[BackupPC-users] Backup 3 times in a day and 1 times in a 7 days

2007-09-26 Thread rajnish kumar
Dear Friends Is that possible ? 1. Monday incremental 2 times in a day 2. Tuesday incremental 2 times in a day 3. Wednesday incremental 2 times in a day 4. Thursday incremental 2 times in a day 5. Friday incremental 2 times in a day 6. Saturday incremental 2 times in a day 7.

Re: [BackupPC-users] XP Backup of system state

2007-09-26 Thread Toni Van Remortel
Jack Coats wrote: > Does someone have a 'systems state' backup procedure for a Windows XP > system (I need to do it for a Win2003 server also, but one issue at a > time)? > > I used to do IBM TSM backups, and TSM generated a directory in the root > of the windows system drive, and it put all the n

Re: [BackupPC-users] Troubleshooting a slow backup

2007-09-26 Thread David Rees
On 9/26/07, Tony Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Rees wrote: > > Your machine looks fine to me. Your backuppc data partition is a single > > disk? > > My servers disk it 6 250G IDE drives arranged in a RAID5 with 1 Hot > Spare. The Controller is a 3Ware Escalade 7506-8 Controller. OK,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Localhost tar back odditie...

2007-09-26 Thread Rob Morin
Ahh, ok i get it now, so then i should back up "/" then exclude what i want, as an example as anything i put would be under the root.. Thanks dude! Rob Morin Director of Technologies Dido Internet Inc. Montreal,Canada http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Craig Barratt wrote: > Rob writes: > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Troubleshooting a slow backup

2007-09-26 Thread Tony Nelson
I am testing with --checksum-seed=0 .. before I waste several hours, is 0 a useful number? Thanks in advance, Tony Nelson Starpoint Solutions David Rees wrote: On 9/26/07, Tony Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, due to a power failure, I was put in the lovely position of a corrupted Reis

Re: [BackupPC-users] Troubleshooting a slow backup

2007-09-26 Thread Tony Nelson
David Rees wrote: On 9/26/07, Tony Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, due to a power failure, I was put in the lovely position of a corrupted ReiserFS tree. I ran reiserfsck, which took 4 days to complete and just couldn't bring myself to trust stability of the disk. Given the lack of in

Re: [BackupPC-users] Troubleshooting a slow backup

2007-09-26 Thread David Rees
On 9/26/07, Tony Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, due to a power failure, I was put in the lovely position of a > corrupted ReiserFS tree. I ran reiserfsck, which took 4 days to > complete and just couldn't bring myself to trust stability of the disk. Given the lack of interest/maintaine

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE

2007-09-26 Thread Brian Lane
Jason Harrison wrote: > Greetings, > > I have excluded the files that cause the backup to fail and done a successful > full backup. However when I remove the files from the excludes and try > another full backup the backup still fails on a file in the backup directory > on the remote host. >

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE

2007-09-26 Thread Jason Harrison
Greetings, I have excluded the files that cause the backup to fail and done a successful full backup. However when I remove the files from the excludes and try another full backup the backup still fails on a file in the backup directory on the remote host. Any ideas? Regards, Jason

Re: [BackupPC-users] Troubleshooting a slow backup

2007-09-26 Thread Ski Kacoroski
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:28:31 -0400 Tony Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, due to a power failure, I was put in the lovely position of a > corrupted ReiserFS tree. I ran reiserfsck, which took 4 days to > complete and just couldn't bring myself to trust stability of the > disk. > > So,

Re: [BackupPC-users] XP Backup of system state

2007-09-26 Thread Anthony J Biacco
I use NTBackup to back up the system state locally, then backuppc the system state backup file. -Tony -- Anthony J. Biacco Senior Systems/Network Administrator Decentrix Inc. 303-899-4000 x303 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Coats

[BackupPC-users] rsyncd restore - symlink troubles

2007-09-26 Thread Anatoly V Zhestov
Good day. My os Debian x64 I use first backuppc 2.1.2 from apt repositories, and try 3.0 from src now. When i start restore incremental or full backup, symlinks with relative path restore broken, without leading slash. for example: before restore: /etc:# ls -la ./motd lrwxrwxrwx 1 ro

Re: [BackupPC-users] Troubleshooting a slow backup

2007-09-26 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 09/26 10:28 , Tony Nelson wrote: > It still seems very slow to me. I don't know if I should attribute it > to the fact that everything it is doing is a full backup or not. > > I've attached the output from vmstat on the BackupPC server. The server > is currently running 3 full backups. I'v

[BackupPC-users] schedule

2007-09-26 Thread rajnish kumar
Dear friends I have problems like this plz help me. 1. Incremental backup is not happening per hour 2. It's always saying like this "Next wakeup is 2007-09-27 14:00:00" but backup is not happing it's saying time. 3. From samba additional file is not backup in incremental back

Re: [BackupPC-users] restricting cgi users restore to their own files, or how to handle many users.

