Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem in transferring

2009-06-04 Thread Craig Barratt
ckandreou writes: > Executing: /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost > /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate /usr/bin/split ccdev10 348 > /usr/bin/bzip2 .bz2 000 /dev/sa0 * > Xfer PIDs are now 81631 > Writing tar archive for host ccdev10, backup #348 to /dev/sa0 > Got unknown t

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC migration FC7 to FC10

2009-06-04 Thread Johan Cwiklinski
Le 05/06/2009 01:49, Claude Gélinas a écrit : > I need to migrate my backupPC server from FC7 to FC10 but I can't just > upgrade my server. I've installed a new HD with FC10 on the same server > so now I need to know how to transfer my setting form the old HD to the > new one without losing my setu

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC migration FC7 to FC10

2009-06-04 Thread Claude Gélinas
I need to migrate my backupPC server from FC7 to FC10 but I can't just upgrade my server. I've installed a new HD with FC10 on the same server so now I need to know how to transfer my setting form the old HD to the new one without losing my setup. All my backuped file are on a partition mounted on

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-04 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Les Mikesell wrote at about 15:23:57 -0500 on Thursday, June 4, 2009: > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > > > > > > > He doesn't have to 'hope' you need a restore - he can just wipe all the > > > live copies. Now it's time for you to put back the old working copies. > > > With the curre

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-04 Thread Les Mikesell
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > > > > He doesn't have to 'hope' you need a restore - he can just wipe all the > > live copies. Now it's time for you to put back the old working copies. > > With the current backuppc scheme of collision detection you could - if > > you relied on md5's blind

[BackupPC-users] SMB vs RSYNCD

2009-06-04 Thread clint woodrow
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Adam Goryachev wrote at about 13:42:41 +1000 on Wednesday, June 3, 2009: > > > clint woodrow wrote: > > > > > > > > Matthias Meyer wrote: > > > > > > > rsync(d) transmit only changed parts of a file > > > > (http://www.samba.org/rsync). e.g. a 2.6 GB mailbox.pst a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-04 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Les Mikesell wrote at about 11:08:53 -0500 on Thursday, June 4, 2009: > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > > > > However, it would still be disturbing to realize that your backup > > > integrity could be compromised by anyone with access to the files. > > > Consider a scenario where a disgru

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to keep backups for xx days

2009-06-04 Thread Les Mikesell
Bharat Mistry wrote: > I'm trying to understand the various seeetings I need to make to achieve > this and a bit confused. > > I'm backing up 9 PC's with BackupPC > > I have been asked to make sure ALL hosts keep at least 3 months of Full > backups and assocaited incremental Do you need all da

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem in transferring

2009-06-04 Thread Les Mikesell
ckandreou wrote: > Dear all, > > I am using 36/72 Backup tapes. I am getting the following error message when > I am trying to backup/transfer from the BackupPC server to tape drive. I > would appreciated if someone can provide me with direction on how should I > proceed in handling the error.

[BackupPC-users] How to keep backups for xx days

2009-06-04 Thread Bharat Mistry
I'm trying to understand the various seeetings I need to make to achieve this and a bit confused. I'm backing up 9 PC's with BackupPC I have been asked to make sure ALL hosts keep at least 3 months of Full backups and assocaited incremental We are taking about around 5-20Gb in most cases - I don'

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-04 Thread Les Mikesell
Adam Goryachev wrote: > >> However, it would still be disturbing to realize that your backup >> integrity could be compromised by anyone with access to the files. >> Consider a scenario where a disgruntled employee who still has access to >> files first prepares the 'evil twin' file with the hac

[BackupPC-users] Problem in transferring

2009-06-04 Thread ckandreou
Dear all, I am using 36/72 Backup tapes. I am getting the following error message when I am trying to backup/transfer from the BackupPC server to tape drive. I would appreciated if someone can provide me with direction on how should I proceed in handling the error. the error message is as fol

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-04 Thread Les Mikesell
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > > However, it would still be disturbing to realize that your backup > > integrity could be compromised by anyone with access to the files. > > Consider a scenario where a disgruntled employee who still has access to > > files first prepares the 'evil twin' fil

Re: [BackupPC-users] Host Summary - Full Size: Wondering where itcomes from

2009-06-04 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Tino Schwarze wrote at about 11:44:29 +0200 on Thursday, June 4, 2009: > Hi Flavio, > > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 08:23:36AM +0200, Boniforti Flavio wrote: > > > > Q: Does anyone know? > > > A: Yes > > > > Maybe I'm the only human which thinks a bit more "elastically", but if > > anybody

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-04 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Les Mikesell wrote at about 10:02:34 -0500 on Thursday, June 4, 2009: > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > > > As I proved in my earlier post, the chance of a collision on even a > > Petabyte sized pool is about 1 in 10^38. > > Note that we've all gotten used to trusting tcp crcs for error det

