Re: [BackupPC-users] Missing symlink backups, rsync+ssh

2008-07-10 Thread Jason Jorgensen
Just completed a new full backup on a host without the --archive flag and its the same thing. The Xferlog shows it sees the symlink /bin/sh -> bash but then its not in the pool, no fsh. Very confusing. Craig Barratt wrote: > If the symlinks don't appear when you browse the backup, try > removing

[BackupPC-users] gluster

2008-07-10 Thread dan
Has anyone every tried using backuppc with gluster? I have setup a quick glusterfs on some test rigs and find it to be a very very interesting filesystem. gluster does run under fuse but performs like a native filesystem. I get 11.7MB/s on a 100Mb line, which is just as fast as iscsi. I can eve

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPCd: still dead?

2008-07-10 Thread dan
there is no official message that says its dead, but its dead. no activity for 2 full years, and keene's last post to this like is like 2 full years ago. id guess it's completely dead! On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:19 PM, dnk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my search to become more familiar with bac

Re: [BackupPC-users] RSYNC BACKUPPC

2008-07-10 Thread dan
that (Unable to read 4 bytes) that usually means a problem with authentication. also, rsync over ssh is problematic on windows clients. better to either use just rsyncd or use rsyncd over a vpn tunnel On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:34 AM, fatima ech-charif < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi > > i

Re: [BackupPC-users] Prepare for the worst, Howto backup the backuppc-server

2008-07-10 Thread dan
1) Is is also possible to add a 3rd harddrive via USB or Firewire to the RAID1 and then using your idea to detach and reattach the harddrive? yes, that is a very good method. I suggest you try to do esata but usb or firewire will work. esata is just much faster. 2) When I attach the harddrive t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommended transfer method for remote backups of win machines

2008-07-10 Thread dan
I dont know, but if you use deltacopy you are using a slightly dated version of rsync on a slightly dates version of cygwin's dlls which does work in bpc v3.0 I have abondon ssh tunnels for rsync in favor of pptp vpns on remote clients and I dont use any encryption on trusted networks. On Thu, Ju

[BackupPC-users] can't back up /etc

2008-07-10 Thread Jacob McCoy Wade
I just noticed that on one of my three hosts that I back up, I can not seem to back up /etc. I get the following messages in my log file: 2008-07-10 13:50:44 full backup started for directory /etc 2008-07-10 13:51:00 Got fatal error during xfer (Unexpected end of tar archive) 2008-07-10 13:51:05

[BackupPC-users] BackupPCd: still dead?

2008-07-10 Thread dnk
In my search to become more familiar with backuppc, I came across some references to BackupPCd. I then also came across a mailing list archive with the subject "BackupPCd: dead?". Is this the case? I still find references to it in the backuppc docs as well. Dustin ---

Re: [BackupPC-users] Missing symlink backups, rsync+ssh

2008-07-10 Thread Jason Jorgensen
59 was the most recent full backup done. No fsh file, I had looked there already as I have done manual restores a few times in the past. Is there something in the way it does hardlinks that may be screwed up and not allowing it to happen? If it was having trouble doing so would it log it someplac

Re: [BackupPC-users] Missing symlink backups, rsync+ssh

2008-07-10 Thread Craig Barratt
Jason writes: > If anyone has some guess where I can look for this problem I would > appreciate some help. Did you see my earlier reply? See below. > Examining the Xferlog I see that the rsync definately saw the /bin/sh > symlink during the transfer. > > create l 777 0/0 4 bin/

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup frozen...

2008-07-10 Thread Sam Przyswa
Les Mikesell a écrit : Sam Przyswa wrote: Since two days one of my backup machine stay frozen with no error message !? I use BPC 3.1.0 on Debian Etch and on the remote machine we use rsync version 2.6.8, it seems the remote rsync stop to send but the connection stay open. The remote dir

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup frozen...

2008-07-10 Thread Les Mikesell
Sam Przyswa wrote: > >>> Since two days one of my backup machine stay frozen with no error >>> message !? >>> >>> I use BPC 3.1.0 on Debian Etch and on the remote machine we use rsync >>> version 2.6.8, it seems the remote rsync stop to send but the >>> connection stay open. The remote dir wher

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup frozen...

