Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Working Well - Except Archiving

2008-11-18 Thread samk-01
I am struggling to create an archive from the command line. The desired outcome is to emulate the clicking of the "Start Archive" button in the web page as this method is working perfectly. The overall objective is to create the archive as a cron job. >From /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_ar

[BackupPC-users] $Conf{RsyncShareName} globally and for hosts

2008-11-18 Thread Christian Völker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yohoo! Yes, it's perhaps a stupid question. Anyway: I have a global option in the config.pl: $Conf{RsyncShareName}= ['/','/boot']; Rsync is configured with the '--one-filesystem'. So my rsync hosts are backed up including / and /boot. Fine On some

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc mirroring with rdiff-backup or not?

2008-11-18 Thread Christian Völker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yohoo! > I think that you can use rsync v3 (on both sides) to sync pools without > issue. > I'm assuming that you are using linux here also. With *solaris you have > the zfs option as well. > I did some research a while back to use a cluster filesyst

Re: [BackupPC-users] $Conf{RsyncShareName} globally and for hosts

2008-11-18 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Christian Völker wrote: > I have a global option in the config.pl: > $Conf{RsyncShareName}= ['/','/boot']; > > Rsync is configured with the '--one-filesystem'. > > So my rsync hosts are backed up including / and /boot. Fine > > On some hosts there are some more shares to backup i.e. /srv/ftp. > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_zipCreate and charset for encoding file names

2008-11-18 Thread Alexander Moisseev
My conclusions from PKWARE Application Note: 1. Encoding must be OEM code page of terminal where zip will be viewed or unpacked; 2. "version made by" field must be set in accordance with OS where zip will be viewed or unpacked; 3. If filenames encoded in UTF-8 (Linux terminal code page), general

[BackupPC-users] Import client config

2008-11-18 Thread Pierguido
Hi all. I'm running backuppc on a linux server and everything works well. I have now to move backuppc on a solaris server and the main installation went fine. I then copied the configuration files for the differente servers to be backed up...i modify the hosts files and it works...but, backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc mirroring with rdiff-backup or not?

2008-11-18 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Völker wrote: > My way to backup the backup ;-) is LVM > > The pool is on a LVM as a LV. To backup the pool while backuppc is > running I can take a snapshot of the pool's LV and I rsync this one. So > there are no filesystem issues and back

Re: [BackupPC-users] merge host from one pool into another pool

2008-11-18 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dan wrote: > I have done this on a small setup a while ago. I just pulled over the > pc directory from one into the other and adjusted my config files for > the imported backups.. aditionally I made an error when copying and > brought over numeric us

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc mirroring with rdiff-backup or not?

2008-11-18 Thread Christian Völker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yohoo! >> My way to backup the backup ;-) is LVM >> The pool is on a LVM as a LV. To backup the pool while backuppc is >> running I can take a snapshot of the pool's LV and I rsync this one. So >> there are no filesystem issues and backuppc can stay ru

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc mirroring with rdiff-backup or not?

2008-11-18 Thread Rob Owens
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Don't get me wrong: I'll take the hacks. It's better than >> nothing. I, like I think *most* of us, would kill (or even pay >> for!) a method of replicating a pool in a guaranteed-correct way, >> especially at the host or eve

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc mirroring with rdiff-backup or not?

2008-11-18 Thread Rob Owens
dan wrote: > Also, I did try to do some software raid mirroring over iscsi but did > not do much more that basic testing. The problem here is that the raid > mirroring is syncronous so the slow iscsi connection will effect backup > performance quite a bit. I couldnt find any info on making the li

[BackupPC-users] Rsyncd on XP

2008-11-18 Thread Eric Snyder
I was having problems with SMB on XP pro so have shifted gears and am trying Rsyncd. I ran a full backup of the cDrive setup. The problem is that I am using a backup user I created that is part of the user group "Backup Operators". I do get files backed up but... The only files I get in the Doc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Import client config

2008-11-18 Thread Rob Owens
Pierguido wrote: > Hi all. > I'm running backuppc on a linux server and everything works well. > I have now to move backuppc on a solaris server and the main > installation went fine. I then copied the configuration files for the > differente servers to be backed up...i modify the hosts files and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd on XP

2008-11-18 Thread Rob Owens
Eric Snyder wrote: > I was having problems with SMB on XP pro so have shifted gears and am > trying Rsyncd. I ran a full backup of the cDrive setup. The problem is > that I am using a backup user I created that is part of the user group > "Backup Operators". I do get files backed up but... The o

Re: [BackupPC-users] Vista client unauthorized user

2008-11-18 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 11/18 08:49 , Jaco Lange wrote: > I am using deltacopy on Windows vista 32/64 bit and Server 2008 without any > problem > http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp It looks like Deltacopy just adds a bunch of GUI stuff and OS integration to rsyncd. This is fine and dandy for some appli

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Working Well - Except Archiving

2008-11-18 Thread jkewley
Trying an alternative angle on this... An archive is successfully created when started from within the web page. This produces a log-file with the following entry: Executing: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate /usr/bin/split home---tom 10 /b

Re: [BackupPC-users] Import client config

2008-11-18 Thread Pierguido
On 18-11-2008 14:02, Rob Owens wrote: > Pierguido wrote: > On my system, all the config files are owned by backuppc and assigned to > group www-data. The files have 640 permissions. > > Can your web server user read the files? Before i had a little different permission...now i did as you, but agai

Re: [BackupPC-users] Vista client unauthorized user

2008-11-18 Thread Jaco Lange
There is a deltacd.conf file that you can edit ! in a similar way to rsyncd.conf exact same format. I was using cwRsync_Server_2.0.9.1 but did not had any luck on vista 64 bit and MS Windows server 2008 at least it is working On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom < [EMAIL PRO

Re: [BackupPC-users] Vista client unauthorized user

2008-11-18 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 11/18 04:28 , Jaco Lange wrote: > There is a deltacd.conf file that you can edit ! in a similar way to > rsyncd.conf exact same format. Ok. Thanks for the information. I'll see about giving it a try. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ---

Re: [BackupPC-users] Question about attrib file structure

2008-11-18 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 22:51:22 -0500 on Monday, November 17, 2008: > Is the following true: > 1. If a directory is *empty*, is there any reason for it to have an >attrib file? > >Because in playing around with creating and deleting directory contents, I >found tha

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc mirroring with rdiff-backup or not?

