Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc V3.0.0

2007-01-31 Thread Tony Molloy
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 16:00, Peter Bloomfield wrote: > Dear All, > > > I upgraded Backuppc to version 3.0.0 from 2.1.3 yesterday, and since > the update I am getting a number of errors when trying to view some of > the pages. These are the errors I am seeing > > Select current log files > Unde

Re: [BackupPC-users] OSX extended atribute problems

2007-01-31 Thread Torsten Sadowski
> What do i miss if I don't backup extended attributes? > > John > You miss the Resource Fork which will render all older MacOS (ie Classic) programs unusable and might even destroy data files of those programs. Incidentally I am using backuppc 2.1.2 with OSX 10.4 and native tar without any big

[BackupPC-users] retrieve space from old deleted backups

2007-01-31 Thread lv
Hi, I manually deleted an old backup with rm, now I want to retrieve the free space of deleted directory so I run /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 255, but I cant see any free space, what I miss ? bye, lv - Take S

Re: [BackupPC-users] OSX extended atribute problems

2007-01-31 Thread Ski Kacoroski
And I have been using xtar on the OSX clients for years with no problems (10.2.x - 10.4.8). You may want to try it. cheers, ski Torsten Sadowski wrote: >> What do i miss if I don't backup extended attributes? >> >> John >> > You miss the Resource Fork which will render all older MacOS (ie Cl

[BackupPC-users] Suggestion for cygwin-rsyncd

2007-01-31 Thread Timothy J. Massey
Hello! I got bitten last week by the UTF-8/Cygwin issue: I was backing up a Windows 2000 server that serves files for a Mac network. Here is a link to a previous mail about this: http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03891.html I would suggest that instead of pa

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc V3.0.0

2007-01-31 Thread Peter Bloomfield
>I did the upgrade from a beta version yesterday and everything worked fine >last night. Check that you restarted the backuppc daemon after the backup >and that you afterwards restarted httpd. Restarting the httpd corrected it. Thanks Peter -

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC exclusion per-share using arrays in $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}

2007-01-31 Thread John Buttery
* On Tuesday 30 January 2007 18:14, Holger Parplies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Holger Parplies) wrote: >seems correct, but: do your RsyncArgs include --one-file-system (or > -x)? If not, the files you are trying to exclude might be included in > unexpected ways (eg. /log/maillog relative to /var would n

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC exclusion per-share usin g arrays in $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}

2007-01-31 Thread John Buttery
* On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 17:16 -0600, John Buttery wrote: >>[stuff about backups aborting with "signal=ALRM" errors] * On Tuesday 30 January 2007 20:39, Travis Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Travis Fraser) wrote: >Would you be running into problems because the other rsync share names > are included i

[BackupPC-users] Stop/Dequeue Safari bug

2007-01-31 Thread James Kyle
The stop/Dequeue process is not working for me in safari (as in absolutely nothing happens), I noticed this with Start Backup option as well. However, BackupPC began backing the host up after I restarted BackupPC. BackupPC version: 3.0 OS of Browser that showed bug: OSX 10.5, Safari 3.0 -)

[BackupPC-users] 2.1 versus 3.0

2007-01-31 Thread James Ward
I have three servers (2.x) in production. One of them is backing up three big fileservers. Any one of these backups can take more than 24 hours. I recently started full backups of each of the servers on different days to see if I could stagger the network load, but it looks like they're

Re: [BackupPC-users] 2.1 versus 3.0

2007-01-31 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/31 02:52 , James Ward wrote: > I have three servers (2.x) in production. One of them is backing up > three big fileservers. Any one of these backups can take more than > 24 hours. I recently started full backups of each of the servers on > different days to see if I could stagger the

Re: [BackupPC-users] 2.1 versus 3.0

2007-01-31 Thread Jason Hughes
James Ward wrote: > it looks like they're going to all get started at the same time again > due to waiting on the nightly process to complete after the longest > of these backups. > > Does version 3 get me away from this scenario? Yes. Version 3 doesn't need nightly processing to be mutually

Re: [BackupPC-users] Stop/Dequeue Safari bug

2007-01-31 Thread Craig Barratt
James writes: > The stop/Dequeue process is not working for me in safari (as in > absolutely nothing happens), I noticed this with Start Backup option > as well. However, BackupPC began backing the host up after I restarted > BackupPC. > > BackupPC version: 3.0 > OS of Browser that showed b

[BackupPC-users] RHEL4 fresh load - child exited prematurely

2007-01-31 Thread Timothy J. Massey
Hello! Here's what I've done. I've loaded a brand new backup server just out of the box, and a test host running actual RHEL4 on a previously unused computer. In other words, 100% of the hardware (including the network cables and switch) are completely different. I get the same error. I hav

Re: [BackupPC-users] Stop/Dequeue Safari bug

2007-01-31 Thread Ambrose Li
On 31/01/07, Craig Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A small snippet of javascript is used to set the action variable > when you click on the button. (In 2.x it wasn't done this way.) Wouldn't this be a bad idea in any case? Javascript dependency would mean that I can no longer control BackupP

Re: [BackupPC-users] RHEL4 fresh load - child exited prematurely

2007-01-31 Thread Les Mikesell
Timothy J. Massey wrote: > rsync: read error: No route to host This is almost certainly a network error, unrelated to rsync or whatever application might be running. Do other network-intense things have similar problem? Try something like: ssh othermachine tar --one-file-system -cf - >/dev/

Re: [BackupPC-users] RHEL4 fresh load - child exited prematurely

2007-01-31 Thread Timothy J. Massey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/01/2007 12:22:18 AM: > Timothy J. Massey wrote: > > > rsync: read error: No route to host > > This is almost certainly a network error, unrelated to rsync or whatever > application might be running. Do other network-intense things have > similar problem? T

Re: [BackupPC-users] RHEL4 fresh load - child exited prematurely

2007-01-31 Thread Les Mikesell
Timothy J. Massey wrote: > I've used **3** different computers with wildly different hardware. On > the host side, I've used **4** different computers (and most of them are > high-end server hardware) with wildly different hardware. It's not > related to a specific brand or type of hardware.

Re: [BackupPC-users] RHEL4 fresh load - child exited prematurely

2007-01-31 Thread Craig Barratt
Les writes: > Timothy J. Massey wrote: > > > rsync: read error: No route to host > > This is almost certainly a network error, unrelated to rsync or > whatever application might be running. Do other network-intense > things have similar problem? Try something like: I agree with Les. This rea

Re: [BackupPC-users] RHEL4 fresh load - child exited prematurely

2007-01-31 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 31.01.2007 at 23:46:13 [Re: [BackupPC-users] RHEL4 fresh load - child exited prematurely]: > Timothy J. Massey wrote: > > > I've used **3** different computers with wildly different hardware. On > > the host side, I've used **4** different computers (and most of them

Re: [BackupPC-users] RHEL4 fresh load - child exited prematurely

2007-01-31 Thread Ralf Gross
Les Mikesell said: >> I've used **3** different computers with wildly different hardware. On >> the host side, I've used **4** different computers (and most of them are >> high-end server hardware) with wildly different hardware. It's not >> related to a specific brand or type of hardware. > > Bu