[BackupPC-users] Arguments for --filter don't get proper escaping

2009-01-29 Thread Thomas Karcher
Hi there, I'm thrilled of this just discovered feature of rsync: --filter Now I want to use it in BackupPC, so I added this to $Conf{RsyncArgs}: '--filter=:- /nobackup.txt' My problem is that there seems to be something wrong with the escaping of the space ... I observed that with an rsyncd as

Re: [BackupPC-users] Arguments for --filter don't get proper escaping

2009-01-29 Thread Juergen Harms
A nice workaround to this backslashing problem is to place your filter statements into a file - say /home/user/rsync_filters - and add a corresponding statement to your arguments: --filter=.\ /home/user/.usync/filters If you later want to add additional filter statements to your

Re: [BackupPC-users] DumpPreUserCmd to send an email before and after backup

2009-01-29 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Regis wrote: I would like backuppc send an email to $host and or $user, to notify when a full backup being to start I know it's by DumpPreUserCmd, but anyone can help me to write it? You can use the mail command. Something like this: /bin/echo This is the message | /bin/mail -s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Arguments for --filter don't get proper escaping

2009-01-29 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Juergen Harms wrote on 2009-01-29 10:41:22 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Arguments for --filter don't get proper escaping]: Thomas Karcher wrote on 2009-01-29 09:59:51 +0100 [[BackupPC-users] Arguments for --filter don't get proper escaping]: I'm thrilled of this just discovered

Re: [BackupPC-users] DumpPreUserCmd to send an email before and after backup

2009-01-29 Thread Les Stott
Madcha wrote: Thanks, But how write this command, for send an email to $host? or $user? Here is one way to do it, maybe not the most elegant but it works. Use it as a guide and improve on it. I set this up ages ago for a client, never tweaked it since then. These will send a note before

Re: [BackupPC-users] Arguments for --filter don't get proper escaping

2009-01-29 Thread Thomas Karcher
Hi Holger, I observed that with an rsyncd as backup partner, everything seems to work fine, but with a command line rsync, it's odd: Running: /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048

Re: [BackupPC-users] Arguments for --filter don't get proper escaping

2009-01-29 Thread Juergen Harms
Is your space character different from the one above (other than being escaped For a single filter statement there is no diffence whatever - the advantage comes if you add additional filter statements - if Thomas starts setting things up, why not in a way that scales? Sorry for the other two

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem on Etch

2009-01-29 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/29 01:25 , John wrote: *Worked* fine I must say because I dist-upgraded etch and got back the old 2.1.2-6 version - apparently I forgot to apt-pin the package to backports.. So now my installation is messed up badly! Before I make any further changes to the server, has anyone

[BackupPC-users] how to examine the actual transfered Size/MB of a running BackupPC_dump

2009-01-29 Thread Matthias Meyer
Is it possible to examine how many data a running BackupPC_dump has copied from client to server until now? Thanks Matthias -- Don't Panic -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to

[BackupPC-users] When will backuppc begin pooling?

2009-01-29 Thread Brian Woodworth
I installed backuppc a week ago and currently have 2 full backups and 6 incremental backups for 2 Windows machines and one full backup for another windows machine. I have not seen and pooling happen yet. on the Status page it says this: Other info: - 0 pending backup requests from last

Re: [BackupPC-users] When will backuppc begin pooling?

2009-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Brian Woodworth wrote: I installed backuppc a week ago and currently have 2 full backups and 6 incremental backups for 2 Windows machines and one full backup for another windows machine. I have not seen and pooling happen yet. on the Status page it says this: All duplicate files should be

Re: [BackupPC-users] When will backuppc begin pooling?

2009-01-29 Thread Brian Woodworth
cpool and pc directories are on the same file system. The only errors in the Xfer log is Device or Resource Busy (16) for some files. On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Brian Woodworth wrote: I installed backuppc a week ago and currently have 2 full

Re: [BackupPC-users] When will backuppc begin pooling?

2009-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Brian Woodworth wrote: cpool and pc directories are on the same file system. The only errors in the Xfer log is Device or Resource Busy (16) for some files. Are files showing up at all in cpool? What is the link count on files you know are duplicated? ls -l will show it, and it should be

Re: [BackupPC-users] When will backuppc begin pooling?

2009-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Brian Woodworth wrote: the cpool directory is completely empty. ls -l returns 'total 0'. The file system type is ext3 and only 1% of inodes are in use. If you have compression off you could be using pool instead of cpool, but the directory should at least be populated with several levels of

Re: [BackupPC-users] When will backuppc begin pooling?

2009-01-29 Thread Craig Barratt
Brian writes: * 0 pending backup requests from last scheduled wakeup, * 0 pending user backup requests, * 0 pending command requests, * Pool is 0.00GB comprising 0 files and 0 directories (as of 1/29 01:00), * Pool hashing gives 0 repeated files with longest chain 0, *

Re: [BackupPC-users] When will backuppc begin pooling?

2009-01-29 Thread Brian Woodworth
Maybe I am blind, but I can't find the Lib.pm file anywhere. I even did a find on my whole system for Lib.pm and came up with nothing. On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Craig Barratt cbarr...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Brian writes: * 0 pending backup requests from last scheduled