Re: [BackupPC-users] I just tried my first restore and it failed please help.

2007-01-03 Thread Craig Barratt
Krsnendu writes: > I found a file on the backup of my windows laptop and tried to restore it to > /root/ > The error message is below. > I was able to download the file through Firefox by clicking on the file, but > if I want to restore whole directories this will not work. > > Running: /usr/bin/

Re: [BackupPC-users] OK, how about changing the server's backuppc process niceness?

2007-01-03 Thread David Rees
On 1/2/07, Jason Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good recommendations, Holger. I would add that "nice"ing a process only > changes its scheduling affinity, but does not modify in any way its hard > disk activity or DMA priority, so until the original poster understands > what exactly makes the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Out of memory problem

2007-01-03 Thread Craig Barratt
Steve writes: > I'm having trouble backing up localhost, and have traced it down to this: > > Out of memory during "large" request for 16781312 bytes, total sbrk() is > 354103296 bytes at /d/3/backup/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/FileZIO.pm line 191. > > So... I assume that means it choked trying to co

Re: [BackupPC-users] receiving mails though backup are disabled; obscure time-out error with smb

2007-01-03 Thread Craig Barratt
Renke writes: > First one is that some of our clients aren't online any more but we would > keep > the backups. According to the help I changed the per-client-config of > $Conf{FullPeriod} to -2. Today I get a mail that this machine isn't full > backuped since more than 7 days. I believed the

Re: [BackupPC-users] help understanding backup times

2007-01-03 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/03 10:19 , Anthony J Biacco wrote: > I've read through the docs but still am not understanding the > odd schedule of backup runs that are going on for my systems. Ideally I > would like to see incrementals done sun-fri and fulls on sat. All > starting about 12:30am each day. it's not like tr

[BackupPC-users] help understanding backup times

2007-01-03 Thread Anthony J Biacco
Hi, I inherited a BackupPC system from a previous admin, and admit to not have used it before. I'm trying to get a handle on the timing of full and incremental backups. I've read through the docs but still am not understanding the odd schedule of backup runs that are going on for my systems. Ideal

[BackupPC-users] I just tried my first restore and it failed please help.

2007-01-03 Thread Krsnendu dasa
I found a file on the backup of my windows laptop and tried to restore it to /root/ The error message is below. I was able to download the file through Firefox by clicking on the file, but if I want to restore whole directories this will not work. Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root localhost /bi