Re: [BackupPC-users] Best way to install BackupPC to easily be able to update

Hi Pelle, for Debian and it's derivatives like Ubuntu, Mint, etc. I suggest you follow https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki/Build-Your-Own-Packages Even as it will still take some time for the official packages to be available, this will help with an easy upgrade path! Cheers, Raoul

Re: [BackupPC-users] File not present in backup

Wade, What XferMethod are you using? Does the backup run as root, or as a non-privileged user? Did the 11:00 backup finish before 15:00? If you look in the XferLOG file, do you see that the file was backed up? Similarly for the directory? Craig On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Jenkins, Wade

Re: [BackupPC-users] Xfer errors for 31 files

Daniel, Can you check if there is an attrib file in that directory (/var/lib/BackupPC//pc/robert/242/f%2f/fusr/fbin)? (You might need to update the 242 to be the number of the latest filled backup.) It should have a file name of the form "attrib_" where is 32 hex digits. Next, run this

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync-bpc 3.0.9.8 with rrsync on the client

Sebastian, I haven't used rrsync. The --protect-args option causes file names to be sent over the socket, not the command-line. So try removing that option. (One caveat: without that option, spaces or special characters in the share name won't work since the shell will try to interpret them,

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup blackout question

Alexey, Yes, that should work. Craig On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 9:48 PM, Alexey Safonov wrote: > I want some of my servers to be backed up during weekends only. is it > correct synatax to dibasble weekdays backups ? > > $Conf{BlackoutPeriods} = [ > { >

Re: [BackupPC-users] archive / extract to usb drive

Ulrich, As Kris suggested, you could use a script to create a copy of the latest backup tree. For example, you could use a command like this (replace HOST, SHARENAME and /PATH/TO/USB/DRIVE) to extract the most recent backup of share SHARE on host HOST: BackupPC_tarCreate -h HOST -n -1 -s

Re: [BackupPC-users] mistake during server migration - how to prevent trash cleanup from file removal?

Torsten, I understand that if a share is deleted (from config.pl), BackupPC assumes > that the share is not needed any more and thus starts removal. No that's not the case. Any prior backups will not be affected by a configuration change (except for the backup expiry options). So if you

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best way to install BackupPC to easily be able to update

Pelle, If there isn't a package available, it's quite easy to install BackupPC from the tar distribution. See the releases on Github: download BackupPC-4.1.3.tar.gz and follow the instructions on the main BackupPC Github page