Re: [BackupPC-users] Solved! (Was: Sub directories of modules impossible?)
Hi On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:47:03 +0200, chin cle-backu...@qiao.in-berlin.de wrote: Also thank you for that tip! I did configure BackupPC as much as possible from the web interface. So indeed I did not look very far in the config.pl. IIRC, you can also setup that via the webinterface, no need to direct edit the config.pl good luck higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country. -- Hermann Goering, Nazi and war criminal, 1883-1946 signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july___ 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] Solved! (Was: Sub directories of modules impossible?)
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:08:33AM +0100, higuita wrote: Also thank you for that tip! I did configure BackupPC as much as possible from the web interface. So indeed I did not look very far in the config.pl. IIRC, you can also setup that via the webinterface, no need to direct edit the config.pl If course you can, but then you won't see all the nice and lengthy explanations in config.pl. ;-) Tino. -- What we nourish flourishes. - Was wir nähren erblüht. www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.craniosacralzentrum.de -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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] A Question on full backups
Hi, I have had a read, but I am none the wiser... I understand that incremental backups are hard-linked delta copies based on the last full backup, but when a new full backup is performed, is this done as a complete new transfer, or are full backups also built from deltas of the last full backup and/or incrementals? Thanks -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july___ 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] Problems emails
Hi, I'm beginner in Backuppc. The server do not send e-mail. Can someone helpe me ? -- Greetings, Nordine. -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july___ 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] Installation problems: BackupPC _serverMesg hangs
Do you have strace? strace -p process_id should show you any system
calls a running process is making and might give you a hint about what
it is doing. Or you can start a program with strace to see how far it
gets.
I installed strace and then tried
strace /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg status info
--- begin quote -
The last few lines of the output were:
open(/etc/passwd, O_RDONLY) = 3
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbec95b60) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate
ioctl for device)
read(3, root:$1$u.2QTgpX$h2GoA.vewi0uEGc..., 4096) = 326
close(3)= 0
open(/etc/shadow, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
close(2)= 0
dup(1) = 2
ioctl(2, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) =
0
lseek(2, 0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
fstat(2, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0622, st_rdev=makedev(136, 0), ...}) = 0
fcntl(2, F_SETFD, 0)= 0
ioctl(2, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) =
0
lseek(2, 0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
SYS_281(0x1, 0x1, 0, 0x1196e0, 0) = 3
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbec95b0c) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid
argument)
lseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbec95b0c) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid
argument)
lseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
fcntl(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
SYS_283(0x3, 0x4e0d98, 0x70, 0x4ea1d0, 0x4e0d98) = 0
read(3,
--- end quote -
Then the output did not continue until I pressed Ctrl-C.
Unfortunately I do not know enough about system calls to be able to interpret
the output. As much as I understand, the output just confirms that BackupPC
does not succeed in reading the Server's Seed.
Or do you see something else in the output that could give me a hint?
Greetings,
Christoph
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems emails
Hi, This is most probably problem of email server or some missconfiguration. Try this http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#step_8__checking_email_delivery to test your email server. 2009/8/26 Nordine KHALFOUN - ELPEV STUDIO - n.khalf...@elpevstudio.com: Hi, I'm beginner in Backuppc. The server do not send e-mail. Can someone helpe me ? -- Greetings, Nordine. -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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] Still having problems with BackupPC
I'm still having severe bandwidth issues causing are once nightly backups to take days to finish with BackupPC. I am monitoring one server right now by tailing the NewFileList log file in its pc directory. What I'd expect to see are filenames flying by, but no, it just goes by maybe 1 file every minute or so. Then occasionally there's a spurt of maybe 10 file names. Right now, the logfile is hung and hasn't had any output in the last 5 minutes. Just what is BackupPC doing during this time? On the BackupPC server, top shows an idle load and the BackupPC daemons aren't even at the top of the list. I thought this would solve our storage problem, but I'm afraid I cannot spend more time on this. I'm going to revert back to our old rsync scripts. -- Jeremy Mann jer...@biochem.uthscsa.edu University of Texas Health Science Center Bioinformatics Core Facility http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.edu Phone: (210) 567-2672 -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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] Installation problems: BackupPC_serverMesg hangs
Craig
Wow, the author himself, what an honour!
