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 minimizes

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

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 docs on

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

[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

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

[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

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