Re: [BackupPC-users] remote replication with unison instead of rsync?

2007-12-06 Thread Nate Carlson
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, dan wrote: > i have been experimenting with this and think i have a workable > solution. only problem is that nexenta is a bit of a pain to get > backuppc running on. just seems to have a lot of little issues with > backuppc 3.1 (running nexenta a7) nexenta is Debian/Ubuntu-

Re: [BackupPC-users] remote replication with unison instead of rsync?

2007-12-06 Thread dan
i have been experimenting with this and think i have a workable solution. only problem is that nexenta is a bit of a pain to get backuppc running on. just seems to have a lot of little issues with backuppc 3.1 (running nexenta a7) i just downloaded solaris express to see if i have better luck with

Re: [BackupPC-users] remote replication with unison instead of rsync?

2007-12-06 Thread Les Mikesell
dan wrote: > i understand that unison uses the same algorythm but does it have the same > memory issues when transfering a lot of files? There is a small issue with the number of files in that the whole directory listing is tranferred and held in memory during the comparison, but the real proble

Re: [BackupPC-users] remote replication with unison instead of rsync?

2007-12-06 Thread Nate Carlson
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: so the only way I can see replication helping, is if you don't have time to do multiple backups in a given cycle. this is certainly the case in many situations; but if it's not, then it may be adviseable to not bother trying to build a replican

Re: [BackupPC-users] File::RsyncP installation problem. SOLVED

2007-12-06 Thread Matthew Metzger
Hello Rich, thanks for the tip. That was it. I just assumed that it was installed and didn't read the errors carefully enough. I appreciate your help. -Matthew Rich Rauenzahn wrote: > > Matthew Metzger wrote: >> /bin/sh: cc: command not found >> > Install a compiler/gcc...? >> make[1]: *

Re: [BackupPC-users] File::RsyncP installation problem.

2007-12-06 Thread Rich Rauenzahn
Matthew Metzger wrote: > /bin/sh: cc: command not found > Install a compiler/gcc...? > make[1]: *** [Digest.o] Error 127 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sysadmin/File-RsyncP-0.68/Digest' > make: *** [subdirs] Error 2 > --- > > I get the same type of errors when trying to instal

Re: [BackupPC-users] remote replication with unison instead of rsync?

2007-12-06 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 12/06 04:49 , dan wrote: > alternatively i think i may just break rsync up into smaller jobs and sync > each specific directory seperately with a 'for x in 'ls /'; do rsync $x > rsyncd://serveraddress/' script. that would help limit the number of files > in each rsync interation and work around

Re: [BackupPC-users] remote replication with unison instead of rsync?

2007-12-06 Thread dan
i understand that unison uses the same algorythm but does it have the same memory issues when transfering a lot of files? alternatively i think i may just break rsync up into smaller jobs and sync each specific directory seperately with a 'for x in 'ls /'; do rsync $x rsyncd://serveraddress/' scri

[BackupPC-users] File::RsyncP installation problem.

2007-12-06 Thread Matthew Metzger
Hello, I had previously installed this perl module with "sudo aptitude install libfile-rsyncp-perl" (I'm on Ubuntu Server 6.06). I got this warning upon the completion of the BackupPC installer script configure.pl: Warning: you need to upgrade File::RsyncP; I found 0.52 and BackupP needs 0.68

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug in Backup File Selection in BackupPC 3.1?

2007-12-06 Thread Les Mikesell
Jon Forrest wrote: > Craig Barratt wrote: > > First of all, thanks so much for replying. Please take my comments > as respectful suggestions. > >> Your BackupFilesOnly is backwards. It should map the share name >> to the list of files/directories to backup for that share: >> >> $Conf{BackupF

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug in Backup File Selection in BackupPC 3.1?

2007-12-06 Thread Jon Forrest
Craig Barratt wrote: First of all, thanks so much for replying. Please take my comments as respectful suggestions. > Your BackupFilesOnly is backwards. It should map the share name > to the list of files/directories to backup for that share: > > $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = { > '/' => [

Re: [BackupPC-users] remote replication with unison instead of rsync?

2007-12-06 Thread daniel berteaud
Le Thu, 6 Dec 2007 07:53:00 -0700, dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > i am currently cloning my backuppc server to a remote server in > another city via rsync. as i understand it, as my file could grows > rsync will become unfriendly. > > i am completely unfamiliar with 'unison' and am wonderin

[BackupPC-users] remote replication with unison instead of rsync?

2007-12-06 Thread dan
i am currently cloning my backuppc server to a remote server in another city via rsync. as i understand it, as my file could grows rsync will become unfriendly. i am completely unfamiliar with 'unison' and am wondering if anyone know is unison has the same issue as rsync with many many files and

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

2007-12-06 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