RE: [BackupPC-users] Re: > 4GB files with smb transport

>> Is it not possible to transfer large >> files [using SMB]? > there's a patch for 2.1.1 i think that i needed to copy files over 8gb > (using smb), works fine now (copying > 10gb files daily)...try searching > for the 8gb limit.. Where would I go about looking for this patch? Is this a patch

[BackupPC-users] Restore dont work via webtool (Bugreport)

Hi, the restore function via webtool is again not working: 1) I generate 3 restore commands via webtool from 1 host into queue. 2) Backuppc execute only the first restore command and delete the other 2 from queue. Some from my log: 2006-04-21 19:29:10 Running BackupPC_link (pid=5694) 2006-04

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem with BackupFilesExclude

On Tuesday 16 May 2006 12:18, Travis Fraser wrote: > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 11:11 +0100, Tony Molloy wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Use a backslash instead of the forward slash in the excludes. That was it. How come I was so blind ;-) Thanks. Tony -- Tony Molloy. Dept. of Comp. Sci. University of Lim

Re: [BackupPC-users] Archiving single files or directories - possible?

Hi Tomasz, > What I mean, it's not possible to archive > selected files or directories. Of course you can !!! Just let BackupPC to backup all your files except some explicit ones using $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} ( http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item_%24conf%7bbackupfilesexclude%

Re: [BackupPC-users] Re: > 4GB files with smb transport

Thanks, I'll check for it. Mike Marks - Original Message - From: David Fallin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, May 15, 2006 11:25 am Subject: [BackupPC-users] Re: > 4GB files with smb transport To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Lee A. Connell ammocomp.com> writes: > > > > >

[BackupPC-users] localhost backup problems

I have successfully been able to backup Windows XP machines via rsync to the server but can’t seem to get the localhost backed up.   Following is my localhost.pl   # # Local server backup of /etc as user backuppc # $Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar';   $Conf{TarClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/sudo /

[BackupPC-users] Archiving single files or directories - possible?

It seems to me that when you configure an "archive host" to dump the archives locally, you can only archive whole hosts with their full data. What I mean, it's not possible to archive selected files or directories. As some hosts can be multi-gigabyte, this seems to be unnecessary obstacle (I may

[BackupPC-users] Re: backuppc + rsync problems

Kirby wrote: BackupPC has been humming along happily now for about a year. Several weeks ago, I started getting messages about a system not being backed up. My problem only exists on one machine. The machine is using rsync-2.6.8-1.fc3.rf. [...] Any hints? Yes, read the list archive :-) Vinc

[BackupPC-users] Error with backing up windows xp pc

Hi, I am getting following err while taking backup for windows xp pc. Working fine with all linux pc. 2006-05-14 19:21:09 full backup started for directory /; updating partial 1 2006-05-14 19:21:11 Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely) 2006-05-14 19:21:16 Backup aborted (Child

[BackupPC-users] Spaces in directory names resp. shareName

Hello everyone! As this is my first post, I'd like to say this: Thanks to the developers and all that participated for a nice and convenient software, I like it very much. I am using tar over ssh and improved security as outlined in http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/ssh.html . The relevan

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup one file working, of catalog doesn't

BackupPC version 2.1.2, released on 5 Sep 2005 nilesh vaghela wrote: What is the version of backuppc ?? -N On 5/15/06, *Adam Gawda* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: the same: error: 2006-05-15 10:33:42 full backup started for directory / 2006-05-15 10:

[BackupPC-users] FW: localhost backup problems

I have successfully been able to backup Windows XP machines via rsync to the server but can’t seem to get the localhost backed up.   Following is my localhost.pl   # # Local server backup of /etc as user backuppc # $Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar';   $Conf{TarClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/sudo /

Re: [BackupPC-users] Kernel bug at buffer.c:603?

On 5/9/06, Martin Giebat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm running backuppc version 2.1.2 on a Debian linux with version 2.4.26. At least once a week backuppc crashes and gives me an error like this: kernel BUG at buffer.c:603 invalid operand CPU: 0 EIP: 0010[] Not tainted EFLAGS 00010

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bad page state in process 'BackupPC_tarExt'

On 5/16/06, Raf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: May 15 22:15:32 backup kernel: Bad page state in process 'BackupPC_tarExt' May 15 22:15:32 backup kernel: page:c117fd20 flags:0x80010008 mapping: mapcount:0 count:2130706432 (Not tainted) May 15 22:15:32 backup kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a

[BackupPC-users] FWD: Can't open for empty output

A while ago I posted this: --- start of forwarded message --- From: Dan D Niles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Can't open for empty output Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 16:46:20 -0500 I am seeing hundreds of thousands of these in my log: create d 755

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync 2.6.7-1 (fileListReceive failed)

