Re: [BackupPC-users] Designing a BackupPC install over a WAN - minimising Full backups

2009-01-22 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Wright wrote: > Okay, in that case I think I've completely and utterly misunderstood > what a full backup is in backuppc terminology (and the difference to > an "incremental" backup). > > I may have to resort to reading the documentation and/or

Re: [BackupPC-users] Designing a BackupPC install over a WAN - minimising Full backups

2009-01-22 Thread Peter Wright
On 23/01 16:35:09, Adam Goryachev wrote: > Peter Wright wrote: > > My key issue is that if I'm interested in bandwidth minimisation above > > all else, why would I want to do anything other than > > incremental-since-the-most-recent-previous-incremental, regardless > > of the "level" concept? > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Designing a BackupPC install over a WAN - minimising Full backups

2009-01-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Peter Wright wrote: > > What I was thinking is that if my highest priority was minimising > bandwidth per backup, why shouldn't I be able to configure backuppc to > *only* do incrementals and consider them all to be the same "level"? > > > But I suspect I've probably misunderstood one or more ke

[BackupPC-users] backup top level directories (shares) as fake hosts over NFS

2009-01-22 Thread sabujp
I think I figured it out. I created a backup host called "home_user1" but then in the backup settings configuration for the host set ClientNameAlias to the hostname of the backup server. This seems to work. +-- |This was sent b

Re: [BackupPC-users] Designing a BackupPC install over a WAN - minimising Full backups

2009-01-22 Thread Peter Wright
On 21/01 14:44:36, Holger Parplies wrote: > Tino Schwarze wrote on 2009-01-21 10:48:50 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] > Designing a BackupPC install over a WAN -?minimising Full backups]: > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 02:08:31PM +0900, Peter Wright wrote: > > > Adam Goryachev, Wed, Jan 21 2009, 14:01:1

Re: [BackupPC-users] Designing a BackupPC install over a WAN - minimising Full backups

2009-01-22 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Wright wrote: > On 21/01 10:48:50, Tino Schwarze wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 02:08:31PM +0900, Peter Wright wrote: An incremental backup will transfer changed data from the previous full or incremental of a lower level. >>> Can ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] Designing a BackupPC install over a WAN - minimising Full backups

2009-01-22 Thread Peter Wright
On 21/01 10:48:50, Tino Schwarze wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 02:08:31PM +0900, Peter Wright wrote: > > > An incremental backup will transfer changed data from the > > > previous full or incremental of a lower level. > > > > Can backuppc be configured to transfer changed data from the previous

[BackupPC-users] offsite backup storage

2009-01-22 Thread sabujp
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[BackupPC-users] offsite backup storage

2009-01-22 Thread Terri Kelley
So now that I seem to have backuppc working for my local servers to a local backuppc server, I want to send those backups to a remote offsite server. The offsite server I have leased and do not have physical access to. So the question here is how best to do it. Do I install backuppc on that

[BackupPC-users] backup top level directories (shares) as fake hosts over NFS

2009-01-22 Thread sabujp
I have access to a NAS only over NFS to my backup server that I want to backup using the tar "xfer" method. I want the per host level control (e.g. schedule) for individual top level directories rather than have a single schedule for the backup server with multiple shares (top level directories

Re: [BackupPC-users] sudoers

2009-01-22 Thread Terri Kelley
Adam and Rob, Thanks for the help... On Jan 22, 2009, at 6:31 PM, Adam Goryachev wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Terri Kelley wrote: >> On Jan 22, 2009, at 12:14 PM, Rob Owens wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:15:43PM -0600, Terri Kelley wrote: >>> You se

Re: [BackupPC-users] sudoers

2009-01-22 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Terri Kelley wrote: > On Jan 22, 2009, at 12:14 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:15:43PM -0600, Terri Kelley wrote: >>> Ok, apparently I am particularly dense tonight. I have had the >>> following error when setting up a host: >>>

