Re: [BackupPC-users] filesystem recommendation

2007-09-28 Thread Ben Nickell
Doug Lytle wrote: > Josh Marshall wrote: > >>> >>> >>> >> I use xfs on all my installations and feel that's the best mix of >> performance and reliability. I use the standard mkfs.xfs but I've read >> >> >> > Just a note on this, > > I've recently purchased two 500GB dri

[BackupPC-users] copy pool to another filesystem formatted differently

2007-09-28 Thread Ben Nickell
I have set up my new backuppc filesystem on an LVM volume and decided on using ext3 for the filesytem. The old filesytem is reiserfs. I would like to copy the old filesystem to the new larger volume. The backuppc FAQ states: The best way to copy a pool file system, if possible, is by

Re: [BackupPC-users] multiple IP for the same host

2007-09-28 Thread Rod Dickerson
One possible solution is just to hard code your machines¹ IP addresses. You only have 4, so set them all with static ip addresses and then use /etc/hosts. Set the wireless and wired IP addresses to be the same; you only use one at a time, right? I would hate to see you use Samba just for some sort

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scripts for VSS backups of XP

2007-09-28 Thread Rod Dickerson
Thomas, I didn¹t have any problems with vshadow on the XP systems that I was using to test, but that doesn¹t mean there isn¹t something wrong. You can get it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0b4f56e4-0ccc-4626- 826a-ed2c4c95c871&DisplayLang=en The problems that

Re: [BackupPC-users] If anyone is interested....

2007-09-28 Thread Scott
On Sep 28, 2007, at 6:13 PM, James Kyle wrote: > I've completed my script that automatically configures OSX Tiger > clients for backuppc. I can post it to the list if anyone thinks it'd > be of use. Yes please. -- Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> AIM: BlueCame1 --

Re: [BackupPC-users] If anyone is interested....

2007-09-28 Thread James Kyle
BackupPC OSX Tiger Client Auto-Configure script= The script is below, it assumes an ssh pub/priv key with rsync setup for backups. It was written for OSX Tiger clients using system installed binaries for portability. Not tested on Panther or earlier, YMMV. *TIP*

[BackupPC-users] If anyone is interested....

2007-09-28 Thread James Kyle
I've completed my script that automatically configures OSX Tiger clients for backuppc. I can post it to the list if anyone thinks it'd be of use. -james - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Troubleshooting a slow backup

2007-09-28 Thread Dan Pritts
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 04:07:21PM -0700, David Rees wrote: > On 9/27/07, Dan Pritts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I've been of the opinion (not backed up by experimental data) that > > a concatenation (what linux md driver calls LINEAR; similar effects can > > be realized with LVM) of two RAID

Re: [BackupPC-users] multiple IP for the same host

2007-09-28 Thread Jack Coats
You are on the right track. I would suggest enable samba network sharing but first, go in and edit your smb.conf (/etc/samba/smb.conf on my machine) to disable all of the open network sharing. ... share only what you want, if anything). The important thing is that samba is running so it could be

Re: [BackupPC-users] multiple IP for the same host

2007-09-28 Thread Sébastien Barthélemy
Le vendredi 28 septembre 2007 à 09:55 -0500, Jack Coats a écrit : > yes, expounded upon :) --- my wife gets on my case for answering the > question she asked rather than what she meant! > > the facility to detect a machine by name rather than just IP works well. > I would just try it first. Don'

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scripts for VSS backups of XP

2007-09-28 Thread Stephen Joyce
VSS works fine for me on XP pro sp2 (as administrator). Make sure that "MS Software Shadow Copy Provider" and "Volume Shadow Copy" are both automatic/started. Also make sure you're using the correct vshadow.exe as there are different versions for each OS (ie, 2003 and XP are different from eac

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync incremental backup (Exclude)

2007-09-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 27 September 2007, Egenius wrote: > As you see, relative ways since absolute to work here are registered > did not become. > Absolute path for exclude is: /home/disk1 , /home/fsbackup, > /home/homes, /home/samba > > Help me! What do I do incorrectly? Why don't you use the BackupFilesEx

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scripts for VSS backups of XP

2007-09-28 Thread Tomas Florian
I was curious about the vshadow functionality in all of this so I tried it. It works fine on Windows 2003, but not on Windows XP SP2 (I tried 4 different machines including one installed from scratch in a VM) I get the same error for the following commands: vshadow -q vshadow -p -nw C: VSHADOW

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc not backing expected directories onLinux Client

2007-09-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 28 September 2007, Snider, Tim wrote: > Lost my head and pasted the wrong stuff in the file. Here's the correct > conf.pl. This is the config file for this host. It _cannot_ be the config file for this host, because it has: $Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync'; and this backup is clearly us

[BackupPC-users] BACKUPPC Child exist with XP

2007-09-28 Thread tuxi
hello after trying to backuped my windows machine , i log a strange thing... for backup of few files , all work but for 5112 files (10 GO) during the manual backuppc_dump i have this error : Sending empty csums for TomTom/HOME/Backups/Palm/Backup01/Storage_1/FR_plus_major_roads_of_WE-Map/RF-05

