Re: [BackupPC-users] Using NFS share as BackupPC pool

2007-12-04 Thread Travis Fraser
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:13:19 +0100 Dan S. Hemsø Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi... Anyone tried to use a NFS mount as pool for the backups...? I would like to use a Synology NAS box as storage for my BackupPC server. But will it work. I use a NAS box mounted via NFS. It works fine.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression level

2007-12-04 Thread Rich Rauenzahn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would like to have an information about compression level. I'm still doing several tests about compression and I would like to have your opinion about something : I think that there is a very little difference between level 1 and level 9. I tought that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up Windows Client with spaces in the network path

2007-12-04 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 12/04 11:33 , Ben Blankenberg wrote: I am having trouble finding out the correct syntax to backup a directory on a windows machine using SMB that includes spaces in the path of the directory. Example: C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents Can you be more specific about the

[BackupPC-users] how to configure storage?

2007-12-04 Thread Matthew Metzger
Hello, I am building a server for BackupPC and I have a few questions concerning what is the best way to set up storage. I have one 80 GB IDE hard disk that will hold the operating system (ubuntu server), /boot, swap, et cetera. I also have four 500 GB IDE hard disks. I'm wondering what you

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to configure storage?

2007-12-04 Thread David Nalley
Hi Matthew, I don't think the concern is so much that a client computer's drive and one of your backuppc box's drive would fail at the same instant, but rather what the cost of one drive in the backuppc box's drive would be. Loosing a single drive if you pool them all together with LVM means

Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrade to 3.1, Hosts Summary disappeared

2007-12-04 Thread Les Mikesell
AxisInternet wrote: Chris Hale wrote: I have upgraded from backupppc 3.0 to 3.1 on Redhat (RHEL 4) and also lost my Hosts Summary...all of the other links appear to be working. Apache logs don't seem to show an error. Anyone else having this problem? I ran my upgrade using perl

[BackupPC-users] Newbie with BPC

2007-12-04 Thread Reynier Perez Mira
Hi every: As the subject said I'm newbie with BackupPC and have a lot of questions. When it appears I leave here to get clear my ideas. This is the first one. Can I share a folder in a Workstation and tell then to BackupPC that find in this PC some data and Backup to a dedicated server? Better

Re: [BackupPC-users] Newbie with BPC

2007-12-04 Thread Les Mikesell
Reynier Perez Mira wrote: Hi every: As the subject said I'm newbie with BackupPC and have a lot of questions. When it appears I leave here to get clear my ideas. This is the first one. Can I share a folder in a Workstation and tell then to BackupPC that find in this PC some data and Backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using NFS share as BackupPC pool

2007-12-04 Thread Dan S. Hemsø Rasmussen
Hi... Yes... the Synology box is running with Linux.. the box have a mirror raid, and have just made a firmware with NFS support... So it should support hardlinks Do you have any experience good/bad, with BackupPC and NFS any performence issues...? /Dan Hi... Anyone tried to use a

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to configure storage?

2007-12-04 Thread Les Stott
David Nalley wrote: Hi Matthew, I don't think the concern is so much that a client computer's drive and one of your backuppc box's drive would fail at the same instant, but rather what the cost of one drive in the backuppc box's drive would be. Loosing a single drive if you pool them

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up Windows Client with spaces in the network path

2007-12-04 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 12/04 03:44 , Ben Blankenberg wrote: Have Tried these configs $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = ['*/test?test/*']; And get this error message returned Last error is No files dumped for share C$ Hmm, I don't use the $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} directive myself, so I can only guess. Have

[BackupPC-users] backing up localhost fails

2007-12-04 Thread Scott Waye
Hi, I have BackupPC version 3.1 and I'm trying to backup the localhost using tar. TarClientCmd is /usr/bin/sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C $shareName+ --totals and /bin/tar --version gives: tar (GNU tar) 1.15.92 The backup fails with: 2007-12-04 22:09:50 full backup started for directory /data

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to configure storage?

2007-12-04 Thread Matthew Metzger
Hello David, thanks for the response. I did exactly what you suggested with RAID 1 and LVM them together to create a large drive. It was fairly easy to accomplish with Ubuntu's installer. However, Les Stott brings up a great point about RAID 5. I would like recovering from a failure to be

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to configure storage?

2007-12-04 Thread Matthew Metzger
Les Stott wrote: David Nalley wrote: Hi Matthew, I don't think the concern is so much that a client computer's drive and one of your backuppc box's drive would fail at the same instant, but rather what the cost of one drive in the backuppc box's drive would be. Loosing a single drive

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to configure storage?

2007-12-04 Thread John Pettitt
Matthew Metzger wrote: Hello David, thanks for the response. I did exactly what you suggested with RAID 1 and LVM them together to create a large drive. It was fairly easy to accomplish with Ubuntu's installer. However, Les Stott brings up a great point about RAID 5. I would like

Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression level

2007-12-04 Thread Craig Barratt
Rich writes: I don't think BackupPC will update the pool with the smaller file even though it knows the source was identical, and some tests I just did backing up /tmp seem to agree. Once compressed and copied into the pool, the file is not updated with future higher compressed copies. Does

Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression level

2007-12-04 Thread romain . pichard
Hello, I'm sorry, I forgot to explain that I delete all files in the pool between two tests with different compression level. And all links are cleaned because of BackupPC_nightly, etc... It's on a test setup, of course. Thanks a lot for your help. Regards, Romain Craig Barratt [EMAIL