Re: [BackupPC-users] Split share into several shares

2008-06-09 Thread Hendrik Friedel
Hello, interesting. Thanks for your reply. My backups take longer. Much longer. My last incremental took nearly 280 minutes for about 600 MB. This is over a 54 Mbit Wlan connection. But even over this connection 600MB are transferable in a fraction of 280 minutes... I really don't know what's t

[BackupPC-users] Enhancements in rsync 3.0

2008-06-09 Thread Hendrik Friedel
Hello, Has anyone tried out the enhancements of rsync 3.0 yet? "The 3.0.0 version number is such a large bump up from 2.6.9 due to the addition of an incremental recursion scan (which helps a lot with large transfers)" "- A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talkin

Re: [BackupPC-users] Split share into several shares

2008-06-09 Thread dan
WLAN is going to slow you down because of latency. rsync does quite a bit of 2 way communication. in fact it does it for every single file it inspects as it sends the checksum back and forth. wireless is a killer here, it often has latencies that are longer than a remote DSL site! The other thi

[BackupPC-users] Stolen backuppc server

2008-06-09 Thread Johan Ekh
Hi all, I use backuppc on a suse linux server to back up a number of computers on a NFS mounted network disk. Now somebody has stolen my suse server. I still have the network disk though. What is the best way to retrieve all my data? Please help with simple instructions if possible. I am not an e

[BackupPC-users] opening archive files in windows

2008-06-09 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Hello, I have created an bzip2 archive with split and it is in 2 files. However I couldnt open the archive using winrar or 7zip. It looks like they are not continuing from the 2nd file. How can I open an archive which is split on windows? Thanks, Evren

[BackupPC-users] Multiple targets for the data-storage

2008-06-09 Thread Hendrik Friedel
Hello, I'd like to backup some files in addition to the local harddisk also to a remote storage (which is connected via vpn). The files are my photos, that are probably the most valuable data I have. Now, the first idea is, to mount the remote storage via samba, but I think, it is not possible, to

[BackupPC-users] Enhancements in rsync 3.0

2008-06-09 Thread Hendrik Friedel
Hello, Has anyone tried out the enhancements of rsync 3.0 yet? "The 3.0.0 version number is such a large bump up from 2.6.9 due to the addition of an incremental recursion scan (which helps a lot with large transfers)" "- A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talkin

Re: [BackupPC-users] question about dhcp and subnets

2008-06-09 Thread Chantal Rosmuller
On Friday 06 June 2008 15:19:53 Martin Leben wrote: > Chantal Rosmuller wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > I am using backuppc 2.1.1 on a debian system. I use it to backup laptops > > (among others) with dhcp addresses and it works great. However there is > > one issue: > > > > We have 2 offices that are

[BackupPC-users] (no subject)

2008-06-09 Thread fatima ech-charif
hello i have this problem, when i started backuppc, i get this: Can't create a test hardlink between a file in /data/BackupPC/pc and /data/BackupPC/cpool. Either these are different file systems, or this file system doesn't support hardlinks, or these directories don't exist, or there is a permis

[BackupPC-users] opening archive files in windows

2008-06-09 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Hello, I have created an bzip2 archive with split and it is in 2 files. However I couldnt open the archive using winrar or 7zip. It looks like they are not continuing from the 2nd file. How can I open an archive which is split on windows? Thanks, Evren -

[BackupPC-users] problem with backuppc

2008-06-09 Thread fatima ech-charif
hello i have this problem, when i started backuppc, i get this: Can't create a test hardlink between a file in /data/BackupPC/pc and /data/BackupPC/cpool. Either these are different file systems, or this file system doesn't support hardlinks, or these directories don't exist, or there is a permis

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancements in rsync 3.0

2008-06-09 Thread David Birnbaum
The incremental-recursion algorithm would be a huge win for a lot of our backups, in particular for doing backups of larger mail servers that have MailDir as the store. Is there any plan for migrating that in? David. - On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, Hendrik Friedel wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone tr

