[BackupPC-users] BackupPC restore???

2008-04-17 Thread Joseph Holland
Ok, we have BackupPC version 3 installed on a few servers throughout our company. Recently one of the servers went down. We have been using rsync to backup the BackupPC'c data directory onto a USB drive. I'm just wondering is it possible to restore this data over a fresh install of BaclupPC on

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC restore???

2008-04-17 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:53:15AM +0100, Joseph Holland wrote: Ok, we have BackupPC version 3 installed on a few servers throughout our company. Recently one of the servers went down. We have been using rsync to backup the BackupPC'c data directory onto a USB drive. I'm just wondering is

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC restore???

2008-04-17 Thread Koen Linders
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:53:15 +0200, Joseph Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, we have BackupPC version 3 installed on a few servers throughout our company. Recently one of the servers went down. We have been using rsync to backup the BackupPC'c data directory onto a USB drive. I'm just

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC restore???

2008-04-17 Thread Koen Linders
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:27:00 +0200, Koen Linders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:53:15 +0200, Joseph Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, we have BackupPC version 3 installed on a few servers throughout our company. Recently one of the servers went down. We have been using

Re: [BackupPC-users] Error :- No ping Response

2008-04-17 Thread Paul Mantz
Okay, this may be a simple error. If you see 'unable to read 4 bytes', what this usually means is that you have a communication error. BackupPC is receiving data, but something is mis-configured. My first suspect is the ssh keys. Does the 'backuppc' user on your backup machine have the keys it

[BackupPC-users] overlapping BackupPC_nightlys

2008-04-17 Thread Tony Schreiner
On one of my BackupPC setups, I back a lot of data. On occasion things run for more than 24 hours and I start getting Botch on admin job for admin : already in use!! messages in the log file. I'm guessing that this means that a BackupPC_nightly has been queued when there is already one

Re: [BackupPC-users] overlapping BackupPC_nightlys

2008-04-17 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 03:10:13PM -0400, Tony Schreiner wrote: On one of my BackupPC setups, I back a lot of data. On occasion things run for more than 24 hours and I start getting Botch on admin job for admin : already in use!! messages in the log file. I'm guessing that this

Re: [BackupPC-users] overlapping BackupPC_nightlys

2008-04-17 Thread Tony Schreiner
On Apr 17, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Tino Schwarze wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 03:10:13PM -0400, Tony Schreiner wrote: On one of my BackupPC setups, I back a lot of data. On occasion things run for more than 24 hours and I start getting Botch on admin job for admin : already in use!!