Re: [BackupPC-users] Cant find how to set what is backed up!

2009-10-21 Thread Daniel Berteaud
Le mardi 20 octobre 2009 à 19:23 -0400, giorgio p a écrit : I'm trying to get backuppc configured. I thought I had done the required setup... In the /etc/backuppc/config.pl file I have: $Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync'; $Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['/home/storage','/home/george']; In the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Cant find how to set what is backed up!

2009-10-21 Thread Andrew Schulman
Le mardi 20 octobre 2009 à 19:23 -0400, giorgio p a écrit : I'm trying to get backuppc configured. I thought I had done the required setup... In the /etc/backuppc/config.pl file I have: $Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync'; $Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['/home/storage','/home/george']; In

Re: [BackupPC-users] [virt-tools-list] pre/post backup script for KVM guests

2009-10-21 Thread Daniel Berteaud
Le mercredi 21 octobre 2009 à 11:56 +0300, Nikolai K. Bochev a écrit : Hello Daniel. Hi I have one question - does BackupPC backup sparse files correctly ? Well, I'm not sure, I never tried. But before BackupPC (which is quite independant from this script, even if I wrote it with BackupPC

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to have 1 full backup + incrementals forever?

2009-10-21 Thread Adam Williams
Tyler J. Wagner wrote: $Conf{FullPeriod} = '6.97'; $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = [ '4', '3', '4' ]; That is 4 weeks, then 3 period of 2 weeks, then 4 periods of 4 weeks. But if you want just want dailies for 5 years, the settings would be: $Conf{FullPeriod} = '6.97'; $Conf{FullKeepCnt} =

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to have 1 full backup + incrementals forever?

2009-10-21 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Wednesday 21 October 2009 15:11:41 Adam Williams wrote: If I wanted to change my schedule so that I'd keep 6 weeks of dailies, 8 weeks of 2 week periods, 13 periods of 4 weeks, 0 8 weeks, 16 of 16 weeks, and delete them after they age 1825 days, then all i'd need to do is change

[BackupPC-users] Backup aborted (Too many smbtar errors (50001))

2009-10-21 Thread Pat Rice
hi ya I have just getting a back up server going but the problem is that I am getting the follwoing error (Backup aborted (Too many smbtar errors (50001))). I'm not seeing this in docmentation, but I am seeing some reports of this in some mailing groups. anyone got any ideas about this.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup aborted (Too many smbtar errors (50001))

2009-10-21 Thread Craig Barratt
Pat writes: I have just getting a back up server going but the problem is that I am getting the follwoing error (Backup aborted (Too many smbtar errors (50001))). I'm not seeing this in docmentation, but I am seeing some reports of this in some mailing groups. anyone got any ideas about

Re: [BackupPC-users] Cant find how to set what is backed up!

2009-10-21 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Andrew Schulman wrote on 2009-10-21 05:49:59 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Cant find how to set what is backed up!]: Le mardi 20 octobre 2009 à 19:23 -0400, giorgio p a écrit : I'm trying to get backuppc configured. I thought I had done the required setup... In the

[BackupPC-users] Cant find how to set what is backed up!

2009-10-21 Thread giorgio p
Thanks for the replies. Here are the relevant permissions in the /home directory: drwxr-x--- 7 backuppc backuppc 4096 2009-10-20 00:07 backuppc drwxr-xr-x 12 george users 4096 2009-10-20 14:56 george drwxrwxrwt 10 root users 4096 2009-10-18 20:48 storage Everyone would appear to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Cant find how to set what is backed up!

2009-10-21 Thread Andrew Schulman
Here are the permissions on the /etc/backuppc directory: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 414 2007-02-07 07:46 apache.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 2009-10-19 23:26 config.pl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2238 2007-02-07 07:46 hosts -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-10-19 22:19 htgroup -rw-r--r-- 1

Re: [BackupPC-users] Cant find how to set what is backed up!

2009-10-21 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, giorgio p wrote on 2009-10-21 16:25:54 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Cant find how to set what is backed up!]: Thanks for the replies. did you read them? I'm wondering if I have missed something more basic... Yes, you did. Let me rephrase my previous reply. Here are the permissions on

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd resume of partial backup retransmits many files

2009-10-21 Thread Harald Amtmann
debian linux running BackupPC 3.1.0, client is Windows XP SP2 with rsync 3.0.4 (for more details see below). When I retrigger the full backup, a lot of large files are retransmitted Update: All files are retransmitted: This is a log excerpt of the pc being backuped: 2009/10/22 02:16:00