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancements in rsync 3.0

2008-06-09 Thread Lemonbit
Hendrik Friedel wrote: > Has anyone tried out the enhancements of rsync 3.0 yet? > > "The 3.0.0 version number is such a large bump up from 2.6.9 due to > the > addition of an incremental recursion scan (which helps a lot with > large > transfers)" > > "- A new incremental-recursion algori

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancements in rsync 3.0

2008-06-09 Thread Paul Mantz
Hello Hendrik, rsync v3.0 does offer a lot of good features that will affect performance, but it is not usable out of the box. BackupPC has its own implementation of the rsync algorithm, the File::RsyncP module on CPAN. In order for us to get the benefits of this update, File::Rsync needs to be

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancements in rsync 3.0

2008-06-09 Thread Hendrik Friedel
I think, youcan do that yourself, can't you? 1) Update your server to rsync 3.01 2) Update your clients to rsync 3.01 3) Use the appropriate options in the transfer-configuration of backuppc. Greetings, Hendrik > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancements in rsync 3.0

2008-06-09 Thread Hendrik Friedel
Hello, just, to get it right: It's not a rsync implementation in Backuppc, but in perl (CPAN), right? Why isn't backuppc using the binary? Greetings, Hendrik _ Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Paul Mantz Gesendet: Montag, 9. Juni 2008 20:15 An: Hendri

[BackupPC-users] problem with user authentication

2008-06-09 Thread Benedict simon
Dear All, I have just installed Backup PC and configured intially i had some problem but all sorted out thnks to gooling n mailing list help actually i had a problem with user authentication with apache but i disabled the feature since it was in test phase i managed to backup succesfull a coupl

Re: [BackupPC-users] opening archive files in windows

2008-06-09 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:11:04PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > I have created an bzip2 archive with split and it is in 2 files. However I > couldnt open the archive using winrar or 7zip. It looks like they are not > continuing from the 2nd file. How can I open an archive which is split on >

Re: [BackupPC-users] (no subject)

2008-06-09 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 02:55:56PM +, fatima ech-charif wrote: > hello > i have this problem, when i started backuppc, i get this: > > Can't create a test hardlink between a file in /data/BackupPC/pc and > /data/BackupPC/cpool. Either these are different file systems, or this file > system do

[BackupPC-users] (no subject)

2008-06-09 Thread olafkewl
fatima ech-charif a écrit : > > hello > i have this problem, when i started backuppc, i get this: > > Can't create a test hardlink between a file in /data/BackupPC/pc and > /data/BackupPC/cpool. Either these are different file systems, or > this file system doesn't support hardlinks, or these

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancements in rsync 3.0

2008-06-09 Thread Paul Mantz
To be clear, BackupPC needs lower-level access to the rsync protocol in order to interface with the pool correctly. File::RsyncP was written specifically to support BackupPC, and to current knowledge is the only program that uses it. In the near future, I plan on updating File::RsyncP so that Bac

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancements in rsync 3.0

2008-06-09 Thread Paul Mantz
The configurations options are a bit misleading. Rsync's implementation in BackupPC is pretty complicated. BackupPC uses the rsync binary to initiate the transfer, but then uses File::RsyncP to handle the actual file transferring. File::RsyncP is a full implementation of the rsync protocol from

Re: [BackupPC-users] Stolen backuppc server

2008-06-09 Thread dan
Install a new backuppc server ( or one in a virtual machine ) and then mount your NFS network drive to the $TopDIR which is likely to be /var/lib/backuppc if you are using debian or ubuntu. You can go to vmware and download an ubuntu 8.04 server image that is ready to run and do a quick 'apt-get i

Re: [BackupPC-users] Multiple targets for the data-storage

2008-06-09 Thread dan
a)you can only use 1 filesystem for backuppc so you either need just 1 filesystem or to use LVM or something to merge up multiple disks into 1 filesystem. b)rsync is perfect for many non-changing files as it will make no attempt to back them up, it will just check to make sure they have not change

Re: [BackupPC-users] Enhancements in rsync 3.0

2008-06-09 Thread dan
it has been asked before, and i believe the answer was that backuppc is coded to use rsync2.x and will only speak that and not use any of the new features. hopefully 3.2 will include rsync3 support. On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Hendrik Friedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyo