Re: [BackupPC-users] how read .z log files ?
Mike Bydalek wrote at about 08:32:06 -0700 on Monday, September 13, 2010: zcat file or you can gunzip file That won't work - the files are not compressed you gzip... As others have mentioned, use BackupPC_zcat Regards, Mike On Sep 13, 2010, at 1:20 AM, IvyAlice backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Hello everybody, I got some problems with backuppc and I want to read the XferLOG.z file. I can't read it either with vim or nano and I can't extract the file with uncompress, gunzi,zcat or tar (it tells it's not a tar file) I search on google and on this forum but I didn't find the solution. Do you know how can I read those log files ? Best regards, Ivy +-- |This was sent by ivy-al...@hotmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ 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/ -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ 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/ -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ 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] MOTD breaking rsync...
RC wrote at about 20:51:24 + on Monday, September 13, 2010: RC cooleyr at gmail.com writes: BackupPC_dump's method of using rsync seems fragile, and seriously falls down if the system throws any junk into the SSH login session. With multiple SCO systems that throw in the registration* banner below, BackupPC_dump will hang, forever in fileListReceive(). On a SCO system that does NOT show this banner on login, BackupPC_dump is working fine. In either case, rsync from the command-line works just fine. So, have we established that this list is useless, or what? Do non-trivial issues need to go to -dev instead, where someone capable might see them? I'm not sure that type of attitude will get you the results that you wish. I don't think it would be appreciated on a pay support line let alone on a list of volunteers... -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ 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] Why does my rsync backup takes 7 hours?
Thanks for the replies, Kenneth and Les. Kenneth, do you find that SMB is faster than rsync for backing up Windows boxes? Les, that' not good news if 2-3 hour incremental backups and 7 hour full backups are par for the course. Is the slowdown due to the network-transfer time, or is some kind of checksum being run on every single one of the 21,000+ files, even during an incremental backup? If so, why isn't the --checksum-seed=32761 option making any difference? Thanks. It'd be nice if I could setup some blackout times for this Windows PC, but unfortunately it gets turned on in the morning, used sporadically (but consistently) during the day, then turned off at night. Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:38:49 -0500 From: lesmikes...@gmail.com To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Why does my rsync backup takes 7 hours? That seems slow, but not completely out of line. If the machines are on all the time you would normally want a blackout period set for the times you are likely to be working.A couple of things to check: the server needs to hold the entire directory listing in RAM, so be sure it has enough to avoid swapping. Also, on the windows side you might have an on-access virus scanner slowing you down. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com On 9/13/10 10:26 PM, George Adams wrote: Hi, all. I'm running BackupPC 3.1.0 on a Linux server (in my home), using it to backup my WinXP box (on the same network) via rsync (which is run as a service under WinXP via Cygwin). The process seems to work, but it's really, really slow. Here's what I mean: Backup# Type Filled Level Start Date Duration/mins Age/days Server Backup Path 568 incr no 1 8/25 08:00 428.5 19.6 /backup/Photos/568 569 incr no 1 9/11 09:00 171.4 2.6 /backup/Photos/569 570 incr no 1 9/12 21:00 156.8 1.1 /backup/Photos/570 As you can see, the last couple of incremental backups of the photos directories on my XP box have taken between 2-3 hours, and the full backup takes a whopping 7 hours. TOTAL TOTAL TOTAL EXIST EXIST NEWNEW Backup# Type #Files Size/MBMB/sec #Files Size/MB#Files Size/MB 568 full 21665 132328.35.15 21665 132328.3 1 0.0 569 incr 21702 132850.0 12.92 21673 132848.9 29 1.1 570 incr 21719 132850.4 14.12 21694 132849.8 80 0.6 Now granted, this is a lot of files - 21,000+ files, 132GB. But even given that, are these incredibly long backup durations REALLY to be expected? Even worse, the WinXP computer really is almost unusable while this is going on. The hard drive is so busy (and rsync so resource-intensive) that other applications take forever to launch, run, etc. What I had hoped would be a quiet, unobtrusive way to backup the PC during the day actually makes it fairly unusable for several hours. -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ 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] Why does my rsync backup takes 7 hours?
