Re: [BackupPC-users] Status and stop backup from command line

2010-12-09 Thread Keith Edmunds
Robin, thank you: exactly what I needed. -- This SF Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: WikiLeaks The End of the Free Internet http://p.sf.net/sfu/therealnews-com ___ BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem corruption: consistency of the pool

2010-12-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org [2010.11.17.0059 +0100]: I wrote two programs that might be helpful here: 1. BackupPC_digestVerify.pl If you use rsync with checksum caching then this program checks the (uncompressed) contents of each pool file against the stored md4

Re: [BackupPC-users] FSArchiver?

2010-12-09 Thread Jonathan Schaeffer
Le 09/12/2010 06:55, hans...@gmail.com a écrit : I've been investigating how to backup BackupPC's filesystem, specifically the tree with all the hard links (BTW what's the right name for it, the one that's not the pool?) The goal is to be able to bring a verified-good copy of the whole

Re: [BackupPC-users] Different scheduling for different folders on same server

2010-12-09 Thread Ed McDonagh
All the transfer methods (smb, rsync, tar) allow you to specify which folders you wish to back up. The way to achieve what you want is to create two 'hosts' to be backed up, say myserver1 and myserver2 for the server myserver. For each one set up for just one of the two folders, with the

[BackupPC-users] Minimal backuppc install (without apache or web server)???

2010-12-09 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
I'm trying to run backuppc on a debian-based plugcomputer. I would rather not install apache (or anything else extra for that matter) -- since I only use the CLI anyway. - Do I have to do anything special to get backuppc to work without the web interface (and with no apache)? Or is apache

Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem corruption: consistency of the pool

2010-12-09 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
martin f krafft wrote at about 09:53:25 +0100 on Thursday, December 9, 2010: also sprach Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org [2010.11.17.0059 +0100]: I wrote two programs that might be helpful here: 1. BackupPC_digestVerify.pl If you use rsync with checksum caching then this

Re: [BackupPC-users] SPNEGO login failed: invalid parameter

2010-12-09 Thread Frank J . Gómez
Just bumping this. I need to get this machine back on its routine. Please let me know if there's any additional information I can provide to help you help me. Thanks so much! -Frank 2010/12/7 Frank J. Gómez fr...@crop-circle.net A Windows 7 laptop is failing with backup failed (No files

Re: [BackupPC-users] cpool weirdness - pc directories inside cpool???

2010-12-09 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 12/09 12:48 , Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Since this error can cause major failures, I'm surprised that an email isn't sent out. In fact, I think it would be helpful that any error that causes a failure or potential pool corruption should be mailed to the user. Along those same lines, I

Re: [BackupPC-users] SPNEGO login failed: invalid parameter

2010-12-09 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 12/09 09:53 , Frank J. Gómez wrote: smbclient 13708n1\\win7home -U backuppc -E -d 3 I get this in the output: Doing spnego session setup (blob length=336) SPNEGO login failed: Invalid parameter snip Here's another interesting bit of information; when I run: snip Is

Re: [BackupPC-users] cpool weirdness - pc directories inside cpool???

2010-12-09 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote at about 09:41:03 -0600 on Thursday, December 9, 2010: On 12/09 12:48 , Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Since this error can cause major failures, I'm surprised that an email isn't sent out. In fact, I think it would be helpful that any error that causes a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem corruption: consistency of the pool

2010-12-09 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 09:53:25AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org [2010.11.17.0059 +0100]: I wrote two programs that might be helpful here: 1. BackupPC_digestVerify.pl If you use rsync with checksum caching then this program checks

Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem corruption: consistency of the pool

2010-12-09 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 11:20:26 -0800 on Thursday, December 9, 2010: On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 09:53:25AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org [2010.11.17.0059 +0100]: I wrote two programs that might be helpful here: 1.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem corruption: consistency of the pool

2010-12-09 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 03:03:37PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 11:20:26 -0800 on Thursday, December 9, 2010: On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 09:53:25AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org [2010.11.17.0059

[BackupPC-users] Are all non-zero length files in the pc tree stored in the pool?

