Re: [BackupPC-users] Almost working

2008-10-12 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth L. Owen wrote: > Well, I have news good and bad. First, your instructions were very clear, > precise and easy to follow. BUT, it didn't work. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ su - > Password: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# grep backuppc /etc/passwd > bac

Re: [BackupPC-users] Almost working

2008-10-12 Thread Stephen Vaughan
Why use Fedora at all?? Debian is your friend On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Michael Mansour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > Hello all, > > > > For a number of years I have run a small home network of windows > machines. > > I recently decided to move my computing to Linux. I now have t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Almost working

2008-10-12 Thread Kenneth L. Owen
Well, I have news good and bad. First, your instructions were very clear, precise and easy to follow. BUT, it didn't work. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ su - Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# grep backuppc /etc/passwd backuppc:x:495:490:backuppc:/var/lib/BackupPC:/sbin/nologin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# chsh

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_archiveStart not using compression

2008-10-12 Thread Stephen Vaughan
Yep you're right, thanks. On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Craig Barratt < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen writes: > > > Still seems to be creating a .raw archive: > > Yes. The archive is now compressed, in spite of the extension: > >/bin/csh -cf /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCrea

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_archiveStart not using compression

2008-10-12 Thread Craig Barratt
Stephen writes: > Still seems to be creating a .raw archive: Yes. The archive is now compressed, in spite of the extension: /bin/csh -cf /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -t -h localhost -n 24 -s \* . | /bin/gzip > /data/NAS-Mount-MaxBackups/offsite/localhost.24.tar.raw The exten

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_archiveStart not using compression

2008-10-12 Thread Stephen Vaughan
Still seems to be creating a .raw archive: backuppc 25740 0.0 0.5 8724 5628 ?S11:51 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archive offsite-archive archiveReq.25739.0 backuppc 25851 0.0 0.4 7320 4568 ?S11:57 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/backuppc/

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_archiveStart not using compression

2008-10-12 Thread Stephen Vaughan
hmm okay. That sort of worked, I did the first change now I'm getting an error for gzip: 2008-10-13 11:44:56 Archive failed (Error: gzip is not an executable program) $Conf{ArchiveComp} = 'gzip'; $Conf{CompressLevel} = '1'; On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Craig Barratt < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_archiveStart not using compression

2008-10-12 Thread Craig Barratt
Stephen writes: > hmm okay. That sort of worked, I did the first change now I'm getting an > error for gzip: Set it to the full path, eg: /bin/gzip. Craig - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer'

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_archiveStart not using compression

2008-10-12 Thread Craig Barratt
Stephen writes: > When I run BackupPC_archiveStart from the command line it's not > using compression for the backup, the backup file is created using > "raw", however if I start the archive job via the web-interface it > uses compression (gzip by default). > > The command I am running is: > > /

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_archiveStart not using compression

2008-10-12 Thread Stephen Vaughan
I take it nobody knows? On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Stephen Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Firstly, what a fantastic piece of software BackupPC is, well done Craig > and co! > > When I run BackupPC_archiveStart from the command line it's not using > compression for the backup, the backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] Almost working

2008-10-12 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth L. Owen wrote: > On this path, my next step is to set up ssh-keys for BackupPC. > Remember, that I am a novice in Linux. I have instructions for creating > the keys but find a discrepancy between the instructions (written for > Debian) and th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Almost working

2008-10-12 Thread Kenneth L. Owen
Thanks to all for responding. So far, I've learned several things: 1. Fedora distributions are short lived. 2. Rsync is the preferred transport. Well, I kind of learned something. I had already figured out that Fedora kept people moving along down the version trail. I did not real

Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up large SQL DB's

2008-10-12 Thread dan
If you replicate your live database to a spare database, you can then perform backup tasks on the spare. The reason to backup to spare is that you can use the pre and post dump commands to shutdown the database for the backup. This solves a number of issues from file locking on the database. You