[BackupPC-users] I want to schedule the backup process.

2007-11-04 Thread Manoj Philip
Hi I want to schedule the backup process so as it automatically starts. Earlier it was working but now its not Any help would be appreciated.. -- Regards, Philip - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Stil

[BackupPC-users] Restoring entire Linux machine

2007-11-04 Thread Nick Triantafillou
Hi all, Would the basic procedure of restoring a Linux machine be to re-install the base system, get backuppc working (ssh keys etc) then restore the folders one at a time (or somesuch) to the client machine? Or is some kind of re-imaging/netbootable restore method possible to avoid that initi

Re: [BackupPC-users] upgrading from 2.1.2 to 3.0.0

2007-11-04 Thread Paul Archer
9:19pm, dan wrote: > betas are betas. if this is a test setup, go ahead and run the beta, but if > this is to hol;d critical data, use the stable. if you are moving to ubuntu > 7.10, then just install ubuntu and `apt-get install backuppc` and you will > be set. > > i will also point out to you t

Re: [BackupPC-users] upgrading from 2.1.2 to 3.0.0

2007-11-04 Thread dan
betas are betas. if this is a test setup, go ahead and run the beta, but if this is to hol;d critical data, use the stable. if you are moving to ubuntu 7.10, then just install ubuntu and `apt-get install backuppc` and you will be set. i will also point out to you that if you will be storing file

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows backup question

2007-11-04 Thread dan
on the windows machine, install and add whatever directories you would like to setup. did you put a username and password in to connect as? i usually for to the services console in on windows and set deltacopy to run as the administrator and make sure to set a password. on line, configure the ta

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up VMs - (or bare metal)

2007-11-04 Thread dan
that looks like a very interesting tool. i currently use norton ghost 10 to build preinstall images(my network has about 100 nearly identical workstations)but this is worth checking out. thanks On 11/4/07, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dan wrote: > > i only run some test servers and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Changing rsync options for different shares.

2007-11-04 Thread Paul Archer
Tomorrow, John Rouillard wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 06:41:24PM -0800, Craig Barratt wrote: >> Paul writes: >>> So you should be able to do something like this: >>> >>> $Conf{RsyncArgs} = [ @$Conf{RsyncArgs}, '--copy-links' ]; >>> Since you're dealing with Perl, you could probably >>> create

Re: [BackupPC-users] Changing rsync options for different shares.

2007-11-04 Thread John Rouillard
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 06:41:24PM -0800, Craig Barratt wrote: > Paul writes: > > So you should be able to do something like this: > > > > $Conf{RsyncArgs} = [ @$Conf{RsyncArgs}, '--copy-links' ]; > > Since you're dealing with Perl, you could probably > > create a file with a list of slow hosts, r

[BackupPC-users] upgrading from 2.1.2 to 3.0.0

2007-11-04 Thread Paul Archer
I installed backuppc on a (K)Ubuntu 7.04 machine, not realizing that I was getting version 2.1.2. I plan on upgrading the machine to 7.10, and upgrading backuppc to 3.0.0. Two questions: 1) Is there anything particular I should worry about or watch out for after the upgrade? 2) Should I use th

Re: [BackupPC-users] RE solution for backup Windows

2007-11-04 Thread Craig Barratt
Tuxoide writes: > Thank you! I have this problem, too. Can someone include this patch > into cygwin or rsync? This workaround was proposed a long time ago (~5 years), and more recent versions of cygwin should not have the original problem. What version of cygwin are you running? Craig -

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

2007-11-04 Thread Craig Barratt
Les writes: > My guess is that something in the network is timing out idle connections > after some fairly short (for TCP) interval. If you set the keepalive > option on a connection, the endpoints will exchange packets periodically > even if there is no data to send so the network device should

Re: [BackupPC-users] Changing rsync options for different shares.

2007-11-04 Thread Paul Archer
Tomorrow, John Rouillard wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 07:41:51PM -0600, Paul Archer wrote: >> 9:08pm, John Rouillard wrote: >>> We tell our users that ~user/bak will be backed up and they can >>> symbolically link in any directories/files they want backed up. >>> >>> To make this work with bac

Re: [BackupPC-users] Changing rsync options for different shares.

2007-11-04 Thread Craig Barratt
Paul writes: > I haven't tested this, but I believe the order is to source the main config > file and then source the config file for the individual host being backed up That's correct. > So you should be able to do something like this: > > $Conf{RsyncArgs} = [ @$Conf{RsyncArgs}, '--copy-links'

Re: [BackupPC-users] Changing rsync options for different shares.

2007-11-04 Thread John Rouillard
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 07:41:51PM -0600, Paul Archer wrote: > 9:08pm, John Rouillard wrote: > >We tell our users that ~user/bak will be backed up and they can > >symbolically link in any directories/files they want backed up. > > > >To make this work with backuppc and rsync, it means adding the -L

Re: [BackupPC-users] Changing rsync options for different shares.

2007-11-04 Thread Paul Archer
9:08pm, John Rouillard wrote: > Hi all: > > We tell our users that ~user/bak will be backed up and they can > symbolically link in any directories/files they want backed up. > > To make this work with backuppc and rsync, it means adding the -L or > --copy-links option to the rsync command. However

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows backup question

2007-11-04 Thread Yaakov Chaikin
Ok, I downloaded and installed DeltaCopy... I am, however, clueless about how to configure it together with BackupPC, so BackupPC would start picking up the files from the windows machine. I did set up a virtual directory in DeltaCopy and it's running as a server on my windows machine. What next?

[BackupPC-users] Changing rsync options for different shares.

2007-11-04 Thread John Rouillard
Hi all: We tell our users that ~user/bak will be backed up and they can symbolically link in any directories/files they want backed up. To make this work with backuppc and rsync, it means adding the -L or --copy-links option to the rsync command. However I only want it when backing up those parti

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore via rsync stalls

2007-11-04 Thread Thilo-Alexander Ginkel
Thilo-Alexander Ginkel wrote: > at the moment, I am attempting to restore a file backed up earlier using > backuppc. Unfortunately, the restore stalls before completion and I am > somewhat stuck in the analysis of its cause. Just another observation: When trying to download the archived file using

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up VMs - (or bare metal)

2007-11-04 Thread Les Mikesell
dan wrote: > i only run some test servers and redundant servers on vmware but i treat > them like a real machine. monthly, i power down the VM and do a snapshot on > the host. best of both worlds. then the VM host gets backed up and i have > a long term backup of the VM image. If you want to do

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc backing up backup directory

2007-11-04 Thread Craig Barratt
Paul writes: > I did a couple of more tests. First I removed > /backup/backuppc/pc/shebop/config.pl, and it backed up normally (backed up > the root filesystem, that is). > > Then I changed the order of $Conf{RsyncShareName}: > > $Conf{RsyncShareName} = [ > '/export/bedr

[BackupPC-users] Restore via rsync stalls

2007-11-04 Thread Thilo-Alexander Ginkel
Hello everybody, at the moment, I am attempting to restore a file backed up earlier using backuppc. Unfortunately, the restore stalls before completion and I am somewhat stuck in the analysis of its cause. Initially, some information: I am using backuppc version 3.0.0 as shipped with Ubuntu Gutsy