Re: [BackupPC-users] Running BackupPC on a Pentium III/900 MHz

2009-08-27 Thread Nigel Kendrick
-Original Message- From: Koen Linders [mailto:koen.lind...@koca.be] Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:39 AM To: 'General list for user discussion,questions and support' Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Running BackupPC on a Pentium III/900 MHz Hello, for a small office with 2 PCs I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Excludes not working

2009-08-27 Thread Bernhard Ott
Koen Linders wrote: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: On 08/26 12:57 , Osburn, Michael wrote: I am trying to backup my backuppc server while excluding the backups directory. No matter what I put under excludes in the config, I still end up with the cpool and pc directories in my backups. You

Re: [BackupPC-users] Cannot stat: No such file or directory

2009-08-27 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 08:59:32PM -0400, huffie wrote: Not sure if it's due to config issue (I'm trying to backup localhost) that I have this error message. Extracted from XferLOG Running: /bin/gtar -c -f - -C /samba --totals ./samba full backup started for directory /samba Xfer PIDs

Re: [BackupPC-users] Excludes not working

2009-08-27 Thread Koen Linders
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Bernhard Ott [mailto:bernhard@gmx.net] Verzonden: donderdag 27 augustus 2009 11:31 Aan: General list for user discussion, questions and support Onderwerp: Re: [BackupPC-users] Excludes not working Koen Linders wrote: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: On

[BackupPC-users] backuppc for large scale env

2009-08-27 Thread Brent Clark
Hiya I got quite a few servers around the world that I need to backup. The question I would like to ask is, how does backuppc scale to the other backup solutions, in large environments. Also for those running backuppc for large scale environment, would you be so kind as to share your

[BackupPC-users] No emails being sent for backup failures

2009-08-27 Thread txoof
Backuppc is configured to send email for all hosts to one gmail account. All email sent to the attention of the administrator as well as each host's email is sent to the foo@gmail.com account. That is to say, the USER field is set to foo@gmail.com for ALL 20 of the hosts. This was a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Still having problems with BackupPC

2009-08-27 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Jeremy Mann wrote on 2009-08-26 09:25:10 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] Still having problems with BackupPC]: [...] I am monitoring one server right now by tailing the NewFileList log file in its pc directory. [...] it just goes by maybe 1 file every minute or so. Then occasionally there's a

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc for large scale env

2009-08-27 Thread Michael Stowe
It depends on what you mean by large scale and what your particular plans are. Having a BackupPC server in each of a dozen countries to back up offices of 10-50 people each probably wouldn't require anything special, while trying to back up a PC in Columbia from Germany may require a special

[BackupPC-users] Starting BackupPC without using init.d scripts

2009-08-27 Thread Volker Thiel
Hello everyone, I'm currently trying to install BackupPC on the QNAP TS-509 Pro NAS system. So far I managed to get through the installation and I can start the server by calling the executable as user backuppc: /path/to/installation/bin/BackupPC This call results in the PID printed on the

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc for large scale env

2009-08-27 Thread Brent Clark
Michael Stowe wrote: It depends on what you mean by large scale and what your particular plans are. Having a BackupPC server in each of a dozen countries to back up offices of 10-50 people each probably wouldn't require anything special, while trying to back up a PC in Columbia from Germany

Re: [BackupPC-users] Excludes not working

2009-08-27 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 08/26 06:45 , Chris Baker wrote: Anyway, here is what I have in the exclude section: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { 'c$' = [ '/program files', '/axium', '/i386', '/drivers', '/dell', '/temp', '/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/Temporary Internet

Re: [BackupPC-users] Still having problems with BackupPC

2009-08-27 Thread Les Mikesell
Jeremy Mann wrote: I'm still having severe bandwidth issues causing are once nightly backups to take days to finish with BackupPC. I am monitoring one server right now by tailing the NewFileList log file in its pc directory. What I'd expect to see are filenames flying by, but no, it just goes

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc for large scale env

2009-08-27 Thread Les Mikesell
Brent Clark wrote: Michael Stowe wrote: It depends on what you mean by large scale and what your particular plans are. Having a BackupPC server in each of a dozen countries to back up offices of 10-50 people each probably wouldn't require anything special, while trying to back up a PC in

