Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC, rsync and ssh

2009-04-08 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Hi! > What should I put in the $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} parameter? Just keep the default, or add a -C for compression if you want. > I’m trying to switch from rsnapshot (tunneled with ssh) to backuppc, > still using ssh to tunnel rsync. I stumbled across > http://ehnberg.net/johan/files/docs/back

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC, rsync and ssh

2009-04-08 Thread Johan Ehnberg
>>> What should I put in the $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} parameter? >> Just keep the default, or add a -C for compression if you want. > OK, as I've modified the default, could you please tell me what that > command should be? > And, two questions: > 1) where should I be adding -C and how would this be

Re: [BackupPC-users] Here my log

2009-04-08 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Boniforti Flavio wrote: >> Hi again. >> >> You need to change the method from rsync to rsyncd. > > Well, I changed it now and here's what I got: > > Executing DumpPreUserCmd: /root/tunnel.sh -f administra...@mail... > -L 8874:127.0.0.1:873 sleep 20 First you have to make sure the SSH tunnel work

Re: [BackupPC-users] Try to backup non existent files....

2009-04-08 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi, > The following hosts had an error that is probably caused by a > misconfiguration.  Please fix these hosts: >  - elpra01lc (Call timed out: server did not respond after 2 > milliseconds opening remote file \ELPRA01WS\ELPRA06SV\E > (\ELPRA01WS\ELPRA06SV\)) > > as you can see, it fails to b

Re: [BackupPC-users] Here my log

2009-04-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
> > Executing DumpPreUserCmd: /root/tunnel.sh -f administra...@mail... > > -L 8874:127.0.0.1:873 sleep 20 > > First you have to make sure the SSH tunnel works with key > based authentication (=no password but file) for the user > running backuppc. Damn! That part was missing, because actually

Re: [BackupPC-users] Here my log

2009-04-08 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Boniforti Flavio wrote on 2009-04-08 10:13:41 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Here my log]: > > > > Executing DumpPreUserCmd: /root/tunnel.sh -f administra...@mail... > > > -L 8874:127.0.0.1:873 sleep 20 ^ > [...] > > Exactly. You need to check my HOWTO again, as the rs

Re: [BackupPC-users] Here my log

2009-04-08 Thread Johan Ehnberg
> Executing DumpPreUserCmd: /var/lib/backuppc/tunnel.sh -fC > administra...@mail.omv.ch -L 8874:127.0.0.1:873 sleep 20 The SSH tunnel is not working yet. > full backup started for directory data > Error connecting to rsync daemon at localhost:8874: inet connect: > Connessione rifiutata > Got fa

Re: [BackupPC-users] Here my log

2009-04-08 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Johan Ehnberg wrote on 2009-04-08 13:32:23 +0300 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Here my log]: > > [...] > > I would like to get some more detailed log about the "DumpPreUserCmd" > > (which reads: ssh $@ 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null && echo "SSH started > > successfully.") because I don't know if the ssh t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Here my log

2009-04-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
[cut] > > How do I debug this further? > > For testing, you can remove the "1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null" > from the script to see the output of SSH. Note that the > backup will not proceed like this as SSH can't be > backgrounded without redirecting the output. > You could perhaps also redirect i

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC, rsync and ssh

2009-04-08 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Johan Ehnberg wrote on 2009-04-08 10:28:53 +0300 [Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC, rsync and ssh]: > [...] > > 2) what's the meaning of "+" sign at the end of $argList? > [...] > 2) Maybe something with variables... someone else may know better. quoting the default config file (explaining the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc CGI Interface not working for me

2009-04-08 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, o...@jltechinc.com wrote on 2009-04-07 23:48:59 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc CGI Interface not working for me]: > Adam, thanks for pointing Laurin in the right direction. to me it does not appear as though he has acted on *any* of the advice given to him on the list. Adam did not rec

Re: [BackupPC-users] Here my log

2009-04-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
> because you are forwarding port 8874 on the BackupPC server > to localhost:873 on the client host (that's the whole purpose > of the ssh tunnel). So you need to make BackupPC connect to > port 8874 on the BackupPC server in order to reach the > client's rsyncd. You're right, I just forgot h