2010-12-09 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
At least all files beneath the share level that is... My backup system is down so I can't check at the host level. But I also wanted to confirm that this holds true not just for normal files but for links (soft hard) and other special files. (of course it's not true for directories) Thanks

Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem corruption: consistency of the pool

2010-12-09 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 12:06:24 -0800 on Thursday, December 9, 2010: On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 03:03:37PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 11:20:26 -0800 on Thursday, December 9, 2010: On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 09:53:25AM +0100, martin f krafft

Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem corruption: consistency of the pool

2010-12-09 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 03:15:41PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 12:06:24 -0800 on Thursday, December 9, 2010: On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 03:03:37PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 11:20:26 -0800 on Thursday,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bizarre form of cpool corruption.

2010-12-09 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Holger Parplies wrote at about 23:25:32 +0100 on Thursday, December 9, 2010: Hi, Welcome back!!! - I was beginning to miss you on the list... Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2010-12-07 13:16:32 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Bizarre form of cpool corruption.]: Robin Lee Powell wrote at

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bizarre form of cpool corruption.

2010-12-09 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2010-12-07 13:16:32 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Bizarre form of cpool corruption.]: Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 23:46:11 -0800 on Monday, December 6, 2010: [...] So, yeah, that's really it. They're both really there, and that's the right md5sum,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bizarre form of cpool corruption.

2010-12-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On 12/9/2010 4:44 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: This also is a very logical explanation for how it can happen if the Backuppc linking is not working. If I recall correctly, the first time you would do a subsequent incremental then it should all get linked back to the pool since they are

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bizarre form of cpool corruption.

2010-12-09 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 12:05:01AM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Anyway here is the diff. I have not had time to check it much beyond verifying that it seems to run -- SO I WOULD TRULY APPRECIATE IT IF YOU CONTINUE TO TEST IT AND GIVE ME FEEDBACK. Also, it would be great if you would let

Re: [BackupPC-users] SPNEGO login failed: invalid parameter

2010-12-09 Thread Frank J . Gómez
Smbclient version is 3.4.7. The user and I will not again be in the office at the same time until Tuesday, but I believe the share is inaccessible (invisible, even) from other Windows machines. I should mention that other Windows 7 machines are working smoothly with BackupPC. I think it is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Another jLib/fixLinks issue.

2010-12-09 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 02:27:46PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: 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,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Another jLib/fixLinks issue.

2010-12-09 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 12:35:46AM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 13:58:28 -0500 on Tuesday, December 7, 2010: Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 15:40:04 -0800 on Monday, December 6, 2010: This is *fascinating*. From the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bizarre form of cpool corruption.

2010-12-09 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 15:24:30 -0800 on Thursday, December 9, 2010: On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 12:05:01AM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Anyway here is the diff. I have not had time to check it much beyond verifying that it seems to run -- SO I WOULD TRULY APPRECIATE IT IF YOU

Re: [BackupPC-users] Another jLib/fixLinks issue.

2010-12-09 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 15:35:26 -0800 on Thursday, December 9, 2010: Well, it was designed (and tested) for the use case where this was a *rare* event so that it would be interesting to signal it. Perhaps even then WARN or NOTICE would have been better than ERROR. Indeed,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Another jLib/fixLinks issue.

2010-12-09 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 15:38:27 -0800 on Thursday, December 9, 2010: On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 12:35:46AM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 13:58:28 -0500 on Tuesday, December 7, 2010: Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 15:40:04 -0800 on Monday,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bizarre form of cpool corruption.

2010-12-09 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 06:41:22PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 15:24:30 -0800 on Thursday, December 9, 2010: On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 12:05:01AM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Anyway here is the diff. I have not had time to check it much beyond

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bizarre form of cpool corruption.

2010-12-09 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2010-12-09 17:08:05 -0600 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Bizarre form of cpool corruption.]: On 12/9/2010 4:44 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: If I recall correctly, the first time you would do a subsequent incremental then it should all get linked back to the pool since

Re: [BackupPC-users] Are all non-zero length files in the pc tree stored in the pool?

2010-12-09 Thread Craig Barratt
Jeffrey writes: But I also wanted to confirm that this holds true not just for normal files but for links (soft hard) and other special files. Yes, all non-empty files should be pooled (including hard links, soft links, char/block special files and attribute files). Craig