It's more likely that TCP sockets work.
Try setting $Conf{ServerHost}, $Conf{ServerPort} and
$Conf{ServerMesgSecret}. BackupPC_serverMesg should
use the TCP port instead of the unix-domain socket.
I set:
$Conf{ServerHost} = 'nslu2';
$Conf{ServerPort} = 2359;
$Conf{ServerMesgSecret} = 'a string containing 19 ascii-characters';
# 'nslu2' is the device's hostname, also contained in /etc/hosts
and restarted the BackupPC daemon.
Unfortunately,
/usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg status info
shows the same result, hanging at the same line as before.
Strangely, 'netstat' shows me:
Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path
unix 4 [ ] STREAM CONNECTING 0
/mnt/usbstick/var/log/BackupPC/BackupPC.sock
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 21002
so it seems that BackupPC still uses unix sockets.
Do I have to do anything else to activate tcp connections?
Thanks in advance,
Christoph
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Re: [BackupPC-users] A Question on full backups
Nigel Kendrick wrote: Hi, I have had a read, but I am none the wiser... I understand that incremental backups are hard-linked delta copies based on the last full backup, but when a new full backup is performed, is this done as a complete new transfer, or are full backups also built from deltas of the last full backup and/or incrementals? You need to separate the xfer method from the storage to understand this. With tar or smb methods, the entire contents of a full are transfered. With rsync or rsyncd, this is a delta against the previous full (or incrementals if using levels) but if any content has changed in a file, a complete new copy is reconstructed on the backuppc server side. Then, regardless of the method, all content that matches a file in the pool is discarded and replaced with a hardlink - and all new/changed files have a new link added to the pool (there are no per-file deltas stored). -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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] A Question on full backups
-Original Message- From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 3:58 PM To: General list for user discussion,questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] A Question on full backups Nigel Kendrick wrote: Hi, I have had a read, but I am none the wiser... I understand that incremental backups are hard-linked delta copies based on the last full backup, but when a new full backup is performed, is this done as a complete new transfer, or are full backups also built from deltas of the last full backup and/or incrementals? You need to separate the xfer method from the storage to understand this. With tar or smb methods, the entire contents of a full are transfered. With rsync or rsyncd, this is a delta against the previous full (or incrementals if using levels) but if any content has changed in a file, a complete new copy is reconstructed on the backuppc server side. Then, regardless of the method, all content that matches a file in the pool is discarded and replaced with a hardlink - and all new/changed files have a new link added to the pool (there are no per-file deltas stored). -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com Thanks Les, Yes, I meant this with reference to rsync/rsyncd. Just going back to my previous query about SQL dumps and my daily backups transferring the whole lot, I now realise that the last full backup was done when the system was under test and I had not yet included the SQL dump folder. The dump folder (700MB) was then picked up by the first incremental and has been transferred ever since because, as I now know, same-level incremental deltas are done against the last full backup and not between incrementals. If my understanding is correct, I presume I should then see a marked reduction in the size of incrementals after the next full backup? Nigel -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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] Cannot stat: No such file or directory
Not sure if it's due to config issue (I'm trying to backup localhost) that I have this error message. Extracted from XferLOG Running: /bin/gtar -c -f - -C /samba --totals ./samba full backup started for directory /samba Xfer PIDs are now 17605,17604 /bin/gtar: ./samba: Cannot stat: No such file or directory Total bytes written: 10240 (10KiB, 274KiB/s) /bin/gtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Tar exited with error 512 () status tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0 filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal +-- |This was sent by huf...@hotmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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] No emails being sent for backup failures
