Re: [BackupPC-users] experiences with very large pools?

2010-02-16 Thread Chris Robertson
Ralf Gross wrote: > Hi, > > I'm faced with the growing storage demands in my department. In the > near future we will need several hundred TB. Mostly large files. ATM > we already have 80 TB of data with gets backed up to tape. > > Providing the primary storage is not the big problem. My biggest >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Trying to get backuppc working

2010-02-16 Thread Will Sani
I'm guessing you've seen this? http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=FAQ_installat ion Will -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing a

[BackupPC-users] Trying to get backuppc working

2010-02-16 Thread bobwdn
I had similar issues and found a how to at Howtoforge.com that works well. It solved the issues I was having and it may help you. Go to howtoforge.com and search "karmic, backuppc' and you should find it. Good luck. +-- |This

Re: [BackupPC-users] Encrypting BackupPC TopDir

2010-02-16 Thread Les Mikesell
tribat wrote: > Well the thing is I already have a RAID-5 array set up without LVM. It's just > one huge ext3 filesystem, and thats the way I like it. I don't really like > the idea of splitting the available disk space cause I like having one > massive filesystem that can offer me all the unuse

[BackupPC-users] Encrypting BackupPC TopDir

2010-02-16 Thread tribat
Well the thing is I already have a RAID-5 array set up without LVM. It's just one huge ext3 filesystem, and thats the way I like it. I don't really like the idea of splitting the available disk space cause I like having one massive filesystem that can offer me all the unused space on the device

Re: [BackupPC-users] Encrypting BackupPC TopDir

2010-02-16 Thread Pieter Wuille
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 04:32:41PM -0500, tribat wrote: > > Would be cool to get the BackupPC TopDir on an encrypted container so I could > backup machines that are running an encrypted OS. > > I found out that dm_crypt can be used between a loop mounted FS container to > encrypt all the data

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar exited...

2010-02-16 Thread Michael Kuss
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Stefan Jurisch wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi there, > > Am 15.02.2010 19:24, schrieb Les Mikesell: > > A google search on that error shows some hits in several Linux > distributions but > > it looks like a bug that has been fixed.

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC not cleaning out cpool.

2010-02-16 Thread Joseph Holland
@Matthias strangely, indeed. du delivers a roughly estimation, not an exact value. But we are speaking about 140GB vs 540GB. 1) "du" and GUI use the same directory? I have /var/lib/backuppc and not /var/data/backuppc. 2) There are no extra files from you on your /var/data/backuppc? I don't know

Re: [BackupPC-users] Check-if-alive-pings alternatives

2010-02-16 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: Matthias Meyer [mailto:matthias.me...@gmx.li] >Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:35 PM >To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Check-if-alive-pings alternatives > >Sorin Srbu wrote: >> Short of making the router visible on the n

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring files without backuppc

2010-02-16 Thread Craig Barratt
Huw Wyn writes: > I'm loosing it here Les :( OK, if I understood what you meant correctly, > something like: > > /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_zipCreate -c 4 -h fshac1 -n 530 -s > /home/hefinw > /backup/hefin.zip > > should work. Given the location of the directory > (/backup/data/pc/fshac

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar exited...

2010-02-16 Thread Stefan Jurisch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, Am 15.02.2010 19:24, schrieb Les Mikesell: > A google search on that error shows some hits in several Linux distributions > but > it looks like a bug that has been fixed. Is the system where it happens up > to date? Wow - it's an openSU