Re: [BackupPC-users] Best backup system for Windows clients

2014-08-26 Thread Timothy J Massey
"Michael Stowe" wrote on 08/25/2014 09:16:09 AM: > Given that, a VSS/rsync combination is more or less required. There are > two methods for coordinating the shadow copy service with rsync -- ssh and > winexe. I use the winexe method here, and put together an installer to > handle the various

Re: [BackupPC-users] Excessively High Traffic on Full Backups (Debian Squeeze on ARM Processor)

2014-08-26 Thread backuppc
Les Mikesell wrote at about 10:22:51 -0500 on Tuesday, August 26, 2014: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 9:48 AM, wrote: > > I recently upgraded my ARM plug computer from an ancient version of Ubuntu > > to Debian Squeeze running backuppc 3.1.0. Everything seemed to be going > > well until yesterda

Re: [BackupPC-users] Excessively High Traffic on Full Backups (Debian Squeeze on ARM Processor)

2014-08-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 9:48 AM, wrote: > I recently upgraded my ARM plug computer from an ancient version of Ubuntu > to Debian Squeeze running backuppc 3.1.0. Everything seemed to be going > well until yesterday when a full backup of a relatively quiet server > downloaded 1.5 GB of data. The

[BackupPC-users] Excessively High Traffic on Full Backups (Debian Squeeze on ARM Processor)

2014-08-26 Thread nhoeller
I recently upgraded my ARM plug computer from an ancient version of Ubuntu to Debian Squeeze running backuppc 3.1.0. Everything seemed to be going well until yesterday when a full backup of a relatively quiet server downloaded 1.5 GB of data. The original full backup seven days ago was only 2

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best backup system for Windows clients

2014-08-26 Thread Sorin Srbu
> -Original Message- > From: Doug Lytle [mailto:supp...@drdos.info] > Sent: den 26 augusti 2014 15:18 > To: General list for user discussion, questions and support > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Best backup system for Windows clients > > >> So have we, but Deltacopy still can't handle fil

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best backup system for Windows clients

2014-08-26 Thread Michael Stowe
> I hadn't heard of winexe before. Is there a link available to a howto for > use with BackupPC? I'm using Cygwin on my Windows hosts and haven't gone > to > the trouble of setting up VSS snapshots. Most are Win7 with a smattering > of > XP, Server 2003, and a couple Linux boxes. There's a bit he

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best backup system for Windows clients

2014-08-26 Thread Doug Lytle
>> So have we, but Deltacopy still can't handle files that are in use, it skips >> them and adds an error to the log. For Windows 7 workstations and above, that'd be correct. You can updated the DeltaCopy DLLs to support VSS under XP, but our XP workstations are dwindling fast. Doug

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best backup system for Windows clients

2014-08-26 Thread Sorin Srbu
> -Original Message- > From: Doug Lytle [mailto:supp...@drdos.info] > Sent: den 26 augusti 2014 14:20 > To: General list for user discussion, questions and support > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Best backup system for Windows clients > > >> I too would be fascinated to find a "how to" for

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best backup system for Windows clients

2014-08-26 Thread Doug Lytle
>> I too would be fascinated to find a "how to" for VSS/rsync combination. I >> have used Backuppc for years with linux clients. We use DeltaCopy. Makes things easy. Doug -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best backup system for Windows clients

2014-08-26 Thread Robert Wooden
I too would be fascinated to find a "how to" for VSS/rsync combination. I have used Backuppc for years with linux clients. Yet, have never found current/up-to-date how to instructions to get a Windows (any) client to backup to Backuppc working. Backuppc's Sourceforge website has a trimmed down

[BackupPC-users] Rsync remote to local dir first, backup local, restore to remote?

2014-08-26 Thread Pavel Hofman
Hello, When backing-up our remote servers, we always get broken pipe. Simply the receiving end (backuppc extracting tar) stalls for too long and the sending part breaks the connection. OK, I understand. I can rsync the remote server to local dir first, backing-up from this dir. It works fine, I h