Re: [BackupPC-users] Resuming backup after losing connection to client

2009-03-10 Thread Christian G. von Busse
>> That's good to know, thanks. So the question is (only), how do I tell >> backuppc to immediately start a new/queue (full or partial) backup, if >> the prior one was terminated accidentally/abnormally. >> Backkuppc did not start the full backup here again, yet - although there >> was no blackout

Re: [BackupPC-users] Resuming backup after losing connection to client

2009-03-10 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian G. von Busse wrote: >> Just go to the home page for that computer and hit "start full >> backup" and off it should go... > > But there is no way to have backuppc do this automatically if the > backup terminated because the network connection

Re: [BackupPC-users] Resuming backup after losing connection to client

2009-03-10 Thread Christian G. von Busse
> Just go to the home page for that computer and hit "start full backup" > and off it should go... But there is no way to have backuppc do this automatically if the backup terminated because the network connection was lost? I had hoped that backuppc could run unattended. The log looks like this:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup faiures, how to troublehoot

2009-03-10 Thread Andrew Libby
Les Mikesell wrote: > Andrew Libby wrote: >>> There are a lot of files on the system, and backups take >> quite a while so I upped the timeout to 40 hrs, but >> backups seem to be failing now in under 20 hrs when they >> were failing at the 20 hr mark. >> >> Any hints or suggestions are greatly app

Re: [BackupPC-users] Resuming backup after losing connection to client

2009-03-10 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian G. von Busse wrote: >> BackupPC will automatically use the partial backup as a base during the >> next full backup, so you'll save a lot of network transfers. > > That's good to know, thanks. So the question is (only), how do I tell > backupp

Re: [BackupPC-users] Resuming backup after losing connection to client

2009-03-10 Thread Steve
Just go to the home page for that computer and hit "start full backup" and off it should go... Evets On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Christian G. von Busse wrote: > Hi Tino, > >> BackupPC will automatically use the partial backup as a base during the >> next full backup, so you'll save a lot of

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPc host

2009-03-10 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Peter, On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 02:15:56PM -0400, Peter Walter wrote: > All I have access to is "cloud storage" offsite - running a remote > backuppc server is not an option. Basically, I have access to rsync / > sftp / scp as file transfer protocols. What do you think about running a > dire

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup faiures, how to troublehoot

2009-03-10 Thread Les Mikesell
Andrew Libby wrote: >> There are a lot of files on the system, and backups take > quite a while so I upped the timeout to 40 hrs, but > backups seem to be failing now in under 20 hrs when they > were failing at the 20 hr mark. > > Any hints or suggestions are greatly apprecaiated. Other > info th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPc host

2009-03-10 Thread Les Mikesell
Peter Walter wrote: > Les, > > All I have access to is "cloud storage" offsite - running a remote > backuppc server is not an option. Basically, I have access to rsync / > sftp / scp as file transfer protocols. What do you think about running a > directory change monitor based upon the Linux ke

Re: [BackupPC-users] help me sir

2009-03-10 Thread Matthias Meyer
mohan infant wrote: > hello sir i'm final year engineering student now i'm working a project > BackupPC > but i have lot of problem in this project > the backup is normaly done...but the automatic incremental backup is not > be done.. > i have seen the error "host Backup summary > * this PC

[BackupPC-users] Backup faiures, how to troublehoot

2009-03-10 Thread Andrew Libby
Greetings, I've got a problem with a backup that seems to have started with one failed backup back in January. Since then each attempt at a new backup fails. The log shows 2009-02-24 17:28:55 Saved partial dump 73 2009-02-25 05:02:47 full backup started for directory /; updating partial #73 20

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPc host

2009-03-10 Thread Peter Walter
Les, All I have access to is "cloud storage" offsite - running a remote backuppc server is not an option. Basically, I have access to rsync / sftp / scp as file transfer protocols. What do you think about running a directory change monitor based upon the Linux kernel inotify() facility, such

