Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing Up Win7 with Michaels Tools

2015-01-26 Thread Colin Shorts

On 24/01/15 12:55, Christian Völker wrote:
 finally got it working even if all the knowing people on this list still
 enjoyed sleep;)

 A couple of issues in installing the solution to backup Win7 from
 http://www.michaelstowe.com/backuppc/. Most of them related to missing
 docs, but that is the way how it works. Anyways: good job, Michael!
I'm sure that Michael would appreciate the feedback; at the very bottom 
of that page you'll find a mailto: link.

Maybe you should have been getting some sleep? :D

-Colin

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Execute script before backup

2014-12-17 Thread Colin Shorts

On 17/12/14 07:50, Ibon Castilla wrote:
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 Hi again,

 I have tested the workaround proposed by Colin, and I have a comment
 and a question about it:

 * Comment: the idea was to use BackupPC_serverMesg to launch the
 backup, and then use that command again to test if the server ended
 that backup successfully.
 I've realized that the command just tells the server to launch the
 backup, but it really doesn't do that action by itself, so I have to
 ask to the server many times if the backup has finished yet.
 Instead of BackupPC_serverMesg I've decided to use BackupPC_dump,
 because this one does the backup by itself. This way, when it finishes
 a backup I can set down the VPN tunnel without asking the server.

 * Question: to use BackupPC_dump, the host must be defined on the host
 file. This way BackupPC will try to back it up as a regular host,
 and to avoid that I've been trying to use $Conf{BackupsDisable} on
 my_host.pl file. If I set that parameter to 1 or 2, then BackupPC_dump
 complains about it, saying that the host is configured to avoid
 backups. Is there a way to set up the configuration of my_host and at
 the same time avoid BackupPC to back ip up as a regular host, and just
 when I want to do it manually?.
You might be better to leave the backups enabled and just increase the 
ages (FullPeriod and IncrPeriod) from 6.97 and 0.97 respectively, to 
something a little higher, that way the backuppc won't attempt to backup 
the host as long as your scheduled task is working. That said, there was 
a follow-up from Les Mikesell that might work better.

Cheers,
Colin

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 El 16/12/14 a las 12:22, Colin Shorts escribió:
 On 16/12/14 11:09, Ibon Castilla wrote: Hi Colin,

 Nice idea :)

 I'm guessing if I can use the web interface just to see backups
 (or to download some file). I'll give that approach a try.
 Thanks, and yes, the web interface would still show you
 everything as it was before.
 Cheers, Ibon.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Execute script before backup

2014-12-16 Thread Colin Shorts

On 16/12/14 10:31, Ibon Castilla wrote:
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 Hi there,

 I'm trying to figure out how to execute some actions, right before
 doing a backup. What I want to do is to backup a remote host (not in
 the LAN) and to achieve so I have a VPN tunnel set up. My ideal
 scenario would be: 1) before anything else connect to the tunnel, 2)
 then backup the host, 3) after successful backup close the tunnel.
Why not do this outside of backuppc's web interface?
* Disable backuppc for the host.
* Create a script to run as a cron job for the *backuppc* user that;
 1. creates the vpn tunnel
 2. runs backuppc for the host
 /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup hostname 
hostname backuppc 0|1
 In the last argument, 0=incremental, 1=full
 3. check for the job finishing and then close the tunnel
 /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg 'status 
host(hostname)'
 Parse the output of above as required and exit when state = 
Status_idle
It's not official, but it should work fine.

NOTE: the backup script should be called as the backuppc user or 
breakage may occur.

-Colin


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Re: [BackupPC-users] Execute script before backup

2014-12-16 Thread Colin Shorts

On 16/12/14 11:09, Ibon Castilla wrote:
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 Hi Colin,

 Nice idea :)

 I'm guessing if I can use the web interface just to see backups (or to
 download some file). I'll give that approach a try.
Thanks, and yes, the web interface would still show you everything as it 
was before.

 Cheers, Ibon.

