[BackupPC-users] adding default exclude list to all your share/host

2009-09-06 Thread ADNET Ghislain
hello, I was searching for a way to add default exclude list to all my share backuped. For this i wrote this little piece of code and just added a do '/etc/Backuppc/defaultexclude'; in my backuped hosts config at the end. Of course this is not showing in the cgi frontend. Here is the

Re: [BackupPC-users] periodically e2fsck the device /var/lib/backuppc

2009-09-06 Thread Matthias Meyer
Chris Robertson wrote: Matthias Meyer wrote: Hello, I plan to periodically e2fsck my /var/lib/backuppc. I want to write a bash script which check if BackupPC_dump is running. If not, it will stop backuppc, unmount the device and run e2fsck -fp $device What is about BackupPC_link? Should

Re: [BackupPC-users] periodically e2fsck the device /var/lib/backuppc

2009-09-06 Thread Michael Stowe
By the way, what's the point of doing this? Are your drives unreliable? Chris Robertson wrote: Matthias Meyer wrote: Hello, I plan to periodically e2fsck my /var/lib/backuppc. I want to write a bash script which check if BackupPC_dump is running. If not, it will stop backuppc, unmount

Re: [BackupPC-users] Merge config in per-host config?

2009-09-06 Thread Les Mikesell
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Craig Barratt wrote at about 20:54:50 -0700 on Friday, September 4, 2009: Davide, The basic problem with putting perl expressions in the config file (to make settings cumulative) is that it isn't compatible with the CGI config editor. The config editor

Re: [BackupPC-users] Merge config in per-host config?

2009-09-06 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Les Mikesell wrote at about 11:14:40 -0500 on Sunday, September 6, 2009: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Craig Barratt wrote at about 20:54:50 -0700 on Friday, September 4, 2009: Davide, The basic problem with putting perl expressions in the config file (to make settings

Re: [BackupPC-users] Merge config in per-host config?

2009-09-06 Thread Les Mikesell
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Or - perhaps the web interface could permit specifying the name of another file to evaluate either after or instead of the main config file where values that apply to a set of machines could be maintained. That still leaves merging array values as

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC

2009-09-06 Thread Ski Kacoroski
Hi, I am giving a tutorial on BackupPC at LISA this year (http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa09/) and would love to hear from folks about things they would like to learn if they took a BackupPC class. I am particularly interested in things that caused an Ah that is how it works moment when you

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tuning for disk contention

2009-09-06 Thread higuita
Hi On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 18:52:35 -0600, dan danden...@gmail.com wrote: the perfect max load should be the number of cpus you have, so a quad-core server can sustain a load of 4 without any problem... after that number, the higher the load, the higher will be the

[BackupPC-users] problem : No files dumped for share C $

2009-09-06 Thread baradoss
Hello, I try to set up backuppc as backup and restore my server, I installed it on my backuppc machine running Debian and I configure ssh to not ask password root of the machine back up. but whenever I try to start a backup from web interface, that it gives me the following error:

Re: [BackupPC-users] periodically e2fsck the device /var/lib/backuppc

2009-09-06 Thread higuita
Hi On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 08:17:42 -0500, Michael Stowe mst...@chicago.us.mensa.org wrote: By the way, what's the point of doing this? Are your drives unreliable? even worst... why are you using ext3? ever think in switching to reiserfs, xfs or jfs? they should perform

Re: [BackupPC-users] problem : No files dumped for share C $

2009-09-06 Thread higuita
On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:38:10 -0400, baradoss backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Hello, I try to set up backuppc as backup and restore my server, I installed it on my backuppc machine running Debian and I configure ssh to not ask password root of the machine back up.

[BackupPC-users] just one email

2009-09-06 Thread higuita
Hi all i'm having a small problem... i'm the user for almost all machines and when i have one with no backups, i get one email warning about it... everything perfect... but when i have more than one machine without backups, i still only get one email.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which FS? (was: Keeping servers in sync)

2009-09-06 Thread higuita
hi Now the typically circumstance is that if you copy 1000 files during a backup, those files will likely be accessed someone in sequence when you want to retrieve the files or whatever. The problem is that some of the files are physically located somewhere else on the disk due to the

Re: [BackupPC-users] just one email

2009-09-06 Thread Stephen Joyce
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, higuita wrote: but when i have more than one machine without backups, i still only get one email. is there any limit to the number of emails one user can receive? My installation does exactly the same thing. It's a bug. I reported it a year or so ago,