Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPc backup over the internet

2006-01-21 Thread Les Stott
Chris Robinson wrote: Hi I have just installed BackupPC. It is great I am using samba and have just tried rsyncd. I want to be able to specify a host which is accessed over the internet. I get "ping too slow" errors. BackupPC 2.1.2; $Conf{BlackoutBadPingLimit} = 3; $Conf{BlackoutGoodCnt}

[BackupPC-users] stopping backuppc when queued backups are done?

2006-01-21 Thread Charles Johnson
Hello, Is there a built in way to have backuppc stop itself automatically once it's done with all the queued up backups or will I have to write a script to check whether or not it's done? I need to do this so I can automate dd'ing the pool over to a mobile drive to be stored off-site. The dd'i

[BackupPC-users] BackupPc backup over the internet

2006-01-21 Thread Chris Robinson
Hi I have just installed BackupPC. It is great I am using samba and have just tried rsyncd. I want to be able to specify a host which is accessed over the internet. I get "ping too slow" errors. BackupPC 2.1.2; $Conf{BlackoutBadPingLimit} = 3; $Conf{BlackoutGoodCnt} = -7; Regards Chr

[BackupPC-users] New user, few questions

2006-01-21 Thread Andri
Hello everyone, I'm new to BackupPC and I have a few questions that I hope some of you might be able to answer. 1. How do I backup f.e. mySQL databases. Does anyone have a good addon for BackupPC to access MySQL dumps. My other option is ofcourse to make the dumps in crontab and make BackupPC gr

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc casuing linux box to crash?

2006-01-21 Thread root
I'm running Debian sarge with P4 2.8GHZ processor, 512MB RAM and 750GB of disk space in a home network environment that includes Windoze XP, MAC OS 10 and Linux. I'm using SAMBA as the transport mechanism for backuppc. However, everytime backuppc launches, the linux server itself backs up ok, but

Re: [BackupPC-users] Q: Offsite copy-backup to removable SATA HotSwap LVM Sets?

2006-01-21 Thread Craig Barratt
Les Mikesell writes: > On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 16:44, Dan Pritts wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:53:33PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > > > > > > I'd expect to see quite a lot of temp file activity that would > > > result in changes to unused space on the live system. It would > > > > Yeah, y