[BackupPC-users] Rsync incremental backup (Exclude)

2007-09-28 Thread Egenius
Hello, backuppc-users! I have some problem whith rsync backup. When i run full backup, it's work fine - I have full backup and no have excluded files. Then i run incremental backup, I get copy of all files, that currently have in full backup and files, that marked as excluded. I don't need this

[BackupPC-users] Windows XP backup failed all the time

2007-09-28 Thread tuxi
Hello i have a raid 1 server with P 366 processor and 100 Mo of RAM my system work in WIFI only and i want backup file from my Windows XP machine file backup are my profil only , photos , mails ... in WIFI too :_I the connection work fine , i use the RSYNCD method on XP but the backup start an

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

2007-09-28 Thread Ronny Aasen
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 04:31 -0700, Craig Barratt wrote: > 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: u

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

2007-09-28 Thread Rob Owens
Craig Barratt wrote: > 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 followe

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc not backing expected directories onLinux Client

2007-09-28 Thread Snider, Tim
Lost my head and pasted the wrong stuff in the file. Here's the correct conf.pl. This is the config file for this host. It appears like the files were transferred - at least according to the log file. Maybe the cgi file is messed up? Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/172.22.14.166/X

Re: [BackupPC-users] multiple IP for the same host

2007-09-28 Thread Jack Coats
yes, expounded upon :) --- my wife gets on my case for answering the question she asked rather than what she meant! the facility to detect a machine by name rather than just IP works well. I would just try it first. Don't put the laptop in your /etc/hosts files, and see it you can get to it from

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc not backing expected directories on Linux Client

2007-09-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 28 September 2007, Snider, Tim wrote: > My conf.pl files don't have any exclude entries in them. > I've attached conf.pl, environment, and shell settings. The config file you include is incomplete: multi line entries are not fully included because of the grep you use. So can't tell much

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc not backing expected directories on Linux Client

2007-09-28 Thread Snider, Tim
Here's a rookie question - I couldn't find anything in the doc or FAQ. Why hasn't backuppc (version 2.1.2-6) has backed all root directories on my Linux server? /bin, /dev, /home, /sbin and other directories (shown below) weren't backed up during a full backup. backuppc is logging in as root on th

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

2007-09-28 Thread Rob Owens
Craig Barratt wrote: > 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.

Re: [BackupPC-users] NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE

2007-09-28 Thread Regis Gras
Craig Barratt wrote: >Regis writes: > > > >>I'am using BackupPC-2.1.0 >> >>With the same config.pl, >>Start Full Backup works fine >>Start Inc Backup fails every time with the message NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE >> >> > >I believe there was a version (or set of samba versions) that had >this bug

Re: [BackupPC-users] NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE

2007-09-28 Thread romain . pichard
Hello, I'm a new user of BackupPC and I'm trying to configure it correctly. I've got several default for the moment and I would like to know if you've got the solutions to solve my problems. For your information I'm using samba-client 3.0.24-7 on a Fedora Core 6 in order to backup Windows clien

Re: [BackupPC-users] NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE

2007-09-28 Thread Tony Molloy
On Friday 28 September 2007 12:23, Regis Gras wrote: > Craig Barratt wrote: > >Regis writes: > >>I'am using BackupPC-2.1.0 > >> > >>With the same config.pl, > >>Start Full Backup works fine > >>Start Inc Backup fails every time with the message > >> NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE > > > >I believe there wa

Re: [BackupPC-users] NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE

2007-09-28 Thread Regis Gras
Craig Barratt wrote: >Regis writes: > > > >>I'am using BackupPC-2.1.0 >> >>With the same config.pl, >>Start Full Backup works fine >>Start Inc Backup fails every time with the message NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE >> >> > >I believe there was a version (or set of samba versions) that had >this bug

Re: [BackupPC-users] NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE

2007-09-28 Thread Craig Barratt
Regis writes: > I'am using BackupPC-2.1.0 > > With the same config.pl, > Start Full Backup works fine > Start Inc Backup fails every time with the message NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE I believe there was a version (or set of samba versions) that had this bug. I think it was 3.0.23 or so. There was

[BackupPC-users] NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE

2007-09-28 Thread Regis Gras
I'am using BackupPC-2.1.0 With the same config.pl, Start Full Backup works fine Start Inc Backup fails every time with the message NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE Could some one help me ? -- == | Régis Gras | http://dcm.ujf

Re: [BackupPC-users] multiple IP for the same host

2007-09-28 Thread Sébastien Barthélemy
Le jeudi 27 septembre 2007 à 09:54 -0500, Jack Coats a écrit : On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 16:41 +0200, Sébastien Barthélemy wrote: > > Hello everybody. > > > > I use backuppc at home to backup 4 computers, including a laptop. All of > > them are on a private network behind a wireless router (provided

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

2007-09-28 Thread rajnish kumar
On 9/28/07, rajnish kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/28/07, Ronny Aasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 18:11 +0530, rajnish kumar wrote: > > > Dear sir > > > My question is, I don't required fixed backup only i want > > > incremental backup should be run ho