Re: [BackupPC-users] smbclient broken (?) - no multiple exlcudes possible ?

zwiskle wrote: > Hi, > > just found, that the smbclient package on debian-etch seems to be broken > - ignoring multiple excludes. > > This seems to disqulifing smb method ? > (I'm doing full-backups ( "*" ) exlcuding some direcotries) > > Does the rsync method work ? > Other methods I can try ? ( g

Re: [BackupPC-users] Server did not respond after 20000 milliseconds

shacky wrote: > Hi. > > I'm using BackupPC 3.0.0 to backup two identical Windows server which > shares the whole file system to my linux server, and I access it using > the SMB Xfer method. > BackupPC connects correctly to the shares but after a while the backup > hangs and I get this error: > > "C

[BackupPC-users] Server did not respond after 20000 milliseconds

Hi. I'm using BackupPC 3.0.0 to backup two identical Windows server which shares the whole file system to my linux server, and I access it using the SMB Xfer method. BackupPC connects correctly to the shares but after a while the backup hangs and I get this error: "Call timed out: server did not

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki [no forums]

you know, i just read those stats on wikipedia quality. anonymous users have higher quality posts when post count is low. as post count increases, quality drops registered users have medium quality posts when post count is low but quality increases as post count increases! -- with that in mind

Re: [BackupPC-users] what platform ??? (was: Re: small backup maxes out cpu and never finishes)

Hi, dan wrote on 18.10.2007 at 20:01:01 [Re: [BackupPC-users] what platform ??? (was: Re: small backup maxes out cpu and never finishes)]: > id have to say that some platforms would be better either from a performance > and features standpoint, or from a configuration standpoint. redhat/centos >

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki [no forums]

Hi, dan wrote on 11.10.2007 at 15:04:16 [Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums]: > [context lost by top-posting] > only sourceforge members may edit. that is correct that's three votes for "you need a SF login to edit" and one reality against. I guess that's in favour of you and reality will need

Re: [BackupPC-users] what platform ??? (was: Re: small backup maxes out cpu and never finishes)

id have to say that some platforms would be better either from a performance and features standpoint, or from a configuration standpoint. redhat/centos and ubuntu/debian platforms seem to have significantly less backuppc problems. i see a lot of gentoo issues though. it would be sensible to say

Re: [BackupPC-users] what platform ??? (was: Re: small backup maxes out cpu and never finishes)

Hi, dan wrote on 18.10.2007 at 19:43:15 [[BackupPC-users] what platform ??? Re: small backup maxes out cpu and never finishes]: > what platform are you running backuppc on? id like to compile a list of > platforms for frequency of problems. i have very very few issues on > ubuntu. maybe we can

[BackupPC-users] what platform ??? Re: small backup maxes out cpu and never finishes

what platform are you running backuppc on? id like to compile a list of platforms for frequency of problems. i have very very few issues on ubuntu. maybe we can get a recommended platform On 10/18/07, Holger Parplies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote on 17.10.

Re: [BackupPC-users] small backup maxes out cpu and never finishes

Hi, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote on 17.10.2007 at 09:08:59 [Re: [BackupPC-users] small backup maxes out cpu and never finishes]: > On 10/17 09:42 , Rob Owens wrote: > > I did not find any recursive hard links. By the way, while my server > > cpu is maxed out, I do not see any appreciable amount

Re: [BackupPC-users] A tar restore issue, does not work on localhost

Hi, Rob Morin wrote on 18.10.2007 at 08:15:47 [[BackupPC-users] A tar restore issue, does not work on localhost]: > So i found this post , i forget where that mentioned to use a tarCreat > file via sudo to do localhost backups... that works fine but restoring > does not work, any help appreciat

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc problem

Hi, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote on 18.10.2007 at 15:43:23 [Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc problem]: > [...] > > I still see --devices instead of -D in the command. I also have nothing to add to my last answer to the same question. Regards, Holger

Re: [BackupPC-users] Removing a client backups?

