[BackupPC-users] Upgrading from etch to lenny

2009-06-09 Thread Ward... James Ward
I have two etch BackupPC servers and two lenny BackupPC servers. All were built at the OS level currently running. I like the new BackupPC interface a lot and would like to upgrade the etch servers to lenny and therefore BackupPC. How smoothly is this likely to go? Any HOWTOs or READMEs

Re: [BackupPC-users] backups not working - backupdisable picking up incorrectly

2009-06-09 Thread Les Mikesell
Steve Redmond wrote: > On Jun 09, Chris Robertson wrote: >> How certain? ;o) >> > > 100% ;-) > >> Fair enough, but is it possible that $Conf{BackupsDisable} is set twice >> in this one file? >> When you performed your grep, you stated "nothing turned up". Does that >> mean that nothing UNEXP

Re: [BackupPC-users] backups not working - backupdisable picking up incorrectly

2009-06-09 Thread Steve Redmond
On Jun 09, Chris Robertson wrote: > > How certain? ;o) > 100% ;-) > Fair enough, but is it possible that $Conf{BackupsDisable} is set twice > in this one file? > When you performed your grep, you stated "nothing turned up". Does that > mean that nothing UNEXPECTED showed up, or nothing at a

Re: [BackupPC-users] backups not working - backupdisable picking up incorrectly

2009-06-09 Thread Chris Robertson
Steve Redmond wrote: > Hiya, > > Thanks for your reply. > > >> I assume this means the main config file. There are also per-host >> config files that will override the main one. >> > > Correct. I have checked that there were no overriding settings in other > configuration files. Did a g

Re: [BackupPC-users] backups not working - backupdisable picking up incorrectly

2009-06-09 Thread Les Mikesell
Steve Redmond wrote: > > I've run in to a bit of a strange issue. We have a large number of > backups running on backuppc and up until recently they have all been > working fine. Now I see everything as Idle with aging "last backups" > > Now, when I attempt to kick backups off manually I get the

Re: [BackupPC-users] backups not working - backupdisable picking up incorrectly

2009-06-09 Thread Steve Redmond
Hiya, Thanks for your reply. > I assume this means the main config file. There are also per-host > config files that will override the main one. Correct. I have checked that there were no overriding settings in other configuration files. Did a grep on the entire configuration directory to be

Re: [BackupPC-users] backups not working - backupdisable picking up incorrectly

2009-06-09 Thread Chris Robertson
Steve Redmond wrote: > Hi, > > I've run in to a bit of a strange issue. We have a large number of > backups running on backuppc and up until recently they have all been > working fine. Now I see everything as Idle with aging "last backups" > > Now, when I attempt to kick backups off manually I get

[BackupPC-users] backups not working - backupdisable picking up incorrectly

2009-06-09 Thread Steve Redmond
Hi, I've run in to a bit of a strange issue. We have a large number of backups running on backuppc and up until recently they have all been working fine. Now I see everything as Idle with aging "last backups" Now, when I attempt to kick backups off manually I get the usual: "Reply from server

Re: [BackupPC-users] Change Archive Directory

2009-06-09 Thread Michael Kuss
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 06:44, Holger Parplies wrote: >> yes, but however you fix it, you should be aware that you won't get pooling >> for already completed backups. Until they expire, they will contain >> independent copies of files. What'

Re: [BackupPC-users] Change Archive Directory

2009-06-09 Thread Les Mikesell
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 06:44, Holger Parplies wrote: >> yes, but however you fix it, you should be aware that you won't get pooling >> for already completed backups. Until they expire, they will contain >> independent copies of files. What's worse, rsync backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] Change Archive Directory

2009-06-09 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 06:44, Holger Parplies wrote: > yes, but however you fix it, you should be aware that you won't get pooling > for already completed backups. Until they expire, they will contain > independent copies of files. What's worse, rsync backups will hardlink 'same' > files to th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Change Archive Directory

2009-06-09 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Filipe Brandenburger wrote on 2009-06-08 23:36:33 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Change Archive Directory]: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 22:25, jbk wrote: > > [...] What I am > >  not seeing is any pooled data. I am using the Fedora > > distribution (10) binary of Backuppc. When I originally set > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Programatically identifying errors in the log file

2009-06-09 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, John Rouillard wrote on 2009-06-09 04:49:40 + [Re: [BackupPC-users] Programatically identifying errors in the log file]: > On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 02:21:28AM +0200, Holger Parplies wrote: > > John Rouillard wrote on 2009-06-08 21:27:11 + [[BackupPC-users] > > Programatically identifyi