2008-07-10 Thread Sam Przyswa
Les Mikesell a écrit : > Sam Przyswa wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Since two days one of my backup machine stay frozen with no error >> message !? >> >> I use BPC 3.1.0 on Debian Etch and on the remote machine we use rsync >> version 2.6.8, it seems the remote rsync stop to send but the >> connection st

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup frozen...

2008-07-10 Thread Les Mikesell
Sam Przyswa wrote: > Hi, > > Since two days one of my backup machine stay frozen with no error message !? > > I use BPC 3.1.0 on Debian Etch and on the remote machine we use rsync > version 2.6.8, it seems the remote rsync stop to send but the connection > stay open. The remote dir where the ba

[BackupPC-users] RSYNC BACKUPPC

2008-07-10 Thread fatima ech-charif
hi i use rsync to backup windows hosts with protocol SSH but i have this problem : Contenu du fichier /var/lib/backuppc/pc/192.168.100.14/XferLOG.bad.z, modifié le 2008-07-10 16:26:21 (Extraction des erreurs seulement) full backup started for directory c:\applis Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l ro

[BackupPC-users] Backup frozen...

2008-07-10 Thread Sam Przyswa
Hi, Since two days one of my backup machine stay frozen with no error message !? I use BPC 3.1.0 on Debian Etch and on the remote machine we use rsync version 2.6.8, it seems the remote rsync stop to send but the connection stay open. The remote dir where the backup stop is 640Mb of size. This

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC skips directories

2008-07-10 Thread Les Mikesell
Peter Carlsson wrote: > > I just realise that BackupPC seems to skip directories > during a backup. > > In my localhost.pl I have: > > $Conf{TarShareName} = [ > '/etc', > '/home', > '/root' > ]; > > But the '/home/peter/Maildir' (among others) is not > backuped. I noticed that the p

Re: [BackupPC-users] Prepare for the worst, Howto backup the backuppc-server

2008-07-10 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 07/10 12:23 , Kurt Tunkko wrote: > My Idea was todo a full diskimage of the server and then to (r)sync > daily to the external harddrive. This harddrive will then be stores > away when everybody is out of office. Rsync scales poorly to millions of files; the memory requirements are too high

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommended transfer method for remote backups of win machines

2008-07-10 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 07/09 06:23 , dan wrote: > for remote windows hosts, you are probably best advised to either use just > rsync via cygwin or deltacopy, or tunnel that over cygwins ssh or a seperate > VPN connection. Last I knew, cygwin rsync+ssh did not work due to a bug. Has this changed? -- Carl Soderstrom

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC skips directories

2008-07-10 Thread Torsten Sadowski
Hi, you might to give execution rights as well. If the directory is only readable even a simple ls fails. Cheers, Torsten Am Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2008 14:29 schrieb Peter Carlsson: > Hello! > > I just realise that BackupPC seems to skip directories > during a backup. > > In my localhost.pl I ha

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC skips directories

2008-07-10 Thread Peter Carlsson
Hello! I just realise that BackupPC seems to skip directories during a backup. In my localhost.pl I have: $Conf{TarShareName} = [ '/etc', '/home', '/root' ]; But the '/home/peter/Maildir' (among others) is not backuped. I noticed that the permission was different for Maildir compare

[BackupPC-users] my email

2008-07-10 Thread Omar
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Missing symlink backups, rsync+ssh

2008-07-10 Thread Jason Jorgensen
If anyone has some guess where I can look for this problem I would appreciate some help. Examining the Xferlog I see that the rsync definately saw the /bin/sh symlink during the transfer. create l 777 0/0 4 bin/sh -> bash But once the backup is complete there is no symlink listed

Re: [BackupPC-users] Prepare for the worst, Howto backup the backuppc-server

2008-07-10 Thread Kurt Tunkko
dan wrote: > add a third member drive to your software raid so you have a 3 device > raid1. setup a script for when you hotplug the drive to automatically > add it to the raid1 and another script to disconnect it from the raid(by > serial number or UUID or something unique to each disk). Grea