Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC incremental job hangs

2013-09-04 Thread Yann Bordenave
On 09/03, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 4:43 AM, Yann Bordenave > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I scheduled a backup with backuppc for my servers. > > I use rsyncd for the transfer. > > > > It works like a charm, except for one server: when I start an > > incremental backup, the backuppc j

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC incremental job hangs

2013-09-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Yann Bordenave wrote: > I have some updates: the full backup is passing. > The full process is taking about an hour and a half and I set a timeout > of 20 hours. > The 'sparse' problem could occur while doing a full backup ? > Because apparently, only the increment

[BackupPC-users] Sparse file handling

2013-09-04 Thread txaj
Hello, I am trying to backup openvz containers from a Proxmox server. Proxmox provides a tool called vzdump. It handles snapshoting the container, packing config files and stuff for me. It outputs a tar on stdout. I wanted to pull this tar with backuppc, but I figured out that backuppc can't h

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC finds the wrong hosts when ISPs hijack the DNS

2013-09-04 Thread George Adams
I am running BackupPC 3.3.0 on an Ubunut 12.04.3 system.  My hosts (which are all Windows PCs accessed via SMB) are set to dhcp=0, which has worked well over several years/versions of BackupPC.  According to the docs on "How BackupPC Finds Hosts", these sequence is: - first gethostbyname() - th

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC finds the wrong hosts with DNS hijacking ISPs

2013-09-04 Thread George Adams
I am running BackupPC 3.3.0 on an Ubunut 12.04.3 system. My hosts (which are all Windows PCs accessed via SMB) are set to dhcp=0, which has worked well over several years/versions of BackupPC. According to the docs on "How BackupPC Finds Hosts", these sequence is: - first gethostbyname() - th

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC finds the wrong hosts with DNS hijacking ISPs

2013-09-04 Thread Craig Barratt
George, Now that's annoying. Thanks for figuring out the problem. Are your local PC client IP addresses fixed/known? If so, you should be able to set $Conf{ClientNameAlias} to the IP address, and the code should do the right thing (even though DNS will still return 66.152.109.110, it should use

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC finds the wrong hosts with DNS hijacking ISPs

2013-09-04 Thread George Adams
> George, > > Now that's annoying. Thanks for figuring out the problem. > > Are your local PC client IP addresses fixed/known? If so, you should > be able to set $Conf{ClientNameAlias} to the IP address, and the code > should do the right thing (even though DNS will still > return 66.

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC finds the wrong hosts when ISPs hijack the DNS

2013-09-04 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
Hi George, Have you considered using Avahi/Zeroconf/Bonjour to look up your hosts? This usually will result in wired interfaces being used before wireless, and takes care of changing IP addresses for you. Use $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = 'hostname.local' for each host. On most Linux desktops and Macs