Re: [BackupPC-users] SMB Restore Issues - Trailing slashes reversed

Craig Connoll wrote: > Hi all. > > I have backuppc installed and working as I want it too but I have an > issue when trying to restore a windows backup. > > All permissions are correct and no failures except when restoring to a > window machines. > > I think the problem is the trailing slashes.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow link options

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > One way would be to initially set up the new server backup with a > clientalias > setting pointing to the local copy. Then after you have a full, remove the > clientalias or change it to the real target. > > But, mv'ing the directories shoul

Re: [BackupPC-users] incremental backup question

>> I use backuppc on a Debian Linux 5.0 server for backing up another >> Debian Linux 5.0 server over the internet with tar over ssh. >> The first full backup is created succesfully but the incremental backups >> alway make full backup. What could be the reason of this? >> > > Are you going by the

Re: [BackupPC-users] incremental backup question

Hi, Mester wrote on 2009-12-19 21:49:58 +0100 [[BackupPC-users] incremental backup question]: > I use backuppc on a Debian Linux 5.0 server for backing up another > Debian Linux 5.0 server over the internet with tar over ssh. > The first full backup is created succesfully but the incremental bac

Re: [BackupPC-users] incremental backup question

Mester wrote: >>> I use backuppc on a Debian Linux 5.0 server for backing up another >>> Debian Linux 5.0 server over the internet with tar over ssh. >>> The first full backup is created succesfully but the incremental backups >>> alway make full backup. What could be the reason of this? >>> >> Are

[BackupPC-users] What's the best place to add 'nice' to backups?

Given that my home server is a bit underpowered and used for other things, I would like to nice backups to run at lower priority. Is the best place just to prepend 'nice -n' to the beginning of $Conf{RsyncClientCmd}? (assuming I am using rsync method). More generally, it might be a nice feature t

Re: [BackupPC-users] What's the best place to add 'nice' to backups?

Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Given that my home server is a bit underpowered and used for other things, > I would like to nice backups to run at lower priority. > > Is the best place just to prepend 'nice -n' to the beginning of > $Conf{RsyncClientCmd}? (assuming I am using rsync method). > > Mor

Re: [BackupPC-users] What's the best place to add 'nice' to backups?

Here's what I use. It makes niceness 90 and sets disk priority to idle. $sshPath -q -x -l root $host /usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/bin/ionice -c3 $rsyncPath $argList+ On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > Given that my home server is a bit underpowere

[BackupPC-users] Restoring the BackupPC Server?

My BackupPC server contains a 80 GB system drive that contains Ubuntu the BackupPC software, etc... It also has a 2 TB array of drives that hold the actual backed up data. The system drive crashed a few days ago. I replaced it, and reinstalled Ubuntu and BackupPC. After reinstalling, I went into

[BackupPC-users] strange ssh error

I've setup a new backuppc server on my main workstation which is a FC12. Everything look fine except I can't backup my workstation as ssh, keep asking root password. I've followed the BackupPC FAQ: SSH Setup for this workstation and a remote machine FC9. No problem with the remote machine which

[BackupPC-users] FIXED: Re: Restoring the BackupPC Server?

Please disregard my message. Turns out I still had bad permissions under $topdir/pc/* and that affected reading the $topdir/pc/some.machine.tld/backups file. -A On 2009-12-20 at 21:39:10 -0800, Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote: > My BackupPC server contains a 80 GB system drive that contains > Ubuntu the