Backuppc is configured to send email for all hosts to one gmail account. All email sent to the attention of the administrator as well as each host's email is sent to the foo@gmail.com account. That is to say, the USER field is set to foo@gmail.com for ALL 20 of the hosts. This was a decision we made to avoid nagging our clients too much. The following emails have successfully come through to the gmail account: * Test emails * Administrative attention needed for bogus directories * No backups of hostname have succeeded - for hosts that have NEVER ONCE succeeded. The problem arises when backups have been delayed for a client. There is one client that is rarely on the network. It has been about 16 days since the last time it was backed up. Backups happen when it is attached to the network, but I have never received an email from this client indicating that it has been more than 3 days since the last backup. On that host's summary page I see the following: * This PC is used by esybac...@gmail.com (and michalski). * Last email sent to esybac...@gmail.com was at 8/24 01:01, subject BackupPC: no recent backups on a82f06-michalsk. * Last status is state idle (no ping) as of 8/26 07:00. * Last error is host not found. * Pings to a82f06-michalsk have failed 170 consecutive times. I have EMailNotifyMinDays 2.5 set so I should be getting an email about every 3 days indicating a problem. If I look at the email summary page I see the following: Recipient: esybac...@gmail.com Host: a82f06-michalsk Time: 8/24 01:01 Subject: BackupPC: no recent backups on a82f06-michalsk This indicates to me that the checking subsystem is working properly and that, in general, the email system is working properly. The problem appears to be with only the delayed backup emails. What might be causing this problem? Where should I start looking for the source of this problem? Thanks for your help! +-- |This was sent by aaron.ciu...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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] No emails being sent for backup failures
Gmail, eh? My first thought is that you might be running afoul of gmail's spam filters, so the first thing to check is that the mails are actually going out. Backuppc is configured to send email for all hosts to one gmail account. All email sent to the attention of the administrator as well as each host's email is sent to the foo@gmail.com account. That is to say, the USER field is set to foo@gmail.com for ALL 20 of the hosts. This was a decision we made to avoid nagging our clients too much. The following emails have successfully come through to the gmail account: * Test emails * Administrative attention needed for bogus directories * No backups of hostname have succeeded - for hosts that have NEVER ONCE succeeded. The problem arises when backups have been delayed for a client. There is one client that is rarely on the network. It has been about 16 days since the last time it was backed up. Backups happen when it is attached to the network, but I have never received an email from this client indicating that it has been more than 3 days since the last backup. On that host's summary page I see the following: * This PC is used by esybac...@gmail.com (and michalski). * Last email sent to esybac...@gmail.com was at 8/24 01:01, subject BackupPC: no recent backups on a82f06-michalsk. * Last status is state idle (no ping) as of 8/26 07:00. * Last error is host not found. * Pings to a82f06-michalsk have failed 170 consecutive times. I have EMailNotifyMinDays 2.5 set so I should be getting an email about every 3 days indicating a problem. If I look at the email summary page I see the following: Recipient: esybac...@gmail.com Host: a82f06-michalsk Time: 8/24 01:01 Subject: BackupPC: no recent backups on a82f06-michalsk This indicates to me that the checking subsystem is working properly and that, in general, the email system is working properly. The problem appears to be with only the delayed backup emails. What might be causing this problem? Where should I start looking for the source of this problem? Thanks for your help! +-- |This was sent by aaron.ciu...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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] Keeping servers in sync
Thanks Les, This is what I was looking for. Do you know if the daemom needs to be restarted when the config directory changes? -Original Message- From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 2:26 PM To: General list for user discussion,questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Keeping servers in sync Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: On 08/25 10:16 , Osburn, Michael wrote: I have a pair of backup servers that are backing up the same site. We are doing this so that in the event the backuppc server dies, we can easily restore it from the other one. It used to be an easy task to keep them in sync when we had only a few hosts (30-40) being backed up but now that we are moving to roll this out globally the numbers will be rather high and difficult to maintain. Is there a process out there that will allow me to set up one server as a main server and have the others copy the changes over? Short answer: No. Long answer: this has been hashed over many times on this mailing list (and yes, the sourceforge search mechanism is useless). basically; the number of hardlinks kills rsync because of memory consumption; the only way to do it sanely is somewhere around the hardware or filesystem level. Basically you need to have the hardware or the filesystem replicate your data for you. The best way to do this is to set up your offsite backup server to back up your machines completely independently. This sucks a lot of bandwidth; but on the other hand does provide a fully redundant system, so even if your onsite backup server goes down your offsite server will keep going. Perhaps a future version of BackupPC will support offsite replication as part of its mechanisms. You probably could play some tricks with replicating the configs if your concern is maintaining changes on the independent servers. They are just ordinary files. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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] Installation problems: BackupPC_serverMesg hangs
Dear Craig,
It turns out the code always tries the unix
domain socket first.
