[BackupPC-users] LOG file link - wrong log?

2007-01-08 Thread tmassey
Hello! In BackupPC 3.0 beta 3, when I click on the LOG file link in a host (as opposed to the LOG files link), I am presented with the 122006 log file, not the 012007 log file. Should the log files be renamed to MM? Or is the LOG file link supposed to open the oldest log? Tim Massey

[BackupPC-users] Rsync overflow error

2007-01-08 Thread Ed Schwartz
[Please CC any replies directly to me] I'm trying to backup my desktop machine with rsync, without luck. It is running Windows XP, and I am using the provided rsyncd package. My backuppc server is running on Ubuntu Dapper. Here's some versions: ii backuppc 2.1.2-2ubuntu5

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is is possible to calculate space used from the log files

2007-01-08 Thread Ski Kacoroski
Carl, I am trying to calculate the amount of disk space used by a single machine. Currently I run du -hs /var/lib/backuppc/pc/machinename to get the disk space used by machinename. The problem is that this is very disk intensive and can cause problems when I am running backups around the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is is possible to calculate space used from the log files

2007-01-08 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/08 09:20 , Ski Kacoroski wrote: I am trying to calculate the amount of disk space used by a single machine. due to pooling, is this really a reasonably question to ask? I suppose you could take all the files and amortize the space usage of that file across the number of hosts who share

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

2007-01-08 Thread Jason Hughes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I routinely hit 100% CPU utilization on the Via C3 1GHz Mini-ITX systems I use as backup servers. I will grant you that the C3 is not the most efficient processor, but I am definitely CPU-limited. I too have 512MB RAM, but the machines are not swapping. And that's

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and opensuse 10.2 clients

2007-01-08 Thread ckeil
Is this via rsync? I think it's important that everybody be running the same exact version of rsync. I had the same problem (/var failing, other /'s working (on Fedora though)) and, IIRC, updating rsync fixed it. YMMV, ck Hello I recently installed a few opensuse 10.2 workstations in my

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and opensuse 10.2 clients

2007-01-08 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/08 11:35 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this via rsync? I think it's important that everybody be running the same exact version of rsync. I had the same problem (/var failing, other /'s working (on Fedora though)) and, IIRC, updating rsync fixed it. in the past I've not had any problem

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and opensuse 10.2 clients

2007-01-08 Thread Cristian Tibirna
Le lundi, 8 janvier 2007 15:26, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom a écrit : On 01/08 11:35 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this via rsync? I think it's important that everybody be running the same exact version of rsync. I had the same problem (/var failing, other /'s working (on Fedora though)) and,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Kinda OT: Perform mke2fs in CGI script intelligently

2007-01-08 Thread Jason Hughes
You might consider doing a little Perl script rather than shell for the formatting script. At least that way, you can launch the format command as a pipe, read its output (the 11/25000 followed by a bunch of ^H characters to back up over itself), parse it, then output something more

Re: [BackupPC-users] [Fwd: [Fwd: your post re: Rsync backuppc]]

2007-01-08 Thread Tom Nats
Here is my command line: Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root t10 /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /home/tn/testbackup/ The server rsync version: rsync version 2.6.4 protocol version 29 The

Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem recommendation?

2007-01-08 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 12/30 10:23 , Michael Mansour wrote: Personally I'd be trouble-shooting your ext3 problems and working them out, since ext3 by default offers quite a bit of data resilience. I use reiserfs for BackupPC data pools (and ext3 for the rest of the OS). Partly because with reiserfs you don't have

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and opensuse 10.2 clients

2007-01-08 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Cristian Tibirna wrote on 05.01.2007 at 16:31:28 [[BackupPC-users] backuppc and opensuse 10.2 clients]: I recently installed a few opensuse 10.2 workstations in my network (upgrade from older suse versions) and the backup of these workstations ceased to work. The error is that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Kinda OT: Perform mke2fs in CGI script intelligently

2007-01-08 Thread Timothy J. Massey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/08/2007 05:35:48 PM: You might consider doing a little Perl script rather than shell for the formatting script. At least that way, you can launch the format command as a pipe, read its output (the 11/25000 followed by a bunch of ^H characters to back up

Re: [BackupPC-users] tar vs. cpio: Survivability of archives

2007-01-08 Thread Timothy J. Massey
Holger Parplies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/08/2007 07:50:14 PM: Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05.01.2007 at 10:27:41 [[BackupPC- users] tar vs. cpio: Survivability of archives]: [...] Of course, in researching this further, I can't seem to find a resource that agrees with

[BackupPC-users] CPU Load statistics (Was: Re: OK, how about changing the server's backuppc process niceness?)

2007-01-08 Thread Timothy J. Massey
David Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/08/2007 01:55:18 PM: On 1/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I routinely hit 100% CPU utilization on the Via C3 1GHz Mini-ITX systems I use as backup servers. I will grant you that the C3 is not the most efficient processor, but

Re: [BackupPC-users] tar vs. cpio: Survivability of archives

2007-01-08 Thread Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does BackupPC use tar instead of cpio? I was always told that tar has a serious flaw: any files that occur after a bad block in the tar stream cannot be extracted; whereas this is not the case with cpio. I suspect you have heard this about tar in regard to

[BackupPC-users] Too many arguments for Encode::decode_utf8

2007-01-08 Thread Timothy J. Massey
Hello! I'm trying to set up BackupPC 3.0beta3 on a brand new installation of CentOS 3.8. Here's what I've done: 1) Install a minimal installation of CentOS 3.8. I know that there are other modules I will need, but it's not relevant for this error. 2) Unpack BackupPC 3.0beta3 3) Type: perl

Re: [BackupPC-users] CPU Load statistics (Was: Re: OK, how about changing the server's backuppc process niceness?)

2007-01-08 Thread David Rees
On 1/8/07, Timothy J. Massey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: top - 21:09:02 up 3:55, 2 users, load average: 1.15, 1.12, 1.06 Tasks: 45 total, 2 running, 42 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 82.1% us, 11.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.3% wa, 2.7% hi, 3.7% si Mem:109068k total,

Re: [BackupPC-users] CPU Load statistics (Was: Re: OK, how about changing the server's backuppc process niceness?)

2007-01-08 Thread Les Mikesell
Timothy J. Massey wrote: Actually, the sluggishness comes from I/O competition, I think, not RAM or even CPU usage... What kind of disk do you have and are you sure it is using DMA? What does 'hdparm -T -t' show for the buffered disk speed? -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]