Re: [BackupPC-users] Documentation lagging behind the GUI

2010-10-21 Thread Craig Barratt
itismike, > Thanks Craig. Not sure what your email account is as you appear as a 'guest' > in this forum. My sourceforge name is the same as my username here. I'm not sure about your email either. You now have edit & admin privileges. Craig

[BackupPC-users] Documentation lagging behind the GUI

2010-10-21 Thread itismike
Craig Barratt wrote: > itismike, > > You need a SourceForge account. Just email your SF user name to me. > > I'd love to completely open up the wiki, but SF's MediaWiki config > doesn't allow that. Apparently spam is too much of a problem. > > If someone wants to volunteer to have admin wiki

Re: [BackupPC-users] is the rsync method encrypted by default?

2010-10-21 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 10/21 12:43 , Frank J. Gómez wrote: > I'm backing up a host with: > $Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync'; > $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root $host $rsyncPath $argList+'; > > I'm not very familiar with running commands remotely via SSH; is the whole > rsync transaction encrypted by virtue

[BackupPC-users] is the rsync method encrypted by default?

2010-10-21 Thread Frank J . Gómez
I'm backing up a host with: $Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync'; $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root $host $rsyncPath $argList+'; I'm not very familiar with running commands remotely via SSH; is the whole rsync transaction encrypted by virtue of being called this way, or are we just using SSH

Re: [BackupPC-users] Documentation lagging behind the GUI

2010-10-21 Thread Kris Lou
The Wiki would be a great place to host that CentOS/RHEL Howto that Max Hetrick originally created for the CentOS Wiki, but now is hosted/maintained by Sorin Sobu? If not, I believe I have an offline copy that I can forward to whomever has wiki access. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Thu, Oct

Re: [BackupPC-users] Documentation lagging behind the GUI

2010-10-21 Thread Craig Barratt
itismike, > > If you have something to contribute to it, please do so! > > Thanks for the perspective and the encouragement. How does one go > about requesting editor permissions on the wiki? You need a SourceForge account. Just email your SF user name to me. I'd love to completely open up th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Documentation lagging behind the GUI

2010-10-21 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 10/21 11:52 , itismike wrote: > Thanks for the perspective and the encouragement. How does one go about > requesting editor permissions on the wiki? have you created an account? if you have; then the question is beyond me. I think there's been some changes that other people know more about tha

[BackupPC-users] Documentation lagging behind the GUI

2010-10-21 Thread itismike
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > itismike, don't let me discourage you from writing doco on the GUI if you're > so inclined. A lot of people will appreciate it. > ... > ... > Fair enough. a 'quick start guide' may be appealing to a lot of people who > would like to try it out. > > There is a wiki

Re: [BackupPC-users] Documentation lagging behind the GUI

2010-10-21 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
itismike, don't let me discourage you from writing doco on the GUI if you're so inclined. A lot of people will appreciate it. On 10/21 10:19 , itismike wrote: > > > While the charm of OSS is that the code is easily accessible, I've found > > > that most of the documentation steps refer to editin

Re: [BackupPC-users] eSATA drive enclosure

2010-10-21 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Hello Chris. > > > We backup to an eSATA drive enclosure. It holds two eSATA > > drives of 1 TB each. We swap two enclosures offsite about > > twice a month. > > I may be going OT, but I'm curious about your eSATA backups: why do you > backup to eSATA drives and why do you swap them? To get

Re: [BackupPC-users] eSATA drive enclosure

2010-10-21 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello Chris. > We backup to an eSATA drive enclosure. It holds two eSATA > drives of 1 TB each. We swap two enclosures offsite about > twice a month. I may be going OT, but I'm curious about your eSATA backups: why do you backup to eSATA drives and why do you swap them? Thanks and kind regards

[BackupPC-users] Documentation lagging behind the GUI

2010-10-21 Thread itismike
Thanks for your response, Carl. I'm not trying to start a flame war over command-line vs. GUI, but I thought this was an amusing exchange: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > itismike wrote: > > While the charm of OSS is that the code is easily accessible, I've found > > that most of the docume

[BackupPC-users] Documentation lagging behind the GUI

2010-10-21 Thread itismike
Thanks for your response, Carl. I'm not trying to start a flame war over command-line vs. GUI, but I thought this was an amusing exchange: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > itismike wrote: > > While the charm of OSS is that the code is easily accessible, I've found > > that most of the docume

