Re: [BackupPC-users] nmblookup being invoked for hosts where backups are disabled (bug)

2008-09-04 Thread Craig Barratt
John writes: > We were having a weird problem with nmblookup firing for a host that > was disabled with: > > $Conf{BackupsDisable} = '2'; > > using BackupPC 3.1.0. The same thing happend when set to 1. My claim > is that BackupPC shouldn't be attempting to resolve any host with > BackupsDisabl

Re: [BackupPC-users] Ping too slow

2008-09-04 Thread Craig Barratt
Andrew writes: > ping -c 1 shipping > > ... the trick being it is _not_ doing nmblookup to get the IP address of > the windows host. Instead, it's trying to DNS "shipping" using opendns. > OpenDNS creates the same issue as my ISP's DNS: it will direct any host > that isn't found to its own search

Re: [BackupPC-users] Ping too slow

2008-09-04 Thread Martin Leben
Andrew wrote: > [...] Instead, it's trying to DNS "shipping" using opendns. > OpenDNS creates the same issue as my ISP's DNS: it will direct any host > that isn't found to its own search servers. Hi Andrew, This is a VERY good example of why you should avoid OpenDNS or any other DNS service tha

Re: [BackupPC-users] Ping too slow

2008-09-04 Thread Andrew
On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 22:21 -0700, Craig Barratt wrote: > Andrew writes: > > > A few days ago I noticed that none of my hosts are backing up. All but > > two give the error, "no ping (ping too slow: 38.94msec (threshold is > > 35msec))" -- or some similar ping. > > > > One such host is named "shi

Re: [BackupPC-users] (no subject)

2008-09-04 Thread Alan McKay
> Might it be a problem with permissions? check to see if Selinux is turned on, and if so, turn it off -- "I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends" - Abraham Lincoln - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin

[BackupPC-users] (no subject)

2008-09-04 Thread rorschach999
This is an edited version of a previous post ok, I read everything about samba 3.2, smb.conf and authentication, but it did not really make me smart. Could you give me a more detailed hint? btw it seems very relevant to the problem, that I cant see my old backups anymore in my backup

[BackupPC-users] backuppc fails after updating opensuse to 11.0

2008-09-04 Thread rorschach999
ok, I read everything about samba 3.2, smb.conf and authentication, but it did not really make me smart. Could you give me a more detailed hint? +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAI

Re: [BackupPC-users] idea

2008-09-04 Thread Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 06:57:39PM -0600, dan wrote: >> this was on an rsync incremental. There was no error in the Xfers log, it >> is like the file was not there. The atime on the file is from before the >> backup so I know the file was there. I have only seen this o

Re: [BackupPC-users] idea

2008-09-04 Thread rouilj-backuppc
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 06:57:39PM -0600, dan wrote: > this was on an rsync incremental. There was no error in the Xfers log, it > is like the file was not there. The atime on the file is from before the > backup so I know the file was there. I have only seen this one time. > > The idea of mark

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup through slow line?

2008-09-04 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Owens wrote: > Adam Goryachev wrote: >> Rob Owens wrote: >>> Adam Goryachev wrote: Holger Parplies wrote: > a) rsync full backups are only minimally more expensive than incrementals > in >terms of bandwidth. Still, every file

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup through slow line?

2008-09-04 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 09/05 12:51 , Adam Goryachev wrote: > Also assuming you use backuppc 3.0 or newer, which means it is not > available for me as I am using debian stable packages. (Although, I hear > the next debian stable should be out pretty soon, in which case I'll get > the newer version then :) Check out ww

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup through slow line?

2008-09-04 Thread Rob Owens
Adam Goryachev wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: >> Adam Goryachev wrote: >>> Holger Parplies wrote: a) rsync full backups are only minimally more expensive than incrementals in terms of bandwidth. Still, every file needs to be completely read from disk on both sides, so th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup through slow line?

2008-09-04 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Owens wrote: > Adam Goryachev wrote: >> Holger Parplies wrote: >>> a) rsync full backups are only minimally more expensive than incrementals in >>>terms of bandwidth. Still, every file needs to be completely read from >>> disk >>>on both s

[BackupPC-users] show XferLog warning on Status page -- was Re: idea

2008-09-04 Thread Rob Owens
Tino Schwarze wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 02:29:53PM -0600, dan wrote: >> I have a thought here, thought id run it through the users list before >> dropping it on the devs. >> >> My idea was to add a small step to the backuppc process to validate that all >> files that should be transfered wer

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full vs. Incremental

2008-09-04 Thread Rob Owens
Christian, Here is a good post on Full vs. Incremental from a year ago. In particular, check out the two threads that Holger links to. http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg06101.html -Rob Christian Völker wrote: > Yohoo! > > |> I keep repeating this, so you migh

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup through slow line?

2008-09-04 Thread Rob Owens
Adam Goryachev wrote: > Holger Parplies wrote: >> a) rsync full backups are only minimally more expensive than incrementals in >>terms of bandwidth. Still, every file needs to be completely read from >> disk >>on both sides, so there is a good reason to offer an "incremental" mode as >>

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate usage

2008-09-04 Thread Gabriel Landais
Hi, in fact I was backuping only two folders : $Conf{TarShareName} = [ '/etc', '/home/serveur/data/Photos' ]; This my backup drive : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost] $ durep -td 2 [ /mnt/backup/backuppc/pc/localhost45.1G (9 files, 3 dirs) ] 22.5G [##

[BackupPC-users] Full vs. Incremental (was: Backup through slow line?)

2008-09-04 Thread Christian Völker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yohoo! |> I keep repeating this, so you might all be bored, but still: No, definetly not bored. For this it looks like it's too complicated :-\ |> When you factor pooling into the equasion, this means that the difference |> between rsync full and inc