[BackupPC-users] Howto backup extended attributes as in RHEL
Hi, I'm new to BackupPC and I have a problem with my setup. We want to backup a RHEL6 machine which has by default SELinux enabled and therefore ist uses the extended attributes. As xfer method I've selected rsync but when I try to add one of the parameters (--acls and --xattrs) for backing up the extended attributes the backup starts but it doesn't backup anything. Any suggestions? Cheers Stefan --- Alle Postfächer an einem Ort. Jetzt wechseln und E-Mail-Adresse mitnehmen! http://email.freenet.de/basic/Informationen -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ 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] first time full and then only increamental backup
Am Wed, 18 Dec 2013 03:42:35 -0800 schrieb niraj_vara : > HI > > I have centos 5.6 and backuppc version is 3.2.1. its working fine. > I want to set like when I add a backup pc the backuppc first time > take the full backup and then after everytime it will take only the > increamental backup. The behaviour you want is already there. Just use the rsync-transfer. (And maybe activate the --checksum option as explained in the docs.) Then the first full will be a full, second full and following will be a comparison of remote and backuppc's filelist with respect to modification-date _and_ checksum. So files will be transfered if they have changes in meta-data and even if they only have changes in the data itself. Incrementals will always just transfer files with changed meta-data. This is different when you use smb- or tar-transfer, there a full is a full transfering everything... Have fun, Arnold signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ 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] first time full and then only increamental backup
This is something it took me two years of using BackupPC before I realized... BackupPC doesn't treat "full" and "incremental" quite the way you expect. When BackupPC does an rsync incremental, it compares to the last full for purposes of deciding what to download and *then* does deduplication against the pool. If you do a full on Sunday, and then a user saves a 100G file to the client, every rsync incremental will transfer the entirety of that 100G of data, over and over, until that file is backed up in the next full. So if you take one full and never take a full again, your incremental sizes will keep growing, and BackupPC will keep downloading the same data over and over. If you do what you want, you'll actually be creating the problem you're trying to avoid. rsync full backups don't download all the raw data every time... the main reason they take longer is running checksums against every file instead of just the files that have changed meta-data. If a full transferred all the data every time, full backups of my remote server would take hours instead of 30 minutes. It's still taking advantage of rsync to not transfer bytes it doesn't need. -- Carl D Cravens (ra...@phoenyx.net) "Then I will smite thee with adware!" - Bucky Katt -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ 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 for laptops?
On 12/04/2013 01:34 PM, Russell R Poyner wrote: > In my new position I'm looking for options for backing up laptops and > tablets. Most of these machines rarely connect to our wired network or > vpn. We solved this by creating a script on the client side that rsync's the user's data to a central file server (which is backed up by BackupPC). That way the client has control over when the backup runs. The user actually has control... they get a pop-up when the client wants to do a backup, and they have the option of postponing it, in case they're on a slow connection. They can manually launch it at any time, as well. (And they get a warning... it's on their own head if they postpone the backups indefinitely and then want us to recover a file they never allowed to be backed up.) We opened a (alternate) port in the firewall for rsync (via ssh) to connect to the file server, and the .authorized_keys entry restricts the connection to running the specific rsync server-mode on a specific directory. So the laptops come through the firewall and don't have to be connected to VPN to do a backup. I can share the code for all that if anybody's interested. For Android tablets, I use FolderSync, by Tacit Dynamics. (It's not doing an "Android" backup. If you want that, there are specific apps for that. I use My Backup Pro, by Rerware.) FolderSync supports Dropbox, Sugar, etc, but I use it over SFTP to our own server. It supports two-way sync, and I use it to sync a data directory. I can drop files on the "network" side and they appear on my tablet automatically, and vice-versa. Sadly, it doesn't yet support rsync, but the author is planning to add it. It's pretty good, but it can't do file comparisons... it transfers the whole file if any meta-data changes. For iOS... well, those users are SOL. IT never said we'd support them. -- Carl D Cravens (ra...@phoenyx.net) Talk is cheap because supply inevitably exceeds demand. -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ 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] backuppc separate access for each server
In our organization we need to confirm our clients that their servers are being backed up regularly by giving them access to thier server backup. We have just started using backuppc and as far as I researched/know backuppc do not have that feature. Correct me if I am wrong provide me in what way we can use backuppc to acheive our goal(give separate access to each server backup to respective clients, without exposing other servers backup data)? Thanks Subhransu +-- |This was sent by isubhra...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ 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 separate access for each server
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:39 AM, isubhransu wrote: > In our organization we need to confirm our clients that their servers are > being backed up regularly by giving them access to thier server backup. > We have just started using backuppc and as far as I researched/know backuppc > do not have that feature. Correct me if I am wrong provide me in what way we > can use backuppc to acheive our goal(give separate access to each server > backup to respective clients, without exposing other servers backup data)? If you provide web logins for different users (normally htpasswd entries, but apache has many authentication options) and specify those user names in the appropriate backuppc hosts entries, each user should only see his own host(s) om the web interface while anyone with admin access will see them all and be able to add more hosts. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ 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] Rsync on Windows 8 - Service Logon Failure?
