Re: [BackupPC-users] Help backing up Microsoft SQL Server with BackupPC (and WinXPs Shadow Copy Service)

2008-08-19 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kurt Tunkko wrote: > Alan McKay wrote: >>> 1) Can I [...] do a dump of the >>> Microsoft SQL Database to a file and backup this file? >> I don't use MS SQL, but the above works fine on MySQL. > > Ok, so I know now its worth to follow this path, but (un

Re: [BackupPC-users] busybox tar problem?

2008-08-19 Thread Ward... James Ward
And with this config file: $Conf{TarClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -n -l backup $host /usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C /etc/config/users/backup/tarSend -c -v -f - -C /'; $Conf{PingCmd} = '/usr/local/bin/check_ssh $host'; $Conf{XferMethod} = "tar"; $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = 'etc'; I get "lost network connec

Re: [BackupPC-users] busybox tar problem?

2008-08-19 Thread Ward... James Ward
Okay, here's more information: Here's the script I'm running on the BusyBox Arm system: #!/bin/sh -f /bin/tar $* exec 1>&2 echo 'Total bytes written: 1863680 (1.8MiB, 12MiB/s)' I believe this sends the output of the echo to STDERR? But here's the problem I'm currently struggling with, here's t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Help backing up Microsoft SQL Server with BackupPC (and WinXPs Shadow Copy Service)

2008-08-19 Thread Kurt Tunkko
Alan McKay wrote: >> 1) Can I [...] do a dump of the >> Microsoft SQL Database to a file and backup this file? > > I don't use MS SQL, but the above works fine on MySQL. Ok, so I know now its worth to follow this path, but (unfortunately) I don't know what are the right commands to do this - and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Help backing up Microsoft SQL Server with BackupPC (and WinXPs Shadow Copy Service)

2008-08-19 Thread Alan McKay
> 1) Can I [...] do a dump of the > Microsoft SQL Database to a file and backup this file? I don't use MS SQL, but the above works fine on MySQL. I use the mysqldump command to dump the DB and then those sql files can be easily backed up. And of course mysqldump works on the live DB so no need t

[BackupPC-users] Help backing up Microsoft SQL Server with BackupPC (and WinXPs Shadow Copy Service)

2008-08-19 Thread Kurt Tunkko
Hello, on one of our Clients there is an instance of Microsoft SQL Server running. When backing up the machine, the error log shows: Remote[1]: rsync: send_files failed to open: (in root): Device or resource busy (16) with s: "c/Programme/Microsoft SQL Server/MSSQL.1/MSSQL/Data/master.mdf" "

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to backup External Hard Drives

2008-08-19 Thread Kurt Tunkko
Hey, naigy wrote: > - I have 4 PC's which BackupPC backs up - I have 5 external hard > drives which occasionally get connected to only one of these 4 PC's. > - I would like to have these 5 extra drives (some with multiple > partitions) backed up through BackupPC. I found a nice solution for anot

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tape?

2008-08-19 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:23:06AM -0400, thomas wrote: > Thanks for making this more clear to me. We'll go for the second > backuppc install, and just overwrite it's pool if we need to restore > from tape (making sure we tar the whole pool to tape every now and > again). Note that only backing u

[BackupPC-users] Tape?

2008-08-19 Thread thomas
Hi Les, Thanks for making this more clear to me. We'll go for the second backuppc install, and just overwrite it's pool if we need to restore from tape (making sure we tar the whole pool to tape every now and again). Cheer /Thomas LinProfs BV +

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tape?

2008-08-19 Thread Les Mikesell
thomas wrote: > Dear community, > > We're backing up our pool to tape every now and again, but we would like to > extract this data into the pool at a later stage.. in case we need to recover. > > Here's what I'd like to achieve: > > 1. Back up pool to tape using tar (works) > 2. Extract backup

[BackupPC-users] Tape?

2008-08-19 Thread thomas
Dear community, We're backing up our pool to tape every now and again, but we would like to extract this data into the pool at a later stage.. in case we need to recover. Here's what I'd like to achieve: 1. Back up pool to tape using tar (works) 2. Extract backup from tape and import it into b

Re: [BackupPC-users] busybox tar problem?

2008-08-19 Thread dan
gnu tar can be compiled for arm cpus. do you have a space issue that you cant use full gnu tar? I suggest you ditch busybox tar and move to gnu. this would be your simplest solution. unless you lack a machine with gcc and make to build it on but any linux machine with those tools should be able

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using OS X As Server

2008-08-19 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Adam Dempsey wrote: > I have read that people have done it before but I am struggling to get > BackupPC to run on an OS X Server, to backup linux clients. > > I think I have it installed but I can't figure out how to get the CGI > script to work, I get Error 500, I'm sure I haven't setup something

[BackupPC-users] Using OS X As Server

2008-08-19 Thread Adam Dempsey
I have read that people have done it before but I am struggling to get BackupPC to run on an OS X Server, to backup linux clients. I think I have it installed but I can't figure out how to get the CGI script to work, I get Error 500, I'm sure I haven't setup something correctly but I'm not sure