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-04 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Les Mikesell wrote: > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: >> As I proved in my earlier post, the chance of a collision on even a >> Petabyte sized pool is about 1 in 10^38. > > Note that we've all gotten used to trusting tcp crcs for error detection > and it

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-04 Thread Les Mikesell
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > > And for extra points, figure out which variations could be adapted to > > incremental updates as you might want to do to keep an offsite copy in > > sync. The blockdevice approach would probably require ZFS with its > > snapshot send/receive functions. The

[BackupPC-users] A problem really hard to handle : BackupPc Crashing

2009-06-04 Thread SebClight
Hi Everyone, Thanks for your answears. It allowed us to find and solve the problem. On our BackupPc server, a munin plugin was executing a BackupPC_serverMesg status command. Because the PC is abit old and overloaded, the answear of the command often arrived after the 5sec timeout. Without th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-04 Thread Les Mikesell
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > As I proved in my earlier post, the chance of a collision on even a > Petabyte sized pool is about 1 in 10^38. Note that we've all gotten used to trusting tcp crcs for error detection and it's probably much weaker. However, it would still be disturbing to realize

[BackupPC-users] Scheduling archiving host

2009-06-04 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello list, I'd like to forget about the archiving host and its function now that I've set it up. Is there any way to schedule it to run at a given time from the BackupPC interface? The only alternative solution I can think of is using a cron job... What are your suggestions? I'd like to have the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Host Summary - Full Size: Wondering whereitcomes from

2009-06-04 Thread Les Mikesell
Boniforti Flavio wrote: > Hallo Tino, > >>> But that may be a weird and complex way-of-thinking that is >> affecting >>> only me :-/ >> Nope, I tend to think like that as well. :-| > > OK, let's not waste anoybody's time with above "phylosophycal" > matters... ;-) On the contrary, Pythagoras'

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-04 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Tino Schwarze wrote at about 11:35:46 +0200 on Thursday, June 4, 2009: > Hi there, > > (I already felt like I was going to look dumb or anxious by writing what > I wrote...) > > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:09:38PM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > Tino Schwarze wrote at about 18:39:26 +

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3.2.0 beta install for Ubuntu

2009-06-04 Thread Stephane Rouleau
+1 I'd be interested to take a look as well... Stephane royden yates wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 15:10 -0500, Robert J. Phillips wrote: > >> I have generated a deb file and upgraded my BackupPC 3.1.0 to 3.2.0 >> beta. Everything seems to be working fine. >> >> >> >> Can I submit the d

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC auto disable problem...

2009-06-04 Thread Joseph Holland
Recently our BackupPC server reached the max limit on the pool filesystem for performing backups. The BackupPC stopped performing automatic backups of hosts (as it is supposed to). So we deleted some data that was on the same partition as the the pool filesystem but the BackupPC has never cha

Re: [BackupPC-users] Host Summary - Full Size: Wondering whereitcomes from

2009-06-04 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Flavio, On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 12:03:07PM +0200, Boniforti Flavio wrote: > > My advice: Just account on total amount of data backed up. > > And this is the number you get in the host summary page as > > "Full Size(GB)" and in host status page in the "File > > Size/Count Reuse Summary" tabl

Re: [BackupPC-users] Host Summary - Full Size: Wondering whereitcomes from

2009-06-04 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hallo Tino, > > But that may be a weird and complex way-of-thinking that is > affecting > > only me :-/ > > Nope, I tend to think like that as well. :-| OK, let's not waste anoybody's time with above "phylosophycal" matters... ;-) > The short answer is: You cannot account for single host disk

Re: [BackupPC-users] Change Archive Directory

2009-06-04 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:25:01PM -0400, jbk wrote: > I am trying to understand this subject heading so that I can > correct my backup archive. I have been running backuppc for > over a year now and the backed up data appears to be good. I > have done individual file restores without issues. W

Re: [BackupPC-users] Host Summary - Full Size: Wondering where itcomes from

2009-06-04 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Flavio, On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 08:23:36AM +0200, Boniforti Flavio wrote: > > Q: Does anyone know? > > A: Yes > > Maybe I'm the only human which thinks a bit more "elastically", but if > anybody asks: > > "Anybody knows why there's difference between the above 2 values?" > > I'm prone to ex

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC server

2009-06-04 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi there, (I already felt like I was going to look dumb or anxious by writing what I wrote...) On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:09:38PM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Tino Schwarze wrote at about 18:39:26 +0200 on Wednesday, June 3, 2009: > > > > I recently heard about lessfs, which runs on top o

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup the backuppc pool with bacula

2009-06-04 Thread Ralf Gross
Ralf Gross schrieb: > there is a regular discussion on how to backup/move/copy the backuppc > pool. Did anyone try to backup the pool with bacula? > > I need to expand the raid volume where the pool is stored (Arecac RAID > controller). Doing this without backup is a bit frightening (I didn't > us