Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up to NAS

2008-05-01 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Leandro Tracchia wrote: > i am trying to backup the data to a NAS (Terastation). i've already > read somewhere that the NAS needs to have a filesystem that supports > hardlinks in order for backuppc to be able to do its thing. smb/cifs > does not support hardlinks (as far as i know) so i can

Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up to NAS

2008-05-01 Thread Ronny Aasen
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 23:30 -0400, Leandro Tracchia wrote: > i am trying to backup the data to a NAS (Terastation). i've already > read somewhere that the NAS needs to have a filesystem that supports > hardlinks in order for backuppc to be able to do its thing. smb/cifs > does not support hardlink

[BackupPC-users] backing up to NAS

2008-05-01 Thread Leandro Tracchia
i am trying to backup the data to a NAS (Terastation). i've already read somewhere that the NAS needs to have a filesystem that supports hardlinks in order for backuppc to be able to do its thing. smb/cifs does not support hardlinks (as far as i know) so i cannot mount the NAS as a smb/cifs share.

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to install BackupPc-3.1.0 in RHEL-5

2008-05-01 Thread dan
I sent this from my blackberry so I'm not sure if it went through. Basically the base ubuntu server install is much lighter in resource usage than the base centos or rhel install. So installing backuppc on a base ubuntu server make an essentially purpose built, quick to setup, backuppc install wit

Re: [BackupPC-users] Wildcards on paths & filenames

2008-05-01 Thread Paul Mantz
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have set up BackupPC to backup my Windows XP Prof share. As I have > several users on my machine, I want to make sure that I back up each of > their "My Documents" folders. I also have a folder that can appear in many > differ

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to install BackupPc-3.1.0 in RHEL-5

2008-05-01 Thread Daniel Denson
Sure! Using the ubuntu server install, you can build a backuppc server, ready to backup clients, with nothing but the bare minimum software and services, in less than an hour. Maybe 10 total clicks/commands including the "apt-get install backuppc" This server will have no extra services and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Excluding files

2008-05-01 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jake Solid wrote: > I'm currently using BackupPC to backup few of my servers. I'm only > having a problem with one of the server getting backed up. There's an > rsync process that's been running flat out for a long time. It seems > that BackupPC is tr

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal PIPE

2008-05-01 Thread Jake Solid
I had set before at 172000 and it was still causing that error. On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Ryan Manikowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the client configuration, go to Backup Settings and set ClientTimeout to > 14400. If you're editing the hosts config file directly, the setting is > $Conf

Re: [BackupPC-users] Excluding files

2008-05-01 Thread Rob Owens
You can run: iftop -n on either machine to monitor the network traffic. That will tell you if there is actually a transfer happening or not. -Rob Jake Solid wrote: > I'm currently using BackupPC to backup few of my servers. I'm only > having a problem with one of the server getting backed up

Re: [BackupPC-users] Excluding files

2008-05-01 Thread Rob Owens
Jake Solid wrote: > I'm currently using BackupPC to backup few of my servers. I'm only > having a problem with one of the server getting backed up. There's an > rsync process that's been running flat out for a long time. It seems > that BackupPC is trying to backup a directory of rapidly-chan

[BackupPC-users] aborted by signal PIPE

2008-05-01 Thread Jake Solid
I have my logs outputting the following errors: 2008-04-30 10:43:13 Backup failed on myserver1 (aborted by signal=PIPE) How can I troubleshoot this error? - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference

[BackupPC-users] Excluding files

2008-05-01 Thread Jake Solid
I'm currently using BackupPC to backup few of my servers. I'm only having a problem with one of the server getting backed up. There's an rsync process that's been running flat out for a long time. It seems that BackupPC is trying to backup a directory of rapidly-changing files, that should be excl

[BackupPC-users] "stop all" not working

2008-05-01 Thread Mike Yates
My nightly jobs are not running if there is an (ostensibly) running job, stuck overnight. I have first wakeup at 01:00 after this cron job is supposed to "unblock" stuck jobs:- > From: Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: 01.05.2008 00:11 > Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECT

[BackupPC-users] Wildcards on paths & filenames

2008-05-01 Thread Peter
I have set up BackupPC to backup my Windows XP Prof share. As I have several users on my machine, I want to make sure that I back up each of their "My Documents" folders. I also have a folder that can appear in many different sub folders that I do not want to be backed up. Plus, on top of these I w