[BackupPC-users] Q: new install of BackupPC, rsync backups of linux clients - odd exit 'error'

Hi, I'm in the process of a clean install of BackupPC (latest version) on a CentOS 5.2 system, to backup a pool of 3 machines (the BackupPC machine itself is a fileserver with ~500gigs of data presently to be backed up; then 2 other linux servers with small assorted homedir data to grab)

[BackupPC-users] backuppc 3.0.0: another xfs problem?

Hi, I'm running BackupPC 3.0.0 under Ubuntu. I'm having problems similar to the ones some people have had with 3.1.0 on XFS, but I also did some other odd things before this started happening, so I want to relate the whole scenario, in case I did something else to break it. I accidentally

[BackupPC-users] First user problems

I've gone through all the How-tos and googled but I cannot get backup PC to successfully run. I am using the smb method and trying to setup a test method from my laptop I use to configure the server (8.10). I have removed the -N flag from the backuppc config. file SmbClientFullCmd, etc. of the

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 3.0.0: another xfs problem?

Hello Thomas, Did the BackupPC_nightly jobs take 22 hours on the 17th as well? If they didn't, I would suspect that since you restored the TopDir from a tarball, that the hardlinking wasn't handled correctly in the tar compression. BackupPC_nightly would have been re-establishing the

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

[quote=Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)] You could solve this by using '/' (or '*', which sets excludes for all shares don't have any specific excludes set) as the share name and specifying a list of directories not to backup as the value: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '*' = [ '/media/*',

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 3.0.0: another xfs problem?

Thomas Smith wrote: Hi, No, it continues to take 22 hours or so each day. -Thomas How is your XFS volume mounted? Did you add the noatime and nodiratime directives? If you have battery backed storage, I would highly recommend using nobarrier as well

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

This is an edited version of a previous post Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: You could solve this by using '/' (or '*', which sets excludes for all shares don't have any specific excludes set) as the share name and specifying a list of directories not to backup as the value:

[BackupPC-users] Permission denied during backup

Hello, I want to backup my localhost completely and just backup the root folder with some excludes (proc, sys, media and backuppc pool folder). Backup was successful, but if I look at the error log file there are a lot of Permission denied errors for the home folders, some files in the /root/

Re: [BackupPC-users] Permission denied during backup

Glassfox wrote: Hello, I want to backup my localhost completely and just backup the root folder with some excludes (proc, sys, media and backuppc pool folder). Backup was successful, but if I look at the error log file there are a lot of Permission denied errors for the home folders, some

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 3.0.0: another xfs problem?

Paul Mantz wrote at about 10:19:45 -0800 on Thursday, December 18, 2008: Hello Thomas, Did the BackupPC_nightly jobs take 22 hours on the 17th as well? If they didn't, I would suspect that since you restored the TopDir from a tarball, that the hardlinking wasn't handled correctly in

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 3.0.0: another xfs problem?

Hi, Adam Goryachev wrote on 2008-12-19 10:56:44 +1100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 3.0.0: another xfs problem?]: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: I don't think that BackupPC_nightly checks for hard link dups between the pc/ and pool/ directories. I fully agree on that point. I would advise

[BackupPC-users] Native Window version of rsync

Hi, Is there any update on the release of this software ? Thanks. +-- |This was sent by anand...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com.

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 3.0.0: another xfs problem?

Holger Parplies wrote at about 02:33:44 +0100 on Friday, December 19, 2008: Hi, Adam Goryachev wrote on 2008-12-19 10:56:44 +1100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 3.0.0: another xfs problem?]: I would advise that you confirm whether or not your hard links were restored properly: