Re: [BackupPC-users] strange file error

2008-01-03 Thread Sean Boran
The problem has been solved thanks to Craig: - by examining the XferLOG, an error was found in the $Conf{TarClientCmd}: > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l root server3 env LC_ALL=C /bin/tar > -c -v -f - -C / --exclude=./\*tmp --exclude=./proc > --exclude=./opt/install --exclude=./data/install >

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to speed up backup process? (24+ hours for 140GB with

2008-01-03 Thread Les Mikesell
Jinshi wrote: > Thank you all for your reply. Apparently everyone consider this is too > slow since the difference between usb2.0 and usb1.1 is quite big. But I > do tested all other usb ports. The dmesg says the transfer speed is > either 40.000MB or 1.000MB/s. So, sorry everyone, I still insis

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC-users Digest, Vol 21, Issue 4

2008-01-03 Thread dan
i doubt that dd will do much better than tar, maybe a few percent because it can skip the filesystem layer BUT you will have to take an entire image of the drive as dd doesnt do file level backups. are you pushing tar through gzip? maybe try a lower level compression if you CPU is overworked. yo

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to speed up backup process? (24+ hours for 140GB with

2008-01-03 Thread Jinshi
Thank you all for your reply. Apparently everyone consider this is too slow since the difference between usb2.0 and usb1.1 is quite big. But I do tested all other usb ports. The dmesg says the transfer speed is either 40.000MB or 1.000MB/s. So, sorry everyone, I still insist I have usb2.0 here

Re: [BackupPC-users] Update 3.0.0 -> 3.1.0 debian

2008-01-03 Thread backuppc
On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:37:44 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > 3.1.0 now shows up as an upgrade in Debian Lenny. I still have 3.0.0 > installed. > > I perused the changelog and didn't see anything major. > > Is there anything I should do before upgrading? Any reports of anything > major breakin

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync Transmittal Confusion

2008-01-03 Thread Les Mikesell
Mark Best wrote: > I’ve been reading through the forums and I’ve read two conflicting > pieces of information. Could someone please clear this up. > > Does rsync transmit only the block of data that has changed - or is the > whole file transmitted if the file has changed? > > (Example: A windo

[BackupPC-users] Rsync Transmittal Confusion

2008-01-03 Thread Mark Best
I've been reading through the forums and I've read two conflicting pieces of information. Could someone please clear this up. Does rsync transmit only the block of data that has changed - or is the whole file transmitted if the file has changed? (Example: A windows user has changed a graph

[BackupPC-users] Hard times.....

2008-01-03 Thread Bo Hermannsen
I still have some trouple >>Well, what is the error according to the error_log? strange thing is that the 500 error does not show up in the logs using lynx on localhost does now give access to the web-interface.. - Th

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC-users Digest, Vol 21, Issue 4

2008-01-03 Thread dan
heres a thought, for an external backup of the disk, dont use rsync. just copy it over to the external drive. you could jsut tar.gz it over and preserve the hard links also. On Jan 3, 2008 7:29 AM, Sean Carolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is topic is discussed pretty regularly on this m

Re: [BackupPC-users] Update 3.0.0 -> 3.1.0 debian

2008-01-03 Thread Justin Best
I used BackupPC 3.1.0-1 on a fresh Debian Etch install, and it wouldn't start because there was no MTA installed. I did an "apt-get install exim4" and then BackupPC started up no problem, and I haven't any other bugs to report for 3.1.0-1 I have already written to the package maintainer and

Re: [BackupPC-users] ping fails but nmblookup works

2008-01-03 Thread Doug Lytle
dan wrote: > correction: > linux can ping by netbios name. windows firewall and vista firewall > block pings by default so you need to open it up a bit. either than > or static IP addresses OR persistant IP assigned by DHCP and MAC > address. then you can hard code the ip into client alias o

Re: [BackupPC-users] ping fails but nmblookup works

2008-01-03 Thread Doug Lytle
Andrew Gee wrote: > In my backuppc log file it seems that it cannot find the address of the > computer then... > > 2008-01-03 15:09:48 no ping response > > I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong here... > > Look forward to your reply > Andrew, I have no experience with Vista, but my guess is

Re: [BackupPC-users] ping fails but nmblookup works

2008-01-03 Thread Doug Lytle
Andrew Gee wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a problem with my backuppc server trying to backup a windows > vista machine. The computer's name is set as paul-pc. When I try to ping > paul-pc it says the host cannot be found: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping paul-pc > ping: unknown host paul-pc > Under Li

[BackupPC-users] ping fails but nmblookup works

2008-01-03 Thread Andrew Gee
Hi, I've got a problem with my backuppc server trying to backup a windows vista machine. The computer's name is set as paul-pc. When I try to ping paul-pc it says the host cannot be found: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping paul-pc ping: unknown host paul-pc But if I run nmblookup paul-pc it works fine:

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC-users Digest, Vol 21, Issue 4

2008-01-03 Thread Sean Carolan
> This is topic is discussed pretty regularly on this mailinglist. > Please also search the archives. Thanks, Nils. If the sourceforge.net mailing list search engine were not so broken, I would gladly have combed through the archives. As it stands I was unable to successfully search even for com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Update 3.0.0 -> 3.1.0 debian

2008-01-03 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Jon S. wrote: > 3.1.0 now shows up as an upgrade in Debian Lenny. I still have 3.0.0 > installed. > > I perused the changelog and didn't see anything major. > > Is there anything I should do before upgrading? Any reports of > anything > major breaking? Still it's quite a list of bugfixes: ht