Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup never completes

2010-06-17 Thread Matthias Meyer
B. Alexander wrote: Hey, I have a single virtual host (OpenVZ) that never completes a backup. Neither incrementals nor fulls complete. I don't see any errors in the logs: 2010-06-15 18:14:19 incr backup started back to 2010-06-12 07:00:02 (backup #624) for directory /lib/modules

Re: [BackupPC-users] Retrieve the proper incremental level

2010-06-17 Thread Matthias Meyer
Inno wrote: Hello, I use incremental level (1,2,3,4 correspond to Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday). But Wednesday and Thursday have bugged last week.It stopped at level 2. Am I required to reactivate two incremental to retrieve the proper level? Thanks. The incremental level

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd, Parent read EOF from child

2010-06-17 Thread Matthias Meyer
Alexander Moisseev wrote: I have BackupPC configured to backup several directories on the same server as different BackupPC hosts. It works without a problem more than 2 years. But now backup of one directory interrupts during transfer when it still works normally for other ones. There are

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd, Parent read EOF from child

2010-06-17 Thread Alexander Moisseev
Matthias Meyer wrote: So it is very interesting that it does work with cygwin-rsyncd-2.6.8_0, Windows Server 2003 Std R2. I have no problem with one at all. Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely) means that your cygwin-rsyncd die. You should increase log verbosity on

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd, Parent read EOF from child

2010-06-17 Thread Les Mikesell
Alexander Moisseev wrote: Matthias Meyer wrote: So it is very interesting that it does work with cygwin-rsyncd-2.6.8_0, Windows Server 2003 Std R2. I have no problem with one at all. Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely) means that your cygwin-rsyncd die. You should

[BackupPC-users] File restore integrity

2010-06-17 Thread Jonathan Schaeffer
Hi all, I'm administrating a BackupPC server and I'm concerned about the security of the whole system. I configured the linux clients as unpriviledged users doing sudos for rsyncs to limit the risk of intrusion from the backupPC server to the clients as described in the FAQ :

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc over zfs

2010-06-17 Thread Mario Giammarco
Hello, I have 200 giga of backuppc backups in a partition. I have told backuppc to use compression. Now (as a crazy test) I would like to move all pool data in another partition that is zfs formatted. But I would like to uncompress the backuppc files while I move them in the zfs partition. How

Re: [BackupPC-users] File restore integrity

2010-06-17 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Jonathan Schaeffer wrote at about 16:29:19 +0200 on Thursday, June 17, 2010: Hi all, I'm administrating a BackupPC server and I'm concerned about the security of the whole system. I configured the linux clients as unpriviledged users doing sudos for rsyncs to limit the risk

Re: [BackupPC-users] File restore integrity

2010-06-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/17/2010 9:29 AM, Jonathan Schaeffer wrote: Hi all, I'm administrating a BackupPC server and I'm concerned about the security of the whole system. It is based on controlling access to root and the backuppc user on the server. I don't see a way around that. I configured the linux

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd, Parent read EOF from child

2010-06-17 Thread Alexander Moisseev
Les Mikesell wrote: Are you running a 64-bit perl on the server? I think it consumes much more memory than a 32 bit instance would. No, my hardware have no support 64-bit at all. -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team