Re: [BackupPC-users] weird smörgåsbord of errors

2011-12-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Michel wrote: >> > Sorry I am not very clear, I was struggling to understand what is > going on myself.. > > So, this was my use case: > 1. client and server running, client has /home mounted from server, > where it is located at /raid/home > 2. client is turned off

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2011-12-09 Thread Jamie Levett
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Re: [BackupPC-users] weird smörgåsbord of errors

2011-12-09 Thread Tim Fletcher
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 21:50 +0100, Michel wrote: > > Why would your restore to /raid/home/user be affecting things under > > /var? In any case, I'd recommend using rsync over ssh to the server > > for the backups instead of backing up the nfs-mounted view. > > > That is a very good question inde

Re: [BackupPC-users] weird smörgåsbord of errors

2011-12-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Michel wrote: > > The folder I was trying to restore was a harmless one in /raid that > should have nothing to do with the rest of the system as far as I > know... It's just the place I store the /home of a completely > different system. > > rsync is not really an a

Re: [BackupPC-users] weird smörgåsbord of errors

2011-12-09 Thread Michel
>> I use the nfs server to mount /raid/home/user on the server to >> /home/user on my desktop. I use Backuppc to make a backup every night. >> This has run for ages successfully until I tried to restore a backup >> of /raid/home/user with Backuppc. After this I got the weirdest errors >> from servi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up from BackupPC to BackupPC

2011-12-09 Thread Arnold Krille
On Friday 09 December 2011 15:28:43 Andrew Schulman wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 13:15 +, member horvath wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a requirement where I need to deploy a backuppc installation on > > > a site that will connect to several servers and backup their required > > > fil

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issues with rsyncd rstore

2011-12-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Ralph Weaver wrote: > I'm currently seeing some issues with restoration of the /usr/lib > directory on several of my servers.  Eventually it hits one of the 'bad > files' and then it stalls there forever.  I've turned up log level and > ensured I was using rsync > 3

Re: [BackupPC-users] weird smörgåsbord of errors

2011-12-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:51 AM, Michel wrote: > I am running a server with Debian Squeeze installed. It runs basic > stuff like Samba, Transmission, Apache2, nfsv4. > > I use the nfs server to mount /raid/home/user on the server to > /home/user on my desktop. I use Backuppc to make a backup every

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up from BackupPC to BackupPC

2011-12-09 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 13:15 +, member horvath wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a requirement where I need to deploy a backuppc installation on > > a site that will connect to several servers and backup their required > > files. > > I need to keep a daily incremental of 30 daily and 6 monthly ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up from BackupPC to BackupPC

2011-12-09 Thread Tim Fletcher
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 13:15 +, member horvath wrote: > Hi, > > I have a requirement where I need to deploy a backuppc installation on > a site that will connect to several servers and backup their required > files. > I need to keep a daily incremental of 30 daily and 6 monthly backups. > This

[BackupPC-users] Backing up from BackupPC to BackupPC

2011-12-09 Thread member horvath
Hi, I have a requirement where I need to deploy a backuppc installation on a site that will connect to several servers and backup their required files. I need to keep a daily incremental of 30 daily and 6 monthly backups. This part is ok and I have no problem setting up (Except getting the schedul