Re: [BackupPC-users] My backups have disappeared

2008-07-15 Thread Craig Barratt
Chris writes: > After over three weeks of backing up this entire network of over 2 GB of > data, I just recently noticed that all my backups have disappeared from > BackupPC. I had initially set up BackupPC to run a full backup about every > 21 days. Because of many snags, I didn't get this done a

[BackupPC-users] Full backups manually, incremental backups automatically

2008-07-15 Thread Jonas von Poser
Hi everybody, I have a question that I could not find an answer to in the BackupPC docs: I'm using BackupPC very successfully in a network of about 20 Linux servers. Now we want to include our user's laptops in the backup plan but have run into some problems. First of all is rsync under Vista,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full backups manually, incremental backups automatically

2008-07-15 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonas von Poser wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have a question that I could not find an answer to in the BackupPC > docs: I'm using BackupPC very successfully in a network of about 20 > Linux servers. Now we want to include our user's laptops in the bac

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full backups manually, incremental backups automatically

2008-07-15 Thread Jonas von Poser
Hi Adam, > Not sure what trickle does, but I assume it reduces the amount of > bandwidth for your backup. I would suggest that you could do this, but > allow it much more bandwidth. ie, around 70% of the available bandwidth, > so it doesn't take too long, and also it doesn't saturate your network.

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-15 Thread Jon Craig
As a debugging step, any way you could change this client to use rsync without "ssh". Not sure what your level of security concern is but the PIPE error points to either SSH collapsing or RSYNC collapsing on the client side. I believe this because your getting a PIPE error rather than some sort o

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

2008-07-15 Thread Rich Rauenzahn
dan wrote: 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:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto backup BackupPC running on a RAID1 with mdadm for offline-storage

2008-07-15 Thread Kurt Tunkko
Hello Holker, Holger Parplies wrote: >> 3. Mirror partition tables from one of the existing disks: >> >> # sudo sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdc > > apart from something having been mangled ("???"), I tend to wonder why you > need root permission to read the partition table of /dev/sda

Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto backup BackupPC running on a RAID1 with mdadm for offline-storage

2008-07-15 Thread Chris Robertson
Kurt Tunkko wrote: > Hello Holker, > > Holger Parplies wrote: > > >>> 3. Mirror partition tables from one of the existing disks: >>> >>> # sudo sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdc >>> >> apart from something having been mangled ("???"), I tend to wonder why you >> need root permissio

Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto backup BackupPC running on a RAID1 with mdadm for offline-storage

2008-07-15 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Kurt Tunkko wrote on 2008-07-16 01:05:30 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto backup BackupPC running on a RAID1 with mdadm for offline-storage]: > Holger Parplies wrote: > > >> 3. Mirror partition tables from one of the existing disks: > >> > >># sudo sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdc >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto backup BackupPC running on a RAID1 with mdadm for offline-storage

2008-07-15 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holger Parplies wrote: > Hi, > > Kurt Tunkko wrote on 2008-07-16 01:05:30 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto > backup BackupPC running on a RAID1 with mdadm for offline-storage]: >> Holger Parplies wrote: >> While this approach is much better than the

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-15 Thread Peter Nankivell
Hello, I think I have fixed my problem. TCP segmentation offload was turned on for the clients network card. I'm running kubuntu 8.04 on both client and server. The server was loaded with kubuntu onto a blank disk, the client was upgraded from 7.10 to 8.04. The both are running intel motherboa