[BackupPC-users] trashClean won't clean

2009-04-08 Thread Madcha
Hi, Since few days, trashClean is started but, won't clean old backups, I don't understand why, In trash folder there nothing, It is perhaps for that reason that it does cleans nothing. Is it possible to manually clean up old backups? Is it possible to manually start backuppc_trashClean that res

[BackupPC-users] Host Summary does not show up anymore

2009-04-08 Thread mardop
Hi, I am very new to linux and fighting my way trough ;-) I have four pc's with linux/bsd: 1 Debian Lenny KDE, 1 Debian Lenny Gnome, 1 Ubunu Beta 9.04 and 1 freeBSD Server. The Debian Lenny KDE should be the backupserver für backuppc. I followed an instruction, that I found here: http://www.debi

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC, rsync and ssh

2009-04-08 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Johan Ehnberg wrote at about 10:16:05 +0300 on Wednesday, April 8, 2009: > Actually it should be possible to use any protocol. However, because of > a bug that only now is being fixed, Windows clients with SSH server and > rsync have not been possible. >From my experimentation, the issue seems

Re: [BackupPC-users] Here my log

2009-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
Boniforti Flavio wrote: > [cut] > >>> How do I debug this further? >> For testing, you can remove the "1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null" >> from the script to see the output of SSH. Note that the >> backup will not proceed like this as SSH can't be >> backgrounded without redirecting the output. >> You

Re: [BackupPC-users] Here my log

2009-04-08 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Boniforti Flavio wrote: > [cut] > >>> How do I debug this further? >> For testing, you can remove the "1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null" >> from the script to see the output of SSH. Note that the >> backup will not proceed like this as SSH can't be >> backgrounded without redirecting the output. >> Yo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Here my log

2009-04-08 Thread Johan Ehnberg
(I invite Craig Barratt and any developer to check out my last paragraph below.) > it doesn't seem like ssh actually *is* backgrounded. I didn't read > the tutorial and haven't played around with this, so I'm not quite > sure *what* you would want to background to keep the tunnel open > [long eno

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC, rsync and ssh

2009-04-08 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Johan Ehnberg wrote at about 10:16:05 +0300 on Wednesday, April 8, 2009: > > Actually it should be possible to use any protocol. However, because of > > a bug that only now is being fixed, Windows clients with SSH server and > > rsync have not been possible. > >>Fro

[BackupPC-users] vmware/virtuabox/etc.?

2009-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
This is probably the wrong place to ask, but people on the right lists won't have experience with the kind of disk activity that backuppc creates. I have my main backuppc server set up so I can periodically swap and raid-sync a new disk and keep a copy offsite. I'd like to have a VMware/virtu

Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware/virtuabox/etc.?

2009-04-08 Thread Thomas Karcher
Hi, > This is probably the wrong place to ask, but people on the right lists > won't have experience with the kind of disk activity that backuppc > creates. I have my main backuppc server set up so I can periodically > swap and raid-sync a new disk and keep a copy offsite. I'd like to have >

Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware/virtuabox/etc.?

2009-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
Thomas Karcher wrote: > Hi, > >> This is probably the wrong place to ask, but people on the right lists >> won't have experience with the kind of disk activity that backuppc >> creates. I have my main backuppc server set up so I can periodically >> swap and raid-sync a new disk and keep a copy

Re: [BackupPC-users] Here my log

2009-04-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
> > Still, there remains "auth required, but service data is > open/insecure": > > to what does it refer? > > I think that means backuppc had a password configured but the rsyncd > server didn't ask for it. You can test rsyncd operation > with command > line rsync using '::' to separate th

Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware/virtuabox/etc.?

2009-04-08 Thread Thomas Karcher
Hi, > I'm looking for something that can be fired up easily on a > windows/mac > without much concern for its physical hardware, so I don't think Xen > is > a good fit. I do have a dual-boot laptop - but it spends much of its > time in the same building as the data being backed up and I'd like

Re: [BackupPC-users] Here my log

2009-04-08 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boniforti Flavio wrote: >>> Still, there remains "auth required, but service data is >> open/insecure": >>> to what does it refer? >> I think that means backuppc had a password configured but the rsyncd >> server didn't ask for it. You can test rsy

Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware/virtuabox/etc.?

