[BackupPC-users] win32 rsyncd speed

2006-12-11 Thread JW Smythe
G'evening all. Does anyone know of a good way to speed up rsyncd on a Windows machine? I'm doing remote backups, from Windows servers on a 100Mb/s link to a Tier1 provider, to my BackupPC off-site location on Verizon FiOS. It seems to be taking an awful long time to get the data down to me.

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to Troubleshoot BackupPC

2006-12-11 Thread Craig Barratt
John writes: > I recently bumped up the log level to 8 and I noticed something else didn't > look right. > The first is what a lot of the initial files look like, after though they > start to look like the second example with the > "size doesn't match (< file size> vs 0) > > Example 1 > --- > My

Re: [BackupPC-users] No

2006-12-11 Thread Craig Barratt
Krsnendu writes: > BackupPC says the backup was successful but nothing is backed up and > when I try to browse backups it says: > > Error: Backup number for host nendu does not exist. > > This is the log. > > 2006-12-12 15:25:19 full backup 0 complete, 6 files, 268508 bytes, 0 > xferErrs (0 bad

[BackupPC-users] rsync error ssh_askpass w/ cygwin

2006-12-11 Thread Jim McNamara
Hello all! I found some mails in the archive that relates to this problem, but what seemed to be the solution didn't work for me. I'd like to show what's happening, and hope to get some input on what the problem is. Here is the info I found in the archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/mes

[BackupPC-users] No

2006-12-11 Thread Krsnendu dasa
BackupPC says the backup was successful but nothing is backed up and when I try to browse backups it says: Error: Backup number for host nendu does not exist. This is the log. 2006-12-12 15:25:19 full backup 0 complete, 6 files, 268508 bytes, 0 xferErrs (0 bad files, 0 bad shares, 0 other) 2006-

Re: [BackupPC-users] 555 errors: Unable to read 65536 bytes from

2006-12-11 Thread Craig Barratt
David writes: > Two days in a row I got 555 lines of error that are all the same for > both days: > > Unable to read 65536 bytes from /home/backuppc/pc/mail/new//f%2f/RStmp got=0, > seekPosn=402653184 (0,4,24581,401604608,402727821) > > The curious thing is that the size is exactly 64k. And ev

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3.0, rsyncd and UTF-8 support?

2006-12-11 Thread Craig Barratt
Tomasz writes: > Craig Barratt wrote: > > > > Rsync uses the native client charset coding (ie: it doesn't change > > anything). > > On a windows machine that is typically cp1250. > > > > BackupPC 3.0 uses utf8 on the server and can optionally translate > > to/from the client charset coding by s

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to Troubleshoot BackupPC

2006-12-11 Thread John Cianfarani
I recently bumped up the log level to 8 and I noticed something else didn't look right. The first is what a lot of the initial files look like, after though they start to look like the second example with the "size doesn't match (< file size> vs 0) Example 1 --- My Wallpapers/Default.wallpaper:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Child Exited Prematurely

2006-12-11 Thread Randy Barlow
On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 19:55 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: > Howdy, I am seeing on one of my machines the "Child exited prematurely" > error. > It's BackupPC 2.1.2pl2 and the bizarre thing is that there are no further > errors (logs are empty). What does this mean? (I am using RsyncD as > transp

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to disable backups on weekend days ?

2006-12-11 Thread Les Stott
Julien HASCOET wrote: Hello, Does anyone knows how to disable backups during weekends (saturday and sunday) ? I have tried this : $Conf{BlackoutPeriods} = [ { hourBegin => 7.0, hourEnd => 19.5, weekDays => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], }, { hourBegin => 1, hourEnd => 23, weekDays => [6, 0], }, ];

[BackupPC-users] How to disable backups on weekend days ?

2006-12-11 Thread Julien HASCOET
Hello, Does anyone knows how to disable backups during weekends (saturday and sunday) ? I have tried this : $Conf{BlackoutPeriods}= [ { hourBegin => 7.0, hourEnd => 19.5, weekDays => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], }, { hourBegin => 1, hourEnd => 23, weekDays => [6, 0], }, ]; but it doesn't worked ! Thanks

Re: [BackupPC-users] auth required, but service test is open/insecure...

2006-12-11 Thread Les Stott
Krsnendu dasa wrote: > I changed the permission of /home/krsnendu/test/ and contents to allow > read and enter access. Now it backs up. How can I set it up so that it > can back up any file. Do I have to setuid=root or something? > > > perhaps you can make the backup user belong to a group, say