I'm running Windows 8 and I am really having trouble understanding what on earth I'm supposed to do. I am following this tutorial: http://www.gaztronics.net/howtos/rsync-windows.php I successfully installed Cygwin and installed the appropriate packages, but I don't understand how to do this: Method 2. Step 2: Choose an area to backup the files to. (In this example I have used /var/rsync_dump in the Cygwin tree.) Method 2. Step 3: Create the /etc/rsyncd.conf file, as in the example below: (and then it shows the example) So I assumed that he meant to open Windows explorer and manually create the /var/rsync_dump folders as sub folders in the folder cygwin (in my case, it's cygwin64). And then I created the sub folder /etc/. Then I wasn't sure what to do about the rsyncd.conf so I opened notepad, copied and pasted the "example" (but changed the path to cygwin64), saved it with the appropriate file name, then changed the extension to .conf and moved that to the "etc" folder. Then I followed step 4 (it finally worked after I gave some permissions using command prompt first). Then he said: Method 2. Step 5 Install Rsync as a Service from a 'Command Prompt' window with the following command line: I had assumed that he meant the command prompt that in windows. I ran it as an Administrator and I tried putting the line for Windows XP (changing cygwin to cygwin64 where appropriate). I got the following result: 'cygrunsrv.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. So then I ran the cygwin terminal as an Administrator. I put in the line the tutorial gave and nothing happened. So I assumed it worked, because when I put it in again, it said that it couldn't do it because the service was already running. So then I put "net start rsync". I got the following result: The service did not start due to a logon failure. I right clicked on Computer and clicked on Manage. I found the rsync service and saw that it was set to run Automatically, but it wasn't running. I tried to start it and it said the exact same thing as in the cygwin terminal. So I'm totally at a loss! Any ideas as to where I'm going wrong? +-- |This was sent by threehappypengu...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ 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 separate access for each server
Depending on how you are running it, I would probably run separate BackupPC VMs and storage as well. That way you can assure your clients that their files are not mingling with other clients. Henry On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:39 PM, isubhransu < backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com> wrote: > In our organization we need to confirm our clients that their servers are > being backed up regularly by giving them access to thier server backup. > We have just started using backuppc and as far as I researched/know > backuppc do not have that feature. Correct me if I am wrong provide me in > what way we can use backuppc to acheive our goal(give separate access to > each server backup to respective clients, without exposing other servers > backup data)? > > Thanks > Subhransu > > +-- > |This was sent by isubhra...@gmail.com via Backup Central. > |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. > +-- > > > > > -- > Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT > organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance > affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your > Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics > Pro! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > ___ > 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/ > > -- Henry B. Burroughs, III Director of Technology St. John's Episcopal Parish Day School www.stjohnseagles.org -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ 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] Rsync on Windows 8 - Service Logon Failure?
