[BackupPC-users] Bls: How to upgrade 2.1.2ubuntu5 to 3.1.0

2008-01-21 Thread Wahyu Mahardian
Hi Mark, FYI, the reason why i need to upgrade my backuppc is the configuration little bit harder than newer version, Before, i've installed backuppc into my GGibbon box, and it come with version 3.x.x if i 'm not wrong. It's easily to configure hosts that will be backup. Okey, untill now, what

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to upgrade 2.1.2ubuntu5 to 3.1.0

2008-01-21 Thread Mark Wass
I'd also like to know what's involved in doing this. Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wahyu Mahardian Sent: Tuesday, 22 January 2008 3:22 AM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [BackupPC-users] How to upgrade 2.1.2ubuntu5

Re: [BackupPC-users] Too many links?

2008-01-21 Thread Jack
Check your file system and OS settings. Ext3 should be good, but if CentOS is configured for small systems it could be tweaked so that there is a limit like 32k hard links maximum, or a file size maximum. Again I have not found Ext2 or 3 to have this issue. I did run into this (or at least simi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Too many links?

2008-01-21 Thread John T. Yocum
The server being backed up is running FreeBSD 6.2. The backup server is running CentOS. As for the directory being backed up, it has a ton of subdirectories and files, it is a hashed structure. Just still has 40K+ files and directories per. --John Craig Barratt wrote: > John writes: > >> I'm

Re: [BackupPC-users] Too many links?

2008-01-21 Thread Craig Barratt
John writes: > I'm running BackupPC 3.0.0 on CentOS 4, with ext3 file systems. When > trying to backup one of our servers, BackupPC logs the below error: > > Too many links at /backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarExtract line 320 mkdir() is failing. It appears that certain file systems have a limit of ~32

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC is crashing during backups.

2008-01-21 Thread AxisInternet
Bruno Faria wrote: > Hi, I've installed BackupPC 3.0.0 on a CentOS 4 machine. BackupPC works > just fine up to a point. I have been able to backup severs when only one > backup is going on a time. But when I have 4 or more backups going the > server starts to go VERY slow and I can't even access Ba

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC is crashing during backups.

2008-01-21 Thread Bruno Faria
Hi, I've installed BackupPC 3.0.0 on a CentOS 4 machine. BackupPC works just fine up to a point. I have been able to backup severs when only one backup is going on a time. But when I have 4 or more backups going the server starts to go VERY slow and I can't even access BackupPC's cgi interface. Whe

[BackupPC-users] Too many links?

2008-01-21 Thread John T. Yocum
Hello, I'm running BackupPC 3.0.0 on CentOS 4, with ext3 file systems. When trying to backup one of our servers, BackupPC logs the below error: Too many links at /backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarExtract line 320 After a while, the backup process gets aborted. Any ideas on what might be causing the er

[BackupPC-users] How to upgrade 2.1.2ubuntu5 to 3.1.0

2008-01-21 Thread Wahyu Mahardian
Hi all, I've already install backuppc on my ubuntu 6.06 LTS Dapper Drake. After googling, i found that ubuntu 6.06 LTS comes with backuppc version 2.1.2-2ubuntu5 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/dapper/+source/backuppc. I just want to upgrade it to version 3.0.0 or newer. Any suggestion, how to inst

Re: [BackupPC-users] setting up on a hosted system

2008-01-21 Thread Justin Best
I am looking to use BackupPC in an environment with several roaming laptops and a wad of disk on a hosting site. You might try hosting BackupPC on a host that allows you to use a set amount of RAM and CPU, like http://www.slicehost.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup up an Exchange server

2008-01-21 Thread Justin Best
Are you using the SMB transfer method? There was a bug a while back (in smbclient, not BackupPC) when using the SMB transfer method for files > 2GB. I ran into it on PST files, as they were the only ones that exceeded 2GB which I tried to restore. The bug has been since patched, but I ended

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup up an Exchange server

2008-01-21 Thread Tomas Florian
Personaly, I use the Exmerge method. Generally it works great - but fails horribly for PST files > 2GB. Is there a workaround? Regards, Tomas Mark Best wrote: > Tony's idea of using Exmerge is just brilliant, But it got me > thinking... Has anyone ever thought of being able to recover _indivi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scaling BackupPC

2008-01-21 Thread Jean-Michel Beuken
Hello, > Instead of trying to have 1 server that handles everything, just > use multiple servers to do the work. I am interested in the concept of > using some network/cluster filesystem to have multiple servers backup to > a single SAN/NAS with the cluster filesystem. I have this kind

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

2008-01-21 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich Rauenzahn wrote: > > > Les Mikesell wrote: >> 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

[BackupPC-users] rsync memory usage

2008-01-21 Thread dan
I have some information for everyone on using rsync for remote backuppc mirroring. I have tested this after reading it on an rsync mailing list. rsync uses roughls 100B per file to be synced so you can do the math to determine the amount of memory necessary to transfer your fileset. to find out

Re: [BackupPC-users] Disable full backup for users?

2008-01-21 Thread dan
first, put the full period to 999 and then make the incremental list something like 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18, and so on for however many incrementals you would like between full backups. this list can go at least to 99, i have tried it that high, but it may go to 999. then you

Re: [BackupPC-users] Multiple BPC CGI interface.

2008-01-21 Thread Justin Best
I too would find a single admin interface helpful. I'm running 4, soon to be 5 BackupPC servers. They're at different locations, so a single pool is out of the question, but I would love to be able to take a look at all my backups without having to log into 4 different front ends. However

Re: [BackupPC-users] RE Disable full backup for users?

2008-01-21 Thread Benjamin SECLIER
Français : Bonjour, merci pour ta réponse mais en fait je souhaite que les utilisateurs ne puissent pas faire de sauvegarde complète eux même par le CGI (seul l'admin aurait le pouvoir de le faire). Je voulais donc savoir si il était possible de supprimer le bouton "Démarrer la sauvegarde complète

[BackupPC-users] RE Disable full backup for users?

2008-01-21 Thread romain . pichard
FRANCAIS : Bonjour, Il n'est pas très judicieux de ne faire que des incrementales (incr) car des incr se basent sur des full pour ne sauvegarder que la différence. Cependant, tu peux régler l'intervalle de tes full via l'interface web. Dans le poste souhaité, choisis "Modifier la configuration

[BackupPC-users] Disable full backup for users?

2008-01-21 Thread Benjamin SECLIER
Good morning, First, I'm sorry for my English but I'm French. So, is it possible to disable full backups for users in CGI? I just want users to do incremental backups, no full Thanks a lot - This SF.net email is sponsored by:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Multiple BPC CGI interface.

2008-01-21 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/20 11:04 , dan wrote: > alternatively i was going to get a fancy RAID controller like a DELL PERC5 > or something that can take 512MB of cache memory and allow more backups to > run simultaniuosly but im worried about saturating my T1. On a somewhat unrelated matter; I'll mention that I like

Re: [BackupPC-users] setting up on a hosted system

2008-01-21 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Jeff McAffer wrote: > I am looking to use BackupPC in an environment with several roaming > laptops and a wad of disk on a hosting site. I am not a sysadmin > expert and looking at the doc it is not readily apparent if this is > something reasonable to attempt. There are some mentions of

Re: [BackupPC-users] Multiple BPC CGI interface.

2008-01-21 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/21 01:24 , Corey Baldwin wrote: > I'm mainly interested in administering multiple copies of BackupPC from > a single interface. It sounds like others would like to cluster BackupPC. > > Anybody with these same interests? I don't have a huge need for that right now; but I can forsee that i