[BackupPC-users] Choice of b/u drive

2009-01-02 Thread colinc
For various reasons I need to keep my new b/u drives in a less secure location than my desktop. As I result I want a pair of 1TB USB2 drives to make a RAID array, but with metal cases and a Kensington-type security slot. Despite long searches I can find no 1TB drive that has both these feature

[BackupPC-users] Client Updated- how tell BackupPC?

2009-01-02 Thread Christian Völker
Yohoo & a happy new year! One of my client PCs worked fine for the last couple of months/ years. Now I replaced this guy into a virtual machine (same OS, but updated version, new ssh keys and so on), removed the key from the .known_hosts and did a ssh login as the backuppc user which worked fine.

[BackupPC-users] Hanging backups due to bad prior baseline?

2009-01-02 Thread John Rouillard
Hi all: I have been running backuppc on a host for a few months now without issues. All of a sudden, I have been getting hung backups. If I use lsof on the rsync processes running on the client, I see the running process, but without a file descriptor 3. I.E. it's running and listening, but it is

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC working for a year, all of a sudden nothing works

2009-01-02 Thread Pedro M. S. Oliveira
No, it was the RAM, I haded 4 hard after putting the new RAM it still works like a charm. If it was a power matter the server would not work right with the extra consumption, and the machine as two power supplies. And i didn't told but the ram was ECC. Just changed it the RAM stick and it worked

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC working for a year, all of a sudden nothing works

2009-01-02 Thread dan
That doesnt sound like faulty RAM was the base issue. It sounds like a buggy power supply, which can slowly degrade system components. The RAM may have been stressed by bad power and reached a point where it would no operate properly when the voltage fluctuated. Replacing the RAM may just be put

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC working for a year, all of a sudden nothing works

2009-01-02 Thread Pedro M. S. Oliveira
The same happened to me and the strangest part is i could compile the kernel, and do all the memory tests just fine, as you i also had new ram so after changing lots of things like network cards, removing hardware and so one i changed the ram (the ones that all the tests said it was fine) and vo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: apparent rsync error

2009-01-02 Thread Les Mikesell
Terri Kelley wrote: > reference my previous message shown below: > > I deleted the host and removed files from /var/backuppc/pc/HOST with > this host then re-entered the host info in backuppc. I still get the > same error. > > I really need some help here. Anyone have any ideas? > > Terri Kell

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: apparent rsync error

2009-01-02 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Terri Kelley wrote: > reference my previous message shown below: > > I deleted the host and removed files from /var/backuppc/pc/HOST with > this host then re-entered the host info in backuppc. I still get the > same error. > > I really need some help here. Anyone have any ideas? > > Terri Ke

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC working for a year, all of a sudden nothing works

2009-01-02 Thread Johan Ehnberg
> 1) increased my RAM from 1G to 3G > 2) upgraded from ubuntu 7.10 to ubuntu 8.10 Faulty RAM can give you random unexplained problems, perhaps like the ones you describe. Cryptography is one of the things that triggers many faults (failing a kernel compile is another good indicator). Ubuntu com