[BackupPC-users] What do to when backuppc dies?

2007-03-20 Thread Frej Eriksson
Hi all, I sent an e-mail to the list last week and got good answers so now i have tested BackupPC for a short time, the result has been satisfying. But as always some new questions has poped up. Lets presume that the server that runs BackupPC and stores all backed up data crashes. The system disk

[BackupPC-users] Timeout for ArchiveHost

2007-03-20 Thread Emmanuel Lacour
Hi, I try to make an export (~ 70Go) on HP LTO using the ArhiveHost feature, but each time it stop with a "failed" result ater 120 minutes (backup of 10Go of data is ok). Is there some kind of timeout anywhere (I didn't find one)? Is there anyone having a similar problem? One more question, how

Re: [BackupPC-users] Help with Samba restore

2007-03-20 Thread Charles Swarts
If the drive on the XP machine is formatted as NTFS then you will have to deal with the file system permissions as well as the share permissions. To avoid confusion, I typically set the share permissions to Everyone Full Control and then use the file system permissions to control access since they

Re: [BackupPC-users] Help with Samba restore

2007-03-20 Thread Dale Renton
What happens if you start Windows XP Home in safe mode? In home you can only access the detailed security permissions in safe mode I believe. Also, is simple file sharing turned off? Dale From: "Charles Swarts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rick DeNatale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,backuppc-users@l

Re: [BackupPC-users] What do to when backuppc dies?

2007-03-20 Thread Jason Hughes
Frej Eriksson wrote: I sent an e-mail to the list last week and got good answers so now i have tested BackupPC for a short time, the result has been satisfying. But as always some new questions has poped up. Lets presume that the server that runs BackupPC and stores all backed up data crashes.

[BackupPC-users] upgrade to 3.0

2007-03-20 Thread Henrik Genssen
Hi, are there any issues upgrading from 2.1.2.pl1? is 3.0 yet apt-getable? regards Hinnack - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to shar

Re: [BackupPC-users] rysnc, OSX >= Tiger, and -E (--extended-attributes) causes error

2007-03-20 Thread Dan Pritts
following up to an old thread here... On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 11:29:06AM -0800, Ski Kacoroski wrote: > Not only that, but Craig has modified backuppc's tar implementation to > work with xtar. That is really the only way to back up OSX clients and > keep all the resource fork data. has anyone t

Re: [BackupPC-users] out of disk space - big oops

2007-03-20 Thread Dan Pritts
probably not useful to the OP at this point, but for the archives' sake i'm replying to an old thread here - Another option would be to copy your filesystem to a new raw device that is bigger (use dd to do the copy). This filesystem might in fact be an LVM device, to make this process easier nex

[BackupPC-users] Web admin will not execute after installing 3.0

2007-03-20 Thread Eric Snyder
After installing 3.0 in slackware I can list the BackupPC_Admin file contents in my web browser but it will not execute. The files is marked as executable and the default group for the file was "user". I have tried various user and group permissions and they are currently "backuppc" and group i

Re: [BackupPC-users] upgrade to 3.0

2007-03-20 Thread Filipe
yes it is already in apt repository but I think it is still in testing/unstable to install it you have to uncoment those lines on sources.list I talked about it in another thread Henrik Genssen wrote: > Hi, > > are there any issues upgrading from 2.1.2.pl1? > is 3.0 yet apt-getable? > > re

[BackupPC-users] WARNING regarding using solaris with UFS as your backuppc server

2007-03-20 Thread Dan Pritts
Hi all - I've been running solaris 10 as my backuppc server for quite a while now. It mostly has worked fine. However, recently, I have frequently been bitten by solaris UFS filesystem bugs; the filesystem becomes corrupted for no good reason. I'd blame my hardware if i hadn't had similar exper

Re: [BackupPC-users] Timing out full backups

2007-03-20 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi, > Hi, > > I have the following host summary: > > server1username1 20.63.360.772 10.4 > > 10.4 idledone server2 username1 20.63.23 > 0.743 10.4 > 10.4idledone server3username

Re: [BackupPC-users] WARNING regarding using solaris with UFS as your backuppc server

2007-03-20 Thread jonathan
> I'd blame my hardware if i hadn't had similar experiences several years > ago (on solaris) with an application that was written to use flat files > as a "database". > > the filesystem just didn't like lots and lots of small files and the > system panicked every few weeks, and fsck took FOREVER.

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc Archiving

2007-03-20 Thread Adam Goryachev
Hi, I'm using backuppc version 2.1.2-6 (debian stable package). I've got backuppc nicely backing up a number of machines, on a regular basis, which is all working quite well. I would now like to create an archive of the backup so that it can be written to DVD and moved offsite for archival/etc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Timing out full backups

2007-03-20 Thread Les Mikesell
Michael Mansour wrote: > Hi, > >> Hi, >> >> I have the following host summary: >> >> server1 username1 20.63.360.772 10.4 >> >> 10.4 idledone server2 username1 20.63.23 >> 0.743 10.4 >> 10.4idle