Re: [BackupPC-users] Mac Entourage email database backup problem

2005-11-17 Thread Craig Barratt
Ski Kacoroski writes: > I am running backuppc_2.1.1-2 on debian stable (sarge) servers. I > upgraded from backuppc_2.1.0-9 a bit ago (not sure when). We just > noticed that for Entourage email databases (like PST files on windows), > the database is only being partially backed up and it shows

[BackupPC-users] scheduling priority of BackupPC_tarExtract

2005-11-17 Thread Ralf Gross
Hi, today I noticed a very high load (>15) on one backuppc server. The reason was the BackupPC_tarExtract process. As a result of the hight load other applications running on this host had problems and timed out. This is not our main backuppc host, it is mainly used as our monitoring system (nagio

[BackupPC-users] restore failed...

2005-11-17 Thread dosseh edjé
  Hello, Please i have a problem with restoring a mysql's database file backed up with dump command of BackupPC-2.1.1. Restoring this give an error of restoring failed:(unable to read 4 bytes). Please what can cause this? Regards. Appel audio GRATUIT partout dans le monde avec le nouveau

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring Backups to WinXP clients via rsyncd fails to restore all files

2005-11-17 Thread Regis Gras
Craig Barratt wrote: Regis: are you saying the restore mostly works, but some files are missing? Or does the entire restore fail? Yes, just some files or directories are missing. Are you restoring to "/" or a subdirectory? Yes, I restore to / But the problem is the same restoring a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with slow backups

2005-11-17 Thread Guus Houtzager
Hi, On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 08:43 +0100, Tarjei Huse wrote: > Hi, > > I use backuppc to backup a number of machines, including one server > containing about 70gb of data. > > About two weeks ago my backups suddenly slowed down. Instead of > incrementals taking a very lookng time. I tried to fix t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with slow backups

2005-11-17 Thread Guus Houtzager
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 15:19 +0100, Tarjei Huse wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 02:20:14PM +0100, Guus Houtzager wrote: [...] > > Let me guess: ext3 filesystem? If yes, you've just been hit by the "ext3 > > doesn't scale for large number of files" problem. Use reiser or xfs. > Wrong guess :-) >

[BackupPC-users] backing up windows 2000 server using smb..

2005-11-17 Thread sergio
i have decided that maybe i should try smb instead of rsync when backing up my server, as i am having some problems with rsync.. i just need to know if this setup will work.. i am putting the backuppc server offsite, across town.. if the server is across town, behind a router, and the server

RE: [BackupPC-users] backing up windows 2000 server using smb..

2005-11-17 Thread Brown, Wade ASL (GE Healthcare)
That's what I do and it works fine (as long as you don't mind the speed issues). However, I think you need to make sure you don't have any firewalls blocking your path. Also, be careful with netbios lookups (nmblookup). In this case, it's a broadcast and shouldn't be routed. Either use WINS or

Re: [BackupPC-users] Re: Transfer compression? (David Rees)

2005-11-17 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 11/16 10:42 , Les Mikesell wrote: > Even when rsync does a full, it just sends the filename list, then > exchanges block checksums over the files that already match. This > may take a long time but it uses very little bandwidth for the > unchanged files. unfortunately, it seems that if the l

Re: [BackupPC-users] Re: Transfer compression? (David Rees)

2005-11-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 10:51, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 11/16 10:42 , Les Mikesell wrote: > > Even when rsync does a full, it just sends the filename list, then > > exchanges block checksums over the files that already match. This > > may take a long time but it uses very little bandwidth

RE: [BackupPC-users] backuppc do not work parallel jobs (feature request)

2005-11-17 Thread Brown, Wade ASL (GE Healthcare)
Couldn't BackupPC_nightly and BackupPC_link make use of a semaphore? - Wade -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Barratt Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 12:24 AM To: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom Cc: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Fwd: Re: [BackupPC-users] Re: CGI-error on Debian Sarge Install ( Premature end of script headers: index.cgi)]

2005-11-17 Thread Rutger
> On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 05:48 +0100, Rutger wrote: >> BTW: >> >> This was my output... no Remote-user. On the commandline it works, at >> the >> browser it doesn't. > What messages are listed in the apache error log? > On my system that is /var/log/apache2/error.log As said before: Premature end o

Re: [Fwd: Re: [BackupPC-users] Re: CGI-error on Debian Sarge Install ( Premature end of script headers: index.cgi)]

2005-11-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 11:25, Rutger wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 05:48 +0100, Rutger wrote: > >> BTW: > >> > >> This was my output... no Remote-user. On the commandline it works, at > >> the > >> browser it doesn't. > > What messages are listed in the apache error log? > > On my system that is

[BackupPC-users] Backup of one server hangs

2005-11-17 Thread Ken Long
I have been trying to get BackupPC implemented on my network and have had reasonable success other than with one server. Unfortunately, this is my primary file server! Both the BackupPC machine and the file server are running Debian Linux (Sarge) and I am using rsync for the backups. Filesyste

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup of one server hangs

2005-11-17 Thread Joe Hood
Try "$Conf{ClientTimeout} = ;" in your config.pl file (or in the offending server's configuration file). On 11/17/05, Ken Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been trying to get BackupPC implemented on my network and have > had reasonable success other than with one server. > > Unfortunately,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup of one server hangs

2005-11-17 Thread Guus Houtzager
Hi, On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 13:27 -0500, Ken Long wrote: > I have been trying to get BackupPC implemented on my network and have > had reasonable success other than with one server. > > Unfortunately, this is my primary file server! > > Both the BackupPC machine and the file server are running D

[BackupPC-users] Re: Transfer compression? (David Rees)

2005-11-17 Thread backuppc
That's why I prefer to use tar; First off, with "ssh -C -o CompressionLevel=9" you get decent compression. Secondly, there is no need to compare files to and fro between machines. I imagine the whole 'do you have this' - 'no I dont' - 'this?' - 'yes I do' process rsync does will in the end be a l

Re: [BackupPC-users] Re: Transfer compression? (David Rees)

2005-11-17 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 11/17 08:59 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > First off, with "ssh -C -o CompressionLevel=9" you get decent > compression. Secondly, there is no need to compare files to and fro > between machines. I imagine the whole 'do you have this' - 'no I dont' - > 'this?' - 'yes I do' process rsync does will i

Re: [BackupPC-users] Re: Transfer compression? (David Rees)

2005-11-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 13:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That's why I prefer to use tar; > > First off, with "ssh -C -o CompressionLevel=9" you get decent > compression. Secondly, there is no need to compare files to and fro > between machines. I imagine the whole 'do you have this' - 'no I dont'

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc do not work parallel jobs (feature request)

2005-11-17 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 11/15 10:23 , Craig Barratt wrote: > Here's the plan. Can anyone see a problem with doing this? > BackupPC_nightly and BackupPC_link are still mutually exclusive. > But BackupPC_dump can overlap BackupPC_nightly. This would be great, because under the current scheme, when backups take more tha

Re: [BackupPC-users] Re: Transfer compression? (David Rees)

2005-11-17 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 11/17 11:13 , Les Mikesell wrote: > The remote rsync doesn't send the hash matching the backuppc naming > scheme, so it can't identify matches that aren't in the previous > tree for that host. oh. I thought that the backuppc pool heirarchy was just based on the md5sum (or similar hash) of the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Re: Transfer compression? (David Rees)

2005-11-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 17:16, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > Note that ssh also has a config file where you can specify > > CompressionLevel from 1 to 9 (default is 6). See man ssh_config. > > You could also enable compression there if you want it for every > > host. > > thanks for the hint. I