Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating to bigger storage

2006-12-20 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 15:25 -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > dd bypasses those memory problems. if you want to move it across the > network, pipe it through netcat. I moved 200GB of backuppc pool across the > network that way in about 12 hours. once on the new box, I just used the > reiserfs

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating to bigger storage

2006-12-20 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 12/20 10:02 , daniel berteaud wrote: > To migrate backuppc data, I use the command > > rsync -aP -H --stats /source /destination > > it's quite long, depending on the number of files, and it can need a > huge amount of memory, but it's working. For a local migration, you > can also use GNU cp

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating to bigger storage

2006-12-20 Thread daniel berteaud
Le Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:56:02 -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > On 12/20 12:26 , John Pettitt wrote: > > I'm about to migrate my BackupPC partition to a new raid controller > > (more space and more spindles) - my current thinking is to use > > dump/restore - has anybo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating to bigger storage

2006-12-20 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 12/20 12:26 , John Pettitt wrote: > I'm about to migrate my BackupPC partition to a new raid controller > (more space and more spindles) - my current thinking is to use > dump/restore - has anybody done this - what issues did you encounter? it's not unreasonable. personally, I'd just use dd a

[BackupPC-users] Migrating to bigger storage

2006-12-20 Thread John Pettitt
I'm about to migrate my BackupPC partition to a new raid controller (more space and more spindles) - my current thinking is to use dump/restore - has anybody done this - what issues did you encounter? John - Take Surveys.

[BackupPC-users] Virtual server backup

2006-12-20 Thread Adnet Ghislain
Hi, I wanted to knwo what would be the best way in your opinion to backup a bunch of virtual servers ? For exemple i have servers in /vserver/vserverhostname i have the same configuration for all the vservers's backup and ssh/rsync is only available from the main host. I wonder if i can

Re: [BackupPC-users] some questions...

2006-12-20 Thread Filipe
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom escreveu: On 12/19 07:17 , Filipe wrote: Using Backuppc (debian) successfully in my company for about 5 months, backing up 6 winXX shares using samba. The machine is a simple Pentium 4 with a 40GB HD that is getting full. Already ordered a 250GB ata100 hd. but I'm no

[BackupPC-users] full backup failed - Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely)

2006-12-20 Thread Jorge Ignacio Jiménez
Hi list! I recently set up a backuppc server running on debian etch 64 bits, installation and configuration were clean and easy. I did some test backups (full and incremental) with small folders and everything was fine. But when I tried to backup up the /, (approximately 10 gigas) it doesn't w

[BackupPC-users] Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE)

2006-12-20 Thread Bart Vancauteren
When I try to backup my windows pc I get the follow error. Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE) I use on de windows client cwRsync. In the config file I put. [cDrive] path = C:/temp/ comment = Entire Drive auth users = backuppc secrets file = c:/rsyncd/rsyncd.secre

Re: [BackupPC-users] Suggested feature - auto-refresh of Host Summary page

2006-12-20 Thread Craig Barratt
Michael writes: > Yes I know this, as my original post mentioned. But I think it's still a > worthwhile feature to have from the server end in case the browser doesn't > support auto-refreshes. Eg. some sites I work at they lockdown citrix > environments so much so that they force you to use In

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync and Public Keys

2006-12-20 Thread Craig Barratt
Carl writes: > On 12/19 10:11 , Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: > > > > Here's a post to this list that explains setting this up: http:// > > www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03002.html > > Thanks for posting that, Nils. :) > I don't suppose that can be added to the d

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using backuppc to back up a freebsd server

2006-12-20 Thread Garith Dugmore
Hi John, Yep, rsync works very sweetly. I use it on all my other boxes including windows and linux desktops. My problem is I can't install rsync on this particular server. It needs to stay the way it is.. Its not a complete train smash that I get an error when running a backup of that machine

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using backuppc to back up a freebsd server

2006-12-20 Thread John Pettitt
Garith Dugmore wrote: > Hi, > > I've found backing up any linux server's data works using tar and ssh > but when trying to back up a freebsd server it gives the following error: > > [snip] I've had good results with rsync on FreeBSD boxes - I chose rsync because the box is remote and it minim