Re: [BackupPC-users] Resuming backup after losing connection to client

2009-03-10 Thread Christian G. von Busse
Hi Tino, > BackupPC will automatically use the partial backup as a base during the > next full backup, so you'll save a lot of network transfers. That's good to know, thanks. So the question is (only), how do I tell backuppc to immediately start a new/queue (full or partial) backup, if the prior

Re: [BackupPC-users] error in FAQ about Removing a client (BackupsDisable)

2009-03-10 Thread Cody Dunne
Hi Marthter marthter wrote: > The FAQ still talks about setting FullPeriod to -1 or -2 to disable > backups instead of the newer method of setting BackupsDisable to 1 or 2: > > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#other_installation_topics You're correct that it needs to be modifie

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPc host

2009-03-10 Thread Les Mikesell
Peter Walter wrote: > I checked the cpool directory on my server and it contained 803,023 > files in the directory tree. If rsync is not a scaleable solution for > backing up a backuppc pool over the internet, does anyone have a > suggestion for a better solution? What matters more is how many

[BackupPC-users] error in FAQ about Removing a client (BackupsDisable)

2009-03-10 Thread marthter
Hi folks, long time user here (great tool), first time poster... The FAQ still talks about setting FullPeriod to -1 or -2 to disable backups instead of the newer method of setting BackupsDisable to 1 or 2: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#other_installation_topics Also th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPc host

2009-03-10 Thread Peter Walter
I checked the cpool directory on my server and it contained 803,023 files in the directory tree. If rsync is not a scaleable solution for backing up a backuppc pool over the internet, does anyone have a suggestion for a better solution? Peter Les Mikesell wrote: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote

Re: [BackupPC-users] Resuming backup after losing connection to client

2009-03-10 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Christian, On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 02:20:52PM +0100, Christian G. von Busse wrote: > Hi - I am rather new with backuppc, but with the help of the docs and the > web managed to setup a basic, working environment, backing up a Linux > (ubuntu) machine and windows clients to an ubuntu (8.04.1) se

[BackupPC-users] Resuming backup after losing connection to client

2009-03-10 Thread Christian G. von Busse
Hi - I am rather new with backuppc, but with the help of the docs and the web managed to setup a basic, working environment, backing up a Linux (ubuntu) machine and windows clients to an ubuntu (8.04.1) server running backuppc 3.0.0 (from the repository). Last night, I discovered that the initial,

Re: [BackupPC-users] help-automatic BackupPC

2009-03-10 Thread Les Mikesell
mohan infant wrote: > Need help... > > Automatic incremental backup is not working.. > BackupPC_dump incremental not working.. > please help. > The tar and smb methods base incrementals on the file timestamps, so if you are testing by creating new files in a way that copies old timestamps (unp

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPc host

2009-03-10 Thread Les Mikesell
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: >> Is there a problem with my approach? > > The problem with rsync'ing a backuppc data pool is the sheer number of > files. you'll run your machine out of space with the lists as they get > loaded into memory. > > up to a certain point it will work; and with newer

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPc host

2009-03-10 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 03/09 06:03 , David Lasker wrote: > Is there a problem with my approach? The problem with rsync'ing a backuppc data pool is the sheer number of files. you'll run your machine out of space with the lists as they get loaded into memory. up to a certain point it will work; and with newer versions

Re: [BackupPC-users] help-automatic BackupPC

2009-03-10 Thread Omar Llorens Crespo Domínguez
mohan infant escribió: > Need help... > > Automatic incremental backup is not working.. > BackupPC_dump incremental not working.. > please help. Hi, Can you give more information about the problem? any error? Omar Llorens JPL TSOLUCIO S.L www.tsolucio.com http://bearnas.com 902 886 938 Spain > -

[BackupPC-users] help-automatic BackupPC

2009-03-10 Thread mohan infant
Need help... Automatic incremental backup is not working.. BackupPC_dump incremental not working.. please help. -- ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforg