Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2007-11-28 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Hall wrote: > Hi, > > new to backuppc, I want to use to send my backups > across the Internet (DSL) to an offsite server. > > Are there any known backuppc tweaks/settings that > are proven to increase transfer performance over > wan links? Speci

[BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2007-11-28 Thread Tim Hall
Hi, new to backuppc, I want to use to send my backups across the Internet (DSL) to an offsite server. Are there any known backuppc tweaks/settings that are proven to increase transfer performance over wan links? Specifically with using rsyncd or rsync as the transfer method. For example a prefe

[BackupPC-users] Using BackupOnly for rsync file specs leads to strange debug output

2007-11-28 Thread John Rouillard
Hi all: I am using BackupPC-3.1.0 and I want to back up a share using the following exclusion patterns under rsync: + */ + */Maildir/** - * basically I want to include any directory tree starting with the directory Maildir one level below the root of the transfer: specified as /home, and p

Re: [BackupPC-users] Handling bandwidth limitations

2007-11-28 Thread dan
i dont know if ditching the build in scheduler is an option for you but i will give a little idea of a test environment i am running. i am currently using the built-in scheduler but it isnt sophisticated enough for my needs. I am having the client initiate the backup with an ssh session. i have

[BackupPC-users] 3.1.0 upgrade

2007-11-28 Thread AxisInternet
Just updated one of my backup servers from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 using configure.pl - worked fine it seemed. Restarted backuppc, kicked off a couple of inc backups and seems fine. Problem is though in the web interface the Host Summary page, except for the menu column on the left, is blank - the table fo

Re: [BackupPC-users] couple of install nits with BackupPC 3.1.0

2007-11-28 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
John Rouillard wrote: Also it would be nice to have a sample apache config file for the web interface running as a cgi. Something as simple as this perhaps? Alias /backuppc/images /tools/BackupPC/www/images ScriptAlias /backuppc /tools/BackupPC/www/cgi-bin/ that can be put in /etc/httpd/conf

[BackupPC-users] Curious to other users backup "Speed (MB/s) " of Windows computers

2007-11-28 Thread Arch Willingham
I was curious as to the backup speeds reported at the screen titled "BackupPC: Host Summary" by those of you backing up Windows servers. Mine are shown below. HostUser#Full Full Age (days) Full Size (GB) Speed (MB/s) #Incr Incr Age (days) Last Backup (days)

Re: [BackupPC-users] Handling bandwidth limitations

2007-11-28 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 11/28 09:00 , John Rouillard wrote: > To do this, I limit the number of simultaneous backups to 4, and use > --bwlimit 100 to limit the sending rsync speed. This gives us a total > of 3,276,800 bits/sec approx. It can be a bit higher at tims, but > averages out. I've never had good luck doing m

[BackupPC-users] Handling bandwidth limitations

2007-11-28 Thread John Rouillard
Hi all: We use backuppc to perform backups of 70 odd systems at remote sites to our main servers over the internet. As a result we have a bandwidth limitation of 5Mbit/sec that we don't want to exceed. To do this, I limit the number of simultaneous backups to 4, and use --bwlimit 100 to limit the

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3.1.0 released

2007-11-28 Thread Arch Willingham
Thanks! -Original Message- From: David Rees [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 3:06 PM To: Arch Willingham Cc: Craig Barratt; backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3.1.0 released On Nov 28, 2007 10:15 AM,

[BackupPC-users] couple of install nits with BackupPC 3.1.0

2007-11-28 Thread John Rouillard
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:23:23PM -0800, Craig Barratt wrote: > BackupPC 3.1.0 has been released on SF.net. Just finished with an install, and I have the following minor nit on the configure.pl script: the group membership on the BackupPC_Admin script can be set wrong so that apache in unabl

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3.1.0 released

2007-11-28 Thread David Rees
On Nov 28, 2007 10:15 AM, Arch Willingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you upgrade if the original install was from the source? Yes, it is very easy to upgrade from source. Just follow the installation instructions, an upgrade follows the same procedure. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/Ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full backup bandwidth reduction

2007-11-28 Thread Craig Barratt
Toni writes: > BackupPC full dump, with patch which removed --ignore-times for a full > backup: > Done: 507 files, 50731819 bytes > full backup complete > real13m39.796s > user0m4.232s > sys 0m0.556s > Network IO used: 620MB > > 'rsync -auvH --ignore-times' on the same data: > sent 48

Re: [BackupPC-users] [BackupPC-devel] BackupPC 3.1.0 released - no zombie resolution?

