[BackupPC-users] BackupPC pings by hostname, but backs up by ip?

2007-02-01 Thread Dave Fancella
All, First: the backuppc website needs to be updated to reflect that this list is a members-only list. I originally sent this email without joining but received the Your post awaits moderation email. So I joined the list and have resent it. I have an interesting situation. It appears that

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC pings by hostname, but backs up by ip?

2007-02-01 Thread Les Stott
Dave Fancella wrote: All, First: the backuppc website needs to be updated to reflect that this list is a members-only list. I originally sent this email without joining but received the Your post awaits moderation email. So I joined the list and have resent it. I have an interesting

Re: [BackupPC-users] 2.1 versus 3.0

2007-02-01 Thread Cristian Tibirna
Le mercredi, 31 janvier 2007 17:20, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom a écrit : You probably also want to change: $Conf{MaxBackups} = 4; to something lower. that's the number of backups which will run simultaneously. I've found that the default of '4' is too high for most backup servers, and that '2'

Re: [BackupPC-users] 2.1 versus 3.0

2007-02-01 Thread Cristian Tibirna
Le jeudi, 1 février 2007 11:01, vous avez écrit : Linux sees four processors in my servers: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz So 4 is a good number for me? There are only 2 physical CPUs however. Hyperthreading (at least I guess 3.2GHz Xeons are hyperthreaded, and not dual-core) doesn't give you

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

2007-02-01 Thread Les Mikesell
Holger Parplies wrote: But lots of other people including myself run rsync without errors so it has to be something unique to your situation. well, no. You don't rule out bugs by it works for me, not even by it works for everyone I know. I'm sure you know that. Anything is possible I

[BackupPC-users] Help with one last hitch after 3.0 upgrade

2007-02-01 Thread James Kyle
I noticed that my localhost (server with backuppc installed), was running the rsync command for over 8 hours and ate up over a gig of memory last night. . . .. yet had a zero size backup. I didnt' see any errors at all in the backuppc logs, but in the system logs I noticed an oddity: Feb

Re: [BackupPC-users] Help with one last hitch after 3.0 upgrade

2007-02-01 Thread James Kyle
I'm running the du and such right now. However, I ran this before and the numbers reflect exactly those I'd expect if localhost was not receiving backups. Here's some more evidence towards that: jkyle$ ls /Volumes/backups/pc/* /Volumes/backups/pc/airto-old: 0 LOG.022007

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

2007-02-01 Thread Jason Hughes
Timothy J. Massey wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/01/2007 12:22:18 AM: Timothy J. Massey wrote: rsync: read error: No route to host This one would concern me most. I thought there was a note somewhere in the docs that says clients should have reverse DNS set up for them,

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

2007-02-01 Thread Jason Hughes
When I say 3 different locations, I don't mean 3 different floors of the same building. I mean three different client sites, miles apart, with completely different *everything*, including network hardware brand. Some of them are HP ProCurve switches (our preferred brand) but nowhere near

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

2007-02-01 Thread Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And we're talking about multiple servers in multiple locations talking to multiple hosts of different brands and hardware chipsets. It's not related to a *specific* *anything* hardware-wise on *either* end. The *only* thing in common is RHEL4! Do they traverse a

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

2007-02-01 Thread Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is *NOT* the networking hardware! This is NOT an isolated situation. It's not just **ONE** serer that is having this problem. And despite the fact that others have made this configuration work, I am *very* confident that you can reproduce it too. Take 2

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

2007-02-01 Thread Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not a fan of continuously applying zillions of updates. How in the world are you supposed to test this stuff? There's a big difference between a distribution like fedora where updates are to get new features as fast as possible and one like RHEL (and thus

[BackupPC-users] Using Rsync and files are being copied again

2007-02-01 Thread Jenny Paterson
I upgraded To version 3 before that i had my pool compressed now when backups starts it look like it not comparing to the old pool and doing so not doing links and just downloading files again. Is there a way to fix this? -

Re: [BackupPC-users] Help with one last hitch after 3.0 upgrade

2007-02-01 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, James Kyle wrote on 01.02.2007 at 08:25:57 [[BackupPC-users] Help with one last hitch after 3.0 upgrade]: I noticed that my localhost (server with backuppc installed), was running the rsync command for over 8 hours and ate up over a gig of memory last night. . . .. yet had a zero size

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

2007-02-01 Thread Les Stott
Les Mikesell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not a fan of continuously applying zillions of updates. How in the world are you supposed to test this stuff? There's a big difference between a distribution like fedora where updates are to get new features as fast as possible and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using Rsync and files are being copied again

2007-02-01 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Jenny Paterson wrote on 01.02.2007 at 18:53:55 [[BackupPC-users] Using Rsync and files are being copied again]: I upgraded To version 3 before that i had my pool compressed and now? What is $Conf{CompressLevel} set to (and what value did it have before the upgrade)? Do you override it in

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC pings by hostname, but backs up by ip?

2007-02-01 Thread Dave Fancella
On Thursday 01 February 2007 5:54 am, Les Stott wrote: First: the backuppc website needs to be updated to reflect that this list is a members-only list. I originally sent this email without joining but received the Your post awaits moderation email. So I joined the list and have resent

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

2007-02-01 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Les Stott wrote on 02.02.2007 at 13:21:49 [Re: [BackupPC-users] RHEL4 fresh load - child exited prematurely]: Don't get me wrong though, I'm not gung-ho, I too am conservative, and you have to be in production environments. But i don't think you can be ultra conservative. Clients want

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC pings by hostname, but backs up by ip?

2007-02-01 Thread Les Stott
Dave Fancella wrote: On Thursday 01 February 2007 5:54 am, Les Stott wrote: No domain, the computer's hostname is just ghostwheel. I'm a home user, so I'm sitting behind a cheap linksys wireless nat router, with the router configured as a gateway and all pc's use it as their dns server.

Re: [BackupPC-users] 2.1 versus 3.0

2007-02-01 Thread Dan Pritts
The real question is why your backups and your nightly runs are taking so long to complete. One reason might be network bandwidth. In which case, you're probably stuck. I'm gonna guess this isn't the problem though. If you're on a LAN almost certainly this isn't it. It's easy to measure this.