I used the bogus name for the sockFile method, hence:
my $sockFile = $bpc-{LogDir}/BackupPC.sockNot;
Now BackupPC obviously uses tcp, because after launching the
BackupPC_serverMesg command, netstat shows:
tcp0 0 nslu2.:2359 nslu2.:41584ESTABLISHED
tcp0 0 nslu2.:41584nslu2.:2359 ESTABLISHED
But then the execution hangs at the same line as before:
BackupPC::Lib::ServerConnect(/mnt/usbstick/usr/local/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm:698):
698:sysread($bpc-{ServerFD}, $bpc-{ServerSeed}, 1024);
strace shows that again the execution hangs when trying to make the read()
system call:
read(3,
So it seems that the problem is the same with the tcp connection as with the
unix socket.
Do you have any further idea what the problem could be?
Does anybody know why the read() system call might hang?
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[BackupPC-users] Excludes not working
Greetings all,
I apoligize in advance if this has been beaten to death, by my search
foo is failing me today.
I am trying to backup my backuppc server while excluding the backups
directory. No matter what I put under excludes in the config, I still
end up with the cpool and pc directories in my backups. Here is the
config files relevent to this host and a break down of the structure.
Any help would be appreciated.
/var/lib/backuppc - /data/backup (symbolic link)
cat /etc/backuppc/pc/backupserv1.pl
$Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l backuppc $host sudo
$rsyncPath $argLi
$Conf{XferLogLevel} = '100';
$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {};
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/selinux/*' = [
''
],
'/dev/*' = [
''
],
'/var/lib/backuppc' = [
''
],
'data' = [
''
],
'/data/*' = [
''
],
'/proc/*' = [
''
]
};
dpkg -l backuppc
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-
pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name VersionDescription
+++-==-==-==
==
ii backuppc 3.1.0-4lenny1 high-performance, enterprise-grade
system fo
cat /etc/debian_version
5.0.2
Uname -a
Linux backupserv1 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Aug 14 07:12:04 UTC 2009
x86_64 GNU/Linux
Thanks,
Michael Osburn
CAS Engineering
EchoStar Broadcasting Corporation
530 Echostar Drive
Cheyenne, WY 82007
(307) 633-5232 michael.osb...@echostar.com
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Keeping servers in sync
Jim, Thanks for the link. This looks like an intersting solution for my personal backups, even if we cannot use it here yet. I will be following your work. Michael -Original Message- From: Jim Wilcoxson [mailto:pri...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 8:07 PM To: General list for user discussion,questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Keeping servers in sync Michael - I have a new LInux/FreeBSD backup program, HashBackup, in beta that I believe will handle a large backuppc server. In tests, it will backup a single directory with 15M (empty) files/hardlinks, with 32000 hard links to each file, and can do the initial and incremental backups on this directory in about 45 minutes on a 2005 AMD box with 1GB of memory. HashBackup can also send backups offsite via FTP, ssh accounts, or to Amazon S3. I'd be very interested in feedback if anyone would like to try it on their BackupPC server. The beta site is: http://sites.google.com/site/hashbackup Of course, you're welcome to contact me via email with questions. Jim On 8/25/09, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom chr...@real-time.com wrote: On 08/25 10:16 , Osburn, Michael wrote: I have a pair of backup servers that are backing up the same site. We are doing this so that in the event the backuppc server dies, we can easily restore it from the other one. It used to be an easy task to keep them in sync when we had only a few hosts (30-40) being backed up but now that we are moving to roll this out globally the numbers will be rather high and difficult to maintain. Is there a process out there that will allow me to set up one server as a main server and have the others copy the changes over? -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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] Excludes not working
Osburn, Michael wrote:
Greetings all,
I apoligize in advance if this has been beaten to death, by my search
foo is failing me today.
