[BackupPC-users] Scheduling strangeness

2006-06-16 Thread BDaniels
I'm trying out BackupPC, and had an odd event last night. We have $Conf{WakeupSchedule} = [19.5,20,21,22,23,0,1,2]; to allow the backup server to run backups between 7:30pm-2am when machines are idle. MaxBackups is set to two. I added a new machine (NEWSERVER) to the backup hosts lists yesterda

[BackupPC-users] correction to FAQ about ssh

2006-06-16 Thread Martin Hansen
In the section about using sudo at http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/ssh.html I would like to propose a change. In the advise on using a script, using a script is less secure (don't know why, i was just told). And it is not needed in this case. The reason for using the script was to force the us

[BackupPC-users] file not included in incremnental by cgi

2006-06-16 Thread Martin Hansen
Hi all First I do like the interface of backuppc, and i look forward to see the planned enhancements for the cgi to allow user configuration. But i maybe stumbled across an error. looking at my incremental backup there is missing a file. the missing file is a rather big file at about 10G (vmware

[BackupPC-users] backuppc tar transport expects english [was: Re: Backup aborted]

2006-06-16 Thread Moritz Lennert
Craig Barratt wrote: > Moritz Lennert writes: > >> Trying to use backuppc 2.1.2 between two Debian machines to back up two >> directories, I get the following error, which I don't really understand. >> The backup seems to be done correctly (I can see files that were created >> the day before), but