Re: [BackupPC-users] Using BackupPC_serverMesg

2007-09-05 Thread Craig Barratt
komodo writes: > Btw. is there big problem add this to documentation ? No, I never got around to it. Volunteers anyone? Craig - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find proble

Re: [BackupPC-users] problem with ${FullKeepCnt} on a per-machine basis

2007-09-05 Thread Craig Barratt
Nicolas writes: > > Check to see what $Conf{FullKeepCntMin} is set for. > > It is set to 1. > > And no incremental backups depend on the oldest full backup. ...and how about the 4th (or 5th) oldest full? With [4,2] that's the one that will get expired every other week (and the oldest overall w

Re: [BackupPC-users] Complicated pre-install setup question

2007-09-05 Thread Les Mikesell
Rob Owens wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >>> Now is a good time to note that I am a novice of sorts... >>> >>> Can folks elaborate as to their experiences with setups that are even >>> remotely similar. The goal is to have complete control of backuppc on a >>> machine I own/host, but does not have su

Re: [BackupPC-users] Complicated pre-install setup question

2007-09-05 Thread Rob Owens
Les Mikesell wrote: >> Now is a good time to note that I am a novice of sorts... >> >> Can folks elaborate as to their experiences with setups that are even >> remotely similar. The goal is to have complete control of backuppc on a >> machine I own/host, but does not have sufficient (read: "cheap")

Re: [BackupPC-users] Complicated pre-install setup question

2007-09-05 Thread Les Mikesell
Steven wrote: > Hello All, > > I've been lurking on the list and browsing the list archives. I am about > ready to install backuppc because it really looks awesome. I just > thought of a setup that I'd like to consider. > > The idea is to have a central backuppc server connecting to remote > clie

Re: [BackupPC-users] Complicated pre-install setup question

2007-09-05 Thread Rob Owens
Steven, If I understand your problem correctly, the solution is easy. Simply configure the BackupPC server to mount a directory, using NFS, on your remote server (and by remote, I assume you mean somewhere on the same local network as the BackupPC server). If you need instructions on how to conf

[BackupPC-users] 100% disk full email notification

2007-09-05 Thread therebel
Hi, is there a way to send a mail when backuppc is unable to do a backup because disk is full : 2007-09-05 13:18:15 Disk too full (100%); skipping 9 hosts Because mail sent only say about hosts that failed before disk was full .. Thanks ---

[BackupPC-users] Complicated pre-install setup question

2007-09-05 Thread Steven
Hello All, I've been lurking on the list and browsing the list archives. I am about ready to install backuppc because it really looks awesome. I just thought of a setup that I'd like to consider. The idea is to have a central backuppc server connecting to remote clients and storing data to a file

Re: [BackupPC-users] Strange problem...

2007-09-05 Thread Les Mikesell
Sam Przyswa wrote: > Hi, > > We have a BackupPC (2.1.2) running very well on a Debian machine. > > We clone this machine (same Apache 1.3.27 same httpd.conf, same BackupPC > (2.1.2) but the first with Perl 5.8.7 and the new one with Perl 5.8.8 > The new machine is on Ubuntu Fiesty but the direc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Strange problem...

2007-09-05 Thread Sam Przyswa
Holger Parplies a écrit : > Hi, > > Sam Przyswa wrote on 28.08.2007 um 23:08:32 [[BackupPC-users] Strange > problem...]: > >> [...] >> We clone this machine >> > > ... err, do you know what "clone" means? > We copy this machine on an other one with the same data and apps from last bac

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3.1.0beta0 released

2007-09-05 Thread daniel berteaud
Le Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:12:06 -0700, Craig Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : That's a great news, I hadn't the time to test for now but I will as soon as possible. I'm glad to see that the project is active, and each time there's a new release, there's a lot of enhancement. For me BackupPC is t

Re: [BackupPC-users] problem with ${FullKeepCnt} on a per-machine basis

2007-09-05 Thread Nicolas STRANSKY
Le 04.09.2007 18:40, Rob Owens a écrit : > Check to see what $Conf{FullKeepCntMin} is set for. It is set to 1. And no incremental backups depend on the oldest full backup. In fact the problem may be that backuppc simply ignores some old backups and keeps them indefinitely, regardless of the tot

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using BackupPC_serverMesg

2007-09-05 Thread komodo
Thanx Craig it works perfect. Btw. is there big problem add this to documentation ? Thanx On Tuesday 04 September 2007 19:27, Craig Barratt wrote: > komodo writes: > > bash-3.1$ /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg status host > > mail.test.com > > Got reply: ok > > > > But in the log > >