Re: [BackupPC-users] Revamping the Wiki

2009-02-13 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Craig Barratt wrote: Cody writes: I'd be willing to do a lot of the cleaning myself, though I don't want to step on anyone's toes without talking with you first. Also, my knowledge of BackupPC is fairly limited to my setup (XP/Vista clients Ubuntu server). I agree it isn't very well

Re: [BackupPC-users] Revamping the Wiki

2009-02-13 Thread Cody Dunne
Johan Ehnberg wrote: I for one would be happy to contribute with several complete pages of documentation that I have generated for my clients, once the Wiki is clear enough to start with. That's fantastic! I'm glad Craig supports it as well. I've marked a few of the recent mailing list

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

2009-02-13 Thread Brian Woodworth
that worked like a charm! i created a symlink to my array where my backups are stored and backuppc is pooling like it should be now. Thanks to everyone who helped me solve this! On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Adam Goryachev mailingli...@websitemanagers.com.au wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

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

2009-02-13 Thread Steve
i haven't been following this thread at all, so apologies if you tried it already, but there are a number of suggestions on how to change the top level directory at the wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/change+archive+directory i am a noob and managed to do the one titled Changing the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Revamping the Wiki

2009-02-13 Thread Juergen Harms
I dont want to interfere with your conference - the discussion will be more efficient with few participants. But in case you need additional hands for doing the actual work, let me know - I am willing and motivated to help (but my experience with backuppc is only a few weeks old). When you

Re: [BackupPC-users] Revamping the Wiki

2009-02-13 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Cody Dunne wrote: Johan Ehnberg wrote: I for one would be happy to contribute with several complete pages of documentation that I have generated for my clients, once the Wiki is clear enough to start with. That's fantastic! I'm glad Craig supports it as well. I've marked a few of the

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

2009-02-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Brian Woodworth bwoodwo...@gmail.com wrote: that worked like a charm! i created a symlink to my array where my backups are stored and backuppc is pooling like it should be now. Thanks to everyone who helped me solve this! If you install backuppc from scratch

[BackupPC-users] trailing . causing in 3.1.0-3.fc10 server with Vista client

2009-02-13 Thread Brian Neu
I'm wondering if the . just before the cDrive at the end of this line is causing the below error. I've gone through the Config.pl but haven't been able to locate the source of the problem. Any ideas? Running: /usr/bin/rsync -q -x -l root jkiger-pc /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender

Re: [BackupPC-users] Revamping the Wiki

2009-02-13 Thread Cody Dunne
For those of you interested, you can see the current structure of the wiki at: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/files/BPCWikiStructure.png Also, the NodeXL workbook for it is here: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/files/BPCWikiStructure.xlsx (sorry, Windows/Office2007 only) If anyone wants to take a

Re: [BackupPC-users] meaning of different Aborting backup failure messages

2009-02-13 Thread Matthias Meyer
John Rouillard wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 05:44:33PM +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote: Sometimes my backups abort with different failures. Anybody know the meaning of/reason for the following failures? 1) Aborting backup up after signal ALRM The backup is taking longer than your

Re: [BackupPC-users] trailing . causing in 3.1.0-3.fc10 server with Vista client

2009-02-13 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 02:50:28PM -0800, Brian Neu wrote: I'm wondering if the . just before the cDrive at the end of this line is causing the below error. I've gone through the Config.pl but haven't been able to locate the source of the problem. Any ideas? Running: /usr/bin/rsync -q

Re: [BackupPC-users] meaning of different Aborting backup failure messages

2009-02-13 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:40:13PM +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 05:44:33PM +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote: Sometimes my backups abort with different failures. Anybody know the meaning of/reason for the following failures? 1) Aborting backup up after signal ALRM

Re: [BackupPC-users] trailing . causing in 3.1.0-3.fc10 server with Vista client

2009-02-13 Thread Brian Neu
I had changed the ssh argument to rsync because I had a failure to read 4 bytes error due to a $Conf{XferMethod} = rsync when it should have been rsyncd . . . . all better now :) the one character off mistake strikes me again! Thanks Tino, you did actually help me back on the right track!