2007-09-26 Thread Jack Coats
I only ever have seen one backup package that allowed that fine grained restores. ... SyBack by SyncSort, Inc. on the IBM VM operating system for CMS users. Any user could restore any file they owned or could read to wherever they had write permissions to. That would be a 'killer enhancement to

[BackupPC-users] XP Backup of system state

2007-09-26 Thread Jack Coats
Does someone have a 'systems state' backup procedure for a Windows XP system (I need to do it for a Win2003 server also, but one issue at a time)? I used to do IBM TSM backups, and TSM generated a directory in the root of the windows system drive, and it put all the needed systems state backup the

Re: [BackupPC-users] failed partial backups deleting files from previous partials

2007-09-26 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 09/26 04:31 , Craig Barratt wrote: > Rsync didn't get added to BackupPC until 2.0.0, so the > architecture didn't consider how rsync typically works. ah, ok. I've only used it since 2.0.1 I think. I always guessed that rsync was the original transport mechanism, and the others were added later.

Re: [BackupPC-users] restricting cgi users restore to their own files, or how to handle many users.

2007-09-26 Thread Ronny Aasen
Sorry about the duplicate post. Trying to use the right address now ! > Ronny writes: > > > I am taking backup of a directory /home, containing ~1000 users. > > And i want to allow each of the users access to restore his own files. > > But NOT to read/restore files that he normaly would not. > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: Unable to Browse Backups

2007-09-26 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Craig Barratt wrote: Kimball writes: Update: MacOS X does funky permissions on this drive - when I first sent the original mail, I was logged in as root, and the ownerships were appearing as unknown:unknown for everything on this drive - but when I logged in as the backuppc user, the ownershi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: Unable to Browse Backups

2007-09-26 Thread Craig Barratt
Kimball writes: > Update: MacOS X does funky permissions on this drive - when I first > sent the original mail, I was logged in as root, and the ownerships > were appearing as unknown:unknown for everything on this drive - but > when I logged in as the backuppc user, the ownership appears as the

Re: [BackupPC-users] failed partial backups deleting files from previous partials

2007-09-26 Thread Craig Barratt
Les writes: > But will you still be able to restore the file state as of each separate > run? Sometimes the reason you are restoring is that the current version > is a mess. The issue could probably be avoided with a complete tree > link copy before starting followed by in in-place update, but t

Re: [BackupPC-users] failed partial backups deleting files from previous partials

2007-09-26 Thread Craig Barratt
Carl writes: > ah, I see. > I think I see some of the arguments for doing things this way, but what was > *your* reasoning when you first designed this architecture? It's rather > unusual compared to the other rsync-backup programs I've seen (or built). Rsync didn't get added to BackupPC until 2.

Re: [BackupPC-users] User Controled Exclusions

2007-09-26 Thread Craig Barratt
Paul writes: > Saw a posing from a while back discussing the concept of letting users > touch files to designate items to exclude from the backup. The > discussion doesn't seem to have gotten far as the focus seemed to be on > modifying BackupPC to support it. I've got another approach and wante

Re: [BackupPC-users] Localhost tar back odditie...

2007-09-26 Thread Craig Barratt
Rob writes: > Below is my localhost.pl file, i install this via apt-get on Debian Etc. > But for some reason it still backs up the files i have in the exclude > section... did i miss something? > > $Conf{TarShareName} = > ['/etc','/var/www/ispcp','/var/mail','/usr/local/bin','/var/lib']; > $Conf{

Re: [BackupPC-users] restricting cgi users restore to their own files, or how to handle many users.

2007-09-26 Thread Craig Barratt
Ronny writes: > I am taking backup of a directory /home, containing ~1000 users. > And i want to allow each of the users access to restore his own files. > But NOT to read/restore files that he normaly would not. > > Example: user1 have a file in /home/user1/private.txt that have 600 > permission

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Schedule

2007-09-26 Thread Craig Barratt
rajnish writes: > I found every thing i want from backuppc but still > some things are missing might be possible i am not able to see the > things > My query is --- Backup Schedule > 1. full backup start time is -- Monday 1:30 PM > 2. Incremental is every hours except f

[BackupPC-users] Backup a Windows XP Pro workstation using samba client

2007-09-26 Thread Xesos
Hello, I want save a Windows station with Samba client but it doesn't work and I don't understand why. I'd like to backup a Windows XP Pro workstation using samba client but it doesn't work. My server is running Centos 5 and BackupPC version 3. The workstation is in a workgroup. My file "win

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: Unable to Browse Backups

2007-09-26 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Kimball Larsen wrote: Update: MacOS X does funky permissions on this drive - when I first sent the original mail, I was logged in as root, and the ownerships were appearing as unknown:unknown for everything on this drive - but when I logged in as the backuppc user, the ownership appears