I'm posting this to the list so people searching for FreeBSD
optimizations will find it in the archives.
I finally got around to looking at why my FreeBSD server was only
backing up at about 2.5MB/sec using tar with clients with lots of small
files.
Using my desktop (a Mac PRO) as the test
Rob Morin wrote:
> Thanks for that... but just wondering how backuppc would restore if
> keys are not there, on the system with the live cd?
Then re-copy them from your server to the running environment of the
live cd. No big deal.
Perhaps you can build a custom live CD with a known public key i
How come the links that I have in the sidebar is Status,Host
Summary.Documentation,FAQ,Sourceforge only?
I checked
http://sgowtham.net/blog/2007/07/16/backuppc-on-red-hat-enterprise-linux/ and
he has different
interface. He has lot of options in the sidebar compare to mine. I'm using
version
I'm following this tutorial http://fedoranews.org/blog/?p=603
I have installed it and currently running. The problem is I don't know how to
add a host to backup.
I did edit /etc/BackupPC/hosts and put the ff:
hostdhcpusermoreUsers
10.0.1.50 backuppc backuppc
Then edi
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> here's the short version of how to do it:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h
> client.example.tld -n -1 -s / / |gzip -1 |nc client.example.tld
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/targetdisk# nc -l -p | tar xzvp
>
> I might h
Les Stott wrote:
>> The current centosplus kernel for centos5 has firewire added. I'm
>> still using cento4, and only use firewire to add an external drive
>> into an existing 2-drive RAID1 long enough for it to sync once a week,
>> then it is rotated offsite. USB should work just as well for
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Les Stott wrote:
>
>> So standard usb drives should be fine, firewire i have used, but only
>> on later kernels which support the cards (fc6+), esata i'm yet to
>> explore but im guessing that it too will have issues with drivers and
>> kernel versions like firewire. I pret
Les Stott wrote:
> So standard usb drives should be fine, firewire i have used, but only on
> later kernels which support the cards (fc6+), esata i'm yet to explore
> but im guessing that it too will have issues with drivers and kernel
> versions like firewire. I pretty much stick to CentOS, an
> So standard usb drives should be fine, firewire i have used, but only on
> firewire i have used, but only on later kernels which support the cards
> (fc6+), esata i'm yet to explore
> but im guessing that it too will have issues with drivers and kernel
> versions like firewire. I pretty much
Nicholas Mistry wrote:
> Yesterday I was walking the streets of costco (a us bulk shopping
> club) and noticed that WD has put out a new 1TB mybook w/ usb/firewire
> 400/eSATA. Since we dont use our backuppc for our mission critical
> backups, I thought why not build a new box with these drives.
It just occured to me, that it would be useful to have a graph of some sort
which would display the time since backup of all hosts. this way we could
readily identify if large numbers of hosts were not being backed up in a
timely manner.
ideally, a graph like that would look something like:
<1da
On 11/05 03:57 , Rob Morin wrote:
> I was just wondering how backuppc would be able to restore using the
> web gui as the bare metal machine would not know about the ssh keys and
> such... i have to put up a new server soon i would like to try it on
> that machine
ah. I see your problem.
Weli backup "/" on all my servers, all my server have software raid
mirror, i have had bad experiance with raid 5 so i am happy with
mirroring...
So i boot up with knoppix and then go to backupppc and simply do a
restore to the bare metal machine drive? All servers except my NFS have
one part
Craig writes:
> Yes it is. Since the Config hash is empty when each config file is parsed,
> this line in lib/BackupPC/Storage/Text.pm incorrectly forces a default value
> to $Conf{IncrLevels} when it might already be defined in the main config file:
>
> $conf->{IncrLevels} = [1] if ( !defin
John writes:
> Yup, that's the only way I can get it to work. If it's in the main
> config file, it doesn't work. Sounds like a bug to me.
Yes it is. Since the Config hash is empty when each config file is parsed,
this line in lib/BackupPC/Storage/Text.pm incorrectly forces a default value
to $C
Yesterday I was walking the streets of costco (a us bulk shopping club) and
noticed that WD has put out a new 1TB mybook w/ usb/firewire 400/eSATA. Since
we dont use our backuppc for our mission critical backups, I thought why not
build a new box with these drives. Paired with software raid
On 11/05 06:39 , John Rouillard wrote:
> It may be, but mine is also hand crafted as well. What release of
> backupc are you running?
this is v.3.0.0
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On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:38:16AM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 11/05 03:22 , John Rouillard wrote:
> > Yup, that's the only way I can get it to work. If it's in the main
> > config file, it doesn't work. Sounds like a bug to me.
>
> I have
> $Conf{IncrLevels} = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6];
On 11/05 01:19 , Rob Morin wrote:
> Thanks for all the info i really appreciate it... So i am wondering
> then if its just not the best and quickest in the end to simply install
> a basic system via Debian's net install ad then restore backuppc over
> that? as that only takes 20 mins or so
Thanks for all the info i really appreciate it... So i am wondering
then if its just not the best and quickest in the end to simply install
a basic system via Debian's net install ad then restore backuppc over
that? as that only takes 20 mins or so
But another quick question is i have
Thanks for that... but just wondering how backuppc would restore if keys
are not there, on the system with the live cd?
Thanks for the help...
Rob Morin
Director of Technologies
Dido Internet Inc.
Montreal,Canada
http://www.dido.ca
514-990-
Toni Van Remortel wrote:
> Rob Morin wrote:
>> b
Rob Morin wrote:
> If possible i would like to hear more talk on doing something like the
> restore from live distro as doing reliable and non time consuming
> images is a bitch... Are there any docs or detailed procedures on how to
> restore to a blank hard drive via a complete back up. I back
On 11/05 09:55 , Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> Unfortunately that's completely alien from the way I do things.
