Hi,
Is there a way to configure BackupPC to do full backups only during
weekends (starting on Fri evening for example)?
Best regards,
Peter
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You could just reduce the numbers of backups that you retain, and BackupPC
will clean out the old ones.
The bsd partition is 99%, and I need to remove some backup data, not
needed any more? How can I do that? Any suggestions would be more than
welcome.
Thanks in advance
Chris Andreou
As many know, I use rsync in DumpPreUserCmd to run my shadowmountrsync
routine on the remote client. This routine has many legitimate reasons
for not returning success.
However, the backuppc log often shows on failure:
2009-11-24 11:00:04 DumpPreUserCmd returned error status
Vince Tingey wrote at about 09:58:39 -0800 on Monday, November 23, 2009:
Hello Everyone,
We have been using BackupPC for about 2 years now and its great for
doing file level backups! However for doing a bare metal restore we had
to first restore from an offline system image of
Les Mikesell wrote:
Bowie Bailey wrote:
I do the shutdown for two reasons:
1) My system partition lives on the raid as well as the data, so I have
to shut down to keep everything consistent.
2) My sata controller doesn't recognize hot swaps as far as I have been
able to determine.
Bowie Bailey wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
Bowie Bailey wrote:
I do the shutdown for two reasons:
1) My system partition lives on the raid as well as the data, so I have
to shut down to keep everything consistent.
2) My sata controller doesn't recognize hot swaps as far as I have been
Thanks Matthias,
I looked over it but i don't know how to call these commands, the only thing
that i figured out is that the commands are:
if called from windows
shutdown /s /f /m \\clientcomputername
and called from linux:
net rpc shutdown -t 10 -f -C Shut Down message -W DOMAINNAME -U
Pursuing your suggestion when I executed ssh -l root -T remote
/bin/true I was greeted with stdin: is not a tty.
My googling resulted in
http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/10/13/stdin-is-not-a-tty/
which indicates that the culprit is apparently mesg y in /etc/bashrc.
After commenting out mesg
Hi Jeff,
I'm very interested in this topic since I have been spending a lot of
time developing my shadowmountrsync routines which attempt to
automate the backup part of your approach outlined above. So far I
have robustly implemented startup of shadows and backup of acls (using
subinacl
Hi,
What exactly is the difference between __TOPDIR__ and $Conf{TopDir}? It
seems the former one is set at compile time, while the other is clearly
a configuration file option, but how do these work combined? For
example, many of the instructions seem to tell you to make a mount bind
for the
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:32:09PM +0100, Koen Vermeer wrote:
What exactly is the difference between __TOPDIR__ and $Conf{TopDir}? It
seems the former one is set at compile time, while the other is clearly
a configuration file option, but how do these work combined? For
example, many of the
PS: Maybe there should be a prominent note just at the $Config{TopDir}
setting in config.pl? And a like to the wiki article?
Tino.
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I agree - almost every newbie that picks up BackupPC makes this
mistake - the more experienced you are with old-school config files
the MORE likely you are to assume changing this is all you need to do.
A note in the docs and/or a link to the how to change your TOP DIR
page would fix a huge
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:49:37PM -0500, Steve wrote:
I agree - almost every newbie that picks up BackupPC makes this
mistake - the more experienced you are with old-school config files
the MORE likely you are to assume changing this is all you need to do.
A note in the docs and/or a link to
Chris Bennett wrote at about 08:35:31 +1030 on Wednesday, November 25, 2009:
Hi Jeff,
I'm very interested in this topic since I have been spending a lot of
time developing my shadowmountrsync routines which attempt to
automate the backup part of your approach outlined above. So far I
Pieter Wuille wrote:
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:49:37PM -0500, Steve wrote:
I agree - almost every newbie that picks up BackupPC makes this
mistake - the more experienced you are with old-school config files
the MORE likely you are to assume changing this is all you need to do.
A note in the
Chris Bennett wrote at about 08:35:31 +1030 on Wednesday, November 25, 2009:
Hi Jeff,
I'm very interested in this topic since I have been spending a lot of
time developing my shadowmountrsync routines which attempt to
automate the backup part of your approach outlined above. So far I
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
One problem with ntfsclone is that as written, you need to run it from
Linux and mount the drive... but conceptually the idea of having
another program to back up the metada byte-by-byte while using the
pooling of BackupPC to save the file data sounds like the
Hi all,
So here's my backup scenario. I have one host with about 1.5TB of files,
split into two major directories (and into many subdirectories thereafter).
There's about 370,000 files per major directory. I need to do
full/incremental backups of this host. Under normal conditions, I can get
Hi there,
Can anybody suggest some intelligent solutions for doing this? How can I
speed up rsync / set it to use less CPU? I searched for some solutions, but
everyone talks about limiting rsync _transfer_ speed, which is hardly the
issue here - I'm backing up over a cable modem, heh.
Any
Les Mikesell wrote:
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
One problem with ntfsclone is that as written, you need to run it from
Linux and mount the drive... but conceptually the idea of having
another program to back up the metada byte-by-byte while using the
pooling of BackupPC to save the file
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Hi all,
So here's my backup scenario. I have one host with about 1.5TB of files,
split into two major directories (and into many subdirectories
thereafter). There's about 370,000 files per major directory. I need
to do full/incremental
Hi,
Thanks for the reply. The data is, in fact, all time in the sense that it
goes back years, but it's sorted by filename, rather than date; it's
essentially equivalent to how BackupPC stores data in cpool/, i.e. the first
3 characters of the filename will generate 3 levels of subdirectories.
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GB wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for the reply. The data is, in fact, all time in the sense that
it goes back years, but it's sorted by filename, rather than date; it's
essentially equivalent to how BackupPC stores data in cpool/, i.e. the
first 3
Hi,
Thanks for the reply. The data is, in fact, all time in the sense that it
goes back years, but it's sorted by filename, rather than date; it's
essentially equivalent to how BackupPC stores data in cpool/, i.e. the first
3 characters of the filename will generate 3 levels of
Thanks Chris. I will give it a shot and see if I can make it behave in any
way... was hoping for a bit of a magic bullet, I suppose :)
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Chris Bennett ch...@ceegeebee.com wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for the reply. The data is, in fact, all time in the sense that
it
Have been meaning to jump in on this conversation, but anyway, better
late than never...
Definitely, given the additional information you've contributed.. :)
Each night, we run a script which does the following (on the backuppc
server, the live server is only accessed by backuppc - rsyncd
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Chris Bennett wrote:
Each night, we run a script which does the following (on the backuppc
server, the live server is only accessed by backuppc - rsyncd for backups):
1) Make sure the windows 'cdrive' is not mounted
2) restore the partimage file
Sounds good, I'd be happier to have someone else able to replicate my
work, and if you sort out the permissions part it would also be nice to
incorporate that also.
Excellent - thanks for the additional information. I'll communicate
back any test results and perhaps we'll be closer to
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:32:14PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
I agree - almost every newbie that picks up BackupPC makes this
mistake - the more experienced you are with old-school config files
the MORE likely you are to assume changing this is all you need to do.
A note in the docs
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