Re: [BackupPC-users] adjusting compression level

2007-11-20 Thread romain . pichard
Thanks for your informations. The OS on my server is Fedora Core 6 and I back up Windows Client and I use BackupPC 3.0.0. I will check the version of Gzip. What is the version needed ? Thanks a lot. Have a nice day ! Romain dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 20/11/2007 17:41 A Romain PICHARD/Mondevi

Re: [BackupPC-users] BUPC data on external h.d. produces link errors

2007-11-20 Thread Wayne Wynn
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Garble text after backup

2007-11-20 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Jake Solid wrote on 20.11.2007 at 10:00:16 [[BackupPC-users] Garble text after backup]: > > [...] when ever I open the messages that are inside > new or cur I get garble text like the following: > > x^ÝVkoâ8ýÜüû­ 5òÌ´Z)´l¡»#­FÈ$²MlÆvèðï÷:W;OcN{(PKE£4æb¬Kâ,Ê#d()g·,d0" have you got compressi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem using --cvs-exclude and the BackupFilesExclude option

2007-11-20 Thread Cameron Dale
On 11/19/07, Craig Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alternatively, the bug causes the next exclude to be ignored, > so another work around is: > > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { >'home' => ['/tmp', '/tmp'], > }; Thanks a lot, this workaround worked great for me. Cameron --

Re: [BackupPC-users] adjusting compression level

2007-11-20 Thread Rich Rauenzahn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > I installed BackupPC 3.0.0 on a Fedora Core 6 (server) in order to > back up Windows XP client. > For your information, I use rsyncd. > > I'm checking and testing all differents compression levels to compare > them. > The test is based on 3.00 Gb in full ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] adjusting compression level

2007-11-20 Thread Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks a lot for your answer. > > I checked the type of compression in the config.pl and it's Gzip ( > $Conf{ArchiveComp}='gzip'; ). > I wiil continue with levels 7, 8 and 9 to see the difference. > > Yes I've got several types of files, mp3, videos, .doc, .xls, .ra

Re: [BackupPC-users] adjusting compression level

2007-11-20 Thread dan
the video and mp3 files should see virtually zero compression but exe files should do a little and the excel and word doc files should be about 1/2 the size. so strange. what is your operating system and version? maybe your gzip tools is broken or a bad version.. On Nov 20, 2007 9:34 AM, <[EMAI

Re: [BackupPC-users] adjusting compression level

2007-11-20 Thread romain . pichard
Thanks a lot for your answer. I checked the type of compression in the config.pl and it's Gzip ( $Conf{ArchiveComp}='gzip'; ). I wiil continue with levels 7, 8 and 9 to see the difference. Yes I've got several types of files, mp3, videos, .doc, .xls, .rar, .iso, .exe, etc Thank you. Romai

Re: [BackupPC-users] adjusting compression level

2007-11-20 Thread dan
something is fishy about your compression %. you should definitely get more compression. in the config file, what type of compression are you using? you should see much great compression ratios and you should see some staggering compression times with the level 8 and 9 compression levels. somethi

Re: [BackupPC-users] adjusting compression level

2007-11-20 Thread Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > I installed BackupPC 3.0.0 on a Fedora Core 6 (server) in order to back > up Windows XP client. > For your information, I use rsyncd. > > I'm checking and testing all differents compression levels to compare them. > The test is based on 3.00 Gb in full ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] adjusting compression level

2007-11-20 Thread romain . pichard
Hello, I installed BackupPC 3.0.0 on a Fedora Core 6 (server) in order to back up Windows XP client. For your information, I use rsyncd. I'm checking and testing all differents compression levels to compare them. The test is based on 3.00 Gb in full backupc. There are more than 400 files to ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] odd ping error - threshold is 0msec

2007-11-20 Thread Matthew Vogt
Yeah, I guess it was a monday thing, totally forgot about the per-pc config.pl file. Though, I'm still not sure how that got modified since I use a template to create client account. Oh well. Much obliged. Matt Craig Barratt wrote: Matthew writes: I'm getting an odd ping error and look

[BackupPC-users] Garble text after backup

2007-11-20 Thread Jake Solid
I currently doing backups of the mail store of an IMAP server using backuppc. I use the rsync method to perform these backups. The problem I'm having is that when ever I open the messages that are inside new or cur I get garble text like the following: x^ÝVkoâ8ýÜüû­ 5òÌ´Z)´l¡»#­FÈ$²MlÆvèðï÷:W;OcN

Re: [BackupPC-users] Email

2007-11-20 Thread Les Mikesell
dan wrote: > a note about sendmail. some ISP may block email traffic so you would need > to setup sendmail to send mail via an external mailserver. AT&T, Bresnan, > Cox, and Chartered are all known to block email servers. > > just in case the about alias does not work Normally in this case they

Re: [BackupPC-users] BUPC data on external h.d. produces link errors

2007-11-20 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Rob Owens wrote on 19.11.2007 at 09:15:44 [Re: [BackupPC-users] BUPC data on external h.d. produces link errors]: > Wayne Wynn wrote: > > I have BackupPC (BUPC) running on an Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) box. The > > Filesystem is on a 37 GB SCSI RAID array and the BUPC data is on a 160

Re: [BackupPC-users] Email

2007-11-20 Thread dan
a note about sendmail. some ISP may block email traffic so you would need to setup sendmail to send mail via an external mailserver. AT&T, Bresnan, Cox, and Chartered are all known to block email servers. just in case the about alias does not work On Nov 20, 2007 1:07 AM, Toni Van Remortel <[E

Re: [BackupPC-users] Email

2007-11-20 Thread Toni Van Remortel
Richard Mace wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to work out how to get email notifications working. > I have configured sendmail to work, so that I can type > /usr/sbin/sendmail and can send an email, but I can't seem to get > backup pc to send one. > Add this line in /etc/aliases: backuppc: [EMAIL PROT

Re: [BackupPC-users] odd ping error - threshold is 0msec

2007-11-20 Thread Craig Barratt
Matthew writes: > I'm getting an odd ping error and looking for some help. > > I'm getting this on only one machine: > * Last status is state "idle" (no ping) as of 11/19 14:22. > * Last error is "ping too slow: 1.339msec (threshold is 0msec)" > > Even though the config.pl is: > $Conf{PingMaxMse