Craig Barratt wrote:
> Les writes:
>
>
>> perhaps its a bug??
>>
>
> I believe it is the same bug that was fixed in 3.1.0.
> In certain cases the attrib file doesn't get written
> correctly when there is an md4 error in rsync.
>
> One workaround is to simply remove the attrib file in th
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 07:54:23AM -0700, dan wrote:
> yes! i have run it in a test environment on real hardware in nexenta, which
> is opensolaris meets ubuntu.
>
> works very well. be sure to turn on ZFS compression and turn OFF backuppc
> compression. ZFS compresses much more efficiently(CPU
Les writes:
> perhaps its a bug??
I believe it is the same bug that was fixed in 3.1.0.
In certain cases the attrib file doesn't get written
correctly when there is an md4 error in rsync.
One workaround is to simply remove the attrib file in the offending
directory (if you try that, please m
I'm not quite sure if I understand.. I back up to a external drive with no
problems. Technically I'm using VMWare for my Ubuntu server but I've also
verified that I can connect the drive to a machine natively and do restores
from it with BackupPC so I'm sure native backups would work as well. I
j
Les Mikesell wrote:
Martin Fisher wrote:
Thank you for the various responses, and sorry to take up your time.
It is now clear that trying to use backuppc is not really
appropriate in
this case.
It could be made to work, but probably not worth the effort unless you
intend to add other remo
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 03:22:10PM -0800, Carl Keil wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm trying to retrieve some deleted files from a BackUpPC backup. The
> backup was deleted, but not much has been written to the drive since the
> backup. This is an ext3 file system, so I'm forced to use the grep an
> un
Thank you for the great instructions Tony ...
I'll give it a try tomorrow and see what happens.
Ed
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Schreiner
Sent: November 29, 2007 4:01 PM
To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Brok
Hi Folks,
I'm trying to retrieve some deleted files from a BackUpPC backup. The
backup was deleted, but not much has been written to the drive since the
backup. This is an ext3 file system, so I'm forced to use the grep an
unmounted drive method of retrieval.
Does anyone know a way to have grep
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Les Stott wrote:
> Just to compare versions.
>
> For me it happens on 2 different servers which both run BackupPC-3.0.0
>
> 1. Centos 4.5, rsync version 2.6.3 protocol version 28,
> perl-File-RsyncP-0.68-1.el4.rf
>
> and
>
> 2. Centos 5, rsync version 2.6.9 protoc
Reinstall the perl rpm
download it form your favorite mirror, see a mirror list at
http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=13
or do (for example from the ANL mirror)
wget http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/centos/4.5/updates/x86_64/RPMS/
perl-5.8.5-36.el4_5.2.x86_64.rpm
then
rpm -ivh
Bernd Oberknapp wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Les Stott wrote:
>
>
>> Les Stott wrote:
>>
>>> Les Stott wrote:
>>>
>>>
Hi all,
Got BackupPC-3.0.0 installed from source on CentOS 5. Compression Level on
the pool is 3.
Been running this nicely on a wide
Ed Burgstaler wrote:
> I did originally do a CPAN install of Compress:Zlib & Archive::Zip but I was
> having trouble with CPAN where it couldn't install the packages and kept
> failing. Then people were telling me that I shouldn't use CPAN but should
> use rpms instead so I tried that too. How do y
Hi Tony,
I'm using CentOS 4.5 but the results here are all greek to me ...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -V perl
missing /usr/bin/cpan
missing /usr/bin/prove
missing /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm
missing /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN/FirstTime.pm
missing /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN/Nox.p
I did originally do a CPAN install of Compress:Zlib & Archive::Zip but I was
having trouble with CPAN where it couldn't install the packages and kept
failing. Then people were telling me that I shouldn't use CPAN but should
use rpms instead so I tried that too. How do you get CPAN to work again
may
Martin Fisher wrote:
> Thank you for the various responses, and sorry to take up your time.
>
> It is now clear that trying to use backuppc is not really appropriate in
> this case.
It could be made to work, but probably not worth the effort unless you
intend to add other remote targets to bac
Interesting that you mention Time Machine. It would be perfect of
course. In my search for something that I could use I cam across flyback
(http://code.google.com/p/flyback/), modeled on TimeMachine's idea. I
installed it and tried to run it but it immediately had problems and
have therefore remove
Ed Burgstaler wrote:
> Thanks Les
>
> My version is perl-5.8.5-36.el4_5.2 and it was installed about the time I
> started having the Compress:Zlib error problem so would it be possible to
> uninstall this perl version and have it go back to the previous version?
I'm not sure about that. It's ha
Martin Fisher wrote:
It is now clear that trying to use backuppc is not really
appropriate in
this case.
