[BackupPC-users] Pings failing to host

2007-06-04 Thread Krsnendu dasa
I have a laptop computer that connects through wireless and wired at different times. The ping works if I am connected to one of the ports, but if I connect to the other port instead I get an error. If I do nmblookup it always gives me the up-to-date ip address but I keep getting "no ping" errors

Re: [BackupPC-users] Should you have to patch BackupPC/Lib.pm?

2007-06-04 Thread Tony Shadwick
That's correct. The code winds up looking either in /etc, or in $TOPDIR/conf, neither of which is correct. On FreeBSD, it would go in /usr/local/etc/BackupPC (or /usr/local/etc/backuppc, whichever). Tony Shadwick OSS Solutions Craig Barratt wrote: > Tony writes: > >> Anyhoo...I tend to think

Re: [BackupPC-users] Non-pingable host

2007-06-04 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 06/01 05:03 , Klaas Vantournhout wrote: > I think it would be better to change the ping command to the arpping > command. This way you can block ping requests on the clients (which is > safer), and backuppc is still able to check if the pc is alive or not. I would suggest that a better mechani

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unable to read 4 bytes

2007-06-04 Thread Keith Edmunds
Hi Vyacheslav > Hello, > > It just hangs still. > Asks for the root password and then nothing happens. > > Monday, June 4, 2007, 6:50:32 PM, you wrote: > > > Hi Vyacheslav > > >> Any suggestions how to correct this? > > > Find the actual command in the log file and try running it > > inte

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrate backup pool to new server

2007-06-04 Thread Richard Bailey
On 6/3/07, Holger Parplies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Richard Bailey wrote on 02.06.2007 at 11:07:09 [[BackupPC-users] Migrate backup pool to new server]: > Hello, I'm in the process of planning the rebuild of my home server to > beefier hardware, which will require a reinstall of the OS.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unable to read 4 bytes

2007-06-04 Thread Keith Edmunds
Hi Vyacheslav > Any suggestions how to correct this? Find the actual command in the log file and try running it interactively. Keith - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version

[BackupPC-users] backing up Windows 2003

2007-06-04 Thread Vyacheslav Klimov
Hello, I also backup Windows 2003 server, using rsyncd method via cygwin. Everything goes fine, but backup log has some 20 errors like that: Remote[1]: rsync: send_files failed to open "ygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/c:/WINDOWS/system32/drivers/sptd.sys" (in Local_Disk_C): Device or resource bus

[BackupPC-users] backing up routers

2007-06-04 Thread Vyacheslav Klimov
Hello, Beside bunch of linux servers, i have a couple of dozens of routers. They are not linux. It is possible to create binary backup file, however. At the moment I backup them, by scheduling in each of them a uber-nifty backup script, which creates binary backup and sends it to designated e

[BackupPC-users] Unable to read 4 bytes

2007-06-04 Thread Vyacheslav Klimov
Hello, I am trying to backup localhost. I get error specified in subject. I try to backup localhost using regular settings, only excluding backuppc folder (/var/lib/backuppc). That means, i am doing localhost backup using rsync over ssh. ssh -l root myhost.mydomain whoami gives root ssh

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backups with rsync

2007-06-04 Thread Craig Barratt
Keith writes: > My understanding is that when BackupPC is doing an incremental backup via > rsync, only the files that have changed attributes since the last full > backup are examined. > > I have a backup running on a client that has just over 100,000 files > using 24Gb, and monitoring with 'wat

Re: [BackupPC-users] Should you have to patch BackupPC/Lib.pm?

2007-06-04 Thread Craig Barratt
Tony writes: > Anyhoo...I tend to think we have at very least a bug in configure.pl, > but moreover we need to be a bit more flexible on being able to define > confDir. As was mentioned before, having the option to pass it on the > command line would clear this right up. There are two differe

Re: [BackupPC-users] strange problem when using backuppc with xferMethod=rsyncd

2007-06-04 Thread Craig Barratt
Andrey writes: > I've got a little strange problem when using backuppc with > xferMethod=rsyncd.. > When incremental backup starts, backuppc creates 'new' directory in > per-host spool. It's cool. But this directory contains all folders and > files from the destination host. I'm not newbye with rs

Re: [BackupPC-users] client server setup for backuppc

2007-06-04 Thread Craig Barratt
Maikel writes: > i'm trying to configure backuppc with the client server principe, so > the web interface runs on a different host then the actually backuppc > program. > > Now i found the ServerPort setting in the config.pl file. But do i > have to install / do on the client? > > so basically