Peter Palfrader wrote: On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Andy wrote: Most of my systems run Debian Sarge with rsync 2.6.4-6, but one runs Debian Etch and last night rsync updated to 2.6.7-1. I havnt been able to do any backups of this box since. I get the following error in the xfer.log: G

[BackupPC-users] Bad page state in process 'BackupPC_tarExt'

Kind list members I've searched for this error in the archive with no results. I hope not to have missed a previous thread. Environment: Linx Fedora Core 4 kernel 2.6.16-1.2108_FC4 256 MB RAM Backuppc installed on external firewire 1TB disk. System installed on local IDE disk. After the followin

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup one file working, of catalog doesn't

So, my working config file: $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = ['/bin', '/boot', '/etc', '/initrd', '/lib', '/lib64', '/opt', '/root', '/sbin', '/sys', '/usr']; But when I add directory /home or /var /m

[BackupPC-users] Problems with backuppc

Title: Problems with backuppc Hi all, It was interesting to configure the system, but it works. I'm using a PC with Debian Linux to run backuppc from, and back up a Mac OSX box. After some troubleshooting, I got the backing up part working. Unfortunately, restoring is a different matter. D

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly admin task failing

On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 14:05 -0400, Travis Fraser wrote: > Hi, > > I have been running BackupPC-2.1.1 on a gentoo system for months and it > has worked fine. Last week I edited the main config file to change the > $Conf{RsyncArgs} to account for an upgrade to rsync-2.6.8 (I changed the > flag --dev

[BackupPC-users] Restore dont work via webtool, Part 2 (Bugreport)

Hi, when I try to restore with webtool, there comes a message: Restore requested to host xxx.com, backup #31, by backuppc from 83.218.48.xxx Reply from server was: ok: requested restore of providercontrolcenter.com, but a job is currently running, so this request will start late But backuppc put

[BackupPC-users] Problem with BackupFilesExclude

Hi, I'm backing up a file share from a Windows box using the smb transfer method. The problem is this share contains several very large log files which the administrator of the windows box doesn't rotate or truncate. So they are backed even when I do the nightly incremental backups. I've trie

[BackupPC-users] Kernel bug at buffer.c:603?

I'm running backuppc version 2.1.2 on a Debian linux with version 2.4.26. At least once a week backuppc crashes and gives me an error like this:   kernel BUG at buffer.c:603 invalid operand CPU: 0 EIP: 0010[] Not tainted EFLAGS 00010202 Process BackupPC_tarExt   Any ideas

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync 2.6.7-1 (fileListReceive failed)

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Andy wrote: > Most of my systems run Debian Sarge with rsync 2.6.4-6, but one runs > Debian Etch and last night rsync updated to 2.6.7-1. > > I havnt been able to do any backups of this box since. I get the > following error in the xfer.log: > Got fatal error during xfer

[BackupPC-users] loop in empty folder?

Hello! I have received one e-mail, in which the failure is not by the variable $Conf{ClientTimeout>} "BackupPC administrative attention needed The following hosts had an error that is probably caused by a misconfiguration. Please fix these hosts: - albertovn

Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression

"David Rees" writes: > On 5/11/06, Lee A. Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I noticed while monitoring backuppc that it doesn't seem to compress > > on the fly, is this true? I am backing up 40GB's worth of data on a > > server and as it is backing up I monitor the disk space usage on th

[BackupPC-users] Rsync command just sticks

Backuppc seems to work fine when using the samba method, but when i try the rsync method i get a timeout error. i tried executing the command in the console and it just sticks. i have exchanged pub rs keys onto the client and i can ssh into the client as root from the server without a password An

[BackupPC-users] FW: > 4GB files with smb transport

    Lee Connell Network Engineer   15 Main St. Suite 10 Littleton, NH 03561 603-444-3937 From: Lee A. Connell Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 4:04 PM To: 'backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: > 4GB files with smb transport   Is there a way to transfer file

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem with BackupFilesExclude

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 11:11 +0100, Tony Molloy wrote: > Hi, > > I'm backing up a file share from a Windows box using the smb transfer > method. The problem is this share contains several very large log files > which the administrator of the windows box doesn't rotate or truncate. So > they are

[BackupPC-users] loop in empty folder?

Hello! I have received one e-mail, in which the failure is not by the variable $Conf{ClientTimeout>} "BackupPC administrative attention needed The following hosts had an error that is probably caused by a misconfiguration. Please fix these hosts: - albertovn

[BackupPC-users] Restore dont work via webtool (Bugreport)

Hi, the restore function via webtool is again not working: 1) I generate 3 restore commands via webtool from 1 host into queue. 2) Backuppc execute only the first restore command and delete the other 2 from queue. Some from my log: 2006-04-21 19:29:10 Running BackupPC_link (pid=5694) 2006-04