[BackupPC-users] CPU usage and low network usage

2006-03-08 Thread jmyers
I was hoping to find out if anyone else has seen this situation: I have a dual core AMD Athlon 64 processor and when backups are taking place the processor usage generally sits at 100% on both cores (When multiple machines are being backed up), if not at 100% then generally very close to it

Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up files that change during backup

2006-03-08 Thread Stephen Vaughan
I've got it set very high, something like 70. Here is the error from the Xferlog.. same 644 1002/1002 40960 www/xxx/docs.stage/files/national/news/project_costing_survey.doc same 644 1002/1002 122930 www/xxx/docs.stage/files/national/news/project_costing_survey.pdf create

Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up files that change during backup

2006-03-08 Thread Craig Barratt
Stephen Vaughan writes: > Is there anyway to get backuppc to continue to backup regardless of > errors? I had it backing up a 2gb db file, and during the transfer the > file was modified and backuppc recognised this and aborted the backup. > > Remote[1]: send_files failed to open > misc/backups/n

[BackupPC-users] backing up files that change during backup

2006-03-08 Thread Stephen Vaughan
Is there anyway to get backuppc to continue to backup regardless of errors? I had it backing up a 2gb db file, and during the transfer the file was modified and backuppc recognised this and aborted the backup. Remote[1]: send_files failed to open misc/backups/netchant-db.blobdump: No such file or d

Re: [BackupPC-users] Authentiating logins

2006-03-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 20:28, Brendan Simon wrote: > > If you are using basic http authentication the browser > > remembers it until you close the browser. > > > OK. I think I am. > > Are there other authentication methods besides using the htpasswd file? > I'm trying to create a setup where

[BackupPC-users] Authentiating logins

2006-03-08 Thread Brendan Simon
Les Mikesell wrote: If you are using basic http authentication the browser remembers it until you close the browser. OK. I think I am. Are there other authentication methods besides using the htpasswd file? I'm trying to create a setup where all our unix and windows boxes use a centalise

Re: [BackupPC-users] logging in as different users

2006-03-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 19:57, Brendan Simon wrote: > How do I login to backuppc as different users? I can't seem to find a > way to "logout" as the current user. Does BackupPC have a logout > facility ??? > > Does the login use cookies or someother way to remember my login ?? > How do I clear thi

RE: [BULK] RE: [BackupPC-users] Unexpected end of tar archive

2006-03-08 Thread Justin Best
Thanks for your help, Craig! I appreciate it so very much. I've filed a bug report with Samba, as you suggested. https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3592 Out of curiosity, though, it seems that you still have an open bug that references the same problem. In bug 563 https://bugzilla.samba.

[BackupPC-users] logging in as different users

2006-03-08 Thread Brendan Simon
How do I login to backuppc as different users? I can't seem to find a way to "logout" as the current user. Does BackupPC have a logout facility ??? Does the login use cookies or someother way to remember my login ?? How do I clear this??? Thanks, Brendan. --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full backups - how are they filled

2006-03-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 19:03, Stephen Vaughan wrote: > If I make a full backup say today, and I run 29 days of incrementals > then run a full backup on day 30, will the full backup fill in the > difference from the 29 days of incrementals+ the first full backup? Or > will it just download the entire

[BackupPC-users] Full backups - how are they filled

2006-03-08 Thread Stephen Vaughan
If I make a full backup say today, and I run 29 days of incrementals then run a full backup on day 30, will the full backup fill in the difference from the 29 days of incrementals+ the first full backup? Or will it just download the entire full backup from the machine?-- Best Regards,Stephen

[BackupPC-users] Wish

2006-03-08 Thread Jean-Yves F. Barbier
Hi, Is it possible to make backups directories dependant from a file (or its content)? I mean I've a machine with 3 different installations I'd like to backup, but Backuppc has no mean to know whether it is system1, system2 or system3 that is on-line. Jean-Yves

Re: [BackupPC-users] Wishlist: better error messages in command-line tools

2006-03-08 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 03/08 09:09 , mna.news wrote: > the syntaxe should be : > > /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup srv.example.tld > srv.example.tld backuppc 0 yep. I figured it out eventualy. thanks for the help tho. :) -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-ti

Re: [BackupPC-users] Wishlist: better error messages in command-line tools

2006-03-08 Thread mna.news
Le mercredi 8 Mars 2006 20:39, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom a écrit : > I tried running this command: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg > srv.example.tld srv.example.tld backuppc 0 > > and got this following error: > > Got reply: error: bad command srv.example.tld srv.

[BackupPC-users] Wishlist: better error messages in command-line tools

2006-03-08 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
I tried running this command: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg srv.example.tld srv.example.tld backuppc 0 and got this following error: Got reply: error: bad command srv.example.tld srv.example.tld backuppc 0 I did eventually figure out the problem with my synt

Re: [BackupPC-users] No Backups Email

2006-03-08 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 03/08 12:17 , Dan D Niles wrote: > Wouldn't that start notifying me after 365 days? yeah. > What if I set it to -1? don't know if that'll work. read the source or ask Craig. I just sort of use it as a reminder that the host is still out there, taking up space on disk. After a year, you can d

Re: [BackupPC-users] No Backups Email

2006-03-08 Thread Dan D Niles
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom writes: > On 03/08 11:12 , Dan D Niles wrote: > > Is there a way to stop the emails for this host? > > $Conf{EMailNotifyMinDays} = 365; > Wouldn't that start notifying me after 365 days? What if I set it to -1? Dan ---

Re: [BackupPC-users] No Backups Email

2006-03-08 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 03/08 11:12 , Dan D Niles wrote: > Is there a way to stop the emails for this host? $Conf{EMailNotifyMinDays} = 365; -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPM

[BackupPC-users] No Backups Email

2006-03-08 Thread Dan D Niles
I added a host for testing direct restores and have the full period set to -2 (don't do any backups). Every night I receive email saying there are no backups for that host. I know that and don't want any backups. Is there a way to stop the emails for this host? Dan -

Re: [BackupPC-users] Change Location of Backup

2006-03-08 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 03/08 12:52 , Ken Long wrote: > Works fine as long as you're dedicating a partion/disk/volume to > BackupPC. In fact, I would *recommend* that you do this. There are a number of reasons. - if the main disk fails, you can recover information off the backups to re-set it up. - if the backup di

Re: [BackupPC-users] Change Location of Backup

2006-03-08 Thread Ken Long
On my debian system, all I did was to shut down backuppc, bring up the second file system, mount it somewhere temporarily, move all the data from /var/lib/backuppc over to it, then unmount and remount the second file system to /var/lib/backuppc and voila, I had all the data on a separate drive. Ma

[BackupPC-users] email notification

2006-03-08 Thread Trey Nolen
I am running Backuppc on Debian Sarge using the .deb package. Everything is working great, with one minor exception. I've been running this a few months, and I used to get an email with a subject something like "Backuppc Administrative Attention Needed" if a host or hosts did not run successf

Re: [BackupPC-users] Does ClientNameAlias work with smb hosts

2006-03-08 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 03/08 12:56 , Brendan Simon wrote: > I am using $Conf{ClientNameAlias} quite happily with rsync/ssh unix > hosts, but I can't get it to work with a Windows/smb server. > > I assume it should work, or is this a bad assumption ??? it certainly works for me. what happens when you try to su to th