Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc not completing backups

2009-07-29 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Curtis Vaughan wrote at about 11:21:58 -0700 on Wednesday, July 29, 2009: > Backuppc was performing an rsync back up one Windows XP system, on > which Cygwin is installed, for years now. But now it starts the backup and > seems to just hang there. That is, I can see it's backed up a number of >

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc not completing backups

2009-07-29 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Backuppc was performing an rsync back up one Windows XP system, on which Cygwin is installed, for years now. But now it starts the backup and seems to just hang there. That is, I can see it's backed up a number of files and directories, placing them in the appropriate .../new/ directory, but then a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup fails

2009-07-29 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Michael Aram wrote on 2009-07-29 15:57:31 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] Backup fails]: > [...] > Unfortunately, the backup seems to "hang". > [...] > By issuing on the command line (for testing): > -- > /

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup fails

2009-07-29 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Aram wrote: > Hello BackupPC Community, > > Im totally new to BackupPC. Yesterday I installed a completely new > backup server using the latest ubuntu-server distibution (9). Then I > installed Ubuntus BackupPC package and configured a host, wh

[BackupPC-users] Backup fails

2009-07-29 Thread Michael Aram
Hello BackupPC Community, Im totally new to BackupPC. Yesterday I installed a completely new backup server using the latest ubuntu-server distibution (9). Then I installed Ubuntus BackupPC package and configured a host, which I would like to backup. The basic configuration seems to work (I can use

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync / rsyncd / samba: more information (dis/advantages) of different transfer mechanisms

2009-07-29 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync / rsyncd / samba: more information (dis/advantages) of different transfer mechanisms

2009-07-29 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
phil wrote at about 16:12:24 +0200 on Monday, July 27, 2009: > Hello, > > even when I'm running backuppc successfully on two servers and doing > backups of linux and windows clients, I still haven't fully understand > the dis(advantages) of rsync / rsyncd / samba regarding security. > > I

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync / rsyncd / samba: more information (dis/advantages) of different transfer mechanisms

2009-07-29 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 07/27 04:12 , phil wrote: > RSYNCD: > > ? what is the advantage when using rsyncd in favor of rsync? Works on windoze, unlike ssh+rsync (bug in cygwin rsync). -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ---

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync / rsyncd / samba: more information (dis/advantages) of different transfer mechanisms

2009-07-29 Thread Michał Sawicz
Dnia 2009-07-27, pon o godzinie 16:12 +0200, phil pisze: > RSYNC: + easy - no setup on the client required > RSYNCD: + faster than rsync At least that's what I read somewhere. -- Michał Sawicz -- Let Crystal Reports

[BackupPC-users] rsync / rsyncd / samba: more information (dis/advantages) of different transfer mechanisms

2009-07-29 Thread phil
Hello, even when I'm running backuppc successfully on two servers and doing backups of linux and windows clients, I still haven't fully understand the dis(advantages) of rsync / rsyncd / samba regarding security. I would like to see a short table chowing the advantages and disadvantages of using

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backups per host

2009-07-29 Thread Michał Sawicz
Dnia 2009-07-29, śro o godzinie 09:05 +, Alex Dehaini pisze: > I was wondering, how do I setup full and incremental backups per host > - for instance, backup every 12 hours. Any assistance will be > appreciated. You can override the settings through /etc/BackupPC/pc/hostname.pl file. Or use th

[BackupPC-users] Incremental backups per host

2009-07-29 Thread Alex Dehaini
Hi Guys, I was wondering, how do I setup full and incremental backups per host - for instance, backup every 12 hours. Any assistance will be appreciated. Regards, -- Alex Dehaini Developer Site - www.alexdehaini.com Email - alexdeha...@gmail.com -

[BackupPC-users] Log says "Pool is 0.00GB", but pool is big and growing

2009-07-29 Thread Christian G. von Busse
Hi, I'm experiencing some strange difficulties with BackupPC (3.1.0-3ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS). It appears that BackupPC is not "recognizing" that it put files into the pool already. The log shows nightly a message according to which the pool is 0 GB, consisting of 0 directories, whereas the poo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Directory

2009-07-29 Thread Michał Sawicz
Dnia 2009-07-29, śro o godzinie 08:09 +0100, Chris Owen pisze: > I have been using backuppc to do full backups of users machines. I > would like to use backuppc just to back up some users e-mails, this > would just mean backing up their outlook folders or doing an export. > Is there away that backu

[BackupPC-users] Backup Directory

2009-07-29 Thread Chris Owen
Morning I have been using backuppc to do full backups of users machines. I would like to use backuppc just to back up some users e-mails, this would just mean backing up their outlook folders or doing an export. Is there away that backuppc can just backup an directory? Many Thanks Chris.-