2009-04-08 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Karcher wrote: > Hi, > >> I'm looking for something that can be fired up easily on a >> windows/mac >> without much concern for its physical hardware, so I don't think Xen >> is >> a good fit. I do have a dual-boot laptop - but it spends muc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Here my log

2009-04-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
> > What should I do? > > Set the value correctly: > # Whether authentication is mandatory when connecting to the > client's # rsyncd. By default this is on, ensuring that > BackupPC will refuse to # connect to an rsyncd on the client > that is not password protected. > # Turn off at your own

Re: [BackupPC-users] Here my log

2009-04-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
> The tunnel is working well now. I bet you'll find answers > here or by googling for more. This may have to do with the > variant of rsync on the client. > > http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/ErrorMessages > http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-us...@lists.sourceforge.n > et/msg13703.html

[BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?

2009-04-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello list, it's me again! ;-) I've now run a simple full backup of about 300MB using ssh tunnel. On my Linux server, where BackupPC runs and stores the data it retrieves from remote (Windows) clients, I see that the tunnel is open and running backuppc 26351 4.5 0.3 6032 1724 ?Ss 1

Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware/virtuabox/etc.?

2009-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
Thomas Karcher wrote: > >> I'm looking for something that can be fired up easily on a >> windows/mac >> without much concern for its physical hardware, so I don't think Xen >> is >> a good fit. I do have a dual-boot laptop - but it spends much of its >> time in the same building as the data bei

Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware/virtuabox/etc.?

2009-04-08 Thread John Rouillard
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:41:34AM +1000, Adam Goryachev wrote: > Thomas Karcher wrote: > > Hi, > > > >> I'm looking for something that can be fired up easily on a > >> windows/mac without much concern for its physical hardware > > Personally, I would suspect the simplest method is a knoppix CD,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Here my log

2009-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
Boniforti Flavio wrote: >>> What should I do? >> Set the value correctly: >> # Whether authentication is mandatory when connecting to the >> client's # rsyncd. By default this is on, ensuring that >> BackupPC will refuse to # connect to an rsyncd on the client >> that is not password protected.

Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware/virtuabox/etc.?

2009-04-08 Thread Ski Kacoroski
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 15:28 +0200, Thomas Karcher wrote: > Hi, > > > This is probably the wrong place to ask, but people on the right lists > > won't have experience with the kind of disk activity that backuppc > > creates. I have my main backuppc server set up so I can periodically > > swap a

Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware/virtuabox/etc.?

2009-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
John Rouillard wrote: > >>> I'm looking for something that can be fired up easily on a windows/mac without much concern for its physical hardware >> Personally, I would suspect the simplest method is a knoppix CD, boot >> up, install backuppc, mount the usb drive, and away you go. When >

Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware/virtuabox/etc.?

2009-04-08 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Les Mikesell wrote at about 11:59:55 -0500 on Wednesday, April 8, 2009: > John Rouillard wrote: > > > >>> > I'm looking for something that can be fired up easily on a > windows/mac without much concern for its physical hardware > >> Personally, I would suspect the simplest method i

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?

2009-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
Boniforti Flavio wrote: > > I've now run a simple full backup of about 300MB using ssh tunnel. On my > Linux server, where BackupPC runs and stores the data it retrieves from > remote (Windows) clients, I see that the tunnel is open and running > > backuppc 26351 4.5 0.3 6032 1724 ?Ss

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?

2009-04-08 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 04/08 05:02 , Boniforti Flavio wrote: > Also, when looking into /var/lib/backuppc/pc/mail.omvsa.ch I see a "new" > folder, and in it "fprofilo": why has there been an "f" added in front > of the rsync module name? it's just part of the storage format. the files there are compressed, and not in

Re: [BackupPC-users] trashClean won't clean

2009-04-08 Thread Craig Barratt
Madcha writes: > Since few days, trashClean is started but, won't clean old backups, > I don't understand why, > In trash folder there nothing, That means BackupPC_trashClean is working: its job is to remove everything that appears in $TopDir/trash. > It is perhaps for that reason that it does c

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?

