Re: [BackupPC-users] Still having Restore Problems

2006-10-11 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 10/10 07:21 , Ashley Shaw wrote: I had a strange error a couple of weeks ago and it is still occurring. It happens when using the direct restore method, see this error message: snip Host key verification failed. you need to verify that the ssh host keys haven't changed, if they ever worked

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to retrieve last backup for a host (fromcommand line)?

2006-10-11 Thread GATOUILLAT Pierre-Damien
Hi, Did you try the archive function of backuppc ? http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#archive_functions I'm using this function in a script (found in the archives of the list) to create some tar.gz archive of my hosts, then put them on a tape for offsite storage, with a cron

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to retrieve last backup for a host (from command line)?

2006-10-11 Thread Craig Barratt
Tomasz writes: I have X hosts, and would like to write a script to retrieve last backups from these hosts, and save it as host1.tar, host2.tar etc. - to later write it to a tape. What is the best method to do that? Should I just tar the current BackupPC archives like below? tar -cf

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to rebuild pc/hostname/backups file

2006-10-11 Thread Stian Jordet
On man, 2006-10-02 at 09:56 +0200, Stian Jordet wrote: Thanks! But this doesn't really seem to work... Doing host pontiac Reading LOG Got full backup 38 at 2006-09-03 02:05:43 Got incr backup 39 at 2006-09-05 20:00:37 Got incr backup 40 at 2006-09-09 13:00:36 Got

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to retrieve last backup for a host (from command line)?

2006-10-11 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Craig Barratt wrote: Tomasz writes: I have X hosts, and would like to write a script to retrieve last backups from these hosts, and save it as host1.tar, host2.tar etc. - to later write it to a tape. What is the best method to do that? Should I just tar the current BackupPC archives

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to rebuild pc/hostname/backups file

2006-10-11 Thread Stian Jordet
On ons, 2006-10-11 at 22:54 +0200, Stian Jordet wrote: And so on. While this may seem right (for what I know, that is), I wonder why they are sorted wrong, and fillFromNum on fulls are totally weird, but that doesn't matter, probably? Ah, crap. The sorting issue was my fault. Sorry. -Stian

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to rebuild pc/hostname/backups file

2006-10-11 Thread Stian Jordet
On ons, 2006-10-11 at 22:56 +0200, Stian Jordet wrote: On ons, 2006-10-11 at 22:54 +0200, Stian Jordet wrote: And so on. While this may seem right (for what I know, that is), I wonder why they are sorted wrong, and fillFromNum on fulls are totally weird, but that doesn't matter, probably?

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to rebuild pc/hostname/backups file

2006-10-11 Thread Craig Barratt
Stian Jordet writes: Umm, sorry to nag you with this again, but I haven't taken a backup for almost two weeks, trying to get this fixed first. Was this the only way, and what am I doing wrong? What info does it need that it doesn't find? I think I found why it wasn't working. You (seem)

[BackupPC-users] read EOF from windows server

2006-10-11 Thread Ajay Sharma
Hello, I'm trying to track down a backuppc issue. Recently our windows file server is starting to get the child prematurely exited error. We're backing it up via rsyncd running on the windows machine. Here's the snip from the 'BackupC_dump -v -f hostname' command:

[BackupPC-users] I am getting sick of Aborted by Signal PIPE Errors

2006-10-11 Thread ckeil
Full backups seem to work every time. Incrementals are now consistently aborting by signal PIPE. I upped the logging level to 9 and looked at the transer log after the most recent attempt. I still can't really decifer what's happening. Can someone more knowledgeable tell me what this means?

Re: [BackupPC-users] I am getting sick of Aborted by Signal PIPE Errors

2006-10-11 Thread ckeil
I am sorry. I should have mentioned that I did that already. (A long time ago, as per someone on this lists suggestion.) Any other ideas? Thanks, ck Hi just a suggestion: if you are using rsync and has upgraded rsync somewhere (or if there's the possibility that this has happened), try

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which version to use for new install

2006-10-11 Thread ckeil
Thanks. Ubuntu is actually the only other distro besides redhat, fedora and k12ltsp (all RedHat off shoots) that I have ever installed or used. That easy install sure is tempting. My favorite distribution is Ubuntu 6.06. It will be supported for another 5 1/2 years, is easy to keep