On 9/15/2010 4:22 PM, George Adams wrote: Thanks for the replies, Kenneth and Les. Kenneth, do you find that SMB is faster than rsync for backing up Windows boxes? Les, that' not good news if 2-3 hour incremental backups and 7 hour full backups are par for the course. Is the slowdown due to the network-transfer time, or is some kind of checksum being run on every single one of the 21,000+ files, even during an incremental backup?If so, why isn't the --checksum-seed=32761 option making any difference? On the full runs, the client side has to read every file and compute the checksum. The caching only applies to the server side and it only starts working after the 2nd full including the file. On the incrementals, it should only have to read the complete directory, transfer that, then transfer the changes. That seems slow unless you have substantial changes since the previous full run. But as I mentioned, be sure the server has enough RAM to hold the directory. Thanks. It'd be nice if I could setup some blackout times for this Windows PC, but unfortunately it gets turned on in the morning, used sporadically (but consistently) during the day, then turned off at night. Perhaps you could start a run manually when going to lunch or some other known slack time. Or maybe the bulk of files could be moved to an always-on server and mapped back to this machine for access. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ 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] Why does my rsync backup takes 7 hours?
On Wed, September 15, 2010 16:22, George Adams wrote:
Thanks for the replies, Kenneth and Les. Kenneth, do you find that SMB is
faster than rsync for backing up Windows boxes?
Les, that' not good news if 2-3 hour incremental backups and 7 hour full
backups are par for the course. Is the slowdown due to the
network-transfer time, or is some kind of checksum being run on every
single one of the 21,000+ files, even during an incremental backup? If
so, why isn't the --checksum-seed=32761 option making any difference?
Thanks. It'd be nice if I could setup some blackout times for this
Windows PC, but unfortunately it gets turned on in the morning, used
sporadically (but consistently) during the day, then turned off at night.
might you change your routine?
leave the host running and let backuppc shut it down when it is finished
via a $Conf{DumpPostUserCmd} script combined with the cygwin shutdown.exe
program.
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[BackupPC-users] The 64$ question
What is the URL to the web interface? I read through the docs, searched the archives even tried Google, but didn't see it anywhere. Thanx, Ed -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ 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] Installing Backuppc
Recently heard about Backuppc on a podcast and wanted to give it a try. I am having problems getting it to install. I've tried following the instructions on the documentation site as well as following a blog post someone wrote, but I'm not getting very far. I first tried installing from these instructions: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#step_1__getting_backuppc I did the sudo apt-get install backuppc. It gave me the dpkg screen to set the web server. I chose apache 2. I then tried going to the URL for the web browser http://mylocalipaddress/backuppc and then I got a page not found error. I then found this site http://taksuyama.com/?page_id=6 Tried adding the dependencies that it listed, still nothing. So I did sudo apt-get remove backuppc and tried following this site's instructions from the beginning. It gave me an error about already having a backuppc user already created so I removed that user and began following those instructions again. Now, I get the following when I try to install backuppc: sudo apt-get install backuppc #91;sudo#93; password for jason#58; Reading package lists... Done Building dependency treenbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; Reading state information... Done backuppc is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up backuppc #40;3.1.0-4ubuntu1.1#41; ... Module cgi already enabled nbsp;* Starting backuppc... 2010-09-15 22#58;36#58;48 Can't create a test hardlink between a file in /var/lib/backuppc/pc and /var/lib/backuppc/cpool.nbsp; Either these are different file systems, or this file system doesn't support hardlinks, or these directories don't exist, or there is a permissions problem, or the file system is out of inodes or full.nbsp; Use df, df -i, and ls -ld to check each of these possibilities. Quitting... invoke-rc.d#58; initscript backuppc, action start failed. dpkg#58; error processing backuppc #40;--configure#41;#58; nbsp;subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing#58; nbsp;backuppc E#58; Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code #40;1#41; I uninstalled and then deleted the directories mentioned and removed the backuppc user again, and once again began following this site's instructions again and stil get the same error. I'm completely lost. I thought i had followed the instructions exactly, but the linux gods are not smiling on me. I want to try this program out, but can't even get it started. I even created a vm in vmware fusion with a fresh install of ubuntu on it. It still wouldn't let me pull up the webpage. Thanks for any help Jason +-- |This was sent by p2ran...@hotmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ 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/