Hi, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote on 15.10.2007 at 12:21:13 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Removing a client backups?]: > the BackupPC_nightly job will clean up > the dangling hardlinks; or you can run '/path/to/BackupPC_nightly 0 255' to > accellerate the process. this has been suggested many times, whi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Any way to retrieve files from a deleted backup?

if you browse to the directory, prob /var/lib/backuppc/pc/hostname/ can you see a directory named 334?? if so the files are there, if not they are probably gone. are you using ext2 filesystem? if so look at this http://www.stud.tu-ilmenau.de/~mojo/undelete.html

Re: [BackupPC-users] Email summary after backup

Dear Martin, > I am searching after some script or possibility to send email at some > addresses after every backup, and in this email i need : > > 1. What has been backed up. > 2. When > 3. If backup was successfull or not > 4. If not - why > almost all yours requests ;-) in config.pl (or in

[BackupPC-users] Any way to retrieve files from a deleted backup?

Hi, I goofed and didn't restore a user's files in time. I need to retrieve a directory from backup number 334 and my backups now start at 335. Can anyone think of a way to get in there and get stuff from 334 now that it's not showing? Has it really been overwritten? Also, in the future, is the

[BackupPC-users] smbclient broken (?) - no multiple exlcudes possible ?

Hi, just found, that the smbclient package on debian-etch seems to be broken - ignoring multiple excludes. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=373850 (and in the samba-bugzilla, too ) This seems to disqulifing smb method ? (I'm doing full-backups ( "*" ) exlcuding some direcotries)

[BackupPC-users] automated backup verification test?

Does anyone on the list have a procedure (or even better, a script) to periodically verify that BackupPC is backing up properly? I'd like to have something that restores a certain directory of my backups (to a temporary location), then compares it to the same directory on the host. The purpose is

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc problem

dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi > ?? im not sure why you would be getting a gdk error. if you dont already > know, gdk is a graphics framework for gnome and xfce and the Xlib is an > access library for gdk to talk to X windows. it looks like your ssh client > does some gdk calls. > > what d

Re: [BackupPC-users] Email summary after backup

i didnt know it was for customers, i thought it was for you. anyway, sorry it couldnt be more help On 10/18/07, Martin Šoltis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Dan, but this is not very usefull. I can't send to customers > something > like this > > 007-10-05 01:30:01 incr backup started back

Re: [BackupPC-users] Email summary after backup

along those lines, i would put it on the wiki and ask developers to make an interface to it in a future version. On 10/18/07, Markus Iturriaga Woelfel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I think that i shall have to write something better, some script that > > will be > > able to parse output from

Re: [BackupPC-users] command line access to a restore

thanks Nils Breunese and Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom the critical things were that i needed a space in -h host/path so it was -h host /path and also the output, i was expecting a flag for output like -o outputfile.zip, didnt even think of the > outputfile.zip thanks guys. On 10/18/07, Carl Wilhelm

Re: [BackupPC-users] command line access to a restore

dan wrote: i run this command as per the directions(needed to su backuppc!) Yes, I said you needed to run these commands as the backuppc user. I meant it, I wasn't joking. :o) ./BackupPC_zipCreate -h hostname -n -1 -c 3 but it does not have an option of where to save the zip for OR how

Re: [BackupPC-users] command line access to a restore

On 10/18 08:55 , dan wrote: > i run this command as per the directions(needed to su backuppc!) > > ./BackupPC_zipCreate -h hostname -n -1 -c 3 > > but it does not have an option of where to save the zip for OR how to > specify all files. I've never used BackupPC_zipCreate; but I'll presume it's

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarPCCopy hard link error

Pool is about 108 GB. I already saw the system go down to a very very slow pace when trying the rsync everything. The backuppc folder is on the same partition as my samba shares so i rather not unmount it every night for backups. It depends how long it takes to backup 250-350 GB with dd.

Re: [BackupPC-users] command line access to a restore

i run this command as per the directions(needed to su backuppc!) ./BackupPC_zipCreate -h hostname -n -1 -c 3 but it does not have an option of where to save the zip for OR how to specify all files. On 10/18/07, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dan wrote: > > > do you kno

Re: [BackupPC-users] A tar restore issue, does not work on localhost

On 10/18 10:27 , Rob Morin wrote: > The files are there, however not sure what the command line would be to > restore it manually... I'll give you an example from my system (installed from a Debian package). You can modify it for your own needs. # /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat /var/lib/

Re: [BackupPC-users] command line access to a restore

dan wrote: do you know what the syntax of that is? Just run the commands and they will tell you. Nils Breunese. On 10/18/07, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: dan wrote: > id like to use the command line to pull out a backup just like the > web interface does. i want t

