desired > outcome is to emulate the clicking of the "Start Archive" button in the web > page as this method is working perfectly. The overall objective is to create > the archive as a cron job. > >>From /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archive > Extract Start > # BackupPC_archive: Archive files for an archive client. > # > # DESCRIPTION > # > # Usage: BackupPC_archive > Extract End > > I cannot find the definitions ofand all > permutations of my guesses of what might be required have all failed. Can > anyone help or indicate where the definitions are listed? If you are going to do it from the command line, why not start with BackupPC_tarCreate and set up your own pipeline for compress/split or whatever options you want. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Child Exited Prematurely
James Sefton wrote: > > Hi, > > Please excuse me if I am using this wrong, in all my years in IT, it > seems this is the first time I have used a mailing list for support. > (I’m usually pretty good at the whole RTFM thing) > > We have a backup box (FC6) that is running backups from a lot of > windows servers using rSync. > > We are not running the latest version of BackupPC. I am reluctant to > update this unless I have a good idea that it’s going to help since we > have a lot of automated scripts that manage the BackupPC config files > and we will need to review them all. If this is the route we need to > go then no problem but as I understand it, my problem is specifically > related to rSync. (please correct me if I am wrong.) > > We have been running this for well over a year now (maybe a few years, > my memory fails me) and iirc this problem has only started showing up > over the past 6-12 months. We do not have any automatic updates on the > BackupPC box so nothing there should have really changed. > > Out backup box resides on what we call our CORE network. The servers > it backs up are all on remote network which are connected to the CORE > network with VPN’s. (VPN’s are running over DSL) Backups do take a > long time to run (~10 hours or so) due to the amount of data. > > The problem we are seeing is that Backups are randomly failing. > > The log file on BackupPC showing something like this: > > Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:873, remote version 29 > > Negotiated protocol version 26 > > Connected to module kale-susl > > Sending args: --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group > -D --links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . . > > Xfer PIDs are now 5220 > > [ skipped 971 lines ] > > Read EOF: Connection reset by peer > I saw a similar problem from time to time due to firewalls that close "inactive" connections. RSync can sit a while without passing data as file lists are created, and files are compared. See https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5695 for a related issue. Check your VPN setup for "inactive session timeout" or the like. SSH has the ServerAliveInterval option that can mitigate this. > Tried again: got 0 bytes > > finish: removing in-process file Data/Apps/GoldMine/GMBase/ScriptsW.MDX > > Child is aborting > > Parent read EOF from child: fatal error! > > Done: 923 files, 3041217353 bytes > > Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely) > > Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely) > > The log on the windows server is: > > 2008/11/18 17:46:05 [3252] connect from UNKNOWN (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) > 2008/11/18 17:46:05 [3252] rsync on . from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) > 2008/11/18 17:46:05 [3252] building file list > 2008/11/18 18:03:14 [3252] rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4092 > bytes [sender]: Connection reset by peer (104) > 2008/11/18 18:03:14 [3252] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream > (code 12) at /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.9/io.c(1122) [sender=2.6.9] > > I have been trying to work this out for month or two now. > > The problems seem to be random, but more common on specific servers. > > There is nothing special about these specific servers – they seem just > random but persistant. > > Originally, we were running the recommended rSync package for BackupPC. > > After looking into the problem over the past month, I have seen a lot > of posts suggesting there this was a common problem with a particular > build of rSync. > > I have updated rSync on the backupPC box, “rpm –q rsync” currently > replies... > > rsync-2.6.9-5.fc8 (yes, the only updated rpm i could find was an fc8 one) > That's the danger of using Fedora Core for a server. The support just doesn't last. SUSE, Ubuntu and CentOS are much better server OS choices. You might try grabbing the SRPM from Fedora 9 (http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/SRPMS.newkey/rsync-3.0.4-0.fc9.src.rpm), install rpm-build and see if you can roll your own. > On a few select servers (including the one that generated the above > logs) I setup cygwin directly and added rSync to it with the installer > wizard. > > I selected rSync 2.6.9 rather than 3.x.x as i assumed this would b > required for compatibility. > Nope. RSync is backwards compatible. > These seem to be the only recommendations I can find for fixing this > problem. (updating rSync) > > Sadly, it has not helped me so far. > > The connection between the BackupPC server and the example server used > for the above logs is VPN like the rest of the servers but this server > is local and the VPN operates over local Ethernet links. (ie. Stable > links.) > > I have tried and tried to verify as much as I can that there are no > network/VPN dropouts at the times that this is failing and im pretty > sure there are not. It sometimes fails within 3 minutes of the job > starting, other times after hours. I know I have had a remote desktop > session open t
Re: [BackupPC-users] Child Exited Prematurely
