[BackupPC-users] Rsync and --checksum (not --checksum-seed)

2006-03-02 Thread backuppc
Hi, Rsyncd backup fails as soon as I add the '--checksum', argument to $Conf{RsyncArgs} The backup appears to be running (according to the web interface and a netstat on the remote server) yet nothing is transfered. Running rsync manually from the command line this argument works fine, its on

[BackupPC-users] File created stamp not used for SMB shares

2006-03-02 Thread Roland Wenzel
I have a strange problem with the backup of a Windows XP machine. Everything works, the files are getting backed up, changed files are added to the incremental backup. But: If I copy an old file on the XP machine, it is not backed up during the incremental backup. Looking at the file under Win

[BackupPC-users] unable to open for writing

2006-03-02 Thread ciccio ch
Hi, Recently I start to encounter errors of the following kind Unable to open /var/backups/pc//new/f%2fhome%2fjan/f trentven.gif for writing Botch, no matches on /var/backups/pc//new/f%2fhome%2fjan/f trentven.gif (9bdfdf9c482c061d69b4c9d2d6639a10) Unable to open /var/backups/pc//new/f%2fhome

[BackupPC-users] Avoiding coredumps + XferLOG Q's

2006-03-02 Thread Patrick Friedel
I'm backing up my office's home partition via rsync, and everything generally goes well - I'm avoiding most of the files that oughtn't show up in backups like mp3's and mpg and other multimedia cruft, but there is one beefy filetype that I can't think of a way to exclude without going overboard - c

[BackupPC-users] Best software to backup BackupPC Server to tape

2006-03-02 Thread Ken Long
I've been trying to search through this list and through google to figure out the answer to this question, but have not found a good answer yet. I have BackupPC working great on a nice, large 2.4TB system and it's now backing up almost everything in the company with a nice rotation set up. That'

Re: [BackupPC-users] File created stamp not used for SMB shares

2006-03-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 11:56, Roland Wenzel wrote: > So I assume that BackupPC detects new files by looking at the modified stamp. > How do I get the program to recognize copied or moved files correctly? The smb method uses timestamps only to determine whether or not to take a file in an incremen

[BackupPC-users] File created stamp not used for SMB shares

2006-03-02 Thread Roland Wenzel
I have a strange problem with the backup of a Windows XP machine. Everything works, the files are getting backed up, changed files are added to the incremental backup. But: If I copy an old file on the XP machine, it is not backed up during the incremental backup. Looking at the file under Win