Re: [BackupPC-users] Am I going about this wrong?

2010-11-10 Thread gregwm
> > > i've used rsync -qPHSa with some success. however, if you have lots of > > links, and not terribly much memory, rsync gobbles memory in proportion > to > > how many hardlinks it's trying to match up. so, ironically, i use > > storebackup to make an offsite copy of my backuppc volume. > > Is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Wierd backup problem

2010-11-10 Thread Craig Barratt
B., For some reason the existing partial is causing some problem with the next backup. I'd recommend setting $Conf{PartialAgeMax} to 0. That will cause partials to still be kept, but they will be ignored by the next backup. Craig

Re: [BackupPC-users] Got fatal error during xfer (Total bytes written: 640049664)

2010-11-10 Thread Guillaume Filion
Hello Craig, It's been a while, I hope you're doing well. I ran the smbclient command directly and it looks like a problem with accented chars in Samba. On each problematic client, the last file backuped contains an accented char "Voisinage réseau" (Network Places) and it confuses smbclient. --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Am I going about this wrong?

2010-11-10 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 2:53 PM, gregwm wrote: >> I'm archiving the BackupPC backup folder (/var/lib/BackupPC) folder to >> external disk with rsync. >> >> However, it looks like rsync is filling the links? >> >> My total disk usage on the backup server is 407g, and the space used on >> the externa

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to stop starting new backup jobs?

2010-11-10 Thread Luis Paulo
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 16:16, Luis Paulo wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 07:43, Pavel Hofman wrote: >> >> Luis Paulo napsal(a): >>> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:19, Pavel Hofman wrote: Hi, Is there a way to tell backuppc to finish the currently running backup jobs and not to s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Wierd backup problem

2010-11-10 Thread B. Alexander
Interesting. I removed /var/lib/dpkg, and it hung at a different point. I tried umounting and fscking the filesystem, and it came back clean (reiserfs). No corruptions found Remounted, and ran again, and it hung again. I guess I'll try rebooting (to clear otu the 18 zombie backuppc_dump processe

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to stop starting new backup jobs?

2010-11-10 Thread Luis Paulo
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 07:43, Pavel Hofman wrote: > > Luis Paulo napsal(a): >> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:19, Pavel Hofman wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Is there a way to tell backuppc to finish the currently running backup >>> jobs and not to start new ones? We mirror backuppc partitions to >>> externa

Re: [BackupPC-users] Wierd backup problem

2010-11-10 Thread B. Alexander
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > One thing I do to identify a file causing problems with a backup is to > use the "tree" command (see your package manager) on the running backup: > > cd /var/lib/backuppc/pc/HOSTNAME > tree NEW > > The last file will be the file currently

Re: [BackupPC-users] Wierd backup problem

2010-11-10 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 08:46 -0500, B. Alexander wrote: > I checked and apparently it is getting an ALRM signal because it is > timing out. However, I do not understand why it is taking 20 hours to > back up this small amount of data. My $Conf{ClientTimeout} = 72000; > and the data that is being bac

[BackupPC-users] Wierd backup problem

2010-11-10 Thread B. Alexander
I'm seeing something sort of wierd on my backup machine. I have a host set up for the backup machine itself. I have set $Conf{BackupsDisable} = '1'; so that it does not back up regularly, and also does not (obviously) try to back up the pool. I run a backup of it every 30 - 60 days, which is about

Re: [BackupPC-users] Net:FTP::RetrHandle

2010-11-10 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 08:53 +0100, Oliver Dauter wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 05:07, Andrew Spiers wrote: > > Hi, I've downloaded the debian version of BackupPC from > > http://packages.debian.org/sid/backuppc > > what's wrong with http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/backuppc Nothing, excep

Re: [BackupPC-users] Net:FTP::RetrHandle

2010-11-10 Thread McDonagh, Ed
Maverick only has 3.1(.0-9ubuntu2). The Debian repository has 3.2.0-1 -Original Message- From: Oliver Dauter [mailto:o...@kouta.de] Sent: 10 November 2010 07:54 To: General list for user discussion,questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Net:FTP::RetrHandle Hi On Wed, Nov 10