I am trying to backup my backuppc server while excluding the backups
directory. No matter what I put under excludes in the config, I still
end up with the cpool and pc directories in my backups. Here is the
config files relevent to this host and a break down of the structure.
Any help would be appreciated.
/var/lib/backuppc - /data/backup (symbolic link)
cat /etc/backuppc/pc/backupserv1.pl
$Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l backuppc $host sudo
$rsyncPath $argLi
$Conf{XferLogLevel} = '100';
$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {};
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/selinux/*' = [
''
],
'/dev/*' = [
''
],
'/var/lib/backuppc' = [
''
],
'data' = [
''
],
'/data/*' = [
''
],
'/proc/*' = [
''
]
};
Try this instead:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'*' = [ '/selinux/*',
'/dev/*',
'/var/lib/backuppc',
'data',
'/data/*',
'/proc/*'
]
};
This will apply to all shares. If you want to be specific, replace the
'*' with the share name.
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Installation problems: BackupPC_serverMesg hangs
So it seems that the problem is the same with the tcp connection as with the unix socket. Do you have any further idea what the problem could be? Does anybody know why the read() system call might hang? Christoph I'm speculating again, but I can't help thinking that it might be RAM related... Before launching any BackupPC processes, how much RAM is free? -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Excludes not working
On 08/26 12:57 , Osburn, Michael wrote:
I am trying to backup my backuppc server while excluding the backups
directory. No matter what I put under excludes in the config, I still
end up with the cpool and pc directories in my backups.
You misunderstand the exclude syntax. Here's an example for a (SMB) share
named 'c$':
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'c$' = [
'/RECYCLER',
'/winnt/tmp',
'/temp',
'/WUTemp',
'/WINDOWS',
'/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/history/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/Cookies/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/Favorites/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/IETldCache/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/IECompatCache/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/NetHood/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/PrivacIE/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/PrintHood/',
'/pagefile.sys',
'/hiberfil.sys',
]
};
A simpler version is this one, which I use for the 'localhost'
configuration.
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/proc', '/sys', '/var/lib/backuppc',
'/var/log', '/tmp', '/var/tmp', '/mnt', '/media'];
To help you a little more along the way, here's the localhost.pl file I use.
I use tar backups for the local machine rather than rsync, because bandwidth
to the local machine is so cheap it's better to spend that than the CPU
cycles on rsync.
#
# Local server backup of /etc as user backuppc
#
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar';
# let it back itself up anytime it wants to.
$Conf{BlackoutPeriods} = [];
$Conf{TarShareName} = ['/'];
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/proc', '/sys', '/var/lib/backuppc',
'/var/log', '/tmp', '/var/tmp', '/mnt', '/media'];
$Conf{TarClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/sudo $tarPath -c -v -f
- -C $shareName --totals';
# remove extra shell escapes ($fileList+ etc.) that are
# needed for remote backups but may break local ones
$Conf{TarFullArgs} = '$fileList';
$Conf{TarIncrArgs} = '--newer=$incrDate $fileList';