Re: [BackupPC-users] command line access to a restore

do you know what the syntax of that is? On 10/18/07, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dan wrote: > > > id like to use the command line to pull out a backup just like the > > web interface does. i want to do get a single zip/tgz file with > > the entire backup tree from whic

Re: [BackupPC-users] A tar restore issue, does not work on localhost

The files are there, however not sure what the command line would be to restore it manually... Thanks for replying Rob Morin Director of Technologies Dido Internet Inc. Montreal,Canada http://www.dido.ca 514-990- Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 10/18 08:15 , Rob Morin wrote: > >> S

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarPCCopy hard link error

On 10/18 03:47 , Koen Linders wrote: > I'm trying to backup my cpool and pc's to an external disk attached to the > same computer. Both are: ext3 > > 1) Rsync -avHh for cpool works. How much data do you have? you'll find that rsync has awful memory requirements once you start getting millions o

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarPCCopy hard link error

Hello, system info: Backuppc v.3 (latest stable via deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free) Debian Etch Tar v. 1.60 I'm trying to backup my cpool and pc's to an external disk attached to the same computer. Both are: ext3 1) Rsync -avHh for cpool works. Btw,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Email summary after backup

Thanks Dan, but this is not very usefull. I can't send to customers something like this 007-10-05 01:30:01 incr backup started back to 2007-10-04 01:30:01 (backup #21) for directory / 2007-10-05 01:33:18 incr backup started back to 2007-10-04 01:30:01 (backup #21) for directory /data/netserv.ne

Re: [BackupPC-users] command line access to a restore

dan wrote: id like to use the command line to pull out a backup just like the web interface does. i want to do get a single zip/tgz file with the entire backup tree from whichever backup or incremetal i choose, just like the web interface gives if i manually go there and select the whol

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc problem

dan wrote: ?? im not sure why you would be getting a gdk error. if you dont already know, gdk is a graphics framework for gnome and xfce and the Xlib is an access library for gdk to talk to X windows. it looks like your ssh client does some gdk calls. what distro are you on? this looks

Re: [BackupPC-users] Email summary after backup

you might want to use tail on that zcat also, you would get a pretty big email otherwise On 10/18/07, dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you could do something like this in a script > > #!/bin/bash > #logfilemails > for file in `find /path/to/backups -name Xlog*`; do > echo "-

Re: [BackupPC-users] Email summary after backup

you could do something like this in a script #!/bin/bash #logfilemails for file in `find /path/to/backups -name Xlog*`; do echo "-" echo 'backup summary for $file' Backuppc_zcat $file echo "

[BackupPC-users] command line access to a restore

hi guys! id like to use the command line to pull out a backup just like the web interface does. i want to do get a single zip/tgz file with the entire backup tree from whichever backup or incremetal i choose, just like the web interface gives if i manually go there and select the whole directory

[BackupPC-users] Email summary after backup

Hi all I am searching after some script or possibility to send email at some addresses after every backup, and in this email i need : 1. What has been backed up. 2. When 3. If backup was successfull or not 4. If not - why Do you know someone if there is something like this ? First of all i want

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc problem

?? im not sure why you would be getting a gdk error. if you dont already know, gdk is a graphics framework for gnome and xfce and the Xlib is an access library for gdk to talk to X windows. it looks like your ssh client does some gdk calls. what distro are you on? this looks like a gentoo thing

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync fulls complete, but incrementals don't

i have found that the default timeout will not work over even a fast WAN. i have an MPLS network with ping times averaging about 180ms and i could not get a reliable incremental without putting that hosts timeout at 300ms. please let me know if that helps On 10/17/07, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [BackupPC-users] A tar restore issue, does not work on localhost

On 10/18 08:15 , Rob Morin wrote: > So i found this post , i forget where that mentioned to use a tarCreat > file via sudo to do localhost backups... that works fine but restoring > does not work, any help appreciated All other servers vis rsync > work just fine > > HELP can you resto

[BackupPC-users] A tar restore issue, does not work on localhost

So i found this post , i forget where that mentioned to use a tarCreat file via sudo to do localhost backups... that works fine but restoring does not work, any help appreciated All other servers vis rsync work just fine HELP locahost.pl file # Local server backup of / as user backup