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 openSUSE

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

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 network

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] Tar exited...

2010-02-16 Thread Michael Kuss
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Stefan Jurisch s.juri...@siegnetz.dewrote: -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

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 in

[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

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 unused

[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] 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

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 concern