We're running BackupPC on a Mandriva 2006.0 free
edition (and previously on a 2005LE) and it works like a
charm.
we are using xfs filesystem and we do export it using
xfscopy (which is a dd that only copies used blocks to another filesystem of
file) thic xfscopy tool has the advantage of not
the fact is that all Linux distro will do just fine for your purpose. They all use the same kernel, same perl , rsync, gcc...etc. It only difference is how they package them and what comes with it. of course software installation could be exteremly with centain distro.
Personally I've tried to
Hi Dan, I've took a look of NBD and I guess I could map the drive (at client side) and create a mirror RAID 1 by using it with the drive on the server. Does it sounds right? I do want to try this but I am backing up a Solaris box and the file system is vxfs/ufs. Does it matter?
Thanks. Travis O
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 09:17:31AM -0500, Travis Wu wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> I've took a look of NBD and I guess I could map the drive (at client side)
> and create a mirror RAID 1 by using it with the drive on the server. Does
> it sounds right?
that was what i was thinking of, although as someone
thanks Dan. Veritas is definitely good and we are using their product at the moment for backup. However we also want to build a off-site system so in case of something happens to the system, we'll still have production server working.
anyway, according to this http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kripac/orac-nb
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 09:48:26AM -0500, Travis Wu wrote:
> thanks Dan.
> Veritas is definitely good and we are using their product at the moment for
> backup. However we also want to build a off-site system so in case of
> something happens to the system, we'll still have production server workin
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 07:36:40AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> I am currently in the process of rebuilding my backuppc machine to
> give it some extra grunt. I was hoping to get peoples thoughts on what
> linux distros are in use out there and who recommends what? Th
ya, you are right. I think i may try the NBD thingy. The partition to be mirrored is VxFS and I am thinking to use xfs for the mirroring. First time to do this dont really know if this configuration would work. You think ?
Travis On 2/21/06, Maarten Boot (CWEU-USERS/CWNL) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w
If the server you want to mirror is Solaris then NO-GO
The data must be on a linux box to use NDB as the second copy must be on
a /dev/nd device. The remote copy can be on Solaris or Linux (or Windows it
seems).
So if you want Mirroring with the original data on solaris Veritas is your
friend.
I love debian. Just apt-get install backuppc and it is ready to go.
ski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey everyone,
I am currently in the process of rebuilding my backuppc machine
to give it some extra grunt. I was hoping to get peoples thoughts on
what linux distros are in use out there
Hi,
On Friday 17 February 2006 07:53, Craig Barratt wrote:
> David Brown writes:
> > I've been using backuppc for several days, and I really like the concept
> > behind it. The web interface is very helpful. However, I'm having a
> > very hard time figuring out what to store the backup filesyste
Well, thanks for the reply. The command I allow is nice\ -n\ 19\
sudo\ /usr/bin/rsync\ --server* (notice the star) because the command
line changes depending on what arguments are passed. The actual
command is really, really long. I'd prefer to restrict the user to
only running rsync, but I hav
I've just been searching for backup methods and came across backuppc, which
was described as easy to set up.
well I've install it on Debian, and its up and running, i've added a remote
machine to the hosts file, and it's just done a local machine backup.
But
I'm getting access denied errors on t
I know Veritas is probably gonna always be the final answer, but I am at the proof-of-concept phase and really dont want to spend money just yet. The original idea was to use open source project. :( btw, I just came across this
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7265Has anyone checked it out yet
Dan Pritts wrote:
> > I am currently in the process of rebuilding my backuppc machine
to
> > give it some extra grunt. I was hoping to get peoples thoughts on what
> > linux distros are in use out there and who recommends what? The new
> > platform will be a dual core AMD Athlon64 runnin
Hi Ken,
I too use Debian, and love it. I kept notes of how I set up BackupPC,
because I wanted to be able to repeat the setup process. My howto is
attached.
I'm not sure what an 'md' drive is, but here's how I move the BackupPC files
to a different location (in this case, a hard drive that's been
> dude, maybe you should start at making sure that ALL sessions to
that file is closed.
