Re: [BackupPC-users] Recovery from pool crash

2008-02-21 Thread dan
I would suspect that the biggest issue you will have is all the backups that were being done are incomplete. if your system was in the middle of backups then the nightly wasn't running so you shouldn't have any hardlink issues. Just do backups(fulls would be best) on all the clients that show a pa

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup failed (No files dumped for share /someDirectory)

2008-02-21 Thread Nate Smith
Could you try changing the value of: $Conf{BackupZeroFilesIsFatal} = 1; to 0? -Nathan On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Bruno Faria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm using tar to backup a couple of linux servers. The problem is that > I'm getting the error: backup failed (No files dumped for

Re: [BackupPC-users] download ZIP archive: different size before andpost

2008-02-21 Thread dan
Interesting info here, I have never run into this because I use tar to retrieve any large restores and zip for the small stuff. On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Mirco Piccin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi and thanks for reply. > > > > On server i have ext3 fs, and in this case on client i have

[BackupPC-users] Recovery from pool crash

2008-02-21 Thread Steve Willoughby
I didn't see quite the full answer to this in the archives, but please forgive me if I managed to just miss it somewhere. I recently woke up to the sound of my UPS alarms going off, and managed to just get to the system (due to an unfortunate and off-topic series of mishaps) in time to see the bat

[BackupPC-users] backup failed (No files dumped for share /someDirectory)

2008-02-21 Thread Bruno Faria
Hi, I'm using tar to backup a couple of linux servers. The problem is that I'm getting the error: backup failed (No files dumped for share /someDirectory) for certain machines. I did a google search on this error and it seems like a lot of people got this before but I could not find any solutions.

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC server backups - future possibility?

2008-02-21 Thread Simon Strack
I'm one of those people who use the RAID system for replicating data for offsite backup. It works, but is a kludge. I've just discovered a newly released project that has piqued my interest as a possible replacement. It is called Zumastor and looks like it might be an efficient system for blo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Need access to raw mailing list archive

2008-02-21 Thread Rich Rauenzahn
Curtis Preston wrote: > Hey, folks! It's W. Curtis Preston, the author of Backup & Recovery and > the webmaster of www.backupcentral.com. > > I'd like to add the backuppc-users list to the backup software mailing > lists that I support on BackupCentral.com. I added the NetWorker, > NetBackup, a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Need access to raw mailing list archive

2008-02-21 Thread Craig Barratt
Curtis writes: > Hey, folks! It's W. Curtis Preston, the author of Backup & Recovery and > the webmaster of www.backupcentral.com. > > I'd like to add the backuppc-users list to the backup software mailing > lists that I support on BackupCentral.com. I added the NetWorker, > NetBackup, and TSM

[BackupPC-users] Test Message: Please ignore

2008-02-21 Thread cpreston
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[BackupPC-users] Need access to raw mailing list archive

2008-02-21 Thread Curtis Preston
Hey, folks! It's W. Curtis Preston, the author of Backup & Recovery and the webmaster of www.backupcentral.com. I'd like to add the backuppc-users list to the backup software mailing lists that I support on BackupCentral.com. I added the NetWorker, NetBackup, and TSM lists a year ago with great

Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto install backuppc Nagios-Plugin

2008-02-21 Thread Knaupp, Thomas
Hello, | Could somebody give me (total newbie) a short howto for | installing the Nagios-Plugin "check_backuppc" | (http://n-backuppc.sourceforge.net/) | | Running System: Debian-Etch; Apache2; Nagios 1.4. not tested (yet), but just take a look at README & INSTALL provided with the pack

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2008-02-21 Thread Nick Webb
David Rees wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Nick Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Rich Rauenzahn wrote: > > As Rich said, BackupPC's rsync modules don't support compression. SSH > compression should work fine, though. > > -Dave > Yeah, but ssh compression isn't working for me either

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2008-02-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Nick Webb wrote: > Rich Rauenzahn wrote: >> dan wrote: >>> no, incrementals are more efficient on bandwidth. they do a less >>> strenuous test to determine if a file has changed. >>> >>> at the expense of CPU power on both sides, you can compress the rsync >>> traffic either with rsync -z >> H

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2008-02-21 Thread David Rees
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Nick Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rich Rauenzahn wrote: > > dan wrote: > >> no, incrementals are more efficient on bandwidth. they do a less > >> strenuous test to determine if a file has changed. > >> > >> at the expense of CPU power on both sides, you

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancing WAN link transfers

2008-02-21 Thread Nick Webb
Rich Rauenzahn wrote: > > dan wrote: >> no, incrementals are more efficient on bandwidth. they do a less >> strenuous test to determine if a file has changed. >> >> at the expense of CPU power on both sides, you can compress the rsync >> traffic either with rsync -z > Have you tried rsync -z?

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC sends incorrect e-mails

2008-02-21 Thread Jean-Claude Repetto
Hello list, I have installed BackupPC some months ago, and I have noticed that the users never receive email notifications of problems. I have found where the problem comes from. My installation of BackupPC is configured to use the french language : $Conf{Language} = 'fr'; When BackupPC wants to