Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC to NFS then to tape via DPM

2011-10-12 Thread Arnold Krille
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 21:48:45 rbastedo wrote: > I've recently been given the task of setting up BackupPC to back up some of > our servers running RHEL and PgSQL. Management wants me to back up data to > an NFS where it can then be saved to tape via DPM for offsite storage. There are three

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC to NFS then to tape via DPM

2011-10-12 Thread Timothy J Massey
rbastedo wrote on 10/12/2011 03:48:45 PM: > How do I get it to save the backup to the NFS storage out on the > network instead? Why not mount an NFS share to TOPDIR? If BackupPC is already working for you correctly, you should be done! The thing is, though: the BackupPC pool on tape by its

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC to NFS then to tape via DPM

2011-10-12 Thread rbastedo
I've recently been given the task of setting up BackupPC to back up some of our servers running RHEL and PgSQL. Management wants me to back up data to an NFS where it can then be saved to tape via DPM for offsite storage. I have set up a pair of test machines, the BackupPC server is on a RHEL 6

Re: [BackupPC-users] localhost (BackupPC_tarCreate failed)

2011-10-12 Thread Joseph Reeves
Great, thanks Tyler, In the end I created a new BackupPC SMB entry and am restoring to that. Is working great. Thanks again, Joseph On 12 October 2011 14:13, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > On 2011-10-12 13:53, Joseph Reeves wrote: > > I've tried reading the RestoreLOG file, but it's in .z format -

Re: [BackupPC-users] localhost (BackupPC_tarCreate failed)

2011-10-12 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2011-10-12 13:53, Joseph Reeves wrote: > I've tried reading the RestoreLOG file, but it's in .z format - I don't > seem to have anything on my Ubuntu laptop that s happy with this. Are there > any suggestions? I'm under the impression that this file should include the > command that backuppc att

[BackupPC-users] localhost (BackupPC_tarCreate failed)

2011-10-12 Thread Joseph Reeves
Hi all, I've recently inherited a backuppc system and am having trouble restoring backups to localhost. I've had a search around, but haven't been able to resolve the issue. The backuppc server backs up a number of remote machines, but unfortunately it also has to backup a basic NAS device. The N

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC on Mageia

2011-10-12 Thread Juergen Harms
Sorry, I had copied the address from some other email and made some mistake (difficult to find evidence what I preciseley did wrong). I have now created an alias for top-posting on this list, that should prevent a similar accident to happen again. In case there is discussion on the mageia issue