>
> ie. make sure the user's outlook is CLOSED, make sure that exchange isnt
trying to poll that file, wich it shouldnt but make sure of this.
>
> this is the start of the error:
>
> "Error reading
I was having the same problem. so here you go:Try to find the file Lib.pm and modify the $TopDir in it. That's all. :) Travis wu
On 2/21/06, Justin Best <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Ken,I too use Debian, and love it. I kept notes of how I set up BackupPC,because I wanted to be able to repeat the s
"Khaled Hussain" writes:
> 1. What is meant by pool exactly? Is this referring to all previous backups?
> Is this reffering to files that are common between computers?
A single copy of every file is stored in the pool, whether or
not it appears multiple times among the backups.
> 2. I have seen
Hello Ken Walker,
Basicaly it is where you install the configuration file... for example mine is
/backuppc .. /conf stores configuration.. /pc stores pc backed up files etc.
Mount you're md to you're /var/lib/backuppc would be simplest solution. What
backup method are you using? tar.. rsync?
"Justin Best" writes:
> > When Outlook is running, the PST file is locked and the backup fails
>
> I've been going with the assumption that this error was due to the
> apostrophe in the PST file name, since I *thought* the error disappeared
> when I renamed "Madalyn's Personal Folders.pst" to "Ma
Hi,
we are using backuppc with rsync to backup a load of data each night.
Unfortunately this takes way to long, even incremental backups. It seems
backuppc doesnt make much use of the remote update protocol of rsync which
compares checksums of fileslices against a local copy to reduce traffic.
Alright after downloading the BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary and the rest of the
dependencies
Storage.pm and Text.pm, When i run the command BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary
client i get the following error.
Global symbol "$noFill" requires explicit package name at
./BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary line
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Mikesell
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 5:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommended distro to run Backuppc on
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 14
Hi,
I want to have backuppc run hourly so I last night I configured
$Conf{WakeupSchedule} = [1..23];
$Conf{IncrPeriod} = 0.04;
since 1/24=0.042. However, the backup summary shows:
4 incr no2/20 23:00
5 incr no2/21 01:03
6 incr no2/21
"Travis Wu" writes:
> I want to have backuppc run hourly so I last night I configured
> $Conf{WakeupSchedule} = [1..23];
> $Conf{IncrPeriod} = 0.04;
>
> since 1/24=0.042. However, the backup summary shows:
>
> 4 incr no2/20 23:00
> 5 incr no2/21 01:03
>
Hi All
I was wondering if there is a way of having different host getting
backed up at different times.
For example.
I have 5 servers that need to be backed up once a day at 1:00am
I then have another 2 hosts that need backing up every 3 hours.
Is this possible?
Could someone show me what
Thks Craig.
Can I just set the incrPeriod to 0 ?
also why incr didn't hapen after 6am?
Very strange.
-Original Message-
From: Craig Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:24:30
To:"Travis Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Back
Corrent me if I'm wrong.
Could u do that in the per host configuration file?
Travis
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From: Mark Wass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:06:42
To:backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [BackupPC-users] Different Wake up times
Hi All
I was wonde
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:09:38AM +, Travis Wu wrote:
> Thks Craig.
> Can I just set the incrPeriod to 0 ?
>
> also why incr didn't hapen after 6am?
That would be because of the blackout period defined in the config file.
'$Conf[BlackoutPeriods}' defines them. The default is to start at 7a
Sorry that I forget to mention mine was set to 1..23
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From: David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:21:41
To:Travis Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:Craig Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] hou
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:34:52AM +, Travis Wu wrote:
> Sorry that I forget to mention mine was set to 1..23
You might be thinking of WakeupSchedule.
The BlackoutPeriods is a structured value that has both times and days of
the week fields.
You can also just set BlackoutGoodCnt to 0 which
My bad again. The blackout is set to 0.
:(
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From: David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:39:28
To:Travis Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:Craig Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] hourly wake
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