Robin writes:
> > In fact, it was for applications like this that I had suggested a
> > while back adding the partial md5sum to the attrib file so that
> > the reverse lookup can be done more cheaply
>
> That would, in fact, be fantastic.
>
> > (the need for all of this will be obviated when Cr
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 12:06:40AM -0500, Dan Pritts wrote:
> If I had that big a pool, I think I'd not be using a single
> backuppc instance, but that's just me. I'm guessing it works well
> for you, I'm glad it does.
We aren't; we have 6.
The *smallest* is about 4 TiB if disk, most of it in us
On Dec 7, 2010, at 2:44 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 02:18:51PM -0500, Dan Pritts wrote:
>> umount /var/lib/backuppc
>> dd if=/dev/onedisk of=/dev/someotherdisk bs=1M
>
> Only works if you have identical disks, which is hard when you've
> got a few TiB on a SAN.
The disks
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:54:13AM +1100, Dale King wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 12:38:00AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 07:58:05AM +, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 10:51 -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > > > IME it's *much* faster that wa
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 12:38:00AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 07:58:05AM +, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 10:51 -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > > IME it's *much* faster that way; you do BackupPC_TarPCCopy, and
> > > then rsync the cpoll *witho
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 06:19:45PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 12/7/10 5:19 PM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 14:18 -0500, Dan Pritts wrote:
> >> Not exactly an answer to your question, but i would do this:
> >>
> >> umount /var/lib/backuppc dd if=/dev/onedisk
> >> of=/dev/so
On 12/7/10 5:19 PM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 14:18 -0500, Dan Pritts wrote:
>> Not exactly an answer to your question, but i would do this:
>>
>> umount /var/lib/backuppc
>> dd if=/dev/onedisk of=/dev/someotherdisk bs=1M
>
> Yes, that's a good way to copy the filesystem. But i
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 14:18 -0500, Dan Pritts wrote:
> Not exactly an answer to your question, but i would do this:
>
> umount /var/lib/backuppc
> dd if=/dev/onedisk of=/dev/someotherdisk bs=1M
Yes, that's a good way to copy the filesystem. But if you want to move
the files to another filesystem,
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 11:44:38AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 02:18:51PM -0500, Dan Pritts wrote:
> > In practice, rsync -H is the reasonable way to do what you're
> > after, EXCEPT that there are just too many hard links on a
> > backuppc data store for this to work.
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 02:18:51PM -0500, Dan Pritts wrote:
> umount /var/lib/backuppc
> dd if=/dev/onedisk of=/dev/someotherdisk bs=1M
Only works if you have identical disks, which is hard when you've
got a few TiB on a SAN.
> In practice, rsync -H is the reasonable way to do what you're
> after
On Dec 7, 2010, at 2:58 AM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> So, if you wanted to copy the entire /var/lib/backuppc directory to
> another filesystem, what commands would you use, for example?
Not exactly an answer to your question, but i would do this:
umount /var/lib/backuppc
dd if=/dev/onedisk of=/dev
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 11:05:46 -0800 on Tuesday, December 7, 2010:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 01:58:28PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> > Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 15:40:04 -0800 on Monday, December 6, 2010:
> > > This is *fascinating*.
> > >
> > > >From the actually-fi
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 01:58:28PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 15:40:04 -0800 on Monday, December 6, 2010:
> > This is *fascinating*.
> >
> > >From the actually-fixing-stuff part of the run, I get:
> >
> > ERROR:
> "tm50-s00292__nfs/68/f%2f/fshared/
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 15:40:04 -0800 on Monday, December 6, 2010:
> This is *fascinating*.
>
> >From the actually-fixing-stuff part of the run, I get:
>
> ERROR:
> "tm50-s00292__nfs/68/f%2f/fshared/fthepoint/fsite_images/f0042/f4097/fMULTI_medium.jpg"
> - Too many links if ad
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 10:21:39 -0800 on Tuesday, December 7, 2010:
>
> So, I've made BackupPC_fixLinks do what I want in terms of fixing
> the problems that caused it to emit hundreds of:
>
> Can't find
> redbubble--tm50-e00145--tm50-s00339---shared/40/f%2f/fshared/fredbubble/f
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 13:41:57 -0500 on Tuesday, December 7, 2010:
> Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 13:34:19 -0500 on Tuesday, December 7,
> 2010:
> > Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 21:48:17 -0800 on Monday, December 6,
> 2010:
> > > On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 12:32:01PM -0
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 13:34:19 -0500 on Tuesday, December 7, 2010:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 21:48:17 -0800 on Monday, December 6, 2010:
> > On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 12:32:01PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > >
> > > substr outside of string at /usr/local/lib64/Backup
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 01:34:19PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> OK I was confused for a second there since usually the convention
> is to use '---' as the original code and '+++' as the new code...
Sorry, musta put the diff in the wrong order.
> Well actually, I had found and fixed that bu
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 21:48:17 -0800 on Monday, December 6, 2010:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 12:32:01PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >
> > substr outside of string at /usr/local/lib64/BackupPC/jLib.pm line 162.
> > Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
> >
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 01:16:32PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> Robin, can you just clarify the context. Did this apparent pool
> corruption only occur after running BackupPC_tarPCCopy or did it
> occur in the course of "normal" backuppc running.
I honestly don't know; I've done so much on
So, I've made BackupPC_fixLinks do what I want in terms of fixing
the problems that caused it to emit hundreds of:
Can't find
redbubble--tm50-e00145--tm50-s00339---shared/40/f%2f/fshared/fredbubble/fpurchase_order_assets/fbatch_7749/faddresses_dom
estic_20101026T01.csv in pool, will copy file
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 23:46:11 -0800 on Monday, December 6, 2010:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 11:33:15PM -0800, Craig Barratt wrote:
> > Robin,
> >
> > > Nope; I'm a big tab completion user, so I would have seen it. ;)
> > >
> > > $ ls -li /backups/cpool/1/5/c/15c0e4b08058ef3704b8f
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 01:07:50PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> 2. More importantly, there is no fast way
No, there really isn't.
> that I know of checking whether a pc entry with more than one link
> is in the pool. You first need to read in the 1st MB of each file,
> calculate the partia
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 13:17:43 -0800 on Monday, December 6, 2010:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 03:48:04PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> > Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 10:37:52 -0800 on Monday, December 6, 2010:
> > >
> > > So I'm writing a script to transfer a client from one
A Windows 7 laptop is failing with "backup failed (No files dumped for share
win7home)." Prior to this, one full and three incrementals completed
successfully.
I verified the username and password, and I've tried with Windows Firewall
turned completely off. The password and the machine name cont
hmm, i rather expect the pool check doesn't follow all the transfers,
rather is interleaved with the transfers, if i'm right the temporary
ballooning you describe should not occur other than a file at a time.
On 2010-12-06, Ed McDonagh wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 10:47 -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wr
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 07:58:05AM +, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 10:51 -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > IME it's *much* faster that way; you do BackupPC_TarPCCopy, and
> > then rsync the cpoll *without -H*. It shouldn't take any longer
> > than the actual data transfer ti
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 10:51 -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> IME it's *much* faster that way; you do BackupPC_TarPCCopy, and then
> rsync the cpoll *without -H*. It shouldn't take any longer than the
> actual data transfer time itself.
So, if you wanted to copy the entire /var/lib/backuppc direct
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