[BackupPC-users] archive host questions

2010-03-07 Thread Gerald Brandt
Hi, I've been trying to automate archive (from iSCSI to USB drive) for offsite backups. Last Fridays ran fine (but took almost 20 hours). This Fridays failed at exactly 1200 minutes in, by a SIGALRM. Is there a time limit on archives? The backups are only 282 GB total (written to USB drive) o

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pool size is small but disk is full

2010-03-07 Thread Andrew Grieve
Well, it looks like running Backuppc_link went and cleaned everything up. I did get a bunch of: log BackupPC_link got error -3 when calling MakeFileLink(..) errors, but the files its complaining about seem to exist, so I think it went fine. Andrew On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Andrew Grieve w

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using ssh and rsync for Windows

2010-03-07 Thread Trey Nolen
Gerald Brandt wrote: Hi, I'm trying to speed up my backups a bit by switching from smb based backups to rsync based backups on Windows. On my Windows 2003 Server, I install cygwin with cygrunsrv, openssh, and rsync, and it all seems to work. My issue is that BackupPC wants to log in as '

[BackupPC-users] Using ssh and rsync for Windows

2010-03-07 Thread Gerald Brandt
Hi, I'm trying to speed up my backups a bit by switching from smb based backups to rsync based backups on Windows. On my Windows 2003 Server, I install cygwin with cygrunsrv, openssh, and rsync, and it all seems to work. My issue is that BackupPC wants to log in as 'root' to do the backup,