Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with dashes in archive request file with serverMesg

2008-01-14 Thread Craig Barratt
Tim writes: > Will this get added to future releases? Yes. Craig - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/cl

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems starting backuppc under Mandriva 2008

2008-01-14 Thread Craig Barratt
David writes: > Well, all was going well, but almost 3 hours into my backup I get the > following error: > > 2008-01-14 13:23:06 Got fatal error during xfer (Tar exited with error 512 > () status) > 2008-01-14 13:23:11 Backup aborted (Tar exited with error 512 () status) Look in the XferLOG.bad

Re: [BackupPC-users] GUI bug (?) with rsync retries

2008-01-14 Thread Timothy J. Massey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/14/2008 08:02:45 PM: > It is a bug, it got fixed in 3.1. I had exactly the same issue and saw > it disappear in 3.1 Cool. Sorry for the noise: I didn't see anything on the list about it. Tim Massey --

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manually add a single file to a backed up host

2008-01-14 Thread Les Mikesell
Adam Goryachev wrote: > > In this case, it no longer matters, and for those that are interested in > how to use rsync to transfer a 20G file full of 0's in a few minutes > over a very slow connection, here is how: > > rsync --partial --progress source destination > Then, cancel the transfer after

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manually add a single file to a backed up host

2008-01-14 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig Barratt wrote: > Adam writes: > >> But now my backup is timeing out on this file, and it doesn't even run >> long enough to backup this entire file, so it removes the file each time >> it attempts to run the backup. > > What sort of timeout do

Re: [BackupPC-users] GUI bug (?) with rsync retries

2008-01-14 Thread Les Stott
Timothy J. Massey wrote: > Hello! > > Short summary: it seems that whenever the file is dropped from phase 0 > of a rsyncd backup and retried in phase 1 the file does *not* show up in > the GUI. However, the file *is* actually stored in the proper > pc// directory. > > > Long description: > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with dashes in archive request file with serverMesg

2008-01-14 Thread Timothy J. Massey
Craig Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/13/2008 01:26:07 AM: > Tim writes: > > > archive: /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_archive: bad reqFileName (arg > > #3): archiveReq.host-name.cron.0 > > The error checking needs to be a bit more generous. In particular, this > line in BackupP

[BackupPC-users] GUI bug (?) with rsync retries

2008-01-14 Thread Timothy J. Massey
Hello! Short summary: it seems that whenever the file is dropped from phase 0 of a rsyncd backup and retried in phase 1 the file does *not* show up in the GUI. However, the file *is* actually stored in the proper pc// directory. Long description: I had to restore a file today. The file i

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup schedule

2008-01-14 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/11 10:42 , Jockes wrote: > - The server (always up), want nightly backups at 02.00 AM If you want backups to go off at a particular time; put a command like this in your crontab: 55 17 * * Fri backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup host.example.com host.example.com b

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scaling BackupPC

2008-01-14 Thread Ski Kacoroski
David, I backup around 1500 clients to a set of (8) low end 1U x86 boxes. Each box has a 3ware card with (4) 250G disks in a raid 5 setup. Each box can handle 4 concurrent backups/restores at a time (at one point when the client machines were old and failing we were doing 10 - 15 restores a week)

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems starting backuppc under Mandriva 2008

2008-01-14 Thread David Williams
Well, all was going well, but almost 3 hours into my backup I get the following error: 2008-01-14 13:23:06 Got fatal error during xfer (Tar exited with error 512 () status) 2008-01-14 13:23:11 Backup aborted (Tar exited with error 512 () status) Regards, __

[BackupPC-users] [Backuppc] [HDD Full] Tar exited with error 512 ()

2008-01-14 Thread Hervé Richard
Hello all, I've installed BackupPC on a box and configured it to backup some files during 2 weeks with full an incremental backup, on an HDD... Now, without any Alarm messages about hdd disk space, BackupPC makes those errors because the disk is full: - Tar exited with error 512 () - Error: B

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manually add a single file to a backed up host

2008-01-14 Thread Craig Barratt
Adam writes: > But now my backup is timeing out on this file, and it doesn't even run > long enough to backup this entire file, so it removes the file each time > it attempts to run the backup. What sort of timeout do you get? If it is an ALARM signal you should significantly increase $Conf{Clie

[BackupPC-users] [Fwd: Re: Trouble with tape archiving]

2008-01-14 Thread Stian Jordet
When I replied to the thread four months later, I got no reply, so I try resending it in case Craig don't check so old threads... -Stian Original Message Subject:Re: [BackupPC-users] Trouble with tape archiving Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:22:18 +0200 From: Stian Jor

[BackupPC-users] Problem comes while taking a backupp using backuppc.

2008-01-14 Thread Varuna Nohar
hi there, What should i do to come out of this problem. The XferLOG is File /var/lib/backuppc/pc/hello.com/XferLOG.bad Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/hello.com/XferLOG.bad, modified 2008-01-14 14:39:07 Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root hello.com /usr/bin/rsync -

[BackupPC-users] Problem comes while taking a backupp using backuppc.

2008-01-14 Thread Varuna Nohar
hi there, What should i do to come out of this problem. The XferLOG is File /var/lib/backuppc/pc/hello.com/XferLOG.bad Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/hello.com/XferLOG.bad, modified 2008-01-14 14:39:07 Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root mis.nuchem.com /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_sendEmail : Setup the recipient

2008-01-14 Thread romain . pichard
Hello, I'm testing the sending of emails and when I run this command : /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u __MY_EMAIL_ADDRESS__ It work correctly. However, when BackupPC want to send an email automaticly, it doesn't work because the recipient is not __MY_EMAIL_ADDRESS__ but is the user __MY_DOMAIN