I should have made it clear, that what you're doing isn't necessarily
*wrong*. It *should* work. I just don't do things that way. (for security
and maintainability reasons).
--
Carl
On 11/05 04:35 , N.Pussini wrote:
> Hi! In attachment the config.pl file.
hmm. I see that you put this in your config.pl file:
$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {
'*' => [
'/home/clikka'
]
};
Unfortunately that's completely alien from the way I do things.
- configurations which are particular
Ok, thank you very much for your help.
BackupPC_nightly is now running.
I was in the directory but I forgot the "./".
I hope it will delete all files and links that I want.
Thanks a lot for your precision and details.
Regards,
Romain
Rob Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Envoyé par : [EMAIL PROTE
On 11/05 03:22 , John Rouillard wrote:
> Yup, that's the only way I can get it to work. If it's in the main
> config file, it doesn't work. Sounds like a bug to me.
I have
$Conf{IncrLevels} = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6];
in my config.pl, and it works fine for me. the web interface reports doing
incrementa
Since the command is not in your path, you need to enter the directory
as part of the command. If you are in the directory that contains the
command, simply type:
./command_name
If you are not in the directory, type:
/path/to/command/command_name
By the way, you should stop the backuppc servic
8:04am, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 21:26:18 -0600 (CST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
>> This
>> is for home use--important files (to me) but not a mission critical
>> situation or anything.
>
> Files are either a) important and thus backed up b) unimportant but being
> backed up as pa
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 07:43:40AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
>
> John Rouillard wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 08:20:56AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
> >> I have it working in 3.0
> >>
> >> $Conf{IncrLevels} = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6];
> >>
> >> The backup summary shows that it is, in fact, performing mul
> But, when I try to execute the command"BackupPC_nightly0 255" or
> "BackupPC_serverMesg [mesg]" it doesn't work.
space between "y" and "0" and I think it's called BackupPC_serverMsg.
Renke
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Ok, thanks a lot for your details.
I found the directory where is located all binaries on my server.
I saw the command BackupPC_serverMesg".
The command "more BackupPC_nightly" run correctly and I see all details
But, when I try to execute the command "BackupPC_nightly 0 255" or
"BackupPC_serverMe
Rob Morin wrote:
> but what would a recommend live cd be?
Anything descent that fits your pocket, like Damn Small Linux.
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Linux System Engineer @ Precision Operations NV
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If possible i would like to hear more talk on doing something like the
restore from live distro as doing reliable and non time consuming
images is a bitch... Are there any docs or detailed procedures on how to
restore to a blank hard drive via a complete back up. I backup up "/"
except for the
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
Fisrt, when you say "BackupPC_serverMesg" it's $Conf{ServerMesgSecret}?
No. Those are completely separate concepts (see below).
My configuration of config.pl :
$Conf{MaxBackupPCNightlyJobs} = 4
$Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod} = 1
Normally,
Hello,
Fisrt, when you say "BackupPC_serverMesg" it's $Conf{ServerMesgSecret}?
My configuration of config.pl :
$Conf{MaxBackupPCNightlyJobs} = 4
$Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod} = 1
Normally, with this configuration, each night (at 01:00 am) all files and
links wich are uneeded are deleted, aren't
According to others on the list previously, it's
BackupPC_serverMesg BackupPC_nightly run
which asks backuppc to perform a nightly run the next time it's safe to do
so (immediately if it can; asap if not). If you've configured backuppc to
only process a portion of the pool each night, you may
I've done bare-metal restores from backuppc several times. It works very
well with a Linux target.
- your original backup should take all of /, except for /proc/*, /sys/* and
probably /tmp/*, /var/tmp/*, and whatever else you don't care about
restoring (/var/cache/apt/archives/*, /var/log/*,
On Mon, November 5, 2007 13:51, Rob Owens wrote:
> Is sudo properly configured on the host machine with the ability to
> write to the proper directories?
Yes, it is. Restoring smaller files also works without any issues.
Regards,
Thilo
Is sudo properly configured on the host machine with the ability to
write to the proper directories?
-Rob
Thilo-Alexander Ginkel wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> at the moment, I am attempting to restore a file backed up earlier using
> backuppc. Unfortunately, the restore stalls before completion
John Rouillard wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 08:20:56AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
>> I have it working in 3.0
>>
>> $Conf{IncrLevels} = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6];
>>
>> The backup summary shows that it is, in fact, performing multilevel backups.
>> John Rouillard wrote:
>>> Hi all:
>>>
>>> I am working
dan wrote:
> maybe set a rediculously large timeout for backuppc and set the rsync
> option --timeout and see if rsync manages it better. i think that
> rsync's --timeout option looks for activity not just completion so it
> wont timeout on a large file while backuppc looks just for activity
>
Hello,
I know that it's not possible to run BackupPC_Nightly if a backup is
running but I would like to run it manually and when I want (for example
with command line).
I would like to do that in order to delete all links and all files which
are needed => to do several tests about time / compre
Nick Triantafillou wrote:
> 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 restor
On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:55:39 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> I want to schedule the backup process so as it automatically starts.
You cannot dictate when the backups start, but backups should be scheduled
automatically.
> Earlier it was working but now its not
That is insufficient informat
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 21:26:18 -0600 (CST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> This
> is for home use--important files (to me) but not a mission critical
> situation or anything.
Files are either a) important and thus backed up b) unimportant but being
backed up as part of a test or c) unimportant or alrea
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