Re: [BackupPC-users] sudoers

2009-01-22 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 01:39:34PM -0600, Terri Kelley wrote: > > On Jan 22, 2009, at 12:14 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:15:43PM -0600, Terri Kelley wrote: > >> Ok, apparently I am particularly dense tonight. I have had the > >> following error when setting up a host: > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] sudoers

2009-01-22 Thread Terri Kelley
On Jan 22, 2009, at 12:14 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:15:43PM -0600, Terri Kelley wrote: >> Ok, apparently I am particularly dense tonight. I have had the >> following error when setting up a host: >> >>> Remote[1]: rsync: push_dir#3 "/home/backuppc/15" failed: No such >>>

Re: [BackupPC-users] sudoers

2009-01-22 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:15:43PM -0600, Terri Kelley wrote: > Ok, apparently I am particularly dense tonight. I have had the > following error when setting up a host: > > > Remote[1]: rsync: push_dir#3 "/home/backuppc/15" failed: No such file > > or directory (2) > > Remote[1]: rsync error: er

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup size confusion

2009-01-22 Thread Nick Smith
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Nick Smith wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Nick Smith wrote: >>> > >>> Im using volume shadow to back up the databases, so they are not live. >>> (or in use) >> >> Is there some reason to think the database is in a consistent sta

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup size confusion

2009-01-22 Thread Nick Smith
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Nick Smith wrote: >> > >> Im using volume shadow to back up the databases, so they are not live. >> (or in use) > > Is there some reason to think the database is in a consistent state when > the volume shadow is made? > >From what i know abo

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup size confusion

2009-01-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Nick Smith wrote: > > > Im using volume shadow to back up the databases, so they are not live. > (or in use) Is there some reason to think the database is in a consistent state when the volume shadow is made? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Excluding "Temporary Internet Files" to avoid logerrors

2009-01-22 Thread Nick Smith
I had that problem with a couple client servers that i back up, i added an exclude in the web interface that skips them, for they key i added * and for the BackupFilesExclude i used /Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files i also added another one for /Documents and Setting

Re: [BackupPC-users] Creating shadow copies in windows

2009-01-22 Thread Nick Smith
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Kevin Kimani wrote at about 11:21:44 +0300 on Wednesday, January 14, 2009: > > Hi all, > > > > Have been trying to use the script posted for copying open files in windows > > but have not been able to fully make it run. Could someon

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup size confusion

2009-01-22 Thread Nick Smith
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Nick Smith wrote: >> >> in the host summary under that backup client, the "new files" says >> size 4427.8 comp/mb 777.0 comp 82.5% >> thats a heck of a compression ratio. i know that sql dbs can compress >> down nicely, but im comparing t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Finding hosts that haven't been backed up (solved, feeling a bit stupid)

2009-01-22 Thread John Rouillard
Hi folks: Please feel free to ignore the email I sent that started: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 02:54:20PM +, John Rouillard wrote: > I am running release 3.1.0 of BackupPC. > > Is there a way in the web interface to see which hosts have never been > backed up? I have looked at the Status and th

[BackupPC-users] Finding hosts that haven't been backed up

2009-01-22 Thread John Rouillard
Hi all: I am running release 3.1.0 of BackupPC. Is there a way in the web interface to see which hosts have never been backed up? I have looked at the Status and the Host Summary pages and don't see a list of servers that were never backed up. Also it might be nice to put the version info for Ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup size confusion

2009-01-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Nick Smith wrote: > > in the host summary under that backup client, the "new files" says > size 4427.8 comp/mb 777.0 comp 82.5% > thats a heck of a compression ratio. i know that sql dbs can compress > down nicely, but im comparing to the old > server and its not the same. the first full backu

[BackupPC-users] backup size confusion

2009-01-22 Thread Nick Smith
I recently changed backup servers, so im starting from scratch on the pool with a new machine. Ive configured it just like the old one and i have the old one around to compare from. the problem i am having is that the backups on the new machine are ALOT smaller than on the first. the client has so