Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get Documents and Settings backed up

2006-01-04 Thread Craig Barratt
"Gareth Jones" writes: > I thought that I'd read somewhere in the mailing list/doc that you needed to > use ? For spaces in files names (which I avoid unless forced by windows!). > Must have got it wrong - as it all appears to work now - though I'm still > getting some permissions problems - but t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Web interface not working..??..

2006-01-04 Thread Craig Barratt
Jamie Myers writes: > I was hoping someone might be able to help me out on this small problem > I have BackupPC up and running and has been backup up a host a few times.. > It always fails (I suspect that might be a different problem) but when I > look at the backup later it looks like this:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Cpool question

2006-01-04 Thread mna.news
Le mardi 20 Décembre 2005 22:02, David Rees a écrit : > cpool uses hardlinks. rsync by default does not preserve hardlinks > which is why the copy you make explodes in size. If you specify -H to > rsync, it will preserve hard-links, but expect it to take a LONG time. just to give an idea of perfor

Re: [BackupPC-users] Cpool question

2006-01-04 Thread Nate Carlson
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Jon Scottorn wrote: So if I was already preserving the hard links and it still is using all the space, what would the next thought be? Are you using a filesystem on the external drive that supports hardlinks?

Re: [BackupPC-users] Archive host question (file pooling)

2006-01-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 05:45, Eduardo Trápani wrote: > Does the archive host also pool files? No, archive hosts build tar archives with optional compression and splitting. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is spons

[BackupPC-users] Archive host question (file pooling)

2006-01-04 Thread Eduardo Trápani
Does the archive host also pool files? Would it be enough to call (a probably modified version of) BackupPC_link after each BackupPC_archiveHost is done so that it builds another pool for the external media? Eduardo. --- This SF.net email

RE: [BackupPC-users] Can't get Documents and Settings backed up

2006-01-04 Thread Gareth Jones
Thanks Brent. I thought that I'd read somewhere in the mailing list/doc that you needed to use ? For spaces in files names (which I avoid unless forced by windows!). Must have got it wrong - as it all appears to work now - though I'm still getting some permissions problems - but that's easily sort

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get Documents and Settings backed up

2006-01-04 Thread Brent
Gareth Jones wrote: > Guys, > > I've just set up Backkup PC on an Ubuntu 5.10 server config, using > apt-get install. Thus I didn't have to run configure.pl > > I'm using smb (it's a home network - so not so worried about the security > here. It needs to be functional - and some of the PC's don'