I have recently installed and configured backuppc in a mixed
Linux/Windows server environment. I love it. After looking at a few
different commercial products I went back to open source. When will I
learn to look there first! I just wanted to add some additional insights
for the Windows environ
Hi,
I read backup-pc document and forums for a while and I never manage to get
ssh+rync method working on a windows host. I've tried the last version of
copssh and cwrsync but also a fresh instal from cygwin any success.
But finally, I found my way to backup files from a windows host without
havi
Hi,
As I'm realy interrested in BackupPCd (to backup openned files on windows),
I'd like to test it so I could help debugging.
I've already compiled it on Linux and made pacakges for Mandrivalinux 2006.0
- How do I start it? (xinetd or init script?)
- How do I configure backuppc 2.1.2pl1 to us
Olivier LAHAYE writes:
> Ok, I've partialy found my answer. Sorry for having red the man to quickly.
> Nevertheless, I've still have a question.
> $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} is partialy a solution.
>
> In fact it cannot be used with $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}
>
> I'd like to says:
> $Conf{BackupFiles
Vijay Avarachen writes:
> I seem to have backupPC working smoothly but I am having difficulty
> narrowing down files that I want to backup. I am using tar to backup my
> linux host and I want to only backup files with specific extensions. I know
> how to do this via command line (--exclude="
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> As you can see, this is going pretty slow on my side, but I'll keep making
> progress from time to time.
>
> I tried to do the easiest thing first, i.e., switching to using rsyncd,
> instead of rsync, and hardcoding the rsyncd modules in the config file for
> a particu
Justin writes:
> Looks like I spoke too soon. Even with the patch to
> BackupPC_tarExtract (changing the first "A12" to "a12"), the
> error continues to occur, resulting in "Unexpected end of tar
> archive". The web interface shows the backup as "partial" and
> has all kinds of foreign characters
zorg writes:
> sorry for my question
> but I thought that is was not possible to put the store the pool of data
> (the data that are save) on a nfs share because of hard link
>
> is it really possible then I , could use my lacie ethernet disk
It's fine to put the BackupPC pool on an NFS share.
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 12:22:42PM +0100, Stefan May wrote:
> Hello list,
>
>
> I'm running backuppc on a Debian host with 256MB RAM. With this "little"
> memory I run into trouble backing up a host. The actual memory footprint
> is 460MB, with 185MB hanging out in RAM. The rest swaps onto the di