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 07:02:09PM +, James Sefton wrote: > The log on the windows server is: > > 2008/11/18 17:46:05 [3252] connect from UNKNOWN (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) > > 2008/11/18 17:46:05 [3252] rsync on . from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) > > 2008/11/18 17:46:05 [3252] building file list > > 2008/11/18 18:03:14 [3252] rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4092 > bytes [sender]: Connection reset by peer (104) > > 2008/11/18 18:03:14 [3252] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream > (code 12) at /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.9/io.c(1122) [sender=2.6.9] I had a very similar problem, with it getting worse over time. What I found was that my backuppc server was low on RAM. When multiple backups were running, the system would thrash and page heavily which led to network timeouts and the connection to be reset. Very frustrating to debug only looking at the logs. Might be worth double checking you have enough free RAM during your busy periods. HTH, Dale - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Native Window version of rsync
Hi, Based on the source from Kolosy (http://www.kolosy.com/wordpress/?p=8 ), we have continued the journey and successully ported Rsync to C# (protocol 28 ). So far, the program has the following features: 1. Lots of features just like Rsync, supporting protocol up to 28. 2. No need for cygwin. However, it's required .NET framework version 3.5 3. Utilise Volume Shadow Copy Service (aka VSS, on XP machines only) so that now it will do the work on shadow copy (configurable parameter on config file) and copy even opened files, exchange files, SQL files, etc. 4. Zlib compression supported 5. Running as a windows service (daemon), working fine with BackupPC and rsync on unix platform. 6. Can produce rdiff-backup alike signature/delta file. 7. Unicode filename supported. 8. Ultilise nearly maximum network bandwidth. During testing, we are getting around 11-12MB/s on 100Mbs network. 9. Many mores... Many thanks to Kolosy! Please let us know if anyone interested in having a test on this program. Thanks. +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Native Window version of rsync
This is excellent news! I for one would be very interested in testing the software. Is the latest version available in Kolosy's repository? -- Paul Mantz http://www.mcpantz.org BackupPC - Network Backup with De-Duplication http://www.backuppc.com Zmanda - Open source backup and recovery http://www.zmanda.com/ - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Vista client unauthorized user
OK I fixed the problem. the backuppc web interface did not set RsyncdUserName -> backuppc in the client.pl file because backuppc is the default value. -Oz Cody Dunne wrote: > > Oz Dror wrote: >> Thanks for responding. >> >> I have done all the correction that you undigested. I am still >> havening the auth issue. >> When I run the backup in a command line >> I noticed these lines: >> >> Negotiated protocol version 28 >> Got response: 73c7ac91a97cd967d94504b9a6347037 >> Auth: got challenge: Mkx8AVu0NSVA9mANktJ9Tg, reply: >> c8eskal82WfZRQS5pjRwNw >> Error connecting to module home at 192.168.0.97:873: auth failed on >> module home >> >> what does that mean? Which user failed Authorization.? My user >> account on the vista machine or backuppc user > > This is the user that is defined in your rsyncd.secrets file. It > shouldn't require any other users. I would first check rsyncd.secrets > and make sure you're passing the right password. You set up > > RsyncdUserName -> backuppc > RsyncdPasswd -> samepasswordasinrsyncd.secrets > > in the Xfer settings of backuppc, right? > >> does the backuppc needs to be an administrator user of the vista machine >> In my current setup it is not even a user of the vista machine. > > Rsyncd should be running as the SYSTEM user, so you won't need a > backuppc user on the Vista machine unless you want to be able to ssh > into it or the like. > > Are you running something like below to test? > rsync -a [EMAIL PROTECTED]::home /var/lib/backuppc/testing/ -v > > If you're looking for a step-by-step guide that works on Vista, check > out my site: > http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/projs/backuppc_guide.html > > Cody - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] merge host from one pool into another pool
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 08:47:13PM +1100, Adam Goryachev wrote: > > so..yet you can merge them but I am not sure if you get deduplication > > in the next nightly run... > > You would not get proper de-duplication... basically you keep the > de-duplication amongst the files you copy across, but because you are > not linking those files to the pool, you don't get any de-dupe between > the existing files in the pool and the new files you just copied across > under the pc dir. I guess the simple question is, then: is there a tool you can run that will de-dupe and/or re-merge with the pool? Regards, Msquared... - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Native Window version of rsync
I'm very interested in trying this, sounds brilliant! The author doesn't sound too optimistic though, but I'll try it none the less! Thanks for the link! Riaan Schoeman Teqcle Information Technologies (Pty) Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +27 82 562 3882 Fax: +27 86 520 2668 Skype: riaans182 ICQ: 92860102 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: riaans182 Linux User Nr: 404512 On 19 Nov 2008, at 6:59 AM, dtktvu wrote: Hi, Based on the source from Kolosy (http://www.kolosy.com/wordpress/? p=8 ), we have continued the journey and successully ported Rsync to C# (protocol 28 ). So far, the program has the following features: 1. Lots of features just like Rsync, supporting protocol up to 28. 2. No need for cygwin. However, it's required .NET framework version 3.5 3. Utilise Volume Shadow Copy Service (aka VSS, on XP machines only) so that now it will do the work on shadow copy (configurable parameter on config file) and copy even opened files, exchange files, SQL files, etc. 4. Zlib compression supported 5. Running as a windows service (daemon), working fine with BackupPC and rsync on unix platform. 6. Can produce rdiff-backup alike signature/delta file. 7. Unicode filename supported. 8. Ultilise nearly maximum network bandwidth. During testing, we are getting around 11-12MB/s on 100Mbs network. 9. Many mores... Many thanks to Kolosy! Please let us know if anyone interested in having a test on this program. Thanks. + -- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] + -- - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