2009-04-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Il 08.04.09 19:24, "Les Mikesell" ha scritto: > A 'du -s' on that "new" directory will give you an approximation of how > much has been copied. "ls -lR would show more than you probably want to > know. The 'f' file mangling is done to avoid collisions with the attrib > file that backuppc adds

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?

2009-04-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Il 08.04.09 19:14, "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" ha scritto: > On 04/08 05:02 , Boniforti Flavio wrote: >> Also, when looking into /var/lib/backuppc/pc/mail.omvsa.ch I see a "new" >> folder, and in it "fprofilo": why has there been an "f" added in front >> of the rsync module name? > > it's just

[BackupPC-users] vista rsync issue

2009-04-08 Thread Mark Maciolek
hi, Tried to add a second Vista system to my backuppc server(version 3.1) today. Used DeltaCopy to install rsync On the working system when I try this rsync --port 873 backuppc@::Backup I get a prompt Password: On the new system that fails I get this: @ERROR: chdir failed Difference is

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?

2009-04-08 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Boniforti Flavio wrote: > > > Il 08.04.09 19:14, "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" ha > scritto: > >> On 04/08 05:02 , Boniforti Flavio wrote: >>> Also, when looking into /var/lib/backuppc/pc/mail.omvsa.ch I see a "new" >>> folder, and in it "fprofilo": why has there been an "f" added in front >>> of t

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?

2009-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
Johan Ehnberg wrote: > Boniforti Flavio wrote: >> >> Il 08.04.09 19:14, "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" ha >> scritto: >> >>> On 04/08 05:02 , Boniforti Flavio wrote: Also, when looking into /var/lib/backuppc/pc/mail.omvsa.ch I see a "new" folder, and in it "fprofilo": why has there been an "f

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?

2009-04-08 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 04/08 02:04 , Les Mikesell wrote: > Johan Ehnberg wrote: > > Try monitoring network traffic with something like bwm for bandwidth, > > iptraf for connections and sniffit for data streams. Maybe it's stuck on > > a large file? > > For a quick network-use check, just use ifconfig and look at RX

Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware/virtuabox/etc.?

2009-04-08 Thread o...@jltechinc.com
Hey Ski, Care to elaborate a bit more on that carrot you just dangled? I would love to see a website of actual business-case examples utilizing BackupPC. Is there such an animal, anyone? Thomas, are you at liberty to describe your setup in more detail? Can you mention expected costs? Are yo

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?

2009-04-08 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 04/08 08:22 , Boniforti Flavio wrote: > > it's just part of the storage format. the files there are compressed, and > > not in their original form. > > Ah, well... So I can't copy or access those files when they're synced over? if they're compressed, you'll need the backuppc tools to uncompres

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?

2009-04-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Il 08.04.09 20:49, "Johan Ehnberg" ha scritto: >> Need help... > > Try monitoring network traffic with something like bwm for bandwidth, > iptraf for connections and sniffit for data streams. Maybe it's stuck on > a large file? No large files in this case. Here some extracts of the log fil

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?

2009-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
Boniforti Flavio wrote: > >>> Also, when looking into /var/lib/backuppc/pc/mail.omvsa.ch I see a "new" >>> folder, and in it "fprofilo": why has there been an "f" added in front >>> of the rsync module name? >> it's just part of the storage format. the files there are compressed, and >> not in the

[BackupPC-users] How do the files look like when transferred?

2009-04-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello everybody: if I¹ll succeed in getting BackupPC to ³suck² the files from my Windows client, how do they get stored on my Linux server? My question arises because when the BackupPC configuration will suit my needs, I don¹t want to sync many GB of data from my Windows clients: I do already sync

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?

2009-04-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Il 08.04.09 21:31, "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" ha scritto: > On 04/08 08:22 , Boniforti Flavio wrote: >>> it's just part of the storage format. the files there are compressed, and >>> not in their original form. >> >> Ah, well... So I can't copy or access those files when they're synced over? >

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?

