Re: [BackupPC-users] sendmail fatal error No recipient addresses

2006-10-16 Thread Loyd Darby
I got this to start sending messages by modifying BackupPC_sendEmail.  Subroutine SendMail had a line  "print MAIL -t $mesg;" I removed the "-t" and it started working.  In theory, it should not be able to find the recipients without this, but it seems to work the other way around. I will post

Re: [BackupPC-users] backing something up once a month

2006-10-16 Thread David Rees
On 10/16/06, James Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have two ~180G NFS filesystems I'm backing up, but they take a > lng time. My boss says they only need to be backed up once a > month. What's the easiest way to get them to schedule only once > every four weeks? Set the FullPeriod to 30

[BackupPC-users] backing something up once a month

2006-10-16 Thread James Ward
I have two ~180G NFS filesystems I'm backing up, but they take a lng time. My boss says they only need to be backed up once a month. What's the easiest way to get them to schedule only once every four weeks? - Usin

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rotation question...

2006-10-16 Thread Rob Morin
Thanks for the info... Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 10/16 12:53 , Rob Morin wrote: > >> OK cool, sorry one last question, will it delete the files before it >> starts the backup or will do backup first then

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rotation question...

2006-10-16 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 10/16 12:53 , Rob Morin wrote: > OK cool, sorry one last question, will it delete the files before it > starts the backup or will do backup first then delete as i have no space > left at all? BackupPC_nightly just deletes files; it does not do any backups. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Adminis

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rotation question...

2006-10-16 Thread Rob Morin
OK cool, sorry one last question, will it delete the files before it starts the backup or will do backup first then delete as i have no space left at all? Thanks.. Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Les Stott wrote: > Rob Morin wrote: > >> Ahh...

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rotation question...

2006-10-16 Thread Les Stott
Rob Morin wrote: > Ahh i see the BackupPC_nightly binary, should i run this now with 0 > 255 ? > > > Yes, i believe that should work. You can manipulate when the nightly process runs by changing the WakeupSchedule as discussed below in the config file. set the schedule to be in 30 minute

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rotation question...

2006-10-16 Thread Rob Morin
Ahh i see the BackupPC_nightly binary, should i run this now with 0 255 ? Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Rob Morin wrote: > So is there a way to run this nightly process by hand now so i can clear > up a bit of space? > > Thanks > > Rob Mori

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rotation question...

2006-10-16 Thread Rob Morin
So is there a way to run this nightly process by hand now so i can clear up a bit of space? Thanks Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Les Stott wrote: > Rob Morin wrote: > >> Thanks for the configs, i added them in just now and did a restart of >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rotation question...

2006-10-16 Thread Les Stott
Rob Morin wrote: > Thanks for the configs, i added them in just now and did a restart of > backuppc but a weird thing i did a du -skh on a backed up dir in > backup session 3(the full backup) it said it was 1.6 gigs, but when i > did a rm -rf on that dir i gained only about 200 megs back bu

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rotation question...

2006-10-16 Thread Rob Morin
Thanks for the configs, i added them in just now and did a restart of backuppc but a weird thing i did a du -skh on a backed up dir in backup session 3(the full backup) it said it was 1.6 gigs, but when i did a rm -rf on that dir i gained only about 200 megs back but all te files in that d

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rotation question...

2006-10-16 Thread Les Stott
Rob Morin wrote: > First off thanks for a great application & thanks for all the help i > have received on this list thus far... > :) > > I recently installed BackupPC as i had a server crash and lost some > clients files i was backing up before using the infamous TAR, but > the external dis

[BackupPC-users] Rotation question...

2006-10-16 Thread Rob Morin
First off thanks for a great application & thanks for all the help i have received on this list thus far... :) I recently installed BackupPC as i had a server crash and lost some clients files i was backing up before using the infamous TAR, but the external disk that i was using died. S

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to exclude files like.....

2006-10-16 Thread Rob Morin
great thanks! Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Les Stott wrote: > Rob Morin wrote: > >> Woa... weird, that not what i wrote in my email... it seems my "*" ot >> asterek was replaced with something else? >> >> i meant to say $Conf{BackupFilesExc

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to exclude files like.....

2006-10-16 Thread Les Stott
Rob Morin wrote: > Woa... weird, that not what i wrote in my email... it seems my "*" ot > asterek was replaced with something else? > > i meant to say $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = '/var/www/virtual/*/logs'; > > yes, definitely works as above. Regards, Les ---

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to exclude files like.....

2006-10-16 Thread Rob Morin
Woa... weird, that not what i wrote in my email... it seems my "*" ot asterek was replaced with something else? i meant to say $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = '/var/www/virtual/*/logs'; thanks Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Rob Morin wrote: >

[BackupPC-users] How to exclude files like.....

2006-10-16 Thread Rob Morin
/var/www/virtual/*/logs Can i do this? under the root of /var/www/virtual i have hundreds of domains, then under each domains dir i have a dir named logs, i do not want to back this up... how would i write this in the per PC file for that machine, does backuppc except something like thi

Re: [BackupPC-users] connect to clients with a defined IP Adress from a multi-nic server?

2006-10-16 Thread Bernd Rilling
Am Sonntag, 15. Oktober 2006 22:55 schrieb Simon Kuhn: > Bernd, Hi, > If the interface is available on the particular system, and just isn't > the standard one, you can use ssh's -b option to force ssh to connect > from a certain interface. > > Add "-b hostname" after $sshPath on the $Conf{RsyncC