Re: [BackupPC-users] lastlog

2014-10-30 Thread Carl Cravens
Why not dump the SQL data live to a text file and back that up? That's what mysqldump is for... you can back up everything you need to restore an entire database without ever taking down the mysql server. And this makes restores much simpler... if a developer drops an table by mistake, you don

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best practice/s for backing up a VM??

2014-10-30 Thread Dr. Boris Neubert
Am 29. Oktober 2014 23:37:27 schrieb Adam Goryachev : > On 29/10/14 17:40, Dr. Boris Neubert wrote: > >> You could in theory take a snapshot of the LV that the disk image sits > >> on, mount the snapshot, then create the "chunks", and then umount/delete > >> the snapshot, or any similar metho

Re: [BackupPC-users] lastlog

2014-10-30 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Moorcroft, Mark (ARC-TS)[ERC, Inc.] wrote: > > >>Mine 'have' /var/log/lastlog. Just not the problem with TB+ apparent >>sizes. Do you have a uid of -1 - or very, very large uids? > > Every one of my systems list last log at 505GB with a vanilla ³ls² and all > are

[BackupPC-users] lastlog

2014-10-30 Thread Moorcroft, Mark (ARC-TS)[ERC, Inc.]
CentOS 6.5 >What version of CentOS are your clients? >I seem to recall this was a problem with RHEL 4, but has not been a >problem >on later versions. I use rsync and do not exclude /var/log/lastlog and do >not have any problems with it. >Tony Schreiner -- Mark Moorcroft ERC Corp. 650-60

[BackupPC-users] lastlog

2014-10-30 Thread Moorcroft, Mark (ARC-TS)[ERC, Inc.]
>Mine 'have' /var/log/lastlog. Just not the problem with TB+ apparent >sizes. Do you have a uid of -1 - or very, very large uids? Every one of my systems list last log at 505GB with a vanilla ³ls² and all are root:root. >Maybe that was when everyone else took the -1 uid out... ? >The strai

Re: [BackupPC-users] State idle

2014-10-30 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Fanny Alexandra Oyarzún Bórquez wrote: > The last manual backup was about an hour ago. The IncrPeriod=0.97 and > BlackoutPeriods not activated. > The scheduler won't start one until the last run is approximately a day old (.97) whether that run was manual or sche

Re: [BackupPC-users] State idle

2014-10-30 Thread Fanny Alexandra Oyarzún Bórquez
The last manual backup was about an hour ago. The IncrPeriod=0.97 and BlackoutPeriods not activated. 2014-10-30 11:45 GMT-03:00 Les Mikesell : > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Fanny Alexandra Oyarzún Bórquez > wrote: > >> > > My server has 82% usage and 95% DfMaxUsagePct, however if I make th

Re: [BackupPC-users] State idle

2014-10-30 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Fanny Alexandra Oyarzún Bórquez wrote: >> > My server has 82% usage and 95% DfMaxUsagePct, however if I make the backup > manually it works properly. > How .long has it been since the last manual run? You won't get a scheduled run until IncrPeriod has passed sin

Re: [BackupPC-users] State idle

2014-10-30 Thread Fanny Alexandra Oyarzún Bórquez
Hi! My back was to begin at 09.30hrs. but I will not run: Log: Contents of file /var/log/BackupPC/LOG, modified 2014-10-30 09:30:02 2014-10-30 09:30:00 Running 4 BackupPC_nightly jobs from 0..7 (out of 0..15) 2014-10-30 09:30:00 Running BackupPC_nightly -m 0 31 (pid=18438) 2014-10-30 09:30:00 R

Re: [BackupPC-users] Wiki?

2014-10-30 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 10/29 04:55 , Kris Lou wrote: > Is it just me, or did we lose the wiki? I haven't looked at it in a while, > but can't find it now. > > http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net just points to Sourceforge. It does seem to be sadly reduced in scope and content. http://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/wik