I have now looked at a whole range of things, and unfortunately there
does not seem to be a straightforward tool that I can use in Ubuntu
with
a GUI or web front end that will do what I
Ed
perl-5.8.5-36.el4_5.2 is the current version for RHEL 4 and related
distros. Cwd.pm should be included in it.
Type
rpm -V perl
to verify the installed package, it will say if anything is missing
Also, what does
perl -V
tell you about the @INC path ?
Tony Schreiner
Boston College
On No
Ed Burgstaler wrote:
My version is perl-5.8.5-36.el4_5.2 and it was installed about the
time I
started having the Compress:Zlib error problem so would it be
possible to
uninstall this perl version and have it go back to the previous
version?
Of course that's possible, but it shouldn't be
Thank you for the various responses, and sorry to take up your time.
It is now clear that trying to use backuppc is not really appropriate in
this case.
I have now looked at a whole range of things, and unfortunately there
does not seem to be a straightforward tool that I can use in Ubuntu with
Thanks Les
My version is perl-5.8.5-36.el4_5.2 and it was installed about the time I
started having the Compress:Zlib error problem so would it be possible to
uninstall this perl version and have it go back to the previous version?
-Original Message-
From: Les Mikesell [mailto:[EMAIL PR
Ed Burgstaler wrote:
> I think I now what the problem is but I don't know how to fix it.
> I was having some issues with a BackupPC error with Compress::Zlib and I
> was trying a lot of things to get that working to no avail so I thought
> I would remove unnecessary perl modules and one of those
Martin Fisher wrote:
> Thank you for your patience!
>
> This is my aim: To set up backuppc to make daily incremental backups of
> my home folder in Ubuntu to an external USB drive, and a weekly full
> backup. This should occur each day after I finish work, perhaps at 7 pm,
> and I would like backu
After getting confused as heck (especially in the web part), here are the notes
I made for myself and the exact steps I took (I have now installed it about ten
times and they seem to work):
How to install BackupPC
General guide
Installing BackupPC
http://www.mantic.org/wiki/Installing_BackupPC
I think I now what the problem is but I don't know how to fix it.
I was having some issues with a BackupPC error with Compress::Zlib and I was
trying a lot of things to get that working to no avail so I thought I would
remove unnecessary perl modules and one of those I believe was Cwd so hence
my n
Thank you for your patience!
This is my aim: To set up backuppc to make daily incremental backups of
my home folder in Ubuntu to an external USB drive, and a weekly full
backup. This should occur each day after I finish work, perhaps at 7 pm,
and I would like backuppc to start automatically when I
On Thursday 29 November 2007 11:45:04 Martin Fisher wrote:
> Dear All
>
> After trying various possibilities I have decided that backuppc is what
> I would like to use to backup my pc on a daily and weekly basis. I
> installed backuppc on Ubuntu 7.10 and am trying to get started. I
> want to use ba
Dear All
After trying various possibilities I have decided that backuppc is what
I would like to use to backup my pc on a daily and weekly basis. I
installed backuppc on Ubuntu 7.10 and am trying to get started. I
want to use backuppc quite simply - to backup from my computer to an
external hard d
On 11/29 07:56 , dan wrote:
> not the linux scheduler, the backuppc backup scheduler :) it just counts
> days with no awareness of months. also, i cannot know that last day of
> business unless it had some interface that you could schedule that.
ah, I see.
perhaps at some point in the distan
not the linux scheduler, the backuppc backup scheduler :) it just counts
days with no awareness of months. also, i cannot know that last day of
business unless it had some interface that you could schedule that. i have
good luck with the default linux scheduler. no issues
cygwin+rsync wont act
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Les Stott wrote:
> Les Stott wrote:
> > Les Stott wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Got BackupPC-3.0.0 installed from source on CentOS 5. Compression Level on
> > > the pool is 3.
> > >
> > > Been running this nicely on a wide number of systems for some time.
> > >
> > >
On 11/28 08:46 , dan wrote:
> i dont know if ditching the build in scheduler is an option for you
Presuming you're talking about changing the linux I/O scheduler; which one
did you find works best for you?
i am currently
> using the built-in scheduler but it isnt sophisticated enough for my nee
Les Stott wrote:
Les Stott wrote:
Hi all,
Got BackupPC-3.0.0 installed from source on CentOS 5. Compression Level
on the pool is 3.
Been running this nicely on a wide number of systems for some time.
I have found some odd errors from rsync while trying to backup large
.tgz files (2-4gb)
On 11/28 09:39 , Tim Hall wrote:
> 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.
the -C option to compress your SSH data is highly recommended. Also, going
with '-
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John Pettitt wrote:
John Pettitt wrote:
I'm getting an out of memory on large archive jobs - this in a box with
2GB of ram which makes me thing there is a memory leak someplace ...
Writing tar archive for host jpp-desktop-data, backup #150 to output
file /dumpdir/jpp-desktop-data.15
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