2009-04-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Il 08.04.09 21:39, "Les Mikesell" ha scritto: > Boniforti Flavio wrote: >> Also, when looking into /var/lib/backuppc/pc/mail.omvsa.ch I see a "new" folder, and in it "fprofilo": why has there been an "f" added in front of the rsync module name? >>> it's just part of the storage

Re: [BackupPC-users] How do the files look like when transferred?

2009-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
Boniforti Flavio wrote: > Hello everybody: if I’ll succeed in getting BackupPC to “suck” the files > from my Windows client, how do they get stored on my Linux server? > My question arises because when the BackupPC configuration will suit my > needs, I don’t want to sync many GB of data from my W

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?

2009-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
Boniforti Flavio wrote: > > > Il 08.04.09 21:39, "Les Mikesell" ha scritto: > >> Boniforti Flavio wrote: > Also, when looking into /var/lib/backuppc/pc/mail.omvsa.ch I see a "new" > folder, and in it "fprofilo": why has there been an "f" added in front > of the rsync module name? >>

Re: [BackupPC-users] How do the files look like when transferred?

2009-04-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Il 08.04.09 22:11, "Les Mikesell" ha scritto: > They are compressed if you leave the default setting enabled in your > configuration, and all duplicate copies of the same file (whether found > on the same target or not) are hardlinked to one pooled instance. That > means that backing up multi

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?

2009-04-08 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 04/08 09:50 , Boniforti Flavio wrote: > Why do you say "IF" they're compressed? How do I define if they get stored > in compressed format, while still maintaining compression during the > transfer? it's a setting in /etc/backuppc/config.pl read through the file; it's worthwhile documentation fo

Re: [BackupPC-users] How do the files look like when transferred?

2009-04-08 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 04/08 10:19 , Boniforti Flavio wrote: > OK, so your suggestion is actually to leave them compressed, right? > If so, what may I do to avoid re-syncing of many GB of data? Backuppc uncompresses the files in the course of comparing the old ones to the new ones; or else does it by comparing stored

Re: [BackupPC-users] How do the files look like when transferred?

2009-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
Boniforti Flavio wrote: > > > Il 08.04.09 22:11, "Les Mikesell" ha scritto: > >> They are compressed if you leave the default setting enabled in your >> configuration, and all duplicate copies of the same file (whether found >> on the same target or not) are hardlinked to one pooled instance.

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?

2009-04-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Il 08.04.09 22:27, "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" ha scritto: > On 04/08 09:50 , Boniforti Flavio wrote: >> Why do you say "IF" they're compressed? How do I define if they get stored >> in compressed format, while still maintaining compression during the >> transfer? > > it's a setting in /etc/bac

Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware/virtuabox/etc.?

2009-04-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:55:29AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Thomas Karcher wrote: > > > >> I'm looking for something that can be fired up easily on a > >> windows/mac > >> without much concern for its physical hardware, so I don't think Xen > >> is > >> a good fit. I do have a dual-boot lapt

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?

2009-04-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Il 08.04.09 22:16, "Les Mikesell" ha scritto: > The same link http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html shows > all the options. Look for $Conf{CompressLevel}. > > It will still mangle the filenames, though. They aren't really intended > to be accessed directly. Man, this is unfair

Re: [BackupPC-users] How do the files look like when transferred?

2009-04-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Il 08.04.09 22:29, "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" ha scritto: > On 04/08 10:19 , Boniforti Flavio wrote: >> OK, so your suggestion is actually to leave them compressed, right? >> If so, what may I do to avoid re-syncing of many GB of data? > > Backuppc uncompresses the files in the course of compa

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?

2009-04-08 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 04/08 10:43 , Boniforti Flavio wrote: > > It will still mangle the filenames, though. They aren't really intended > > to be accessed directly. > > Man, this is unfair... :-/ As soon as my backups will be running, there will > be needed many hours or days to completely sync 20 GB or more.. why

Re: [BackupPC-users] How do the files look like when transferred?

