Re: [BackupPC-users] is it possible to shortcut the 1st backup?

2012-11-25 Thread Matthew Grob
>That looks like the ssh keys aren't set up correctly. Are you sure you tested ssh from the backuppc user to root@localhost? Yep you are correct sir. It works now. When I tested the ssh I wasn't careful to test to root. I fixed the keys and now it works! thanks, Matt

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync never starts transferring files (but does something)

2012-11-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Markus wrote: > > I realized that for every completed rsync run on a share, two "defunct" > processes remain: > > [BackupPC_dump] > [ssh] > > And after I had about 750 defunct processes (after about 375 rsync runs > on 375 different shares/directories) the whole

Re: [BackupPC-users] is it possible to shortcut the 1st backup?

2012-11-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Matthew Grob wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. I understand what you're getting at and I tried > several ways to do that. I was able to set things up so the paths are > exactly the same on the two machines (the local and the remote client). > > But for some reaso

Re: [BackupPC-users] is it possible to shortcut the 1st backup?

2012-11-25 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 26/11/12 13:25, Matthew Grob wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. I understand what you're getting at and I > tried several ways to do that. I was able to set things up so the > paths are exactly the same on the two machines (the local and the > remote client). > > But for some reason I cannot ge

Re: [BackupPC-users] is it possible to shortcut the 1st backup?

2012-11-25 Thread Matthew Grob
Thanks for your reply. I understand what you're getting at and I tried several ways to do that. I was able to set things up so the paths are exactly the same on the two machines (the local and the remote client). But for some reason I cannot get the local backup to actually run. I tried bot

Re: [BackupPC-users] is it possible to shortcut the 1st backup?

2012-11-25 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 26/11/12 05:06, Matthew Grob wrote: > Ok folks I've got everything up and running just fine now and am ready to > transition from my old manual rsync scripts to backupPC. But for the 1st > backup I'm wondering if there is a way to shortcut the process. > > Reason: I have about 600G to backu

[BackupPC-users] is it possible to shortcut the 1st backup?

2012-11-25 Thread Matthew Grob
Ok folks I've got everything up and running just fine now and am ready to transition from my old manual rsync scripts to backupPC. But for the 1st backup I'm wondering if there is a way to shortcut the process. Reason: I have about 600G to backup, and the machine running backupPC is (at my

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync never starts transferring files (but does something)

2012-11-25 Thread Markus
Am 20.11.2012 22:31, schrieb Bowie Bailey: > You're right. I wasn't considering possible characters existing between > c and d. And your suggesting appears to be a good work around. Allow me to jump back to my original 25-million-files-"problem": I came up with another strategy: I created a she