Re: [BackupPC-users] Days since last backup is wrong

2010-06-01 Thread Craig Barratt
Marcelino writes: > Backupps file says this: > > 0 partial 1275390002 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 smb 0 3.1.0 Somehow an incomplete backups file got written. The 4th field is the end time, which is 0 in this case. Since no files we backed up I'd recommend removing the "0" directory and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows registry restore

2010-06-01 Thread Gerald Brandt
Excellent, thank-you. I'll try this with Server 2003 this week. Gerald - "Michael Stowe" wrote: > I actually did this recently, and it's documented here: > http://www.goodjobsucking.com/?p=219 > > If you just want to restore a few registry keys, the procedure is > here: > http://www.goodj

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC file system full, best way to recover?

2010-06-01 Thread James Ward
For anyone else having this problem, this is exactly what I did. The NAS recently mounted was always mounted as /tbms, so: r...@kw157:/var/lib/backuppc/pc$ /etc/init.d/backuppc stop r...@kw157:/var/lib/backuppc/pc$ ls -d */*/f???/ftbms | xargs rm -rf /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 25

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC file system full, best way to recover?

2010-06-01 Thread James Ward
Thanks, this looks perfect! On Jun 1, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:46 PM, James Ward wrote: >> Recently, a new NAS was mounted on several servers and the BackupPC >> filesystem filled before I got the new NAS excluded. What's the best way to >> g

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC file system full, best way to recover?

2010-06-01 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:46 PM, James Ward wrote: > Recently, a new NAS was mounted on several servers and the BackupPC > filesystem filled before I got the new NAS excluded.  What's the best way to > get BackupPC moving again.  It's 100% full. I know there are more elaborate ways to do this, b

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC file system full, best way to recover?

2010-06-01 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:46 PM, James Ward wrote: > Recently, a new NAS was mounted on several servers and the BackupPC > filesystem filled before I got the new NAS excluded.  What's the best way to > get BackupPC moving again.  It's 100% full. I'm not an experienced BackupPC user or manager of

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows registry restore

2010-06-01 Thread Michael Stowe
I actually did this recently, and it's documented here: http://www.goodjobsucking.com/?p=219 If you just want to restore a few registry keys, the procedure is here: http://www.goodjobsucking.com/?p=172 > Hi, > > I have BackupPC backing up Windows C: drive using cygwin 1.7/ssh/rsync and > vss. It

[BackupPC-users] Windows registry restore

2010-06-01 Thread Gerald Brandt
Hi, I have BackupPC backing up Windows C: drive using cygwin 1.7/ssh/rsync and vss. It works like a charm. My question is, now that I have a clean backup of drive C:, how can I restore the registry if I need to? My thoughts are for disaster recovery. I can re-install the OS, and do a full

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC file system full, best way to recover?

2010-06-01 Thread James Ward
Recently, a new NAS was mounted on several servers and the BackupPC filesystem filled before I got the new NAS excluded. What's the best way to get BackupPC moving again. It's 100% full. Thanks in advance, James -- _

Re: [BackupPC-users] restore file attributes

2010-06-01 Thread Matteo Sgalaberni
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 03:56:00PM +0200, Matteo Sgalaberni wrote: > Hi, > > do you know if there are ways to restore file attributes (uid/gid, > permissions) fetching file attributes from BackupPC? I will reply to myself...I hope that this will be useful for someone else ... First export a list

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc - archive without using tar

2010-06-01 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Paso wrote: > > Hi there, > > actually I use Backuppc to backup several Windows- and Linux-Hosts on my > local network which works quite well. Now I'm planning to store snapshots of > several hosts data outside my house for security reasons. > That means: I'd like

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc performing 2 backups a night

2010-06-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/1/2010 10:32 AM, plight wrote: > > I have 5 test hosts configured and my post dump scripts run perfectly. So it > is in fact backing up the data. > > My problem is it runs twice. It will run once at 1am and then again at 2am. > I cant for the life of me figure out why it is doing this. A

Re: [BackupPC-users] speed up backups

2010-06-01 Thread Chris Dennis
On 01/06/10 14:41, Les Mikesell wrote: > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: >> On 05/30 04:12 , Michael Stowe wrote: >>> It's generally slower, so I'm going to go with "no" on this one. >> >> > From the tests I've seen, ext2 is notably faster than ext3. Not doing >> journaling does make a difference. >

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc performing 2 backups a night

2010-06-01 Thread plight
I have 5 test hosts configured and my post dump scripts run perfectly. So it is in fact backing up the data. My problem is it runs twice. It will run once at 1am and then again at 2am. I cant for the life of me figure out why it is doing this. Am I missing a setting? The did reroute ping

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc - archive without using tar

2010-06-01 Thread Paso
Hi there, actually I use Backuppc to backup several Windows- and Linux-Hosts on my local network which works quite well. Now I'm planning to store snapshots of several hosts data outside my house for security reasons. That means: I'd like to copy the recent data-snapshot of a backuppc-host to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Days since last backup is wrong

2010-06-01 Thread Marcelino Mata
> > 14760 days ago is approximately 1970, which is 0 in unix time. > So perhaps a 0 ended up in the backups file for that host. > > Was it ever hand edited? I did do upgrade of O/S after image creation so my original backuppc computer is running Backuppc 3.1.0-6ubuntu4 and new one is running

Re: [BackupPC-users] Days since last backup is wrong

2010-06-01 Thread Craig Barratt
Marcelino writes: > The message is from "/usr/share/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Lang/en.pm." and > says something like this: > "Your PC (user) has not been successfully backed up for 14760.2 days." > > I noticed the message comes from $days but I can't figure out how it's > calculating it wrong... 147

[BackupPC-users] ? Error in Server Log file "could not connect to database"

2010-06-01 Thread Michael Blank
Hi @, what is the interpretation of the Error: "Could not connect to database" in the server log file ( /var/lib/backuppc/log/LOG )? The backups seem o.k., however this error is listed 5 times per hour in the server log. (I'm backing up 3 Linux machines with rsync and 1 Windows client (with cy

Re: [BackupPC-users] speed up backups

2010-06-01 Thread Les Mikesell
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 05/30 04:12 , Michael Stowe wrote: >> It's generally slower, so I'm going to go with "no" on this one. > >>From the tests I've seen, ext2 is notably faster than ext3. Not doing > journaling does make a difference. > > If you wanted to speed up ext3; you can put

Re: [BackupPC-users] speed up backups

2010-06-01 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 05/30 04:12 , Michael Stowe wrote: > It's generally slower, so I'm going to go with "no" on this one. >From the tests I've seen, ext2 is notably faster than ext3. Not doing journaling does make a difference. If you wanted to speed up ext3; you can put the journal on a separate device (even an