[BackupPC-users] On/off again Internal Server Error 500

2011-11-17 Thread umiwangu
Is it possible that the machine doesn't have any swap file? I opened up System Monitor, and under Memory and Swap History, memory is generally running at 85% (640 Mb), and Swap says 0 bytes of 0 bytes... Should I create a swap file? +-

Re: [BackupPC-users] Put pool on an nfs mounted Solaris zfs share

2011-11-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > So if I put /var/lib/backuppc (and everything under it) on an nfs share > that resides on a solaris machine with zfs... it should work alright? Yes, perhaps with a bit of performance loss compared to local storage. -- Les Mikesell

Re: [BackupPC-users] Put pool on an nfs mounted Solaris zfs share

2011-11-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Les Mikesell writes: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> I haven't finished the docs yet, maybe it tell what this stuff >> is... but for purposes of this post I wondered if it would be wisest >> to let the directories and files under /var/lib/backuppc also reside >> on

Re: [BackupPC-users] Put pool on an nfs mounted Solaris zfs share

2011-11-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > I haven't finished the docs yet, maybe it tell what this stuff > is... but for purposes of this post I wondered if it would be wisest > to let the directories and files under /var/lib/backuppc also reside > on the nfs shared zfs filesystem.

[BackupPC-users] Put pool on an nfs mounted Solaris zfs share

2011-11-17 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm just getting started setting up bppc and I want to experiment with putting the data store on a zfs filesystem. (A solaris host running Openindiana with zfs file systems) I'm installing bppc on Debian (wheezy) and thought I'd mount just the storage pool on an nfs share that resides on the solar

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclusion not working with rsync

2011-11-17 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:08:23AM +0100, Holger Parplies wrote: > Actually, it's > > $Conf {BackupFilesExclude} = { > '/home' => [ > '/steve/Packages' > ] > }; > > presuming you *only* want to exclude /home/steve/Packages and not [...] Thanks -- that is indeed what I wanted. -Steve

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclusion not working with rsync

2011-11-17 Thread Alex Machina
Why bother with: > $Conf {BackupFilesExclude} = {>  '/home' => [>        '/steve/Packages'>  ]> > }; Why not just: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/home/steve/Packages'] i..e, prefix is not required with rsync (only smb). On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Holger Parplies wrote: > Hi, > > Mark M

Re: [BackupPC-users] On/off again Internal Server Error 500

2011-11-17 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, higuita wrote on 2011-11-17 03:26:24 + [Re: [BackupPC-users] *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: On/off again Internal Server Error 500]: > Just to clean things out, as i see many times people saying that > they dont need swap in modern machines... and this "talk" might push > more people

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup of Localhost (server) fails - fileListReceive failure

2011-11-17 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, mollcons wrote on 2011-10-21 12:58:25 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] Backup of Localhost (server) fails - fileListReceive failure]: > [...] > full backup started for directory /home > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -v -q -x -l root \$\{hostip\} /usr/bin/rsync --server > --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owne

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclusion not working with rsync

2011-11-17 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Mark Maciolek wrote on 2011-10-27 07:54:26 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclusion not working with rsync]: > On 10/26/2011 8:49 PM, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > I'm backing up my local machine using rsync; see configuration below. > > Despite the exclusion, I still get /home/steve/Packages in m

Re: [BackupPC-users] Let me get to the real point

2011-11-17 Thread John Rouillard
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 02:42:51PM -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > OK, so I did a new test today. > > 1. I did a complete reinstall of backuppc on the server. I removed > all existing data from /var/lib/backuppc > > 2. I ran backup manually: > /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f nbecker1 >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recovery of a BackupPC server

2011-11-17 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2011-11-16 22:29, Geoffrey Downs wrote: > I am using the "Copying the pool" instructions in the BackupPC FAQ to > restore as much of the pool into the new server but have lost the config > directory '/etc/backuppc'. The steps are generally: 1. Copy/move the old pool to the same location as t