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 El 16/12/14 a las 11:51, Colin Shorts escribió:
 On 16/12/14 10:31, Ibon Castilla wrote:
 Hi there,

 I'm trying to figure out how to execute some actions, right before
 doing a backup. What I want to do is to backup a remote host (not in
 the LAN) and to achieve so I have a VPN tunnel set up. My ideal
 scenario would be: 1) before anything else connect to the tunnel, 2)
 then backup the host, 3) after successful backup close the tunnel.
 Why not do this outside of backuppc's web interface?
 * Disable backuppc for the host.
 * Create a script to run as a cron job for the *backuppc* user that;
   1. creates the vpn tunnel
   2. runs backuppc for the host
   /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup hostname
 hostname backuppc 0|1
   In the last argument, 0=incremental, 1=full
   3. check for the job finishing and then close the tunnel
   /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg 'status
 host(hostname)'
   Parse the output of above as required and exit when state =
 Status_idle
 It's not official, but it should work fine.
 NOTE: the backup script should be called as the backuppc user or
 breakage may occur.
 -Colin

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Re: [BackupPC-users] How to delete backups

2014-12-10 Thread Colin Shorts
You might want to press Enter before typing 
`/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 255', otherwise it will get 
deleted too.


-C

On 10/12/14 11:41, Stephen Mew wrote:


BackupPC does not as far as I know have scripts or commands yet to 
actually remove backup from the pool.


To remove bckups you need to get into the script.


Solution


cd /var/lib/BackupPC/pc/client/
ls
rm -fR backup_number /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 255


Check space reclaimed with df.

You still need to remove a statistic line, otherwise you will see it 
in your web interface. To do that:



nano /var/lib/BackupPC/pc/client/backups
With ctrl+k you can remove the line with backup_number


done..



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Hi,

How do you delete backups? I've been messing around with lots of
different hosts trying to work out how to use the software and I
want to get rid of all the unwanted backups.

My bin has the following scripts

BackupPC   BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary  BackupPC_tarCreate
BackupPC_archive   BackupPC_link  BackupPC_tarExtract
BackupPC_archiveHost   BackupPC_nightly BackupPC_tarPCCopy
BackupPC_archiveStart  BackupPC_restore
BackupPC_trashClean

BackupPC_attribPrint   BackupPC_sendEmail   BackupPC_zcat
BackupPC_dump  BackupPC_serverMesg  BackupPC_zipCreate

There is no BackupPC_delete whch I have seen mentioned in the
archive. I'm using version 3.2.1 on Ubuntu 14.04


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Re: [BackupPC-users] How to delete backups

2014-12-10 Thread Colin Shorts

On 10/12/14 15:59, Holger Parplies wrote:
 Hi,

 Colin Shorts wrote on 2014-12-10 11:45:41 + [Re: [BackupPC-users] How to 
 delete backups]:
 You might want to press Enter before typing
 `/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 255', otherwise it will get
 deleted too.
 right, press Enter *before* the command, *not after*. ***Never*** run
 BackupPC_nightly from the command line. ***Never*** advise other to do so.
 Really quite simple.

I was just trying to point out that the commands provided would have 
deleted BackupPC_nightly ;)

On 10/12/14 11:41, Stephen Mew wrote:
~snip~
  rm -fR backup_number /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 255
~snip~

That wouldn't be good, would it?

But as you say, there is no real reason to run the command as cron 
should take care of it soon enough - unless you were deleting a backup 
to gain disk space urgently ;)

Cheers,
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Re: [BackupPC-users] PIPE error

2014-11-24 Thread Colin Shorts

On 21/11/14 12:27, tschmid4 wrote:
 Well, It's gone back to Unable to read 4 bytes from the PIPE error.
 I'm fairly certain it's a SSH error but not familiar enough with SSH to 
 resolve it.
You must be able to ssh from the user account (backuppc) to the root 
user of the target system without entering a password.

You should be in the backuppc user environment, i.e.:

normal_user: $ sudo su - backuppc
backuppc_user: $ ssh root@host

If this doesn't work you won't get any further with backuppc.

NOTE: you will need to accept the RSA key on attempt to SSH to the 
remote box.

