Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up of Windows Client Machine

2011-07-27 Thread Gene Cooper
Hello Jiahwei, I use BackupPC primarily over WAN connections, so I don't use SMB. SMB protocol is probably the easiest and best for local network connected Windows PCs. You might try using the built-in C$ share with 'administrator' credentials. I think that's how many backup programs work.

[BackupPC-users] Backing up of Windows Client Machine

2011-07-27 Thread jiahwei
Hi Alain, Yup I read the documentation. There is this sentence which confused me whether do I actually need to install smb on the windows machine. "BackupPC needs to know the smb share user name and password for a client machine that uses smb." What does it means by the smb share user name a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Poor BackupPC Performance

2011-07-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/27/2011 2:42 PM, C. Ronoz wrote: > >> What is the CPU utilization during the BackupPC backup? What is the >> network utilization? What is the disk utilization? Is the machine >> swapping? Is it doing something else? > The CPU utilization used to be very high until I disabled gzip compressi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Poor BackupPC Performance

2011-07-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/26/2011 3:35 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:13 PM, C. Ronoz wrote: >>> Are you upgraded to the latest version of Linux and BackupPC? I noticed >>> wonderful improvements after upgrading. >> I am running the BackupPC 3.1 for CentOS 5.6 via EPEL. Although performance >> o

Re: [BackupPC-users] Poor BackupPC Performance

2011-07-27 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:42 PM, C. Ronoz wrote: >> Depending on how comfortable you are building your own packages, >> Fedora has 3.2.1 almost ready to go. We had to package two perl >> modules for the added FTP support. >> >> If you are willing to try them but don't want to build yourself I >> c

Re: [BackupPC-users] Poor BackupPC Performance

2011-07-27 Thread C. Ronoz
> Depending on how comfortable you are building your own packages, > Fedora has 3.2.1 almost ready to go. We had to package two perl > modules for the added FTP support. > > If you are willing to try them but don't want to build yourself I > could probably build them for you. > > Thanks, > Richard

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up of Windows Client Machine

2011-07-27 Thread Alain Péan
Le 27/07/2011 16:20, Alain Péan a écrit : > Le 27/07/2011 10:46, jiahwei a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> I would need some guidance to installing samba on the windows Xp client >> machine so that I can do the backup on my Backuppc host which is running on >> Redhat. >> >> >> Read some of the thread that i

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up of Windows Client Machine

2011-07-27 Thread Alain Péan
Le 27/07/2011 10:46, jiahwei a écrit : > Hi, > > I would need some guidance to installing samba on the windows Xp client > machine so that I can do the backup on my Backuppc host which is running on > Redhat. > > > Read some of the thread that it would require the cygwin. Can anyone tell me > mo

[BackupPC-users] Backing up of Windows Client Machine

2011-07-27 Thread jiahwei
Hi, I would need some guidance to installing samba on the windows Xp client machine so that I can do the backup on my Backuppc host which is running on Redhat. Read some of the thread that it would require the cygwin. Can anyone tell me more about it? Would appreciate much help. Thanks. =) +

[BackupPC-users] backing up entire winxp disk with backuppc

2011-07-27 Thread jiahwei
Hi I was wondering if you can guide me on how to backup windows client machines like windows xp and windows 7 My backuppc is running on redhat. thanks. +-- |This was sent by jiahwei_cvs...@hotmail.com via Backup Central. |Forwa