Re: [BackupPC-users] Any plans to upgrade File::RsyncP to version 30?

2008-11-07 Thread Cody Dunne
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Heinrich Christian Peters wrote at about 23:52:26 +0100 on Thursday, November 6, 2008: I think the changes between the protocol 28, 29 an 30 is documented here: http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/utils/admin-tools/rsync/OLDNEWS Very helpful but overwhelming ;) Sounds

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems backing up Windows XP over rsyncd

2008-11-07 Thread Heinrich Christian Peters
Hi Cody, Am 07.11.2008 00:28, Cody Dunne schrieb: Heinrich Christian Peters wrote: The relevant conifg: $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = 'localhost'; $Conf{RsyncdClientPort} = '10012'; $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} = '/etc/backuppc/buildtun $name 22 10012'; $Conf{DumpPostUserCmd}= '/usr/bin/pkill

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems backing up Windows XP over rsyncd

2008-11-07 Thread Cody Dunne
Heinrich Christian Peters wrote: The relevant conifg: $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = 'localhost'; $Conf{RsyncdClientPort} = '10012'; $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} = '/etc/backuppc/buildtun $name 22 10012'; $Conf{DumpPostUserCmd}= '/usr/bin/pkill -u backuppc -f tun$name';

[BackupPC-users] $Conf{TopDir} on raid level 1

2008-11-07 Thread Leandro Tracchia
i created a raid level 1 array from two hard drives (using mdadm). so the array is on /dev/md0. this array is mounted onto a third hard drive where backuppc is running. /etc/fstab: /dev/md0 /media/raid ext3 defaults 1 2 TopDir is like this: $Conf{TopDir} = '/media/raid';

Re: [BackupPC-users] $Conf{TopDir} on raid level 1

2008-11-07 Thread Kenneth L. Owen
Hello Leandro, I am a newbie to Linux and also to BackupPC and have taken much help from the generous people who support both. I found myself in your position rather recently and had to work through finding a solution. While some of the advice may have been good, I may have just lacked the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tailing the XferLOG

2008-11-07 Thread Rich Rauenzahn
Kevin DeGraaf wrote: Is there a way to tail the XferLOG during an rsync-over-ssh dump? How about something like: mkfifo pipe tail -f --bytes=+0 XferLOG.z pipe BackupPC_zcat pipe Another option is to run strace against the process writing the files and filtering for just open's. Rich

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tailing the XferLOG

2008-11-07 Thread John Rouillard
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 02:30:13PM -0800, Rich Rauenzahn wrote: Kevin DeGraaf wrote: Is there a way to tail the XferLOG during an rsync-over-ssh dump? How about something like: mkfifo pipe tail -f --bytes=+0 XferLOG.z pipe BackupPC_zcat pipe Well my problem is that XferLOG.z is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request: Link to latest Full

2008-11-07 Thread Rich Rauenzahn
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: If you want to send an archive of a backup to tape that you can restore (without BackupPC), check out 'Archive Functions' in the BackupPC documentation: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#archive_functions Nils Breunese. I've always

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request: Link to latest Full

2008-11-07 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 03:16:23PM -0800, Rich Rauenzahn wrote: If you want to send an archive of a backup to tape that you can restore (without BackupPC), check out 'Archive Functions' in the BackupPC documentation: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#archive_functions

Re: [BackupPC-users] $Conf{TopDir} on raid level 1

2008-11-07 Thread dan
oh, also...change your TopDIR back to what it was before /var/lib/backuppc and then change the mount point of the disk /dev/md0 /var/lib/backuppc ext3 defaults 0 0 On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:54 PM, dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: chown -R backuppc:backuppc /media/raid On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at

Re: [BackupPC-users] $Conf{TopDir} on raid level 1

2008-11-07 Thread dan
chown -R backuppc:backuppc /media/raid On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Kenneth L. Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hello Leandro, I am a newbie to Linux and also to BackupPC and have taken much help from the generous people who support both. I found myself in your position rather recently and

Re: [BackupPC-users] $Conf{TopDir} on raid level 1

2008-11-07 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
dan skrev: oh, also...change your TopDIR back to what it was before /var/lib/backuppc and then change the mount point of the disk /dev/md0 /var/lib/backuppc ext3 defaults 0 0 Why? Whats wrong with using the other directory for it? PS: Was it really necessary to top post the full letter