2007-11-28 Thread Craig Barratt
John writes: > Cool. Can't wait to get this into production, but I notice that there > is no mention of a fix for the zombie processes left around for every > share until the backup of a host completes. E.G. It didn't make the 3.1.0 release - it's still on my todo list. Craig --

Re: [BackupPC-users] archiving with cron

2007-11-28 Thread Daniel Berteaud
Le Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:23:21 +0100, alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Hi all, > > I'm using BackupPC 2.1.2-6 (it came with debian etch), and I'm trying > to have it make an archive from a host using the commandline so I can > make a cronjob of it to make an offsite backup. > > I've found 2 sc

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3.1.0 released

2007-11-28 Thread Arch Willingham
Can you upgrade if the original install was from the source? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Craig Barratt Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 1:23 AM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Back

[BackupPC-users] Process hangs and dont backup

2007-11-28 Thread Jonathan
Hello everybody, I have 2 servers running BackupPC. In both servers some clients can`t do backup, the error is: idle (fileListReceive failed). BackupPC can do login on the client, and the process starts correctly, but at some time with strace i can see this: munmap(0xbf42c000, 4096)

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full backup bandwidth reduction

2007-11-28 Thread Les Mikesell
Toni Van Remortel wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> Toni Van Remortel wrote: >>> Toni Van Remortel wrote: Anyway, I'm preparing a separate test setup now, to be able to do correct tests (so both BackupPC and an rsync tree are using data from the same time). Test results will be he

Re: [BackupPC-users] [BackupPC-devel] BackupPC 3.1.0 released - no zombie resolution?

2007-11-28 Thread John Rouillard
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:23:23PM -0800, Craig Barratt wrote: > BackupPC 3.1.0 has been released on SF.net. > > This release contains a few new features and bug fixes. > Some of the new features are: > > * Added new script BackupPC_archiveStart that allows command-line > starting of archives.

[BackupPC-users] archiving with cron

2007-11-28 Thread alex
Hi all, I'm using BackupPC 2.1.2-6 (it came with debian etch), and I'm trying to have it make an archive from a host using the commandline so I can make a cronjob of it to make an offsite backup. I've found 2 scripts in /usr/share/backuppc/bin/ that might do the trick; BackupPC_archive and Backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full backup bandwidth reduction

2007-11-28 Thread Toni Van Remortel
Les Mikesell wrote: > Toni Van Remortel wrote: >> Toni Van Remortel wrote: >>> Anyway, I'm preparing a separate test setup now, to be able to do >>> correct tests (so both BackupPC and an rsync tree are using data from >>> the same time). >>> Test results will be here tomorrow. >>> >> So that is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full backup bandwidth reduction

2007-11-28 Thread Les Mikesell
Toni Van Remortel wrote: > Toni Van Remortel wrote: >> Anyway, I'm preparing a separate test setup now, to be able to do >> correct tests (so both BackupPC and an rsync tree are using data from >> the same time). >> Test results will be here tomorrow. >> > So that is today. > > BackupPC full du

Re: [BackupPC-users] Question to CentOS 4.5-BackupPC users

2007-11-28 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Ed Burgstaler wrote: I have two installs of BackupPC on CentOS 4.5 which all of a sudden stopped working with can't find Compress::Zlib errors which causes the backup to fail. Both systems have been running for almost a full year without issue until just the last few days. I was able to f