2008-11-18 Thread tmassey
Christian Völker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/18/2008 03:34:45 AM: > > I think that you can use rsync v3 (on both sides) to sync pools without > > issue. > > I'm assuming that you are using linux here also. With *solaris you have > > the zfs option as well. > > I did some research a while ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc mirroring with rdiff-backup or not?

2008-11-18 Thread Fernando Laudares Camargos
Hello, the commentary from Rob Steele bellow the article in http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/010037.html seems quite relevant to me. I have tried rsync and cp in the past but had the already mentioned memory and time issues so I'm planning to give his suggestion (BackupPC_tarPCCopy to ma

Re: [BackupPC-users] Vista client unauthorized user

2008-11-18 Thread Cody Dunne
Oz Dror wrote: > Thanks for responding. > > I have done all the correction that you undigested. I am still havening > the auth issue. > When I run the backup in a command line > I noticed these lines: > > Negotiated protocol version 28 > Got response: 73c7ac91a97cd967d94504b9a6347037 > Auth: go

[BackupPC-users] Child Exited Prematurely

2008-11-18 Thread James Sefton
Hi, Please excuse me if I am using this wrong, in all my years in IT, it seems this is the first time I have used a mailing list for support. (I'm usually pretty good at the whole RTFM thing) We have a backup box (FC6) that is running backups from a lot of windows servers using rSync. We are

Re: [BackupPC-users] moving a volume

2008-11-18 Thread Chris Robertson
Ray Todd Stevens wrote: > We have a backuppc system setup that has been running for a while now. We > are > expanding the office and I am going to need more storage space. To do this I > will need to > copy the data off, reconfigure the array with more drives and then reload the > system. >

Re: [BackupPC-users] merge host from one pool into another pool

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Kuss
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: "Adam Goryachev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Gesendet: 18.11.08 10:53:36 > An: questions and support" > Betreff: Re: [BackupPC-users] merge host from one pool into another pool > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > dan wrote: > > I have done

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Working Well - Except Archiving

2008-11-18 Thread Craig Barratt
SamK writes: > I am struggling to create an archive from the command line. The desired > outcome is to emulate the clicking of the "Start Archive" button in the web > page as this method is working perfectly. The overall objective is to create > the archive as a cron job. > > >From /usr/shar

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Working Well - Except Archiving

2008-11-18 Thread Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am struggling to create an archive from the command line. The desired > outcome is to emulate the clicking of the "Start Archive" button in the web > page as this method is working perfectly. The overall objective is to create > the archive as a cron job. > >>From

Re: [BackupPC-users] Child Exited Prematurely

2008-11-18 Thread Chris Robertson
James Sefton wrote: > > Hi, > > Please excuse me if I am using this wrong, in all my years in IT, it > seems this is the first time I have used a mailing list for support. > (I’m usually pretty good at the whole RTFM thing) > > We have a backup box (FC6) that is running backups from a lot of > w

Re: [BackupPC-users] Child Exited Prematurely

2008-11-18 Thread Dale King
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 07:02:09PM +, James Sefton wrote: > The log on the windows server is: > > 2008/11/18 17:46:05 [3252] connect from UNKNOWN (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) > > 2008/11/18 17:46:05 [3252] rsync on . from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) > > 2008/11/18 17:46:05 [3252] building file

[BackupPC-users] Native Window version of rsync

2008-11-18 Thread dtktvu
Hi, Based on the source from Kolosy (http://www.kolosy.com/wordpress/?p=8 ), we have continued the journey and successully ported Rsync to C# (protocol 28 ). So far, the program has the following features: 1. Lots of features just like Rsync, supporting protocol up to 28. 2. No need for cygwin.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Native Window version of rsync

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Mantz
This is excellent news! I for one would be very interested in testing the software. Is the latest version available in Kolosy's repository? -- Paul Mantz http://www.mcpantz.org BackupPC - Network Backup with De-Duplication http://www.backuppc.com Zmanda - Open source backup and recovery http://

Re: [BackupPC-users] Vista client unauthorized user

2008-11-18 Thread Oz Dror
OK I fixed the problem. the backuppc web interface did not set RsyncdUserName -> backuppc in the client.pl file because backuppc is the default value. -Oz Cody Dunne wrote: > > Oz Dror wrote: >> Thanks for responding. >> >> I have done all the correction that you undigested. I am still >> hav

Re: [BackupPC-users] merge host from one pool into another pool

2008-11-18 Thread Msquared
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 08:47:13PM +1100, Adam Goryachev wrote: > > so..yet you can merge them but I am not sure if you get deduplication > > in the next nightly run... > > You would not get proper de-duplication... basically you keep the > de-duplication amongst the files you copy across, but be

Re: [BackupPC-users] Native Window version of rsync

2008-11-18 Thread Riaan Schoeman
I'm very interested in trying this, sounds brilliant! The author doesn't sound too optimistic though, but I'll try it none the less! Thanks for the link! Riaan Schoeman Teqcle Information Technologies (Pty) Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +27 82 562 3882 Fax: +27 86 520 2668 Skype: riaans182 ICQ