2009-04-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Il 08.04.09 22:40, "Les Mikesell" ha scritto: > I'm not sure I understand. The only way backuppc will know they exist > is if they are already in the previous full run with the mangled file > format (compression doesn't matter). If you are doing a remote copy > over a slow link it might be

Re: [BackupPC-users] How do the files look like when transferred?

2009-04-08 Thread John Rouillard
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 03:29:12PM -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 04/08 10:19 , Boniforti Flavio wrote: > > OK, so your suggestion is actually to leave them compressed, right? > > If so, what may I do to avoid re-syncing of many GB of data? > > Backuppc uncompresses the files in the co

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?

2009-04-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Il 08.04.09 22:50, "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" ha scritto: > why do you need to access them directly? I'm not necessarily thinking of accessing them directly: I'm concerned about moving 20GB or more data from my actual rsnapshots to BackupPC. But Les Mikesell has "illuminated" me: I'll let Back

Re: [BackupPC-users] How do the files look like when transferred?

2009-04-08 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 04/08 10:45 , Boniforti Flavio wrote: > I believe in it's efficiency, but my problem is that I'll have to backup > some 20GB over a WAN link (VDSL 2/5000)... Until now, I simply went with > an external HDD and copied over all the data, then stored them in my > rsnapshot-server and synced awa

[BackupPC-users] Long file names & paths

2009-04-08 Thread Bharat Mistry
Can backup pc handle long path & long files names? \\shared\accidents and damage logs\incidents\non insurance claims\our liability\weekly incidents involving our vehicles\brian smith's lorry\damage cased to brian third paty.doc --

[BackupPC-users] Sending csums, cnt = 0, phase = 1 - Backups stuck!

2009-04-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello everybody. Just wanted to open a new and different thread, only for this single issue: my backups start, open the ssh tunnel correctly, create the list for the files to transfer, sends ³empty checksums² and then remains stuck here: Sending csums, cnt = 0, phase = 1 Need help, thanks! Rega

Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware/virtuabox/etc.?

2009-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
Rob Owens wrote: >> Both >> Virtualbox and the current vmware server/player claim to work with USB >> 2.0 but I haven't done any speed tests yet - in fact I haven't been able >> to get virtualbox to see usb drives at all. >> > I think USB only works in the closed source version of VirtualBox. Y

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?

2009-04-08 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote at about 14:31:07 -0500 on Wednesday, April 8, 2009: > On 04/08 08:22 , Boniforti Flavio wrote: > > > it's just part of the storage format. the files there are compressed, and > > > not in their original form. > > > > Ah, well... So I can't copy or access those

Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware/virtuabox/etc.?

2009-04-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 04:30:15PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > > If you decide to got the live cd route, you might want to try Ubuntu. > > Version 8.10 comes with a nice and easy USB stick installer. Sidux has > > one, too. > > I think clonezilla has a ubuntu-base version. I'

Re: [BackupPC-users] Try to backup non existent files....

2009-04-08 Thread Craig Barratt
Mirco, > Here error log, mailed from BackupPC: > > The following hosts had an error that is probably caused by a > misconfiguration. Please fix these hosts: > - elpra01lc (Call timed out: server did not respond after 2 > milliseconds opening remote file \ELPRA01WS\ELPRA06SV\E > (\ELPRA01WS\

Re: [BackupPC-users] How do the files look like when transferred?

2009-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
Boniforti Flavio wrote: > > > Il 08.04.09 22:11, "Les Mikesell" ha scritto: > >> They are compressed if you leave the default setting enabled in your >> configuration, and all duplicate copies of the same file (whether found >> on the same target or not) are hardlinked to one pooled instance.

Re: [BackupPC-users] How do the files look like when transferred?

2009-04-08 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
John Rouillard wrote at about 20:55:14 + on Wednesday, April 8, 2009: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 03:29:12PM -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > On 04/08 10:19 , Boniforti Flavio wrote: > > > OK, so your suggestion is actually to leave them compressed, right? > > > If so, what may I do

[BackupPC-users] Include only specified folders - how

2009-04-08 Thread Bharat Mistry
I have set my pc to be backed up by smb if i specify D$ Include only specified folders with /folder1, /folder2 etc Doesn't work - SEEMS to ignore the setting -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirement

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?