-Colin
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 Hi,

 Les Mikesell wrote on 2014-11-20 12:26:39 -0600 [Re: [BackupPC-users] PIPE 
 error]:
 On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:08 PM, tschmid4 tschm...@utk.edu wrote:
 Correct, It's a question, here's another:
 You are correct, the configuration was backing up a dir that was not there.
 However, after removing the entry, it returns the same error.
 What else would cause 'unable to read 4 bytes?'
 An error in your configuration would.

 Unable to read 4 bytes is not the same error as:
   Remote[1]: rsync: change_dir /systems failed: No such file or directory 
 (2)
 In particular, unable to read 4 bytes is not the error we're talking about.
 Unable to read 4 bytes was *eventually* resolved despite your (the OPs) 
 efforts. The same error is Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by 
 signal=PIPE). So why are you interested in further causes of unable to read
 4 bytes? Doing a survey?

 Hope that helps.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Using NFS to increase backup speed

2014-10-16 Thread Colin Shorts
You may wish to prevent ssh from using compression when using a fast 
link, the overhead probably isn't worth it and may give you a reasonable 
boost in throughput.


Like Koen said, you'll want to benchmark the different scenarios.

Regards,
Colin

On 16/10/14 16:28, Koen Vermeer wrote:


What about testing the speed over the ssh tunnel? That may tell you 
whether ssh is slowing down your transfers or that it's due to rsync. 
If it is ssh, you could trade encryption strength for speed.


Best,
Koen



On October 16, 2014 2:25:53 PM CEST, Sorin Srbu 
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Hi all,

I'm seeing network speeds at about 35-45 Mbps when using BackupPC and rsync 
over ssh.

Running iperf below I notice the network should theoretically be capable of 
a bit more than that. I understand that ssh adds quite a bit of bottleneck.

[root@titan ~]# iperf -c cyndane


Client connecting to cyndane, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 42.5 KByte (default)


[  3] local192.168.0.8  http://192.168.0.8  port 51754 connected 
with192.168.0.9  http://192.168.0.9  port 5001
[ ID] Interval   Transfer Bandwidth
[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec   398 MBytes   334 Mbits/sec
[root@titan ~]#

Just to clarify, titan above is the BPC-server and has some local disk 
space where the backup pool is. Cyndane is the host being backed up. Both have 
gigabit-NIC's and a ditto switch between them.

After reading one of the answers at 
http://serverfault.com/questions/377598/why-is-my-rsync-so-slow, I kinda' 
wonder if the NFS-angle would work for use with BackupPC and how I would go about it. Is 
the tar transfer method the only one supported by BPC if using NFS for example?
Rsyncing a NFS-mounted remote host supposedly is a lot faster than doing 
rsync over ssh.

Any thoughts on this?
Has anybody on this list maybe set up their systems using NFS and can share 
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Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC on Synolgy NAS

2014-10-10 Thread Colin Shorts

Hi Mauro,

Whilst I've not had any experience installing/running BackupPC on a NAS, 
I would suggest that you look to pick up something more suitable to the 
task - something like an HP Microserver would be much more capable of 
the job, a bit more flexible in terms adding more disks, and probably 
about the same price.


Regards,
Colin

On 09/10/14 12:54, Mauro Condarelli wrote:

Hi,
I found an old thread (starting at 
http://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/message/27515025/) 
discussing BackupPC on NAS.


I am in the process to select a very small NAS for SOHO/Home usage; 
I'm currently looking at Synology DS414j.
I do not need a very high throughput and I would like to run BackupPC 
directly on the NAS itself, if at all possible.
It seems someone (Tomasz Pawlik) managed to install it on a lowly 
Synology DS110j, so I have hopes ;)


Question is:
Does anyone have experience on this?
If so, would he share knowledge avoiding me the effort of reinventing 
the wheel yet another time?


My target would be to package BackupPC into a Synology Package for 
easier deployment.


I am currently testing with an old Synolgy DS209 sharing the POOL via 
NFS and a linux server running BackupPC,
but aim is to backup its contents and a bunch of other PCs (WinLinux) 
on the new NAS.


Regards
Mauro


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