Re: [BackupPC-users] Installation problems: BackupPC_serverMesg hangs

2009-08-27 Thread Les Mikesell
Christoph wrote: Dear Craig, It turns out the code always tries the unix domain socket first. I used the bogus name for the sockFile method, hence: my $sockFile = $bpc-{LogDir}/BackupPC.sockNot; Now BackupPC obviously uses tcp, because after launching the BackupPC_serverMesg

Re: [BackupPC-users] Running BackupPC on a Pentium III/900 MHz

2009-08-27 Thread Tomasz Klimaszewski
2009/8/27 phil p...@backup-and-restore.de: Hello, for a small office with 2 PCs I would like to setup a samba and backup-server (using backuppc). I'm running BackupPC on three other servers (Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz). Since I have an unused Pentium III running at 900 MHz and 512 MB RAM I would

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc for large scale env

2009-08-27 Thread Chris Robertson
Brent Clark wrote: Hiya I got quite a few servers around the world that I need to backup. The question I would like to ask is, how does backuppc scale to the other backup solutions, in large environments. Also for those running backuppc for large scale environment, would you be so kind as

Re: [BackupPC-users] Starting BackupPC without using init.d scripts

2009-08-27 Thread Chris Robertson
Volker Thiel wrote: Hello everyone, I'm currently trying to install BackupPC on the QNAP TS-509 Pro NAS system. So far I managed to get through the installation and I can start the server by calling the executable as user backuppc: /path/to/installation/bin/BackupPC This call results

Re: [BackupPC-users] No emails being sent for backup failures

2009-08-27 Thread Chris Robertson
txoof wrote: Update: BackupPC sent an email this morning for the system in question. The mail was for a system that has had 16.5 days since its last backup. Is there a setting that I'm missing? Or is this controlled only by EMailNotifyMinDays? From my understanding of the documents,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Excludes not working

2009-08-27 Thread higuita
hi all Sorry, this is a little offtopic, but maybe isnt just me... On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:23:51 +0200, Koen Linders koen.lind...@koca.be wrote: [quoted text] [unquoted text] [reply] {unquoted text] [reply] this email was hard to read, there is almost no indication where

Re: [BackupPC-users] XP rsync SLOW and fails

2009-08-27 Thread Brian Bettger
Matthias, Thanks for the help. Yes my boss DOES have large active .pst files, several (2~3). Each are at or above 1.5 GB in size. Total capacity of the backup is around 25GB. I've excluded many files and folders although I would like to include the .pst files as she needs the history these

[BackupPC-users] Missing items in web interface?

2009-08-27 Thread wirehead
I've recently been installing backuppc (for the first time) on CentOS 5.3. I had to set selinux to permissive in order to get it to run - for some reason sealert doesn't exist on my system and I couldn't figure out how else to view the selinux logs to debug it. However, that's a different

Re: [BackupPC-users] Missing items in web interface?

2009-08-27 Thread Chris Robertson
wirehead wrote: I've recently been installing backuppc (for the first time) on CentOS 5.3. I had to set selinux to permissive in order to get it to run - for some reason sealert doesn't exist on my system and I couldn't figure out how else to view the selinux logs to debug it. However,

Re: [BackupPC-users] XP rsync SLOW and fails

2009-08-27 Thread Michael Stowe
Are you using VSS to ensure that the .pst files are consistent, or are they closed at the time you back them up? Matthias, Thanks for the help. Yes my boss DOES have large active .pst files, several (2~3). Each are at or above 1.5 GB in size. Total capacity of the backup is around 25GB.

[BackupPC-users] Missing items in web interface?

2009-08-27 Thread wirehead
Bah, I was being an idiot. I realized that the allowed admin users in config.pl was misspelled compared to the actual name of the admin user, so of course it didn't work. Sigh. +-- |This was sent by adrian.al...@gmail.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc for large scale env

2009-08-27 Thread Jim Leonard
Les Mikesell wrote: Usually the issue that limits performance with backuppc is disk seek time as it manages hardlinks and directories which have to be on a single file system. About the only thing you can do to improve that is to use a raid scheme that includes a lot of drives and add RAM

Re: [BackupPC-users] ftp error: xfer start failed: Can't open connection to : Invalid argument

2009-08-27 Thread Paul Mantz
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Mirco Piccinpic...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, any news about FTP Xfer method? Hello Mirco, In addition to the $args-{Host}, $t-{host} ambiguity, the ftp module is trying to print out OS errors instead of eval errors, which is causing misleading errors. Please