Re: [BackupPC-users] Question about "link pending".

the dumps can take a lot of RAM if you are using rsync as it needs about 100bytes per file, which adds up quickly. I do not believe that the nightly jobs take nearly as much as rsync. rsync is 1 large job that depends on all files being known for hardlinks while the nightly jobs are more sequenti

Re: [BackupPC-users] Permanent high ram usage

if you are concerned you can tune your virtual memory system. google for your distro and "tune vm subsystem" and you will have great luck. linux tends to cache commonly used files and libraries for faster access but can de-commit them as needed with very little performance hit. On Mon, Jun 2, 20

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup whith 'smb'

what distro are you using? you should be able to install samba with your package manager and be done. you could change your workgroup to match your domain if you like but shouldn't even have to do that. backuppc uses nmblookup which is part of the samba package to determine ip address from the h

Re: [BackupPC-users] Store backupdata on other server

That's the one, thanks hendrik On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Hendrik Friedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > you are not refering to that commandline-Tool (junction.exe), are you? > Here's another Software, that has a GUI: > http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.ht

Re: [BackupPC-users] Question about "link pending".

Thanks for the help Chris! * Using the term job loosely here, as I personally have > $Conf{MaxBackupPCNightlyJobs} = 8. Is backuppc nightly jobs heavy on RAM? I would like to increase the amount of BackupPC nightly jobs, but right now all of my RAM and most of my swap is being used by BackupPC_

Re: [BackupPC-users] Question about "link pending".

Bruno Faria wrote: > Hi, > > I've posted a similar a question before but since I didn't get any response > the first time, I guess I'll try again . :) > You might be edified by reading the documentation (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html). I highly recommend the section detai

Re: [BackupPC-users] Permanent high ram usage

On 06/02 04:47 , Stefan Mosleitner wrote: > Backuppc execute Backup daily only from about 00:00 - 01:00 utc. > -> The rest of the day I register permanent 96% ram usage at this machine > (XEN VM with 500MB ram and no cpu-usage), is this normal? Yes, it is normal for Linux to run at nearly 100% RAM

Re: [BackupPC-users] images not displayed on the status page

Les Mikesell wrote: > Benedict simon wrote: >> >> Dear All >> >> I have just installed backup PC as per the docs and now when i run >> >> http://hostname/BackupPC_Admin >> >> the main page .. Backuppc Server status page comes but no images. >> >> also in the http errors.log i c >> >> >> [Sun Jun 0

Re: [BackupPC-users] images not displayed on the status page

Benedict simon wrote: > > Dear All > > I have just installed backup PC as per the docs and now when i run > > http://hostname/BackupPC_Admin > > the main page .. Backuppc Server status page comes but no images. > > also in the http errors.log i c > > > [Sun Jun 01 13:05:10 2008] [error] Bare

[BackupPC-users] Permanent high ram usage

Hi! Backuppc execute Backup daily only from about 00:00 - 01:00 utc. -> The rest of the day I register permanent 96% ram usage at this machine (XEN VM with 500MB ram and no cpu-usage), is this normal? best regards, stefan. ---

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups failing

Naturally, I wonder if something is going on with the power management of this laptop. Laptops are usually set up differently for this. Perhaps you are also having battery problems which could cause many other problems. I do hope that your laptop is plugged in during these backups. Maybe you coul

Re: [BackupPC-users] $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} Problem

Craig Barratt wrote: > Richard writes: > > >> $Conf{smbShareName}= ['c','d']; >> >> 2008-06-01 15:41:57 full backup started for share C$ >> > > Notice the "C$". You need to use $Conf{SmbShareName}, not > $Conf{smbShareName}. Config variables are case sensitive. > > Craig > > Thanks. I

[BackupPC-users] images not displayed on the status page

Dear All I have just installed backup PC as per the docs and now when i run http://hostname/BackupPC_Admin the main page .. Backuppc Server status page comes but no images. also in the http errors.log i c [Sun Jun 01 13:05:10 2008] [error] Bareword found where operator expected at /var/www/

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc no longer backs up much of anything

Les Mikesell wrote: > Arch Willingham wrote: >> Same antivirus virus for quite a while. Windows defender is not installed. >> Yes on Active directory. Yes, windows update is enabled so who knows what >> all has changed. I changed the user name that logs in to one that is allowed >> anywhere. >>

[BackupPC-users] Backup whith 'smb'

I just installed backuppc and I want to use 'smb' to save windows xp, but i do not know how to configure smb.conf on the server backuppc? I created a user backuppc (smbpasswd-a backuppc) the directory to save is 'save' which is shared. Thank you for your help to configure smb.conf file.

[BackupPC-users] splitting backups... how?

Try http://www.diskemergency.com where you recover your data easily. You just submit your problem online and get the job done in short time. +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PRO

[BackupPC-users] Backups failing

Hi, On my personal laptop, I haven't been able to do backups for a while. Below is an extract of the error log. Other backups work fine, and I've repeatedly deleted and recreated the shares on this laptop, to no avail. Is there something else that can be done, short of nuking the laptop and relo