Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2008-12-15 Thread Andreas Micklei
Am Sonntag, 14. Dezember 2008 schrieb Jeffrey J. Kosowsky: shadow copies Amazing what can be done with shell scripting on windows. I will have to integrate a new windows host into our BackupPC Server in the near future. So Thanks for sharing this! regards, Andreas Micklei --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the backup to an external USB drive

2008-12-15 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Andreas Micklei wrote on 2008-12-15 10:13:38 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the backup to an external USB drive]: Am Freitag, 12. Dezember 2008 schrieb Rich Rauenzahn: Some of you running dd might want to consider dump [...] I have been doing that for about two years now.

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-15 Thread Jim McNamara
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) n...@lemonbit.com wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: [r...@telephony conf.d]# cat /etc/selinux/config # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: # enforcing - SELinux

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the backup to an external USB drive

2008-12-15 Thread John Rouillard
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:35:38PM +0100, Holger Parplies wrote: Hi, Andreas Micklei wrote on 2008-12-15 10:13:38 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the backup to an external USB drive]: Am Freitag, 12. Dezember 2008 schrieb Rich Rauenzahn: Some of you running dd might want to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the backup to an external USB drive

2008-12-15 Thread Andreas Micklei
Am Freitag, 12. Dezember 2008 schrieb Rich Rauenzahn: Some of you running dd might want to consider dump On the other hand... http://dump.sourceforge.net/isdumpdeprecated.html Although some of the arguments apply to dd as well. I have been doing that for about two years now. Works great! It's

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-15 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim McNamara wrote: I didn't think it was incompatible with CentOS, I'm just stuck in the position of having done this probably 20 times on Debian without issue (past the first) and now with my first try on CentOS, I'm floundering badly. I changed

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc on the same (server) system?

2008-12-15 Thread Glassfox
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: What kind of OS are you talking about? For a *nix machine you could just backup /. If you want to backup everything, you don't need any excludes. However, you probably don't want to backup everything, as backing up /proc and /sys really doesn't make

[BackupPC-users] Executing a restore on a host while an incremental is also running

2008-12-15 Thread Kameron Gasso
Hi folks, Apologies in advance if this is covered somewhere in the documentation, but I couldn't find any mention of it in the docs, wiki, and mailing list archives. We have a host for which a backup process is currently running (weekly incremental, using rsync); I've issued a restore command on

Re: [BackupPC-users] setup difficulty

2008-12-15 Thread Chris Robertson
Lofton H Alley Jr wrote: Its been a small struggle with slow progress. I am stymied over this one though. Here is the network layout: two desktops and a lappie on wifi. This should be easy right? One deskie has an 80 GB primary and a 320G storage HDD divided into 3 partitions. The other

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc on the same (server) system?

2008-12-15 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Glassfox wrote: I tried several times to backup my server host, but backuppc seemed to ignore the exclude files settings. I want to exclude this folders from backup with their all subfolders: /proc, /sys, /media and /var/ lib/backuppc. This is my current config file content:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the backup to an external USB drive

2008-12-15 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich Rauenzahn wrote: Since I heavily use lvol, I instead store a vgdisplay -v along with bdf and mount output. On the weekend I had a client with a hardware RAID array which was configured with LVM with a single PV (4TB) and lots of logical

Re: [BackupPC-users] Executing a restore on a host while an incremental is also running

2008-12-15 Thread Kameron Gasso
Chris Robertson wrote: Don't do a direct restore. Download a Zip or Tar archive. Hi Chris, Thanks for the info; looks like (for now) that is indeed the only way to go from everything I can find. This restoration will have to wait for a while since I still have the direct restoration queued,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Executing a restore on a host while an incremental is also running

2008-12-15 Thread Craig Barratt
Chris writes: Don't do a direct restore. Download a Zip or Tar archive. Or cancel the incremental backup. Craig -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web

[BackupPC-users] Status of fuse for viewing backuppc backups

2008-12-15 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
I had been thinking of writing code to implement a robust fuse filesystem for BackupPC backups but then I saw that John Craig (and perhaps others) had started to write code. While the code still seems to be at the proof-of-concept I think the idea is very powerful and extensible. The obvious