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is graphing available in standard BackupPC? (Was: Graph data)

2010-10-21 Thread Timothy J Massey
"Sorin Srbu" wrote on 10/21/2010 07:56:16 AM: > >-Original Message- > >From: Timothy J Massey [mailto:tmas...@obscorp.com] > > > >Rangel Caio wrote on 10/05/2010 09:07:32 AM: > > > >> Hello guys, > >> > >> I´d done a upgrade of my BackupPC to version 3.2.0 and my graphs > vanished. > >>

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is graphing available in standard BackupPC? (Was: Graph data)

2010-10-21 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: Tyler J. Wagner [mailto:ty...@tolaris.com] >Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 2:27 PM >To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Is graphing available in standard BackupPC? (Was: >Graph data) > >On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 13:56 +0200, Sorin

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is graphing available in standard BackupPC? (Was: Graph data)

2010-10-21 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 13:56 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: > >Is the graphing function now a part of vanilla BackupPC? > > Was this question ever answered to satisfaction? The 3.2.0 Debian source diffs show this: +backuppc (3.1.0-2) unstable; urgency=low + + * patched backuppc to show a nice rrdtool

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is graphing available in standard BackupPC? (Was: Graph data)

2010-10-21 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: Timothy J Massey [mailto:tmas...@obscorp.com] >Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 4:25 PM >To: General list for user discussion, questions and support >Subject: [BackupPC-users] Is graphing available in standard BackupPC? (Was: >Graph data) > >Rangel Caio wrote on 1

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3.2.0 on CentOS 5.5

2010-10-21 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: daniel [mailto:danniel...@gmail.com] >Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 1:08 PM >To: sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se; General list for user discussion, questions and >support >Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3.2.0 on CentOS 5.5 > >Hi Sorin, I've installed Backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moved system, lost graphs

2010-10-21 Thread Koen Vermeer
On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 08:33 +0100, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > Done, and documented. > http://www.tolaris.com/2010/09/06/rrdtool-this-rrd-was-created-on-other-architecture/ Cool! One thing I wonder is: If I don't care about the old graph data, can I just remove the pool.rrd file? Or do I need to rein

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3.2.0 on CentOS 5.5

2010-10-21 Thread daniel
Hi Sorin, I've installed Backuppc on centos 5.5 64 bits from sources. It works like a charm :) On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote: > Hi all, > > Seeing the threads on BPC with the graphing, I kinda' feel I'd like that > kind > of information on the BPC web page too. I today gather

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3.2.0 on CentOS 5.5

2010-10-21 Thread Sorin Srbu
Hi all, Seeing the threads on BPC with the graphing, I kinda' feel I'd like that kind of information on the BPC web page too. I today gather stats manually and occasionally with all that goes with that in terms of continuity... So, has anybody actually tried installing the BPC v3.2.0 tar.gz on

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moved system, lost graphs

2010-10-21 Thread Gerald Brandt
Ahhh! Thank-you. I'll be testing it later today. Gerald - Original Message - From: "Tyler J. Wagner" To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 2:33:21 AM Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Moved system, lost graphs On Wed, 2010-10-20

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moved system, lost graphs

2010-10-21 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 18:42 -0500, Gerald Brandt wrote: > I now switched my BackupPC server to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64 bit (a week > long process). After the move, I've lost my graphs. I'm using ext4. > What I get instead is two of the standard "broken image" gifs that > Chrome puts up when the image

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow backup

2010-10-21 Thread Andrea Visinoni
The main problem is the really first full backup that least 1859 minutes for 171511 files and 36GB! I'll try the parameter you suggested to improve the incrementals backups though. Andrea Il 14/10/2010 18.24, Tyler J. Wagner ha scritto: > What is your IncrLevels setting? I bet you a donut that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moved system, lost graphs

2010-10-21 Thread Koen Vermeer
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 18:42 -0500, Gerald Brandt wrote: > Has anyone else had issues with ext4 or a 64 bit OS and graphs? Same here. Running Debian, which contains a version of backuppc with the patch applied, on a 64 bit system. No graphs, just the broken image. However, on another system, whic