# turning off compression on these files, so they can be recovered without
# backuppc.
# wouldn't make sense to need your backup server,
# in order to recover your backup server, now would it?
$Conf{CompressLevel} = 0;
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Installation problems: BackupPC_serverMesg hangs
Christoph, So it seems that the problem is the same with the tcp connection as with the unix socket. Do you have any further idea what the problem could be? Does anybody know why the read() system call might hang? Most likely the BackupPC server doesn't see the first message from BackupPC_serverMesg. I suspect the problem is that perl has a buggy select() or some other related function or buffering problem on your platform. Perhaps you could google for perl bugs on your platform? Craig -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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] Installation problems: BackupPC_serverMesg hangs
I'm speculating again, but I can't help thinking that it might be RAM related... Before launching any BackupPC processes, how much RAM is free? After a reboot I got the following values: Before launching any BackupPC process: total used free shared buffers Mem:3041221884 85280 9480 Swap: 5005080 500508 Total: 53092021884 509036 After launching '/etc/init.d/backuppc start': total used free shared buffers Mem:3041227392 30200 7540 Swap: 5005080 500508 Total: 53092027392 503528 After launching '/usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg status info': total used free shared buffers Mem:3041229228 11840 4932 Swap: 5005080 500508 Total: 53092029228 501692 Seems that swap space isn't even needed. I am astonished, too, because free shows 24, 22, and 16% memory usage by the three BackupPC processes, whereas the above figures seem to show that the BackupPC processes just need additional 7,5 MB which is less than 25% of the device's 32MB RAM. Strange, isn't it? Christoph -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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] Excludes not working
Thanks for the help, I now have it working.
Perhaps this is a bug in the web front end as I configured all the hosts
this way. Is this something that has been changed in the debian build or
is it something that is just not supposed to be done via web? I will
grab the current beta and see if this is still an issue.
Michael
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From: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom [mailto:chr...@real-time.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 1:28 PM
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Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Excludes not working
On 08/26 12:57 , Osburn, Michael wrote:
I am trying to backup my backuppc server while excluding the backups
directory. No matter what I put under excludes in the config, I still
end up with the cpool and pc directories in my backups.
You misunderstand the exclude syntax. Here's an example for a (SMB)
share
named 'c$':
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'c$' = [
'/RECYCLER',
'/winnt/tmp',
'/temp',
'/WUTemp',
'/WINDOWS',
'/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/Temporary Internet
Files/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/history/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/Cookies/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/Favorites/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/IETldCache/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/IECompatCache/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/NetHood/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/PrivacIE/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/PrintHood/',
'/pagefile.sys',
'/hiberfil.sys',
]
};
A simpler version is this one, which I use for the 'localhost'
configuration.
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/proc', '/sys', '/var/lib/backuppc',
'/var/log', '/tmp', '/var/tmp', '/mnt', '/media'];
To help you a little more along the way, here's the localhost.pl file I
use.
I use tar backups for the local machine rather than rsync, because
bandwidth
to the local machine is so cheap it's better to spend that than the CPU
cycles on rsync.
#
# Local server backup of /etc as user backuppc
#
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar';
# let it back itself up anytime it wants to.
$Conf{BlackoutPeriods} = [];
$Conf{TarShareName} = ['/'];
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/proc', '/sys', '/var/lib/backuppc',
'/var/log', '/tmp', '/var/tmp', '/mnt', '/media'];
$Conf{TarClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/sudo $tarPath -c
-v -f
- -C $shareName --totals';
# remove extra shell escapes ($fileList+ etc.) that are
# needed for remote backups but may break local ones
$Conf{TarFullArgs} = '$fileList';
$Conf{TarIncrArgs} = '--newer=$incrDate $fileList';
# turning off compression on these files, so they can be recovered
without
# backuppc.
# wouldn't make sense to need your backup server,
# in order to recover your backup server, now would it?
$Conf{CompressLevel} = 0;
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Installation problems: BackupPC_serverMesg hangs
Hello Craig, Most likely the BackupPC server doesn't see the first message from BackupPC_serverMesg. Is there a possibility to verify that? I suspect the problem is that perl has a buggy select() or some other related function or buffering problem on your platform. Perhaps you could google for perl bugs on your platform? That's what I've already been doing for some time - up to now without any proper results. I even recompiled the perl packages - without any errors. I just cannot understand why it works for Ted Carnahan: http://www.tedcarnahan.com/2009/07/09/installing-backuppc-on-openwrt/ - but does not work for me. The main difference I see is that his installation is on a mipsel platform, whereas mine is a armeb device. I will try to get further tomorrow - today I have to go to bed at last. Thanks for your help, Christoph -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Excludes not working
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
On 08/26 12:57 , Osburn, Michael wrote:
I am trying to backup my backuppc server while excluding the backups
directory. No matter what I put under excludes in the config, I still
end up with the cpool and pc directories in my backups.
