Re: [BackupPC-users] incremental backups using samba don't work

2007-07-20 Thread Les Mikesell
ilias wrote: > when i take incremental backups using samba shares, backuppc won't see the > changes made in old files and it won't write the updated version of that > files, > instead it will keep the old ones. However when it sees new files in the > share > it will store them properly. > > I

Re: [BackupPC-users] incremental backups using samba don't work

2007-07-20 Thread ilias
now that i'm looking at it again, it won't see any difference if i make changes in the contents of a share, even If I delete a file or add a new file it just creates a dublicate of the very first incremental backup. - Thi

[BackupPC-users] incremental backups using samba don't work

2007-07-20 Thread ilias
when i take incremental backups using samba shares, backuppc won't see the changes made in old files and it won't write the updated version of that files, instead it will keep the old ones. However when it sees new files in the share it will store them properly. I thought samba is compairing fil

Re: [BackupPC-users] Archiving to Windows SMB

2007-07-20 Thread Rob Owens
As I understand it, the windows file system is incapable of properly storing BackupPC data, because of the need to use hardlinks. This means that a windows drive cannot be used for the pool, nor can it be used to accurately back up or clone the pool. A windows computer could certainly access the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Archiving to Windows SMB

2007-07-20 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Jacob wrote: OK, so, say I were to mount an SMB share using cifs, and have BackupPC go there? Would that work? No. Or does it need hardlinks in the actual archive store? Yes. If I cannot use a Windows computer, can I store it somewhere else on my computer then, and have the Windows com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Archiving to Windows SMB

2007-07-20 Thread Jacob
OK, so, say I were to mount an SMB share using cifs, and have BackupPC go there? Would that work? Or does it need hardlinks in the actual archive store? If I cannot use a Windows computer, can I store it somewhere else on my computer then, and have the Windows computer access it? Or is that goin

[BackupPC-users] DumpPreUserCmd executes for each share in parallel?

2007-07-20 Thread Joe Bordes
Hi, I have BackupPC 3.0 configured and working but I sometimes get errors which I think are due to the DumpPreUserCmd overlapping with tar. I have: $Conf{TarShareName} = [ '/home', '/srv/www', '/usr/local' ]; $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} = '/home/cpseg/scripts/precopy'; precopy gets a list of po

[BackupPC-users] RsyncdUserName CGI interface

2007-07-20 Thread bgaget
Hello I modified de Meta.pm and config.pl files to see the rsyncdUserName in the cgi interface but the config.pl doesn't keep the ligne 'RsyncdUserName'=> '1', I don't understand, every night the "original" config.pl comes back :-) and I must add this ligne again. Someone have any ide