[BackupPC-users] bug or feature ?

Hello, Strange situation and strange behavior the backup of the the PC working during a long time... but the the harddisk crashs... during one week no backup are taken... I replace the drive and I put the PC on network but I'm forget to disable backup :-( BackupPC take a full backup (36) with 0

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync incrementals

Unless you have a specific reason not to, absolutely! I would use multi-level incrementals. I've always liked a tower of hanoi backup scheme (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22tower+of+hanoi%22+backup+rotation), but there are others that work well too. That said, it's still in your best i

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync incrementals

It is BackupPC 3.0 but recently upgraded from 2.1.2. I have only $Conf{IncrLevels} = [1]; Are you suggesting I implement multi-levels? Tony On Jun 21, 2007, at 10:34 AM, Stephen Joyce wrote: > If you're using 2.1.x, then yes. All incrementals are based off of > the full and will check/transfe

[BackupPC-users] rsync incrementals

I'm experiencing something and I just want to check if I'm understanding what is happening. I backup Linux-Linux with XferMethod = rsync. Occasionally a full backup of one of my large systems fails for one reason or another. So I exclude some big directories and run it again, and then have

[BackupPC-users] Empty directories with full, but not with incr backup

Hi I am using a Linux machine to backup 76 windows computers and 3 Linux servers. All backup is via rsync - Cygwin on the Windows machines. Incremental backups are working fine, but full backups of the windows machines contain files and directories 1 level deep and nothing else. (i.e. All second

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC can't transfert big files (?)

Some big file can't be backuped by BackupPC. I have a big file (15707164 bytes). When BackupPC try to tranfert it to the server, BackupPC breaks with this message: Error reading file \Mes documents\frontispiece.tif : Call timed out: server did not respond after 20 milliseconds Didn't get ent

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to archive only part of a backup?

Guy Malacrida wrote: > > To be honest I am still in doubt for you are offering a BackupPC_tarCreate > command and I fail to understand how you could split the outcome in, say, > tranches of 4.7GB to then store on DVDs. If you have temporary disk space to store the result, you can pipe the tar out

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to archive only part of a backup?

Thanks Daniel for your help, To be honest I am still in doubt for you are offering a BackupPC_tarCreate command and I fail to understand how you could split the outcome in, say, tranches of 4.7GB to then store on DVDs. Meantime I read again the documentation Anyway, I tried to use BackupFile

Re: [BackupPC-users] Trouble with tape archiving

Hi, in a same idea you can use (many) dd to create a buffer BackupPC_tarCreate -h pontiac -n -1 -s \* . | gzip -c | dd obs=512k | dd obs=512k of=/dev/nst0 Need to be tested as well. Dan Smisko wrote: > I would try the "buffer" util. It will reblock and buffer the > input data. The default

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_archive command-line example req'd esp. for dir

Hi all, BackupPC_archive -h yields the following: usage: ./BackupPC_archive Having a few cracks at it yields: ./BackupPC_archive: bad reqFileName (arg #3): /tina/backuppc/DATA/pc/elephant/0/Users/test/ Does anyone care to provide an example of how to set off a BackupPC_archive a directory

[BackupPC-users] Scheduling deferred start point, catch-up on-fail

Hi all, It is my interpretation that BackupPC will 'fire-up' at the configured wake intervals to opportunistically do backups outside of blackout periods defined globally or overridden per-host. If I am wrong on this then someone please bail me up right now to correct my understanding before I