You misunderstand the exclude syntax. Here's an example for a (SMB) share
named 'c$':
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'c$' = [
'/RECYCLER',
'/winnt/tmp',
'/temp',
'/WUTemp',
'/WINDOWS',
'/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/history/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/Cookies/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/Favorites/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/IETldCache/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/IECompatCache/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/NetHood/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/PrivacIE/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/PrintHood/',
'/pagefile.sys',
'/hiberfil.sys',
]
};
hmm ... I'm having some problems with smb-tar excludes, too (my first
smb client because of never ending VISTA 64-bit related issues with
DeltaCopy and/or cygwin-rsyncd) and I read on:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Smb_exclude
1. Backslashes (\) seem to be the only effective way to get smbclient to
correctly exclude files.
2. Subfolders need to be followed by a \* to be correctly excluded.
3. Files off of the root of the share need to be prepended by an extra
backslash to be correctly excluded.
4. Folders off of the root of the share need to be prepended by an extra
backslash to be correctly excluded.
Maybe I should try it your way then ... ;-)
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Excludes not working
I have never been able to get excludes to work either. I tried a few of the
suggestions here. I have all Windows machines and am using smb to back them
up.
Anyway, here is what I have in the exclude section:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'c$' = [
'/program files',
'/axium',
'/i386',
'/drivers',
'/dell',
'/temp',
'/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files',
'/windows'
]
};
So, what is wrong here?
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[BackupPC-users] Running BackupPC on a Pentium III/900 MHz
Hello, for a small office with 2 PCs I would like to setup a samba and backup-server (using backuppc). I'm running BackupPC on three other servers (Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz). Since I have an unused Pentium III running at 900 MHz and 512 MB RAM I would like to know, if this small machine can be used as a BackupPC-Server. Why: It is very quiet and has a nice form factor. Any feedback? Kind regards - P hil -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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] Excludes not working
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 7:45:48 pm Chris Baker wrote:
I have never been able to get excludes to work either. I tried a few of the
suggestions here. I have all Windows machines and am using smb to back them
up.
Anyway, here is what I have in the exclude section:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'c$' = [
'/program files',
'/axium',
'/i386',
'/drivers',
'/dell',
'/temp',
'/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files',
'/windows'
]
};
So, what is wrong here?
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Not an expert, so this is just a guess . . . have you tried a backslash after
a word preceding a space?
So /Program\ Files
and /Documents\ and\ Settings/*/Local\ Settings/Temporary\ Internet\ Files
also be aware of capitalization.
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Excludes not working
hi,
I believe the / are in the wrong direction; from my system.pl file
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb';
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'*' = [
'\\Program Files\\Legato',
'\\Documents and Settings\\NetworkService\\NTUSER.DAT',
'\\WINDOWS\\system32\\config'
]
};
$Conf{SmbShareName} = [
'C$',
'E$'
];
Mark
Chris Baker wrote:
I have never been able to get excludes to work either. I tried a few of the
suggestions here. I have all Windows machines and am using smb to back them
up.
Anyway, here is what I have in the exclude section:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'c$' = [
'/program files',
'/axium',
'/i386',
'/drivers',
'/dell',
'/temp',
'/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files',
'/windows'
]
};
So, what is wrong here?
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Excludes not working
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
On 08/26 12:57 , Osburn, Michael wrote:
I am trying to backup my backuppc server while excluding the backups
directory. No matter what I put under excludes in the config, I still
end up with the cpool and pc directories in my backups.
