Re: [BackupPC-users] Not backing up more that first module/directory (rsyncd)

2009-04-15 Thread Boniforti Flavio
As long as the other ssh has gone away and is no longer listening on the local forwarding port you should be able to start another instance. It if is a problem you could wrap the ssh command in a script that sleeps a few seconds first to make sure the previous run has time to close

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why no files where transferred in this session?

2009-04-15 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hallo Matthias, Whats happen after this sleep of 60 seconds? I would believe that ssh stop the tunnel. And than rsync read this EOF. Mmmhhh... Well, could it be that for some reason there has been a timeout greater than 60 seconds and *thus* the ssh tunnel shut down, while rsync was waiting

[BackupPC-users] Many Sleeping processes

2009-04-15 Thread Simon Fishley
Hi All Has anyone experienced this before? I have dozens of BackupPC_dump and Nightly processes running and they are all in STATE = sleep. I have more that enought free disk space on my storage volume as you can see and the machine is barely breaking a sweat. iostat show almost no disc write

Re: [BackupPC-users] Archive to Tape

2009-04-15 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Bharat Mistry wrote: I have a spare LTO2 as a result of a Windows Server upgrade I'd like to install it on my BackupPC box and Archive to Tape once a week (BackupPC installed on SME Server) I use the following to backup to DAT tape on other SME servers: mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind tar -cvf

[BackupPC-users] Why not starting in command-line, but still in CGI interface?

2009-04-15 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello list. When I start my backup from the CGI interface, it runs (manual, both incr. and full). When I start it from command-line, I get: backu...@storebox:~$ /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -v mail.omvsa.ch Exiting because backups are disabled with $Conf{BackupsDisable} = 1 nothing to

[BackupPC-users] Debugging big file transfer timeouts

2009-04-15 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello there. I've set up in my lab the same environment as I'm trying to use in real life: - Windows 2003 SBS SP2 with copSSH + cwRsync installed and configured; - Linux server with BackupPC running. The configuration is as follows: BackupPC opens an SSH tunnel (DumpPreShareCmd) and then using

[BackupPC-users] Archive to Tape

2009-04-15 Thread Bharat Mistry
I have a spare LTO2 as a result of a Windows Server upgrade I'd like to install it on my BackupPC box and Archive to Tape once a week (BackupPC installed on SME Server) I use the following to backup to DAT tape on other SME servers: mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind tar -cvf /dev/st0 /home

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why not starting in command-line, but still in CGI interface?

2009-04-15 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 04/15 02:03 , Boniforti Flavio wrote: You see, there's no $Conf{BackupsDisable} configured, which, instead, is put like: backu...@storebox:~$ cat /etc/backuppc/config.pl | grep $Conf{BackupsDisable} # There are three values for $Conf{BackupsDisable}: $Conf{BackupsDisable} = '1'; Right

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why no files where transferred in this session?

2009-04-15 Thread Les Mikesell
Boniforti Flavio wrote: Hallo Matthias, Whats happen after this sleep of 60 seconds? I would believe that ssh stop the tunnel. And than rsync read this EOF. Mmmhhh... Well, could it be that for some reason there has been a timeout greater than 60 seconds and *thus* the ssh tunnel shut

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why not starting in command-line, but still in CGI interface?

2009-04-15 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Right there it is. edit config.pl and change $Conf{BackupsDisable} = '1'; to $Conf{BackupsDisable} = '0'; But I'd like to have backups manually-driven, for now. That's why I put it to '1', ain't that right? -- This

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why no files where transferred in this session?

2009-04-15 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Nice, but what happens if the SSH goes down? It is also my concern! :-/ Ssh is pretty robust, but if you have keys set up for passwordless connections you could wrap it in a shell loop that runs it again if it exits. Well, actually my main concern is about transfers getting dropped:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why not starting in command-line, but still in CGI interface?

2009-04-15 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 04/15 03:14 , Boniforti Flavio wrote: Right there it is. edit config.pl and change $Conf{BackupsDisable} = '1'; to $Conf{BackupsDisable} = '0'; But I'd like to have backups manually-driven, for now. That's why I put it to '1', ain't that right? I've never tried making backups

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why no files where transferred in this session?

2009-04-15 Thread Les Mikesell
Boniforti Flavio wrote: Nice, but what happens if the SSH goes down? It is also my concern! :-/ Ssh is pretty robust, but if you have keys set up for passwordless connections you could wrap it in a shell loop that runs it again if it exits. Well, actually my main concern is about

Re: [BackupPC-users] Archive to Tape

2009-04-15 Thread Les Mikesell
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: Bharat Mistry wrote: I have a spare LTO2 as a result of a Windows Server upgrade I'd like to install it on my BackupPC box and Archive to Tape once a week (BackupPC installed on SME Server) I use the following to backup to DAT tape on other SME servers:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why not starting in command-line, but still in CGI interface?

2009-04-15 Thread Les Mikesell
Boniforti Flavio wrote: Right there it is. edit config.pl and change $Conf{BackupsDisable} = '1'; to $Conf{BackupsDisable} = '0'; But I'd like to have backups manually-driven, for now. That's why I put it to '1', ain't that right? You would really save yourself a lot of trouble if you just

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup remote ftp server (internet site)

2009-04-15 Thread Paul Mantz
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Mirco Piccin pic...@gmail.com wrote: HI The values in your config.pl script appear to be correct.  The Invalid argument error is a protocol-level error.  I'll need some more information to figure out what's going on. ok, let's go on! What ftp server are