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:49 AM, threehappypenguins wrote: > > I had assumed that he meant the command prompt that in windows. I ran it as > an Administrator and I tried putting the line for Windows XP (changing cygwin > to cygwin64 where appropriate). I got the following result: > > 'cygrunsrv.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command, > operable program or batch file. The cygwin programs are not in you usual windows PATH. > So then I ran the cygwin terminal as an Administrator. I put in the line the > tutorial gave and nothing happened. So I assumed it worked, because when I > put it in again, it said that it couldn't do it because the service was > already running. So then I put "net start rsync". I got the following result: > > The service did not start due to a logon failure. > > I right clicked on Computer and clicked on Manage. I found the rsync service > and saw that it was set to run Automatically, but it wasn't running. I tried > to start it and it said the exact same thing as in the cygwin terminal. I haven't used windows 8 but I think it makes it hard to do things with administrator rights. According to this: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755249.aspx you should still be able to configure the service to log on as a user with access to the files. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ 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] Rsync on Windows 8 - Service Logon Failure?
I haven't used windows 8 but I think it makes it hard to do things with administrator rights. According to this: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755249.aspx you should still be able to configure the service to log on as a user with access to the files. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell < at > gmail.com YES!!! You're a genius! :) I followed the link you gave, went through the instructions went to Manager and opened the services list, right clicked on Rsync, went to properties, went to the "log on" tab, typed in the Administrator password and BINGO, I was able to start it! Thanks! +-- |This was sent by threehappypengu...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ 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] first time full and then only increamental backup
Hi Let me clear why I doing the same. I am using the rsync command sinc very long time. My concern is Right now In backuppc default is that it will take a full backup and then increamnetal backup for the few days. and then after again take a full backup and then increamnetal backup for some days .. this will go on .. For example if one of user having a 100GB data that backuppc taking the backup of that user. so what happened in this condition first time taking 100 GB data suppose its taking a 4-5 hours first time!! second,third,fourth and so on it will take the increamental so the time will be very less time right But in backuppc after 6 backup its taking again full backup ...! will take 4-5 hours !!! why this required ! instead I want that it will take only the increamental backup so the time will be less ! and we have already the full backup so it will take only the whatever updated !!! so time will be less and less resource will be used both end !!! right ??? That's why I want to go for the increamental backup !! Please correct if I wrong. +-- |This was sent by niraj.v...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ 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] first time full and then only increamental backup
On 20/12/13 15:30, niraj_vara wrote: > Hi > >Let me clear why I doing the same. I am using the rsync command sinc very > long time. > > My concern is Right now In backuppc default is that it will take a full > backup and then increamnetal backup for the few days. and then after again > take a full backup and then increamnetal backup for some days .. this > will go on .. > > For example if one of user having a 100GB data that backuppc taking the > backup of that user. > > so what happened in this condition first time taking 100 GB data suppose its > taking a 4-5 hours first time!! > second,third,fourth and so on it will take the increamental so the time > will be very less time right > But in backuppc after 6 backup its taking again full backup ...! will > take 4-5 hours !!! why this required ! > > > instead I want that it will take only the increamental backup so the time > will be less ! and we have already the full backup so it will take only > the whatever updated !!! so time will be less and less resource will be used > both end !!! right ??? > > That's why I want to go for the increamental backup !! Please correct if I > wrong. The reason backuppc takes so long for the additional full backup is because it verifies that the *content* of every file is actually correct (matches between server and client). You should enable checksum-seed, and this will reduce full backup times *after* the 2nd or 3rd full backup. However, ultimately it will depend on how quickly the client (machine being backed up) can read the entire contents from it's disk and compute the checksums Also if the client or backup server has insufficient RAM (ie lots of files) then this will slow things down too. So, if a full backup is still taking too long for your backup window, then you should find out why and fix that problem, or else reduce the performance impact of backups so that it doesn't matter how long they take, or make sure you understand *why* a full backup takes so long, and what you will not backup if you only do incremental backups (and/or remove the ignore-times option from the backuppc code for full backups). Each option has risks, you need to understand those risks before making the decision. Regards, Adam -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ 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/
