Re: [BackupPC-users] Best pool cloning technique

2009-11-20 Thread Les Mikesell
Bowie Bailey wrote: > Alexander Fortin wrote: >> What do you suggest as a physical storage architecture with an off-site >> weekly clone? Maybe RAID1 with 2 disks as master and a spare one, to >> synchronize now and then? Or maybe is better something like a RAID1 with >> 2 disks and then some (r

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best pool cloning technique

2009-11-20 Thread Bowie Bailey
Alexander Fortin wrote: > What do you suggest as a physical storage architecture with an off-site > weekly clone? Maybe RAID1 with 2 disks as master and a spare one, to > synchronize now and then? Or maybe is better something like a RAID1 with > 2 disks and then some (r)sync tool to get the clon

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best pool cloning technique

2009-11-20 Thread Christian Völker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRBD Oh yes, I tried this as well. Works only if your connection to the remote site is fast enough. Otherwise you'd need to purchase the drdb proxy for some hundred bucks. And additionally: drdb is not a backup, it'

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best pool cloning technique

2009-11-20 Thread Shawn Perry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRBD 2009/11/20 Christian Völker : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > >> I've been actually wondering what's the best way to keep a clone of the >> pool directory, because I want to do an off-site copy now and then. > Welcome. This is one of th

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync clients run out of memory

2009-11-20 Thread Andrew Libby
Hi Richard, Richard Hansen wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> Richard Hansen wrote: >>> Apparently not -- both of my clients already have rsync 3.0.5 installed, >>> yet rsync is causing them to run out of memory. The clients have 4 to 6 >>> million (largely redundant) files each. It appears tha

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best pool cloning technique

2009-11-20 Thread Christian Völker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, > I've been actually wondering what's the best way to keep a clone of the > pool directory, because I want to do an off-site copy now and then. Welcome. This is one of the most discussed topics in this list... > What do you suggest as a physical

[BackupPC-users] Best pool cloning technique

2009-11-20 Thread Alexander Fortin
Hi everybody. I've been using BackupPC for more then 1 year here in office for my small business and this is the very first post on this ML, and that because I'm very happy with the product: so far I had no problem at all, nor today. I've been actually wondering what's the best way to keep a cl

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and ldap auth

2009-11-20 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Friday 20 Nov 2009 15:24:04 ludovic cavalier wrote: > I did not find any idea to deal with this. > apache mod_ldap can not bind to ldap directory using email adress. > > Is there any way to solve this problem ? Something like "if uid bind is > ok, get email user adress to match his machine" ?

[BackupPC-users] backuppc and ldap auth

2009-11-20 Thread ludovic cavalier
hi, Can you help me with ldap authentification and the way packuppc deals with it. Ldap auth with ldap uid works fine. Exp : user djoe can bind to ldap using its uid(djoe)/password and then get information about his machine, associated with djoe user. My problem is about email reminders. Back

Re: [BackupPC-users] Sudden Error during backup

2009-11-20 Thread Stefan Jurisch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Les, sorry for waiting so long with my answer, but work did slow me down a little bit. Les Mikesell schrieb: > It is actually a bit hard to duplicate the command exactly since backuppc > passes > the credentials in the environment so you don'

Re: [BackupPC-users] Sudden Error during backup

2009-11-20 Thread Stefan Jurisch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Michael, sorry for waiting so long with my answer, but work did slow me down a little bit. Michael Stowe schrieb: > Bizarre! You're saying that the command line works when you run it, but > the exact same command line fails when run by backupp