You misunderstand the exclude syntax. Here's an example for a (SMB) share
named 'c$':
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'c$' = [
'/RECYCLER',
'/winnt/tmp',
'/temp',
'/WUTemp',
'/WINDOWS',
'/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/Temporary Internet
Files/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/history/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/Cookies/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/Favorites/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/IETldCache/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/IECompatCache/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/NetHood/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/PrivacIE/',
'/Documents and Settings/*/PrintHood/',
'/pagefile.sys',
'/hiberfil.sys',
]
};
hmm ... I'm having some problems with smb-tar excludes, too (my first
smb client because of never ending VISTA 64-bit related issues with
DeltaCopy and/or cygwin-rsyncd) and I read on:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Smb_exclude
1. Backslashes (\) seem to be the only effective way to get smbclient
to correctly exclude files.
2. Subfolders need to be followed by a \* to be correctly excluded.
3. Files off of the root of the share need to be prepended by an extra
backslash to be correctly excluded.
4. Folders off of the root of the share need to be prepended by an
extra backslash to be correctly excluded.
Maybe I should try it your way then ... ;-)
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one of the wiki pages to exclude the 'junction points'. There is more stuff
than necessary in the one I list below, but I can't find the Wiki pages
(what happened there?)
Ah, here is the link to the specific page for Vista
www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/projs/backuppc_guide.html
Also mind the {ClientCharset}.
Greetings,
Koen Linders
Excludes for rsyncd.
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsyncd';
$Conf{ClientCharset} = 'cp1252';
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'*' = [
'/Documents and Settings',
'/ProgramData/Application Data',
'/ProgramData/Desktop',
'/ProgramData/Documents',
'/ProgramData/Favorites',
'/ProgramData/Start Menu',
'/ProgramData/Templates',
'/Users/All Users',
'/Users/Users/Default User',
'/Users/Users/All Users/Application Data',
'/Users/Users/All Users/Desktop',
'/Users/All Users/Documents',
'/Users/All Users/Favorites',
'/Users/All Users/Start Menu',
'/Users/All Users/Templates',
'/Users/*/Application Data',
'/Users/*/Cookies',
'/Users/*/Local Settings',
'/Users/*/My Documents',
'/Users/*/NetHood',
'/Users/*/PrintHood',
'/Users/*/Recent',
'/Users/*/SendTo',
'/Users/*/Start Menu',
'/Users/*/Templates',
'/Users/*/AppData/Local/Application Data',
'/Users/*/AppData/Local/History',
'/Users/*/AppData/Local/Temporary Internet Files',
'/Users/*/Documents/Mijn Muziek',
'/Users/*/Documents/My Music',
'/Users/*/Documents/My Pictures',
'/Users/*/Documents/My Videos',
'/Users/*/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary Internet Files',
'/Users/*/AppData/Local/Temp',
'/Users/*/NTUSER.DAT*',
'/Users/*/ntuser.dat*',
'/Users/*/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/UsrClass.dat*',
'/Users/*/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows Defender/FileTracker',
'/Users/*/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Explorer/thumbcache_*.db',
'/Users/*/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/WER',
'/Users/*/AppData/Local/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/*/Cache',
'/Users/*/AppData/Local/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/*/OfflineCache',
'/Users/*/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/Cookies',
'/Users/*/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/Recent',
'/ProgramData/Microsoft/Search',
'/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows Defender',
'*.lock',
'Thumbs.db',
'IconCache.db',
'Cache*',
'cache*',
'/Program Files',
'/Windows',
'/$Recycle.Bin',
'/MSOCache',
'/System Volume Information',
'/Boot',
'/autoexec.bat',
'/bootmgr',
'/BOOTSECT.BAK',
'/config.sys',
'/config.sys',
'/hiberfil.sys',
'/pagefile.sys',
'/Program Files (x86)',
'/Users/*/Music',
'/DriveKey',
'/IDE',
'/PerfLogs',
'/ProgramData',
'/Program Files',
'/Program Files (x86)',
]
};
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