2009-04-08 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Boniforti Flavio wrote at about 20:22:10 +0200 on Wednesday, April 8, 2009: > > > > Il 08.04.09 19:14, "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" ha > scritto: > > > On 04/08 05:02 , Boniforti Flavio wrote: > >> Also, when looking into /var/lib/backuppc/pc/mail.omvsa.ch I see a "new" > >> folder, and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Include only specified folders - how

2009-04-08 Thread Ryan Knapper
Unless I'm reading that wrong, if you've specified \\server\D$ then it's going to get all subfolders of D$. Have you specified multiple folders. like \\server\D$\folder1 and \\server\D$\folder2 ? On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 15:04, Bharat Mistry wrote: > > I have set my pc to be backed up by smb > > i

Re: [BackupPC-users] Include only specified folders - how

2009-04-08 Thread o...@jltechinc.com
I've got the same issue Bharat, I submitted the following snippet to Craig. He's taking a peek at it. o...@jltechinc.com said the following on 04/06/2009 09:10 PM: > > Contents of file /backups/pc/invmgr/XferLOG.0.z, modified 2009-04-01 > 20:31:03 > > Running: /usr/bin/smbclient invmgr\\C\$

Re: [BackupPC-users] How do the files look like when transferred?

2009-04-08 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2009-04-08 17:58:04 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How do the files look like when transferred?]: > John Rouillard wrote at about 20:55:14 + on Wednesday, April 8, 2009: > [...] > > For extra credit a: > > > > BackupPC_import -H hostname -s share directory

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?

2009-04-08 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 04/08 02:04 , Les Mikesell wrote: >> Johan Ehnberg wrote: >>> Try monitoring network traffic with something like bwm for bandwidth, >>> iptraf for connections and sniffit for data streams. Maybe it's stuck on >>> a l

Re: [BackupPC-users] Include only specified folders - how

2009-04-08 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, o...@jltechinc.com wrote on 2009-04-08 19:16:43 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Include only specified folders - how]: > I've got the same issue Bharat, that's a rather wild guess. Bharat has not really said anything about his configuration, making it hard to guess what his issue actually is. >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Here my log

2009-04-08 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Johan Ehnberg wrote on 2009-04-08 15:49:30 +0300 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Here my log]: > [...] > SSH is backgrounded with the -f switch. ah, didn't know that one, but it's just what is needed here, obviously. > [...] > >- The script which starts ssh (or, equivalently, the > >"ssh && echo" seq

[BackupPC-users] I don't get how to do a local backup with tar

2009-04-08 Thread Laurin d'Volts
I'm playing with the CGI, and I can't grasp the logic of backuppc. What I want to do is tar only certain folders. xfermethod = tar TarShareName = / Backupfilesonly = /home/laurin/images For some odd reason, when I go back to "localhost Home" it wants to archive the entire root. I don't understand

Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware/virtuabox/etc.?

2009-04-08 Thread stoffell
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > a VMware/virtualbox or other virtual machine image that could run on any > machine that would be able to access this disk via a USB adapter for > quick emergency restores.  Does anyone have experience with any of the > virtual machine's USB han

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?

2009-04-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
> Are you using rsync or rsyncd? I'm using rsyncd (XferMethod=rsyncd), in an ssh-tunnel (I repeat this because maybe that could be the culprit): Here the commands used: Executing DumpPreUserCmd: /var/lib/backuppc/tunnel.sh -f administra...@mail.omvsa.ch -L 8874:127.0.0.1:873 sleep 20 > Because

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?

2009-04-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
> If you want, this one is nice too: > watch "ls -l /proc//fd | grep backuppc" Look: Every 2.0s: ls -la /proc/27161/fd |grep backuppc Thu Apr 9 08:44:36 2009 dr-x-- 2 backuppc backuppc 0 9 apr 08:43 . dr-xr-xr-x 7 backuppc backuppc 0 9 apr 08:42 .. l-wx-- 1 backuppc backuppc 64 9